Alaskan_Son

My thoughts exactly. I personally never expected any of my picture files or PDFs to update automatically. That’s just me though. Having the option is a good suggestion but I certainly don’t think it qualifies as a bug just because SOME people expect something different.

I can tell you from extensive experience in this arena that reported bugs very commonly get fixed. Unreported bugs pretty much never get fixed. For the reported bugs that do not get fixed, I believe that it's usually a matter of priorities. If only 1 person is reporting a bug and 4 people are reporting another, which one do you think is going to get fixed? Take the wall hatching bug for example. I'm assuming Richard has reported it, but has anyone else? If that bug is the result of a notable programming flaw that would take a substantial amount of time to fix and only one or 2 users are reporting it, I don't know that I would want to spend much time fixing it either. "Why would we?" To make sure Chief knows about it. "Why should we?" To help increase the likelihood that it will get addressed. There was one easily reproducible and non debatable bug in particular that really annoyed the crap out of me that I reported multiple times. It remained unfixed for years though. Why? I honestly believe I may have been the only user who was reporting it. It finally got fixed (either in X9 or X10 I think), but my point is that if other users had taken time to report it, maybe I wouldn't have had to report it 4 or 5 times and raise a major stink to get it taken care of. Do us all a favor and just report this stuff. If you do and it doesn't get fixed, at least you know you've done what you can. If you don't and it doesn't get fixed, well...

This ^^^^ is a pretty bad one too. Not a matter of opinion, not debatable, not subjective in any way...just not important enough to fix I guess (insert sad emoji shaking its head).

This is not true. The extrusion shape can be edited from either end (left/right, front/back, or top/bottom), and in ANY view where you can see the extrusion profile (from either end). This includes almost any perspective view (so long as your camera is positioned in such a way that the appropriate face can be selected), opposing elevation views, angled elevation views, and orthographic overviews.

Chief actually does this with many referenced files. I imagine they're doing it to help speed the program up, but it's certainly a liability from a drafting standpoint and can be very limiting.

And also...HOLY COW!!! There's no shortage of stuff going on there. Looks like a lot of work.

Here's how to recreate what I did in the image in my earlier post. Create a Plan Footprint CAD Detail from the first floor using CAD>Plan Footprint. Select that Plan Footprint Polyline, open the Plan Footprint Specification dialog, uncheck Display Plan Details, and then specify a Fill. While still in the Plan Footprint CAD Detail, create another Plan Footprint by clicking on CAD>Plan Footprint again. You will be prompted to select a floor number. This time select the second floor. Select that new Plan Footprint Polyline, open the Plan Footprint Specification dialog, check Display Footprint Polyline and Display Plan Details (should already be checked), and specify the desired Fill. NOTE: For more control over whats displayed on the floor with the Plan Details, check Use Current Layer Set To Display and either use the appropriate layer set for that CAD Detail, or create a new one from scratch.

...and don't forget the new Inserts Into Wall option for symbols either. That one is a pretty versatile tool.

Try to update your video card driver.

Thanks for the plug Eric. To the OP: Yes, this can be done using a custom macro in the room label, but I can also be done using another special tool I created. The latter will even pick up on custom ceilings planes. Anyway, both methods require custom macros. Just shoot me an email at alaskansons@gmail.com if you want to discuss further.

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.