Alaskan_Son

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.

Looks like that symbol got a little corrupted somehow. Drop into a blank plan and convert to symbol again.

Post a quick example eh.

Open Symbol and change the origin offsets to zero.

For sure. That one was already possible. It just got easier to display the information HOW we want it and WHERE we want it.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Wall Structure Tab for the foundation walls>Subfloor To Wall Interior.

Bear in mind that notes are also just like all the other Active Defaults so you can create and use additional Note Defaults too.

LOVE IT!!!

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.

This is a VERY GOOD tip Glenn. Thank you. Can make very quick work of managing warehouse plans for all sorts of purposes.

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.

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.

Hey Kyle, I can help you with that. Just sent you a PM.

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.

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.

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.

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..