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1 minute ago, DefinedDesign said:

Do you mean the Callout I created?  If no, I'm sorry I don't understand what a Note spec is.

Yes sry it was Rob that mentioned Notes. But same thing for both--really anything that can be in a Schedule will have Object Information where you can create custom fields for.

Schedule columns are based on the information the can gather from the objects the schedule is set to include. If the Schedule only includes Notes, then only Note information can be gathered and displayed. Open a Note spec and you'll see Object Information has a Custom Fields section.

Then it's hitting something else - it's hard to tell in that screenshot if there's two roof planes in that space? Dormers can't span across two planes. If there is, then that's the problem.

If you attach the .plan file itself then we can see it and not play whack-a-mole on a forum all day  

Of course. All roof heights are a product of width and height. in the dormer dialog, on the Walls panel you can set the width of that front wall, and on the Roof panel you can set the pitch.

No worries. Yeah that message means that it just doesn't fit.

Though it's usually something like this 

But even then, a dormer totally CAN fit within that space, if it's shorter/smaller.

Open it and decrease the wall height - that's how you'll achieve that style of dormer anyway.

A few questions regarding the dormer tools - are you using Auto Dormer or Auto Floating Dormer?

1 hour ago, Jarenand said:

I keep getting error messages

What's the error? There are several possible so just knowing that it's generating "an error" unfortunately doesn't tell anyone much - need the details.

1 hour ago, Jarenand said:

and it wont let me manually draw one either.

Again, need details. what's happening when you do?

Just now, Jarenand said:

Here is the picture of where im at now.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but whoever said that wasn't talking about Chief Architect -- post the plan and we can see what's happening. instead of guessing.

What I'd probably suggest is to use an Auto Floating dormer, even if it errors you can open the Dormer box that appears and modify wall height, pitch, etc. So if it's erroring because it doesn't fit, then you can shrink it down - but they normally shrink to fit. Just need more details to know why it's failing.

On 8/2/2023 at 9:01 AM, DBCooper said:

 

The only other thing I can think of to check is if you have "display openings in non-display parts of walls" set to "always" in your pony wall defaults.  If it's not this, then you should probably post your plan.

14 hours ago, DeLayDesign said:

Chief's response:
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3. Change the Display of Openings in Non-Displayed Parts of Walls to either Outline or Hide and click OK.

Now the real question is who replied first? Gotta know who won!

The little touch buttons in the lower left go in and out as well. This looks like classic "z fighting" to me, chief often has issues when two surfaces are right ontop of one another. I'm actually less surprised that it's happening and more shocked it hadn't been happening all along. But if it was fine in X15 before this last update, then maybe something they fixed ended up breaking this - you should probably send it to support.

That view doesn't look like PBR. I'd guess video drivers need updating or rolled back.

Side windows aren't toolbars, so Locking them has no affect on this whatsoever.

As for the sizing, I assume there's something with the new Library Browser, but I can't say as I've encountered that myself (can't stand them stacked like that, myself)

3 hours ago, basketballman said:

How about just a plain, old .PDF 

probably as easy to trace over as a .DWG ?

Not at all. Tracing a PDF is a little more useful than just printing it and using that as reference. DWG/DXF is literal CAD data that you can snap onto.

On 7/24/2023 at 12:16 PM, Chopsaw said:

DWG is preferred but chief can import DXF from sources other than AutoCad.  This will give you the ability to measure things that are not dimensioned and some snap points to work with but not much else unfortunately.   I often ask for a reference PDF when I am being sent a DWG file that can come in handy when there are issues.

1 minute ago, DBCooper said:

Seems to work for me.

He nice work actually trying it!!

I'll just be over here with my tea.

It's been a while but I feel I've encountered this too - I'm pretty sure it's a hard coded thing for some reason.

@Renerabbittyeah I was curious about Space vs Escape in two ways: why one vs the other, but also just why in general. I figure maybe he had his reasons, but I'd skip it, myself.

re: not needing Home/Del - yes, indeed as long as your text is selected, just start typing.

With that, Ctrl+A can be avoided too if your paranoid about something misfiring and selecting everything, Tab/Shift-Tab will change focus off and back to the Search field with everything selected.

2 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

I like the Home, Shift+End, Delete to work with just the text field - but it still doesn't select the text when in Layout.

Well that's darn strange. But hey at least you're not deleting everything anymore!

