Alaskan_Son

I’ts been a while, but I had that happening for a little while. As I recall, I was swamped at the time and I never actually got around to reporting it. I think I remember figuring out the cause though. I’ll post back here if I remember what it was. Till then though, you’re not crazy, I’ve seen it a handful of times too. I do think it was all in the same plan though for whatever that’s worth.

2 things... 1. You can place small gaps between the objects to keep them from merging (more realistic looking too) 2. You can create a copy of the material (simply having a different name is enough) and paint every other piece a different material.

Open the object, click on the Object Information Panel, and edit the Description field.

It's not exactly what you show in your picture, but in my opinion, the best way to deal with this is as follows: Drop an Electrical Schedule in your plan. Adjust the settings to something like I have shown below... The result will be a sort of live legend that only includes items you actually have in the plan...

I was thinking along the same lines, although a Repeat Edit tool would be really nice anyway.

It sounds to me like you might have a fundamental problem with regard to your understanding of annotation sets. An Annotation Set is nothing more than a pre-set and pre-selected group of Active Defaults....that's all it is. You can change your Active Defaults piecemeal or you can change them all at once using an Annotation Set. Your Active Defaults (text, dimensions, callouts, notes, etc.) are each set to have very specific settings. One of those settings is the layer that they are automatically placed on. This layer is set specifically for each Active Default. It doesn't matter which Annotation Set the Active Default is being used in. It will always obey the layer you have set in that particular annotation object default. If you want your text to be placed onto a different layer in a different annotation set, you can't simply create a new Annotation Set and change the layer setting for your Active Default (Text in this case), you have to create a new Active Default as well.

Just realized you might have been asking about resetting the folder to its default status and not changing it's path. To reset the folder, simply delete it and then open Chief.

No, not that I know of. You don't have to use the Templates tool though. New Plan From Template, New Layout From Template, and Save As Template are basically the exact same tool as Open Plan, Open Layout, and Save As except that they take you to the Templates folder you speak of and they also open the files as Untitled. You can always just navigate to a different folder or even put a shortcut to a different folder right there in your Templates folder.

Same place you would set any other Active Default. In your Active Defaults...

I believe this is the tool/icon in question... The reason it went away is because we now have the ability to use multiple reference floors, layer sets, and even plans. In the example below for instance, I have 3 different reference layer sets so that old tool would be all but useless since it was only designed to access the one and only referenced layer set. The most effective option in my opinion now is to click where I have indicated... ...in fact, this is what I typically did before X11 anyway.

In X11 we can use a number of other objects/schedules in addition to room label and polylines. Also, just a sidenote but I’ve personally found a method that works better for me than using a timer or manually resetting our hashes and arrays... I simply use the schedule number to both assign the position of the value in the array and delete any value that may already exist at that position.

I’ve customized fonts and written macros that do this for some custom polyline dimensions I use but it’s not currently possible with Chief’s dimensions.

Just as a reminder here, the reason Chief changed the naming rules is that user defined macros can be used as methods now. I personally think it makes good sense and I just adjusted my naming conventions to suit.

I'm not saying its not a valid method, I'm just suggesting that the extra steps might just be adding confusion. The problem here is that the floating dormer can't be placed where there are conflicting walls. The answer is to place the dormer on a floor where there are no walls in the way. Adding a floor is not necessary to solve the problem (and in this case only added confusion since the extra floor causes some auto generated attic walls), and moving roof planes is not necessary to solve the problem (could be addressed anyway by simply turning on the reference display too). I'm just trying to narrow the focus in on the actual problem without introducing unnecessary extra steps.

I feel like there are too many extra ideas being thrown out here. You shouldn't need to add floors or move roof planes or anything out of the ordinary. Just place the dormer on the attic level. Should be as simple as that.

Just do what I said, STEP BY STEP. Select your layout box, copy it, go to the next page in your layout, paste hold position. Now open the layout box and change to the desired plan view. If necessary you can optionally change the layer set using the Layout Box Layers tool. I don’t think there could possibly be a faster method.

Here's what I do. I only ever send a single plan view to layout. For the next page, all I do is copy/paste hold position that first layout box and then change the Plan View (and/or floor, layer set, etc.).

Those are ceiling break lines. They're just informative. They can't be deleted, but you can turn off the Ceiling Break Lines layer.

It can, but its a very complex system to keep track of and manage. I would recommend you just stick with Chop's suggested method for now.

You have no answers because you've provided too little information Basil. Too hard to tell what we're even looking at, and that second image couldn't possibly be an exported DWG file because it shows clipped text boxes which isn't even possible unless its just an image that we're looking at. I think you'll need to post an example of the plan file and/or DWG file or its all a bunch of guesswork.

Susan, I think you might have to clarify what exactly the problem is and whether you're talking about 3D connections or plan views.

That's the OSB sheathing layer you have selected.

Sounds like you're attempting to use a non-framing material for your joist layer.

Tested your theory and it doesn't work for the framing display. The only setting I knew of that was kinda like this prior to knowing out the pony wall display was CAD Defaults. That one is slightly different though and can't have multiple settings on the same floor in plan view.

Not bad Chop.