Alaskan_Son

Not sure. What object type are you using it for? And are you placing it into a label or into a text box?

Here you go... rgw perimter.json Just download and import this macro via Text Macro Management and then place your new %rgw_perimter% macro into your label. It was written and tested relatively quickly but I think it should do the trick. If you find it valuable enough to you maybe consider sending a donation my way by simply clicking on the PayPal link down in my signature.

Like this?

This is SORT OF possible but it would require a highly customized font and one or more custom text macros and you would be very limited with regard to vertical spacing. I don't think it would be any kind of worth it.

That would require a custom macro. EXACTLY what format and rounding are you looking for?

Try check Use Global Symbol mapping. You may end up wanting to create a unique material with that setting though for just your drawer fronts.

Here's what I personally do FWIW... I typically check the appliance specs and set up the cabinet and opening(s) accordingly. Then I place the properly sized appliance manually. I just personally find that placing the appliance via the cabinet DBX to be less accurate and far more error prone.

In X7, the bump map settings are on the Properties tab.

What version are you using?

There are so many options out there in this regard that its getting ridiculous. The one piece of advice I would give is this... Whatever you choose to use whether it be Dropbox (which is a lot more than just a cloud storage solution now), Zoom, Skype, etc. etc....As much as humanly possible, try to just stick with using ONE of those mediums for your collaboration. In my experience, one of the single biggest breakdowns in communications that can occur with things like this is when different parties are communicating though different channels and completely missing what has been communicated elsewhere. In other words, make sure everyone is on board with using the same tool and sharing information/giving feedback in the same place. It can prove to be an astronomical waste of time and energy if even one person in the chain misses the boat because they were trying to communicate over here when everyone else was having a different conversation over there.

You need to close the file before you zip it. Also...to get the file size down, consider delete any unnecessary objects from the file and doing a save as of the trimmed down plan file.

All you should need to do is drag those 4 little short walls through so that the join into the exterior walls. Eric and Chopsaw's solutions are both good as well. Really just depends on works works best for you and for the individual situation.

No...we are talking about the same thing. I just may not have described it properly I guess. I was saying almost the exact same thing you just said in your last post. When I said that the 3D plants used images with transparent backgrounds, I was really just referring to the material definition same as you. Instead of deleting the texture file though I was suggesting to change the material altogether and I also added the idea of possibly making the material semi-transparent. I do like your idea of just deleting the texture file though. That's a pretty quick method.

Most of those 3D plants use images with transparent backgrounds. Just change the material to a solid color and see if that works for you (with or without transparency).

I don't think there is any right answer. I think you're just going to have to figure out what works best for you. Just a reminder though about one feature we have that may get overlooked pretty easily... You can always place objects onto their own unique layers and either check or uncheck material list for that particular layer in any given layer set. Just remember that your material list will generate based on the settings in your current layer set.

I downloaded that library Johnny and the door looks just fine on my end. So does that pull. And they work fine together as well. Not sure what the deal is. One of the 2 must have been corrupted on your system somehow though.

That pull works just fine for me. I suspect it may actually be the Bella Drawer front that is the problem. Where did you get that? I don't have it in my library. Try to copy and paste that drawer front to your user library (assuming its from a bonus or manufacturer library), right click and Open Symbol in the library, and check what the bounding box depth is. I suspect its probably less than 3/4" (which is probably roughly what it SHOULD be. If my suspicion is correct, you should report it to tech support. In the meantime, you'll just have to modify and use the drawer front from your user library. You'll have to modify it first though... Take a cross section of that cabinet and measure how deep that drawer front is. Open Symbol in your user library and set the Bounding Box Depth to match that number. Replace the drawer front with the new one from your user library.

There still doesn't seem to be any usable information in your attachment. There is still a file with no information and the only file that contains any data is not a valid file type. Actually...that file has NO file type. I'm wondering if perhaps you're not just dealing with a corrupt font file that happened to work okay for a while.

Chris, I think you'll need to first zip your font file and then attach it. What you attached doesn't contain any information.

I'm away from my computer so I cant test this, but one of the first things I'd recommend you do is check to see if there's an attic wall in that area. If there's not, either turn auto attic walls back on or manually draw your own. If there IS, it may be an invisible wall...delete it and it should revert to a normal attic wall.

Nope. As long as that main layer thickness is actually .01" ( which it may be… hard to tell unless you change your number style to decimal inches) you should be good with that.

To add to what Eric suggested. I would recommend all users add their own Room Divider wall type that has a thickness of something like .01". This wall type can be used to define a room without changing size on you, and can more effectively be used for things like the above example as it will give you something to snap you main layer to suing the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool...

2 things... 1. I would recommend you use the term Rich Text as only other AutoCAD users will likely understand what Mtext means. 2. Chief basically has 2 different macro types...Global, and User Defined. Global macros have some unique subsets of macros that recognize WHERE in the plan they exist. One of those subsets is something some of us refer to as "room context". This is how the global Room Info macros work...they recognize the room they were placed in and report the appropriate value. Currently we cannot use a User Defined macro in this same manner and so we're limited to using the OOB global macros for any room information we want to use in a standard text box or a rich text box. I'm pretty sure I could get around this by writing to and reading from an external text file (which I've done in the past in order to create some automated room numbering) but that would require some pretty complex macros and methods. This is the reason Joe, myself,and probably Gerry and others have requested in the past that we be given a Room Context for User Defined text macros so we could create our own custom macros that could be used in Text and Rich Text boxes for use as room labels.

Here's a quick example plan and layout using a method you can use to essentially create a Rich Text version of those room labels... Alan's example.plan Alan's example.layout I went over the basics of the method in another thread over in the Tips and Techniques section but essentially you need to: Use a custom macro in the default room label (I just used a modified version of the macro BT posted above for this example that is set to display only the room name when the layer set includes the number 2). Use a solid fill in your default room label (not actually necessary but the technique gets a fair bit more complicated if you don't do this). Set up a couple different room label text styles (one for the room name and another for the ceiling height). Overlap a couple layout boxes in layout using 2 different layer sets (one with nothing but room labels being displayed. Move the appropriate layout box to the front group, and shift it up or down as necessary to get the appropriate text spacing (this step isn't actually absolutely necessary either, but then again the technique starts to get a bit more complex). Once you figure it out, its actually a lot faster and easier than it sounds.

Actually, all you have to do is open the room and then click okay and it will update to reflect the new default room label.