Alaskan_Son

I agree with some of the others. Nothing about your situation should preclude you for doing it all in Chief. In fact, although it might still require using a little CAD, I'm not sure it couldn't all be done with walls. I feel like perhaps you just might not have a handle on the tools and methods you can be using. That being said, you're diagram is a little confusing and your constraints aren't very clear to me. You're attempting to explain something in a lot of words that would be better put in your diagram: Does this look about right? If so, can you clarify a few things? Are Line 1 and Line 2 parallel? If so, then I must not understand the intent or else Dim 1 and Dim 3 would match. Is Angle C a 90 degree angle or is it unknown? Should Dim 3 perhaps more accurately be placed right in line with Line 3 indicating that there's actually a potential pivot point where the wall meets that line? Am I correct that Angle A and Angle B are unknown? Am I correct that Dim 4 is unknown? Anything else I'm missing or misunderstanding?

I'm not seeing this.

For situations like that, you should probably just use CAD tools until you get it situated. Then start moving walls. WE have to use the right tools for the job, and sometimes walls aren't that tool.

I couldn't agree more. Applying moldings in elevation view is the same story.

Speaking of acceptable language and Big Ass Fans. I remember purchasing a whole bunch of them for one of our projects back in probably 2014. One of their models was called the "Isis" (an Egyptian goddess). This was around the time though that the Islamic State was having a resurgence as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). Next time I was ordering fans it had been cleverly renamed the "i6".

I'm not sure you understand how the Room Types work Brad. First off, the Copy and Delete buttons take the same amount of work and they're found in the same place. The only real difference is the seconds it takes to type the desired name. And there was nothing special about the otherwise redundant Room Types Chief removed. Its Room Functions that have drawing intelligence built in and all those extra Room Types were nothing more than renamed copies of existing Room Types with no change to the Room Function.

I sent that information to you in a PM a while back.

It works for me:

Not sure there is any way to turn those off without turning off the Drawing Sheet altogether. Can you just turn off the drawing sheet? And perhaps place a CAD object to represent the Drawing Sheet?

There are still ways to set the default line weight. Just not the default color.

You should really post the plan for things like this. Too many variables. Its possible there's a far easier solution depending on the specifics.

You should really take some time to familiarize yourself with Chief's 3D modeling tools. The ability to just model what you need when you need it is incredibly valuable. If you're willing to pay for a little of my consulting time and get a symbol out of it as well, I can make you a custom video showing you how I would model that from scratch.

That's just a coincidence. Mine shows the exact same date. This, I can't tell you. I'm not sure how one might do that. Just an idea, but you might try saving a copy of the font (in case the rest of my suggestion doesn't work) and then opening X12. It's possible X12 will try to find and automatically install the missing font. If that doesn't work, just reinstall X12 from your digital locker and I'm assuming the old font will install with it. Once installed, copy it for future re-install.

Ya, I was aware that they have changed it a few times. I just didn't know if they changed in for X15.

You're seeing the font version, not the install date.

I'm ot sure whether Chief changed the font or not. A couple ideas come to mind though. Change the character height in the X12 plan. Reinstall the old Chief Blueprint font.

There's isn't any way. I have to do the same thing. Please send in a request. I've expressed my desire for that capability myself in the past but the more people who let Chief know that we need it, the better. Currently I have to open every view I send just like you do in order to change that color. And yes, you can do as @DBCooper suggests, but then you don't get the darker lines you want in color views. We really just need access to the default color for those Pattern Line Defaults.

You guys got me thinking. When does that upper bar become a work surface that needs its own outlet? And at what point does the outlet below that work surface violate code?

Can you post a plan?

I'm not sure this is a bug so much as it is an instance of unexpected behavior. The software is doing what it was designed to do. You've just found an instance where the behavior is undesirable. I agree that there should be a way to turn the auto numbering off. In the meantime, there are a few things you can do to kill that particular automation in a Rich Text Box. You can basically use any other kind of other automatically bulleted list or you could prepend the lines with your own character manually. For example: Using a standard automatic bullet (Circles, Empty): Using a manual bullet (dash): Prepending all lines with a space: Or even prepending lines with a zero width space character so there's no discernible character at all:

This sounds like a completely different question. The answer though is yes, you can do that, but it would require using that many different schedules.

@Chopsaw gave you the answer but it can be a bit nuanced. You might want to check out the settings for both the Cabinet Label and the Schedule Labels:

It depends on how advanced you want to get. The easiest thing is to simply overlay 2 views in layout.

Create Orthographic Full Overview and then 3D>View Direction>Top View

I don't have a whole heck of a lot to say about AMD vs. Intel but regarding the video card... I wouldn't spend anything extra for an upgraded video card in today's market unless your business HEAVILY utilizes Chief for photo realistic renderings or needs it for some other software you're running. Shoot, I'm still not even using an RTX card and I'm not having any problems. I can't use the newer PBR features, but then again, I don't really need to and if I need to do a ray trace, I can still use the old CPU ray tracer. The video card can almost always be upgraded later if you find the need, and hopefully at that point the prices will have dipped back down a bit.