Alaskan_Son

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.

A search for "grainy ray trace" returns 15 results... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/search/?q=grainy ray trace&search_and_or=and ...and you should post these queries in the General Q&A section

I can also see the edit tool you're asking about in that picture.

Easy peasy. Add a Place Library Object tool to your toolbar and then assign the wall type from your library to that tool. Click Launch Help and search Place Library Object Button

These objects don't actually need to be connected to anything in the room at all. They themselves are a valid medium to pull the information from the room.

Sorry, I misunderstood. Sounds like you want it upside down. No, I don't know any way of doing that.

I think setting the label angle to like -89.99 degrees might be the closest you're gonna get.

...an odd saying. Sounds like something that would be very relieving to have. Maybe not as satisfying as a brain sneeze, but relieving nonetheless...and I'm never really relieved when I let a brain fart rip.

If it was me, I would seriously consider using the primitives (Solids) Jerry included with his library to build some much longer spans and then just use those, multiple copy, and then trim them to the desired shape using another larger solid and Boolean operations.

Open Symbol>Sizing tab...change the depth plane that's set to a negative number or just uncheck it entirely.

3. Use cameras displayed on all floors (probably As Callouts on Both Sides). They're not too good for snapping to though. If you have X11, I think #2 is the best option though for sure.

This is not the place to make those reports. They need to be reported to Technical Support... https://support.chiefarchitect.com/

All the shapes can be rotated except for the ellipse, the capsule, and the rectangle. I suggested early on that we be able to block notes (which would allow for this) but so far that request hasn't been granted. I suggest you send in a request as well...either for the ability to simply rotate those particular callout shapes along with their text or for the ability to block the notes. I noticed this as well. Might want to send that one in too.

Custom macro(s).

^^^^BOTH

My guess is that you have a slab or some other 3D object selected and not a simple polyline.

Those formatting macros in your plan are actually a combination of Chief's and mine.

Good video Larry. I usually just snap from the corner of the house to the corner of the lot line and then use the Make Parallel/Perpendicular tool and relocate as necessary. What you have shown using the Point To Point dimension tool and some of its newer (X9 or X10) functionalities is a very good method though as well. Thanks.

Or just skip the polyline steps and automate the whole thing using the actual molding information provided by the room... Molding test.plan Simply drop a copy of the text box into any room you wish to get the molding quantities for that room...and this is just a pretty quick and simple example of the type of information we can automatically pull from the actual model now.

Here's another way to think about it regardless of whether or not you think its logical to display the floor framing along with the wall system they are bearing on... For all intents and purposes, each floor has walls, a floor, and a ceiling right? What we want to avoid is showing multiple floor/ceiling structures on the same page, so, for the sake of clarity (and logicality in my opinion), Foundation level gets the first floor structure, First Floor level gets the 2nd floor structure, and top floor gets the roof structure. Every level gets one set of walls and one platform.