Alaskan_Son

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  1. Looks like that symbol got a little corrupted somehow. Drop into a blank plan and convert to symbol again.
  2. Open Symbol and change the origin offsets to zero.
  3. For sure. That one was already possible. It just got easier to display the information HOW we want it and WHERE we want it.
  4. Sounds like a case where you might just skip using the Space Planning Blocks. As with all automated features. They can only take you so far and they only work in so many situations.
  5. Up till now, many of our custom macro solutions required using the default room label and/or the room name field in order to access room attributes. This made various formatting exceedingly cumbersome and often required some super convoluted processes to achieve what we wanted. It is now very easy to access room attributes for all sorts of purposes. Here are just a couple simple examples that I've had people request many times...The ability to display ceiling height in feet and inches in a Rich Text room label and the ability to assign custom schedule numbers and use callouts for those schedule numbers independent of the room label. The only thing in this screenshot that requires anything more than copying the text box or callout to another room is getting the vaulted ceilng height to report correctly. That one requires a special extra step...
  6. Alaskan_Son

    Notes

    I'm not sure what there really is to show. Drop a note in the plan and it gets added to the schedule. Create multiple note types and multiple note defaults if you want. Its really just up to you how you use them. I could be wrong on this point, but I suspect if you're having a very difficult time figuring out how to use them then you just might not need them. On a side note, I would personally ignore the ability to display in 3D (at least at first) and just turn that layer off in 3D. That one detail just adds a little confusion to the mix and its just weird IMO.
  7. For the rest, I don't have a lot of time to look into it, but try temporarily changing the display of your pony walls to the lower wall and have a play with the Edit Wall Layer Intersection tool.
  8. Wall Structure Tab for the foundation walls>Subfloor To Wall Interior.
  9. Alaskan_Son

    Notes

    Bear in mind that notes are also just like all the other Active Defaults so you can create and use additional Note Defaults too.
  10. Not happening because no one knows what you used to build those walls, how they're connected, what the wall type definitions look like, etc. etc.
  11. This is a VERY GOOD tip Glenn. Thank you. Can make very quick work of managing warehouse plans for all sorts of purposes.
  12. Why yes, I do have ideas. I suspect its some internal limitation Chief put in place because they don't want us using the schedule number in the schedule.
  13. That basically just replaces the Use Default checkbox and (D) in the data field. If that is checked then you're telling Chief to use the default setting. If its unchecked then your telling Chief to ignore the default and use this instead.
  14. The first one is the macro that isn't working, and the next 2 are returning multiple values because you have 2 schedules...one in the plan view and one in a CAD detail.
  15. I don't see why anyone would really want this capability. Very unusual if you ask me. Notes are typically view specific and the issues in the video could be addressed by using different Active Note Defaults depending on the view.
  16. Impossible to tell whats going on without at least the layout file, but I'd say 95% of the time I see a problem like this its because a person changed one of these 2 settings not knowing what they were doing... Its usually the scale that gets changed though. Unless you have a very good reason to change that scale (printing at an upscaled scale for example), then that setting should always be 1 to 1 in layout.
  17. I do as Eric suggested above, but just FYI, the apron is an exact copy of any molding you apply to the sill except that is adjusted to match the thickness of your casing as well as the width of your casing (in combination with the sill) down to a minimum of 1" tall I believe..
  18. Either run a library update... ...or use this...
  19. Use a slab drawer front from the library for those lower drawers and you will get independent control.
  20. What Mark said. I was just going to take a screenshot or 2. Here are the settings I typically recommend... ...and if you have a layout already started for the project, do this from the layout file and not from the plan file so that the layout file and any referenced plan files are all included in the zipped folder.
  21. Nope. That's the wrong way.