Alaskan_Son

Yep...all this stuff...

I’m curious as to what you mean by this and how you’re thinking of using it.

One of the forks in the road I was talking about. The example in the OP DID have the drawer glides though, so in your case,time for one of the other methods I guess (added Accessory, added Insert, etc. etc.). At the end of the day, it comes down to what you want to show, where you want to show it, why you want to show it, whether are not a drawer glide is simply a drawer glide or whether a drawer glide and a rollout glide are 2 different things, how much work you want to put in to make it "automated", etc. etc.)

Many ways to deal with this such as not using a Plan View ("None"), creating multiple Plan Views (one for each floor), etc. but the key is to understand what Plan Views are, what they remember, and how to manage them. Here's the easiest solution in my opinion though...

Yep. This one could be used to get the desired end result along with a custom macro placed either into one of the existing components or into an added accessory. Again, there is basically a potential fork in the road at every turn though. I would probably suggest that the easiest solution for the average user is to just manually edit the count as you first suggested above by changing the value from = automatic_count to = automatic_count+X (where X is either entered manually or pulled from the aforementioned insert values or pulled from one of the Object Information fields).

Are you talking about Sub-Categories or Accessories?

It would take a lot more than a screenshot. I could literally spend hours going over some of these things in great detail to cover all the various scenarios. Point is that you have to make sure and insert your parts and pieces using the appropriate dialogs as either shelves, or drawers, or appliances, or whatever it is you're inserting and you may need to add as more than one piece to get them to show up in the material list how YOU want them to show. And you may or may not need to add or modify components/accessories manually as well. There are forks in the road at every stage of this process and various ways macros could be utilized as well.

If you just want to use a standard shallow drawer box then you'll probably just have to make one for yourself. Once you make that symbol, add drawer glides to its Components. Read my first post again but read it VERY CAREFULLY. Again, read my first post again... "You'll have to add those shelves as library items in the Cabinet Shelf Specification dialog OR manually add as a new accessory to your Components list."

I personally don't use mono slabs very often and the vast majority of my work fr the last few months has been assisting clients who are still back in X10 so I have't noticed it yet. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else either, although I will say that many of us just report stuff to technical support without ever mentioning it here on the forum, so someone else may have reported it. I wouldn't count on it though and multiple reports of the same issue are better than one.

You're welcome Larry, but no, that's not what I'm suggesting. You may have very well lost your mind, but for this particular issue, I'm reassuring you that you're seeing things clearly. There is a problem and it's not you on this one : )

Definitely an X11 bug Larry. Please make sure to report it ASAP.

I pretty positive you just found a bug in X11 Larry. It looks like the model is building correctly, but Chief is adding the foundation ceiling height to the first floor ceiling height (essentially doubling the number when floor is supplied by foundation room below since they both have the same value) when a second floor is present. Please make sure to report it.

Yes. Light fixtures will still work like you want and the soffits won't get cut by the half wall, but molding won't work. Or how bout try this instead... Rotate that soffit that covers your half wall so that the face is parallel with instead of perpendicular to your half wall. You'll have to reshape of course to flipflop the width and depth.

Try blocking those soffits together and I think you'l find that they behave a little better.

You'll have to add those shelves as library items in the Cabinet Shelf Specification dialog OR manually add as a new accessory to your Components list.

I definitely don't think moldings are the right tool for this job. Here's a quick video showing how to make pretty quick work of it using ceiling planes.

Where are you guys getting your information? What makes you think Chief isn't paying attention to what people are struggling with? I can guarantee you that they are. When your technical support team and training staff are being inundated with questions about a specific issue, you can bet someone is paying attention. I know this from experience on multiple levels in this area too so I'm not just speaking out of my @$$. Anyway, here's a little food for thought. If you're basing your thoughts on the matter on your experience here in the forum, then you're really missing a lot of information. There are a HUGE number of users that basically never even come here. In fact, many don't even know this place exists. You're really not seeing a very good cross section of users here in my opinion.

First off, why would you think ANY of those numbers would make sense? Second of all, what you describe is exactly why some have such a hard time learning Chief...we don't take the proper time or invest the proper effort in learning how and why. The very fact you we're just guessing and messing around with numbers points to a general practice that I see all the time. We keep fighting the software till we get the desired results and then the do the same thing the next time until we get the desired results...It's a very inefficient way of "learning". The alternative of course is to stop and figure the thing out so you can cross it off your list of things you have to fight with. Take this angle thing for example. It's one of the single most fundamental concepts that we should know if we're going to be using them... I tell it like this all the time (and it's true of any and all software by the way): These various settings are either your enemy or your ally. The sooner you can make them an ally (taking the time to study and learn exactly how they are intended to work), the better. Now I won't pretend that I don't struggle with things myself, because I do sometimes, but I have learned that stopping what I'm doing and figuring the individual settings out, makes all the difference in the world.

Ceiling planes, roof planes, or solids are what I would probably use. Ceiling planes might by the easiest and most appropriate though.

1. I used a customized note schedule. 2. I used Custom Object Fields. 3. It’s 6 degrees F right now and we have about 8 inches of snow out on the driveway that needs to be cleared. Not sure what it is where you are, but if that’s Florida to you then I’m sorry to hear that, you guys must be having it rough right now.

There's a big polyline solid down on floor zero on the "CAD, Patio" layer that your camera is cutting through.

Nope. Chief is not backward compatible. This is true of almost all 3D architectural design software. My recommendations are to either get her to upgrade, have you do your work in X9 for this one, or redraw as necessary...and in that order.

I had a little spare time before I need to head out, so I decided to make you a video with my quick thoughts on the subject... https://youtu.be/4xFdGgjhGtA Those split levels definitely ARE a pain though. There's a chance I changed something you won't quite like since its really not my plan and I'm not sure why you did various things. Regardless, hopefully there are some tips in there that will help you out. It's definitely easier to deal with when you're the one the drew the plan though, because you know what is what, what is supposed to be where, and why its supposed to be where it is : )

Sorry Doug, it sounds like maybe I was answering a different question altogether. I was assuming the problem you were trying to solve was with regard to how to place a room below the garage when the floor for the garage is being supplied by the foundation room below (something that needs either a manual floor structure or a super special stacked floor structure in the one room definition). For the slab itself, it depends on the project, but for the average residential application, I would likely just increase the thickness of the appropriate floor/slab and then detail the rest in section view using CAD.

I'm not sure about others and I've only run into this with one plan, but what I've done is just draw a slab manually for the floor below and then locate any windows or doors by either using absolute elevations or with reference to the garage floor. For interior partitions, I've just resized the top and bottom of those to work in elevation view. Might be a better way, but that's what I've done.