Alaskan_Son

Amen brutha.

By the way, this can also be done in Chief without using the watermark feature at all, and in such a way that gives you far more control and flexibility but it requires converting your text to polylines which is most effectively done in another app (one of the only things I use Sketchup for anymore)...

Same thing I have suggested to users as well. Only thing I would do differently is skip the screen capture step. Instead, just export picture directly from Chief with a transparent background...

Alan, I could be misunderstanding but what you need to do is UNCHECK Rotate with plan. It should work in layout too. Anyway, give it a shot and see if that helps at all.

Absolutely significant. Try going to File>Print>Drawing Sheet Setup. I'd venture to guess your Drawing Margins are out of whack.

BTW Richard, as a workaround for now (in case you haven't discovered it already), you can just get into the habit of placing 3 Wall hatches in these situations...one for one side of the niche, one for the opposite side of the niche, and one for the niche area. An obvious pain of course, but at least its something.

That's bizarre. I hadn't seen that one yet. I hope you've reported that?

I would personally do it completely from scratch and forget the muntins . Muntins are okay but are a bit limiting and less realistic than other equally quick options. Plus, you're going to need to create your separate glass pieces anyway. It's only a couple extra steps with boolean operations to model the lead caming.

The light works if you toggle the sunlight off. Sorry, that's all I have time to offer right now. Not a solution I know, but at least its something.

You should only need TWO different wall types or use the Hatch Wall tool and 2 different hatch patterns. Off angle walls would be trickier though and would require a custom hatch pattern.

...or Build>Image>Create Billboard Image This will give you a picture whose size is very easy to manipulate and position.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves about Chief's auto floor framing and I don't believe there's any way of controlling it. If somebody could show me otherwise, I would be stoked. I think the 2 best options are manually deleting after framing or temporarily changing interior walls to invisible, framing, and then changing walls back.

I personally wouldn't consider the X9 behaviour "critical functionality". Actually, it was rather unusual and awkward IMO. Only the dumbest of objects actually work that way anywhere else in Chief, and as Joe pointed out, this was the inevitable cost of the added ability to reshape layout boxes (something everybody seemed to insist was ridiculous that we couldn't already do). This seems to be one of the cases where everybody wants something but nobody gives any consideration as to what the cost might be. Anyway, I hardly ever used the "feature" myself...only occasionally to reshape a 3D view so I guess I may not be as sensitive to your plight. On a side note, have you considered adding Rotate/Resize About Current Point (RRACP), Place Point, and Delete Temporary Points to your list of hotkeys or easily accessible tools? You might even consider adding the latter 2 as regular hotkeys and just leave RRACP toggled on all the time. In the absence of any temporary points, RRACP just behaves like the default behaviour. I don't know, just a few ideas I thought I'd throw out there as it sounds like you're using that opposing-corner-anchored scaling functionality quite a bit.

3D>Edit Active Camera>Backdrop

You don't need to change that setting in preferences and you don't need to totally switch Edit modes. All you have to do if you want that particular functionality is press the X key before you start dragging (which temporarily puts you into the Resize edit mode). You can also simply Control or Shift select your layout box and then resize to get the same result. I see now that what Chopsaw is looking for is the ability to drag one corner while the opposite corner remains stationary, and have the layout box change scale without changing shape. For that, and assuming we're just talking about a rectangular layout box, I think these are the 2 fastest methods: 1. Switch to Rotate/Resize about current point, place a point at the opposite corner, and drag corner using using the X key. 2. Draw a diagonal line from one corner to the other and drag corner along line using right mouse button or while holding the Alt key.

I must be missing something here. I don't understand what the problem is. Right click and drag seems to do exactly the same thing as anything I ever did on X9.

More or less. Yes.

3 things: Multiple terrains are possible if you convert one of them to a symbol. Of course one of them wouldn't be a real terrain but it might work for what you're trying to accomplish. You don't have to resize your terrain. You can just pull your camera back if you want. You can also just draw a closed polyline and give it the appropriate fill instead of using your terrain skirt.

Yep. Another good method. NOTE: The Distribution Path method will only work properly in plan views.

I think the most intuitive and effective method is probably using a Distribution Path. Here's a video a made a while back that might help you out... It doesn't have to be a closed polyline. It can be open. The same basic principles apply. If you're using X10, the process is even easier now because you can use any polyline as the basis for your Distribution Path by just clicking the Convert Polyline tool and then selecting Distribution Path.

Like Chop pointed out, you can just use the alternate edit behavior. Just right click and drag or hold down the Alt. key while dragging

...or hold down the alt key to override the library replace mode.

Open Symbol>Options and uncheck Flush Mounted

This is true. Plan files are 1:1, layout is whatever you tell it to be. It seems like this might deserve a little further clarification. The scale setting in the Drawing Sheet Setup is really only applied when printing. You can see the effect of that setting if you choose to Show Drawing Sheet In View, but aside from that, the setting doesn't have any effect on your drawing scale at all, either in plan or in layout. Yes, you draw at a 1:1 scale but if a person chooses to print from plan, they may very well set their Drawing Scale in plan to 1/4 in. = 1 ft. (as Mick pointed out) so that they are PRINTING at the proper scale. That setting should really probably be thought of more as a "Printed Drawing Scale" NOTE: The Drawing Scale set in your plan file is what controls your "default" Scaling value in the Send To Layout dialog. When you send to layout, you can still send your drawing at any scale you choose. Doing so will reduce the scale of the view sent to your layout page so that you essentially see things as they will be printed (assuming you have Show Drawing Sheet checked and/or some page border(s) or title block(s) to go off). You could even send it to layout at 1 ft. = 1 ft. if you wanted and then use the Drawing Scale in layout to change your scale to 1/4 in. = 1 ft. I wouldn't really recommend doing the latter, but my point is that its possible. Just remember that our plan file is always drawn at full scale. We just decide to scale it down either when printing from plan or when sending to layout. You just typically don't want to be scaling it twice which is why that setting in layout should normally be left at a 1:1 ratio.