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Hello, I am tweaking our door and window schedules, to better inform our framers, and I have found that we can add a bottom elevation to a window. The issue I am having, it that the number is the finished elevation, and I want it to be the rough elevation. Is there a simple way to modify this macro to make the number show as rough? %bottom_elevation%

Hello, I am in the process of cleaning up our templates and was wondering if there is a way to save the names of our interior elevation cameras? Our designers prefer that the cardinal direction be in each view name to help our customers figure out what they are looking at. Up to this point, I have been typing in each elevation name for every elevation, in every plan. Another question is can we rotate the direction of the camera? We like to pull our 4 room elevations in a clockwise manner and we like to start at 12 o'clock. If I name a camera "Kitchen - North Wall" in one plan, can I rotate that camera to face the north wall in the next plan?

Thank you, that worked!

Hello, up to now, we always did a cad from detail of our existing homes and put them on the back and on a layer to be able to turn them off and on. Now that I have discovered that we can make the reference layer set look like our regular walls, etc. I am getting our template setup for that. My main question is, is there a way to refernce fill styles, more specifically, solid fill styles? Thanks!

Hello, I am a draftsman for a Remodeling company in KCMO, and I also do our preliminary estimating. In Chief, I have built out an estimating library and thought I was cooking with gas! I put all of those items on a copied version of their original layers, and the material list would read it. I did it like this, because I wanted to be able to turn those items off in our actual floorplans that we present and send to the field. Basically we want to do everything in one plan and not have to go back and delete a bunch of objects. I have also discovered the power of plan views and have a bunch set up for estimating. Something I have had an issue with in regard to the estimating items, is that sometimes the material list won't read them and it is blank, am I missing something? Is there some layer conflict that I am not seeing? I think this will really help me with speed and accuracy with my estimating, so I really want it to work, thanks in advance!

Hello, I am curious if a macro can be used in an elevation camera and layout callout, to specify the room name and cardinal direction. The hope is that this will automatically name the camera and put the name on the callout. I have been able to get the label to generate on the callout when I name the camera, but I am just trying to stream line anything I can, example below, thanks in advance! Kitchen - North Wall

Hello, I am doing some cabinet elevations, and I was wondering if there is a way to remove cabinet details from side wall cabinets, but still keep one in there to show the detail on the side of that cabinet

Thank you!

Hi, I am trying to clean up my room types, but when I try to delete one, it says that it is used in the Rooms schedule and can't be deleted. Any advice<thanks!

Thanks for the quick responses. We are a remodeling company, and we only use the ceiling marker and it is labeled like this CEILING:~ 8' 1". We have been putting all of this info in manually on every elevation page and we do elevations of every wall in every room we are touching. I am mainly looking for things that we can use to minimize those time suck processes. For instance, I just discovered yesterday that we can use # in our page description label to auto update the page label in our layouts. Up to this point, we have had to make all those page updates manually. Now I am trying to figure out how to make our two scale callouts update automatically when we set the scale of the item on that page. Anyways, figuring this stuff out is really cool and it really shows me just how powerful the software is!

Thanks, that worked for the auto story pole! Is there a way to adjust it in manual elevation markers?

Hello, As I get more and more into using macros in Chief, I get really excited and really frustrated at the same time. I have recently discovered that elevation markers can be set up to report heights automatically, however, we would like the finish floor to be our 0'-0" number, but it only shows that for the top of subfloor. The only thing that I have been able to adjust is the finish floor height in the room dialog page, but I can't seem to find a way to make it a default so it is set for every plan, moving forward. I don't feel like this is the proper approach and my hope is that I am missing something easy. I also played around with some macros, but couldn't create the proper sequence, any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. Also, I am just a dumb carpenter that happens to love Chief Architect, so I am not the most techy person around, lol.

Hello, as I get more and more into creating library objects, material copies, etc. for my pricing, I have noticed that it takes some remembering and time to export my library from work, so I can use it at home and home to work. Is there an easier/more automated way to do this? Is there a cloud sink that I am missing? I would love to make new library entries at one location and have it automatically update at the other. Thanks.

Hello, I am trying to build pricing into anything I can and I have a couple of questions. 1. Is there a way to make components be wall specific? I would like to make multiple walls that each have their own components, one wall might have base install labor and another wall might have a different kind of labor 2. Is there a way to make wall components calculate area. Right now, I have created 0 thickness paint layers to calculate SF for paint labor. The issue I am having with this setup, is that if I put formulas in and change the id from wallboard to accessories, and then make edits to another wall, the defaults change back. It would be great if walls were not changed globally.