I wonder if it's something to do with Library layout? Or just something weird with the Library in general - I've found just now that after I moved my Filter Results panel, I can no longer Tab to it. Restart Chief recently??

1 hour ago, Joe_Carrick said:

This works perfectly when in a Plan View to find the desired folder or object.

But in Layout it selects everything on the Layout page and deletes everything

Ctrl+L is the same in Plan vs Layout so I can't imagine why it wouldn't work exactly the same. That's a pretty standard command string too, so it shouldn't be any different than just manually hitting those keys (unless there's some weird timing issue as a result of being on a Layout, somehow). Obviously if the Library is closed when running that, then naturally Ctrl+L x2 will open then close it then Ctrl+A/Del will nuke everything, but just simulating that process I'm not seeing any sign that the browser somehow isn't recognized as being already opened after switching to a Layout.

One suggestion I'd give though: Ctrl+A/Del has a pretty high danger potential, as you've demonstrated if the macro misfires that's pretty catastrophic. I'd replace Ctrl+A, Delete with Home, Shift+End, Delete - unless you've customized them, Home and End shouldn't do anything outside of a text field. So at LEAST when it fails, you don't lose anything, you just don't get a search.

Also out of curiosity why lead with Escape and not Spacebar?

1 hour ago, robdyck said:

When I create a custom toolbar using multiple Place Library Object tool buttons, can I re-order the arrangement of these buttons in that toolbar?

Absolutely, open up the Customize Toolbar dialog and just click n drag 'em. You can drag them within a toolbar or onto new toolbars, just be careful because what you CAN'T do is drag a button off one toolbar and off to make a new toolbar. If you drop it somewhere else it just removes the button entirely.

1 hour ago, robdyck said:

Can an insertion point be added to a cad block if the cad block is already in your library?

Sure can - right-click it in your User Library and choose Edit CAD block.

In the Detail page that opens, go to the CAD menu, CAD Blocks, Add Insertion Point.

17 minutes ago, SHCanada2 said:

Click on the walls, go to the structure tab and click default wall top height

under the Edit menu is a "reset to defaults" tool where you can force all walls on all floors to revert to their Default Wall Top.

Try not to adjust wall heights in 3D views, not only should it not be necessary but it's also a common cause of headache.

30 minutes ago, SHCanada2 said:

I created a room on the second storey for the front entry with open to below and walls set to invisible with short room height

Why not just delete the slab on Floor 1 and define a porch room with room dividers? Makes no sense making a room on Floor 2 when its really a floor 1 room space.

There's also a long Gable Line on floor 2 that needs to go. And an unnecessary Ceiling Plane in the garage...

1 minute ago, RobUSMC said:

Is there a way to have it ignore the countertop without deleting the top so it shows the 34.5" cabinet box height versus 36"? 

There's a Box Height schedule column that shows exactly that.

In the Cabinet specification, Front/Sides/Back panel, when you select a specific panel there's an "Appliance/Door/Drawer" option that allows you to edit that specific panel, and the hardware applied to it. You'll have to specify a pull from the Library but there's an Edit option there that allows you to change the size apart from the Default size.

Similar thing happens dimensioning things in Elevation views when it can't dimension something, it places Point markers instead.
What's weird though is that End to End knows how to attach to both points, but Point to Point doesn't? Seems odd.

What's weirder more is that even with an End to End, if you try to move the diamond handle to another spot on the skylight, it either doesn't work or it jumps to th middle.

On 7/21/2023 at 7:51 PM, SHCanada2 said:

Anyone know why?

Skylights changed significantly in X15. I'll be the engineers who revamped them might know  

26 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

What version of Chief are you using?

Title Bar says Pro 2024 - so technically you're on the wrong Forum but that doesn't matter, Import options are view dependent.

Open the menu in a Plan view.

Chief doesn't do fancy brick so good - its easy to overthink this sort of thing but assuming there's only a few of these on this house, it's probably easiest just to make a 3D Solid on one side and copy/reflect it.

It's hard to say without really being able to see it, but looking at the image, some of the wall materials have been painted, rather than using the wall's default materials. Walls especially can do some weird things if their materials are being specified outside of the wall's definition. I'd start with selecting those materials and choosing the Use Default Material option to let the wall sort out its own materials. And if that doesn't work, post the plan so we can see whats goin on