Alaskan_Son

Yup. I do something very similar. I’ll also add additional details to the file name sometimes just to help remind me what the fork in the road might have been or what the specific phase might be such as “Smith Res. (with columns)”, “Smith Res. Phase 3”, “Smith Res. 2 (tall cabs)”, Smith Res. 2 (short cabs)”, etc. The most important part to me though has been maintaining a “Smith Res. Current”, or like I personally name it...”Smith Res. Main”. Whenever I hit a fork in the road, I’ll do a Save As with a new naming suffix but always continue drawing using the most likely final version and making sure it has the “Smith Res. Current” name, even if that means doing another Save As immediately after the first and overwriting the previous “Current” version.

Sorry for the interruption. I’ll try not to let it happen again. Carry on.

To be fair, you kinda left out this important detail.

In my opinion, you’re going about this in a much more complicated and problematic way than you really need to. I’m not gonna write the code for free but consider this: Be be more straightforward and specific about what you want from Ruby, and make data entry more intuitive. Do you really want Ruby to remove numbers from the beginning and end of the string, or do you actually want to remove quantities and prices? And what if you or someone else decides they want to tweak things a bit or use a different naming/numbering convention? my suggestion would be this: 1. Clearly define what is what both in your macro and at your data entry point... part number = 1235 color = yellow and black size = large name = bumble bee suit price = 300 2. Break that down and reconfigure using additional code to get your schedule formatting... name>part number>size>color>price 3. Reconfigure separately to get your desired label... Large Yellow and Black Bumble Bee Suit $300.00 SKU# 1235

Yep. And for the maximum lights, you set that in the Camera Tools defaults.

Yes and no. In Chief, they both work to Delete objects. In many other apps, only the Delete key will delete objects, and in most word processing scenarios, the Delete key removes characters in front of the cursor and Backspace removes characters behind the cursor. Anyway, I digress. Like I said, they both work for me. I wonder if perhaps its a system setting you inadvertently messed with. Or, do you maybe run any other hotkey or macro recording software?

Might sound like a silly question, but just in case... You do realize that backspace and delete are 2 different keys right?

Never seen that before...at least not that I’ve noticed, and I create new 2D blocks all the time.

Chief seems to be getting confused because that roof single roof completely envelops that wall. In other words, if you look at it in plan view, the same roof plane exists above the wall, below the wall, to the right of the wall, and to the left of the wall. It seems you can fix it by just splitting that roof plane into 2 separate pieces...

I concur with Mark. Place all those appliances and fixtures manually (disconnected from the cabinets). It's more accurate, more flexible, and more manageable.

Looks to me like you might need to make sure Chief is using the correct data folders for starters. More specifically regarding the material problem though... Try to Backup Entire Plan and post that zipped file. My suspicion? That you're using the Save As method and your materials have built up to the point where Chief is having a hard time dealing with all of them. Just a wild guess though.

I've developed a couple different methods for helping to automate terrain cut/fill calculations. I made a paid access video tutorial package for the first method. Shoot me an email at alaskansons@gmail.com if you're interested. It's been my intention to create another tutorial package to go over the second method. I just haven't had a lot of time, and haven't seen a whole lot of interest, and so that's been put onto the back burner for now.

Hmmm...That's not the word I would have chosen.

This is an absolutely fabulous idea...if all you need to do is show a terrain cross section and your regular CAD tools have all gone on the fritz. Sorry, but I'm not sure you've given this the proper consideration. Building a terrain is far more complicated than the simple waves you've described. What you have shown involves amplitude and frequency. First off, with terrain definitions, there technically is no amplitude. It could rise but never drop, or visa versa. Secondly, the frequency is rarely if ever constant from one elevation line to the next. At best, your setting could only ever apply to one single section cut plane out of the infinite number of cut planes you could be dealing with. Anything outside that cut plane would need to be interpolated much like it is now. Think about it...If you have 2 contour lines that are 6 inches apart at one location and 30 feet apart at another location, how is a simple wave definition supposed to apply? I agree that there are ways that the terrain could be simplified in Chief. I'm just not convinced that this is one of them.

Try this for starters: File>Print>Drawing Sheet Setup. Change your scale to something like 1/4 in. = 1 ft.

Really depends on how accurate you want to be and what types of rendering techniques you plan to use. You can use a single layer wall type with a lattice material or—my preferred method—you can use primitives. Just make one big piece of lattice for yourself using solids, block and add to your library and then in the future, just drop into your plan and use boolean operations for all future instances. Very flexible and accurate.

Not sure what you're doing differently, but here you go... PATTERSON_JENNIE ALTERNATE.plan

Hey Dave, Just wanted to throw a little tidbit out there in case you didn't realize it... If you want to create a new wall type that is the same as another wall type you already have, all you actually have to do is open the wall and increase/decrease the thickness right there on the general tab. Chief will actually automatically modify the thickness of the wall's first main layer, create a new wall type, and re-name the new wall type.

Actually all you really have to do is use Edit Area and Cut/Paste Hold Position. Same basic concept though.

Here you go... Clopay LP doors.calibz They should be pretty close to dimensionally accurate based on the product specs from Clopay. Thanks for your support : )

I can build those for you this morning. Just sent you a PM.

See if this helps at all...

I would most likely do something like what I think Chopsaw showed and use multiple framing materials in the wall definition and then tweak afterward to change the foam layer to a rotated c-channel to get rid of the cross box (just a personal preference)... It's not perfect, but it's pretty close. If I needed extreme accuracy, I would likely model it from scratch using primitives.

Use Edit Wall Layer Intersections and just drag all the layers back to outside your siding. That exterior corner there looks like it could use a little Wall Layer Intersection work as well.

The question doesn't make sense to me. Can you elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish?