Alaskan_Son

Alan, I think your quickest solution might be to group select your doors, add a casing to provide the offset, generate the Room Molding Polyline for the rail, and then group select the doors and change the casing back.

Nope. Don't think you;re missing anything. Make sure to send this in as a suggestion.

Not sure if you’re suggesting the tools be combined, but if you are, hold your horses. The tools don’t behave exactly the same, particularly the single click behavior. It’s handy to have the 2 different functionalities available.

Your guess is correct.

Yes. There are a good handful of scenarios where we might not want a different block. Electrical symbols are one of the most obvious and there are sink blocks along with their associated Countertop Holes but there are plenty others as well.

I believe it's indicative of the fact the auto generate status is in limbo so to speak. If you try to rotate that block in a section/elevation view, you will get a pop-up message asking "Do you want to regenerate....". Whether that box becomes checked or unchecked depends on your answer to that question. In other words, the setting is somewhat undecided till you get the pop-up dialog. NOTE: While that setting is "in limbo" (my term not Chief's), the block will remain unchanged with any plan view changes. As far as I know, it's only rotation around the x and/or y axis that trigger the pop-up.

it does. Look closer at that dialog.

It's not a full list if what can be done, an explanation of exactly how the conversions work, or an explanation of the different types of Measurements (Linear vs. Area vs. Volume), but here's a list of a few of the basic methods you can use to convert measurements to floats based on other units: .to_inch .to_in .to_foot .to_ft .to_yard .to_yd .to_mm .to_cm .to_dm .to_m .to_sq_inch .to_sq_in .to_sq_foot .to_sq_ft .to_sq_yard .to_sq_yd .to_sq_mm .to_sq_cm .to_sq_dm .to_sq_m .to_cu_inch .to_cu_in .to_cu_foot .to_cu_ft .to_cu_yard .to_cu_yd .to_cu_mm .to_cu_cm .to_cu_dm .to_cu_m And here's a list of what you can use to convert a float to a measurement... .inch .in .foot .ft .yard .yd .mm .cm .dm .m .sq_inch .sq_in .sq_foot .sq_ft .sq_yard .sq_yd .sq_mm .sq_cm .sq_dm .sq_m .cu_inch .cu_in .cu_foot .cu_ft .cu_yard .cu_yd .cu_mm .cu_cm .cu_dm .cu_m ...again, learning exactly how the conversion works is a bit more complicated but if you use .to_s you will get the newly created Measurement and its units. There are other similar methods as well such as .convert_to (as was mentioned above by Ben) as well as Measurement.new(value, optional unit). In addition Chief also has a built in NumberFormatter functionality that you can use to format various measurements. It basically works exactly like the Dimension formatting options we have. I don't have the time or inclination to go into all of it in this post, but it's pretty cool.

It can actually be even shorter. I believe area.to_sq_m.round(2) does the same thing right?

Texture and Pattern are 2 entirely different things. You’ll need to find or create a seamless texture.

File>Import>Save Plan Views

You can't. You can download the MiTek® Viewer though.... https://www.mitek-us.com/software/Viewer/

All you have to do is open the Note Schedule in your previously attached plan and add the 2D Symbol column.

Alan, Is there some reason you're opposed to using the 2D Symbol column?

I could be misunderstanding, but I don't believe the soffits in the picture are sloping any differently than the roof. It just looks like a depth perception illusion.

This isn't true. Here are 2 manually placed callouts as they are displayed in Plan... Same view sent to layout and rotated... You need to set the text style being used to not Rotate With Plan. Same goes for other text like that Room label. As shown above it is set to Rotate With Plan. Here's what it looks like in layout if I uncheck that setting...

Alan, The schedule_number is already a string to start with. As long as you don't try modifying it, it will work just fine. It's modification of any kind that breaks it. As I stated above... "Macros using schedule_number don’t work consistently in schedules..." I should have said macros attempting to modify schedule_number don't work. It has something to do with the way the schedule_number is generated by it's own schedule and the order in which those macro executions take place. At any rate, you have to either use the 2D Symbol column or another custom solution. I personally usually just use the 2D Symbol.

It’s exactly what it sounds like… If the box is checked, then the layout box will remain linked to that saved plan view. Any changes to the saved plan view and the layout box changes to suit. If it’s not checked, then the layout box will NOT be linked to the saved plan view. It will use the same layer set, reference display, floor, etc. as the current saved plan view, but once sent to layout, the plan view being used will be set to “None”.

I stepped into the office real quick Alan. Your problem is that you’re not using the 2D symbol. Macros using schedule_number don’t work consistently in schedules. You either have to use the callout label or you have to use a different macro to generate the numbers inside your schedule.

Not at my computer to open your plan, but I can see from the code you posted that you’re just opening the door to a bunch of problems with a handful of unnecessary code. Specifically though, your defining a global variable for no reason. That’s what’s likely causing the same number in the schedule. With a few very unique exceptions and for all intents and purposes, a global variable can only ever have one value in any given view.

Thanks George. The one you attached previously using the bump map instead of a normal map was actually a little more realistic and I had already fixed it pretty easily. It just required inverting the bump map in Chief (just the little checkbox). I was just letting you know was all. Thanks again

You bet. Just FYI, you can also simply move the Absolute Stem Wall Top in the room above.

Change the Absolute Ceiling Height

Alan, I think you'll find that you're better off not trying to even use a Room Finish Schedule. Just use a completely customized Note Schedule that includes all your desired room attributes as custom fields and their related columns. Also, I believe you'll find that your macro will result in undesirable room numbering on any floor other than floor 1. On floor zero, all results will be zero, and on floor 5, your room numbers will increase by 5 (500, 505, 510, 520, etc.). There are countless solutions using Ruby, but I would recommend something like... schedule_number.to_i + (floor_number*100) ---->if you have less than 100 rooms or floor_number.to_s + (schedule_number.to_i-1).to_s.rjust(2, "0") or ((schedule_number.to_f-1)*0.1).round(1).to_s.sub(".", "") or floor_number.to_s + '%02d' % (schedule_number.to_i-1) or ........

The functionality hasn't changed. Annotations Sets were just aptly renamed "Default Sets". You probably just don't have the Active Default Set dropdown in your Layout toolbar. You can either access it via Active Defaults, or you can add the Active Default Set Control to your toolbar via Customize Toolbars.