Alaskan_Son

Always report. It doesn’t matter if they’re onto it or not. The more people they hear from, the more likely it will get fixed. I’ve seen legitimately broken tools that remain unfixed for years because only one or 2 people report it, and I’ve seen very powerful and perfectly functional tools removed or changed completely because a good handful of beginners were having problems understanding them. It’s simple prioritizing.

Group selecting and opening/closing is just super fast.

Amen brotha!

You will not get that setting unless you check Floor Supplied By The Foundation Room Below.

I don’t actually use it for any of my plans but Times New Roman IS my go to font for pretty much all my other business documents (letters, invoices, contracts, etc.).

Yep, Looks really nice. I personally use the ole Arial font still. I just feel like it looks nice. And I only use all caps on select text boxes. Mostly I use standard case conventions. I feel like the only real reason for all caps in the first place was to make hand lettering easier and more consistent. Using lower case when appropriate takes up a lot less space and makes things far more readable IMO. It’s more correct too. There are certain things that can only properly be communicated when using the appropriate case.

I would recommend opening X11, going to Preferences>File Management, clicking Associate Files With This Program, and then trying again.

Lots of ways. As Joe said, you can use molding polylines along with simple molding extrusions and 3D molding symbols, but you can also use a custom newel symbol along with a stacked molding applied to the rails themselves. Or, what I would personally usually end up doing in a scenario like this...just build it from scratch using p-solids and/or framing. The automated methods can be great, but typically I find that once I get everything modeled and configured for the "automated" method I end up spending close to the same amount of time if not more time than I would have had I just modeled it all independently. Plus, chances I'm going to re-use the custom modeled components are between slim and none. And then, we have a lot less control of independent placement and display of each of the little components if we use moldings, railing settings, etc.

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There are several convoluted ways to do so, but nothing very intuitive. We really just need a lot more options with regard to which objects get placed into which schedules.

Just a quick tip, but don't limit yourself to simply searching the Help files. You can also: Click the Help button in any one of the dialog boxes and it will typically take you straight to the section regarding that specific dialog. Click Help with an object selected and it will typically take you straight to the most relevant section on EDITING that particular object type. Click Help with only a tool activated and it will typically take you straight to the most relevant section on USING that particular tool. Help is by far the most underutilized resource at our disposal IMO.

Default Settings>Schedules>Custom Object Fields

Import into Plan and then Copy/Paste into layout.

Usually shutting down Chief completely and then re-opening fixes this type of problem. If not, open Task Manager and make force the shut down of any other Chief Architect related processes and then re-start Chief. If that doesn't work, then I would re-start my computer.

Hey Kristine, just sent you a PM

I believe it was changed to more closely resemble how files and cells are selected in other processes. I suspect a lot of people were expecting a certain behavior, getting confused by how Shift and Control work, and then costing Technical support a lot of time. I can sympathize to a certain extent, but I maintain that better documentation/education is the answer, not taking away functionality for the sake of so called continuity. We’re not selecting from cells and lists here. We’re selecting from a virtual 3D environment where there is commonly a jumbled mess of objects stacked on top of each other. The more refined and intuitive control we have over what we are selecting and de-selecting the better. I feel like our options in this regard were already pretty limited and that we only lost some of the little we had. To be fair, MOST of the functionality is still there...it’s just far more complicated and a whole lot less efficient now.

I detest this particular change more than any other Chief has ever made. Shift used to simply be restrictive based on the active tool and Control was non-restrictive. Either could be used to add or subtract from the selection with either a marquee or by single clicking. Now it’s a goat rope trying to remember which combination of keys (Control or Shift) and actions (single click, marquee, or right click) to use and when to use them (before or after an object has already been selected), etc. Very messy and hard to describe. I could easily teach a person to use the tools to efficiently select groups of objects in busy areas in X10 and prior. Now? Not so much.

I could set one up for you. Sent you a PM.

It is. Here's a quick video I made on the subject 2 or 3 years ago. A few of the settings might look different (not sure) but the basics remain the same...

Materials can only be made invisible in vector when used in the structural layers of roofs, ceilings, walls, etc. Even glass is not invisible in Vector Views unless its part of a door or a window. And as Eric pointed out, it has been requested many times. Maybe add your support to one or more of these threads...

Pretty sure I would just use a ceiling plane. That's really what it is anyway right?

A lot of various ways to go about this, but the key thing here is that you need to set your garage floor to have a negative elevation (this is how you tell the floor to drop down).

This is the "edge" of the roof baseline polyline that is controlling that pitch... It's just a little tricky to access. What you have to do is first drag the roof on the right either up or down (doesn't really matter which)... ...then select that edge and change it to 10/12... ...and then drag the polyline edge back where it was...

2 key things: 1. Chris and I are using Pattern Line Defaults. This is a setting at the bottom of the Send To Layout dialog and it must be set when initially sending the view to layout. When this setting is selected, the patterns no longer get their definitions from the material definition; rather, they use a single generic pattern line definition that you can set right in the layout box dialog. 2. In Preferences, you need to go to Appearance>Display and make sure your Color Off is setting is set to Grayscale.