Alaskan_Son

Not something I will likely use either. Its kinda weird f you ask me. This is one instance where I actually think it would be better (at least for me personally) to place the notes on the layout page...an ability we don't have for the notes...something I think should have been included and a suggestion I already sent in.

Nope. That's new to X11. Good eyes William!!

I think the one time I will will most commonly use other plans is to replace the current "As-Built CAD Mask". This way my mask stays live if I have to make any changes to the As-Built, besides that though, yes, for multiple floors... and for Grid Lines.

Rotate/Resize About Current Point. Do a quick search in the Help files.

Just resize the width of that column.

Cool. So you're good then right? I'm going to go ahead and skip posting an example if you have it figured out.

Use your wall schedule to Open Row Object or Find Object In Plan.

Just an aside here… Is it possible that your error handling is written in such a way that the referenced context is never initiated...i.e. it’s not an error, it just results in a blank owner.room?

Yep. Give me a bit though, i’m away from the office at the moment and I have a training session as soon as I get back there. I’ll post something ASAP though.

Gotcha. You can’t actually reference the room because it’s not an object. You would have to reference an object in the room.

Can you possibly be a little bit more specific? They seem to be working fine to me.

Its not just you. Its all of us. You just have to be VERY careful and deliberate about which views you edit those 3D moldings in. You basically have to use a different elevation view for each and every segment that turns a corner or each plane. and only edit one end node at a time making sure to monitor that you did the right thing before moving on to the next.

Same thing I was thinking.

Correct. You do have to be careful with exactly HOW you edit that molding poly line though and you're really better off just using the roof plane to get it shaped correctly before disconnecting it and using it as its own entity.

Nice thought Eric. Good job. What's really great is that X11 fixed the issue with edited roof moldings and gutters. Once those moldings are separated from the roof plane, they remain stable and no longer get deleted when the roof is changed. This means you can use the special shadow board molding behaviour independently of the roof.

I'm just thankful that we can finally do away with using the actual room label. The new room attributes give us full-on Rich text room label capabilities. Super duper awesome supreme.

Easy peasy. For starters it gives the capability of creating a room schedule using callout labels in both plan and schedule.

That's a tricky one in Chief since Chief wants to orient moldings according to the direction the profile was drawn. I can think of 3 options off the top: Drawn the molding polyline(s) parallel/perpendicular to the X/Y/Z axis and then convert to symbol and position appropriately. Use solids instead of moldings Use multiple molding p-lines with multiple molding profiles (some profiles rotated and some not)

So what you're really after is the R-value for the wall type. Is that correct? If so, I think we just need to request an additional attribute for that.

Precisely. I commonly advise people that the forum is about the worst way to try and learn Chief. A great way to pick up some great tips and advice on various challenges we run into, but absolutely terrible (and expensive time-wise) as a primary learning source.

Its not an oversight Joe. You will only get that data to show up if the wall is part of a defined room set to be conditioned.

Only if enough people report it as an issue.

Nice job Joe. The new "Collections" sure are a great step and just what the doctor ordered for a good handful of our needs.

Just don't set it up as a reference floor if you don't want it in that view. Set up only the desired floor(s) in the desired Plan Views.

It's covered in the Help Files and Reference Manual though... "...A Baseline drawn along a wall should be drawn over the outer edge of the wall’s main layer. It tries to snap to that layer. • The elevation of the top plate is defined by the ceiling height in the room. If the roof plane is not drawn over a wall, it’s height is based on the default ceiling height value for the current floor. • If a Baseline is drawn over the top of any other roof plane, the Baseline height equals the height of the existing roof plane at the point where you started drawing..." It's for this reason and many others that I'm constantly trying to encourage people to make the Help Files the first place they go. You can simply click Launch Help and search for various topics (which will typically provide links to more related topics), you can click Launch Help with an object selected and it will take you straight to some of the most relevant information for that object type, or you can click on the Help button in the various dialog boxes and it will take you straight to the part of the manual that describes that specific dialog box, what all the settings and for, and how they're intended to be used. The Help have to be the single most underused resource at our disposal. I personally probably use them on a daily basis. The problem with using videos is that A: They may be using an older version of the program (its simply unrealistic to think they can redo all videos with every new release) and so the tools and processes they are using may be outdated, B: The structure they're working with may be substantially different enough that the processes being used can't really be applied to your project, or C: You watch the whole video only to find out that they skipped over the one thing you were hoping to find out.