Alaskan_Son

Reduce text size to at or near zero and then add text manually is typically the quickest and easiest way.

Those Wall Details are automatically named to correspond with the plan view labels. Your problem seems to be that you simply turned off the Layout Box Labels layer in layout. The other label you're seeing is the Walls, Labels layer in your actual wall detail.

This is what I see when I open your PDF. Not sure I see anything too unusual about it...

Just try it and you’ll quickly see the difference.

Its calculated in Object space so you should only need 2 symbols.

Build another floor and use that for your attic room. The attic level it’s not designed to carry any room definitions.

I may be misunderstanding the question, but you can simply save the note directly to your library.

HatchKit is a fabulous program once you get the hang of it. You can either draw the patterns in HatchKit and create a new pattern file; or you can draw in Chief, export as DXF, import into HatchKit, and then create a pattern file from that. I would suggest you give it another go.

By the way, just as a side note, I personally pretty rarely use the box and bay window tools. They're quick and easy for basic scenarios sometimes, but for anything out of the ordinary, I commonly find the need to just model them manually using walls, windows, room definitions, etc.

Try checking these settings...

It seem to be that the carriage return is the problem. It appears as if though it isn't actually getting pasted into that particular dialog box.

Strange, because I can't replicate. It always seems to work for me.

Silly question--maybe not---but did you perhaps forget to click Find Next or Replace All?

We've only had it in Chief since the release of X11

The guys above are just trying to be helpful and get people started off on the right foot. Example? The following statement would make absolutely no sense and would serve no purpose but to confuse for a person using HD Suite...

Okay, I see. Its only a problem when you DRAG out a Rich Text box. Simply click to place a Rich Text box and there's no issue. That's why I have so rarely experienced it. I almost never drag out text boxes.

I seem to recall having seen this behavior in the past as well, however I don't believe I've had it happen in quite some time, and I cannot reproduce now.

You don't need the extra line for that. All you need to do is group select and block the note all by itself by either selecting it with a marquee or by holding down Shift or Control while you select it. The new feature you were referring to was specifically for the new Note tool.

I could very well be wrong about that. I just saw that it should be possible doing a quick search. I do know for a fact that it is the case with a handful of other programs though. Very commonly, the default background color is black. I've had to change this setting on some of the software I use in order to actually see and work with black images that have transparent backgrounds.

By the way, AutoCAD, VectorWorks, DraftSight...and probably others...also have the capability of converting text to polylines in case any of you guys use one of those.

I use personally use Sketchup for this type of thing. Here's a quick video I made a while back...

This is a “problem” with a handful of apps, but it can usually be solved by simply changing the background color being used for that particular program from black to white. I believe this is the case with Apple’s Preview app as well.

I personally prefer to use a polyline with a semi-transparent fill to cover below grade stuff, BUT...if you need the dashed lines you can also create a 2nd Layer Set or entire Plan View with the walls set to display as dashed and then copy/paste in place your layout box, change the Plan View or Layer Set being used for the copy, and then crop both views so that one is used for the above grade and one is used for below.

Away from my computer and personally don’t recall having ever put a profile on lookouts, but what happens if you select those lookouts and cut/paste hold position?