Alaskan_Son

I assume you're referring to Marquee Select Similar right? The answer seems to be no. That tool is not available for wall framing while in plan view...only in a Wall Detail. Can't tell you why though. BTW, Match Properties isn't working for those objects either. Something is broken.

For what its worth, I personally almost never use images for this sort of thing and rather I choose to re-create the object with 3D entities for a few reasons... Those images are only going to be visible in a limited number of rendering techniques. I hardly ever use the standard rendering technique for outgoing files and I'm not sure I ever use the standard rendering technique for CDs. I very commonly use Vector Views, Technical Illustrations, and Line Drawings, and images would show up in none of those. I do sometimes use PBR and Ray Traces for outgoing files, but I want something that will be visible in any rendering style. Even though the images WILL show up in standard renders, ray traces, PBR, etc. they aren't super effective and can be rather problematic in my experience if you want to use them on a transparent surface and realistically see both the front and the back of that surface. I find that objects created out of 3D components also render a lot more realistically as well. Lettering edges are sharper and can be raised or recessed without having to create complex texture maps, and there's also no pixelation or perspective skew that we often see with imported images.

See if this helps at all...

Totally good point Rich. Cleaning up bloatware and disabling various resource hogs is one of the very first things I always do and it can be pretty time consuming.

We had one around these parts a number of years ago. I pulled up behind it one day and the back end looked like one solid racing slick. Could barely make out the little differential between the 2 tires. One of the most de-moralizing little sleepers ever.

Here's the mother board you want to use...

I did a bit of research on this and one piece of information I found was this... "What about combination systems, which use an SSD as a primary “OS” drive and a larger hard drive for more dense file storage? Sorry, no. Optane’s caching system only works with the primary OS drive, and even then, only the primary partition. You can install Optane memory in a desktop that uses both SSD and hard drive storage, but it won’t improve the speed of the secondary storage drive at all. Your money would be better spent on more RAM or a larger initial SSD if you’re building from scratch." That was from an article written back in 2017. Is that no longer true?

To help clarify its function, I always tell people that this is just like rotating your drawing board so to speak. EVERYTHING gets rotated when you use that tool, the model, the text, the grid, the axis...everything. Its like taking your piece of paper and spinning it around on the table in front of you. It doesn't change a single thing about your plan or your model...only your perspective.

Hey David, It's all in there. You just need to use the appropriate methods to get to it. I took the liberty of printing it to a PDF. Rafael is a super nice guy and I would help him. I just don't have time right now. Edgemere St Plan (1).pdf

No super strong opinions one way or another but that definitely looks like a solid rig at a fair price to me.

Hey Mick, I posted the specs to the machine I ordered here... ...hasn’t showed up just yet.

If you post the plan you'll get a much better answer, but my guess is that your wall was adjusted in 3D at some point and the Default Wall Top Height was unchecked...therefore turning off the automated behaviors.

What Mick is alluding to here is that there is a special setting in the Premier version (X11) that has to be checked in order for the file to be usable in the Home Designer software versions. Its really easy to forget to check that. It's also possible that whoever was helping you didn't know you were using a Home Designer product. Either way, someone who uses the Premier version may have to open the plan file for you and then re-save it with that setting checked.

Why not just make one?

A couple quick tips Alan, Instead of trying to turn the layer off, consider just changing the line style to the Invisible line style for the layers you don't want to see. You can optionally convert all those CAD objects to molding polylines (no molding assigned) and then create an Architectural Block instead. Then you can do what you're trying to do. Block Layer Test 2.plan

Those walls stop cutting the crown if you uncheck No Room Molding.

The lights are working perfectly fine on my end. Not sure what's going on, but another user I do some work for was also having problems placing lights in their plan when it worked just fine in mine. Are you guys and gals running the latest update?

This is all fabulous stuff Dustin. Thank you so much. I do have one quick question though. My spare time these days is pretty limited, but I do want to invest a bit more time in this. Do you suspect this thread and the linked resources will be available indefinitely, or should I try to schedule some time sooner than later to download and install everything I need to. I have a new computer coming here in the near future as well and don't want to have download and install things any more than I really have to. Thanks again for your time!

FWIW, there's no error opening plan on my end. Are all you fellas running the latest update? I'm on 21.1.1.2

The Point To Point functionality is not sticky. I think your best bet is to assign a hotkey to Pt. to Pt. if you don't have one already.

I recently posted this somewhere else, but it applies here again so... I tell it like this: People have to look at Chief and Ruby as 2 entirely separate constructs/entities. Whenever CHIEF sees two % signs enclosing some text, it will display any appropriate automated text. If that text happens to match a user defined, evaluated text macro then Chief will defer to RUBY to run the code. RUBY has no clue what anything between percentage signs means though. Only Chief knows that. When CHIEF “sees” the percentage signs on screen, Chief either fills it in per the defined macro, leaves it as dumb text, or defers to RUBY. The only thing Ruby can and ever will do with the text wrapped in % signs is display it as a “%name%” string or error out. My favorite example is to write a custom evaluated macro with a value of “%layer%” into an object. You should see the result is what you might expect...it reports the layer of the object. Now modify the macro to “%layer%”.reverse and see what you get. In both cases, RUBY is doing nothing more than placing the dumb text on the screen. CHIEF is the one that replaces the text with something else when the resulting on screen text results in a defined macro (either internal or user defined). The above is the fundamental reason we cannot access those built in macro values using Ruby. It's because Chief is the one producing that output. Ruby has no access to it. Yes, Chief chooses to allow some things to route through Ruby, but not every macro in Chief is handled like that.

Lots of problems in that plan with walls that have been adjusted in 3D so they're no longer using their default behaviors (Default Wall Top/Bottom Heights). And Glenn called it correctly...That Roof Cuts Wall At Bottom setting is what's causing the problem you're specifically asking about.

Yep. I've used that trick to access several values prior to X11 such as room schedule numbers outside the room label (not necessary anymore), but haven't found any way to access any of those non-Ruby macros.

P.S. I'm sure you probably know this, but we have access to SOME of the various "Global" macros such as time and date, special characters, and room info (in X11), but there are a lot of others we still have no access to.

No. I’ve tried every scenario possible to try and hack those “global” macro values with no success. I’ve even went so far as to pour through all the various program and data files...at least all those I have the ability to read and understand...and nuthin.