Alaskan_Son

There are several ways, many of which have already been mentioned directly or alluded to. One that hasn't been mentioned though is to simply use a Custom Schedule. Just make sure all rooms in any given unit are set to report to a Schedule using a Custom Schedule Category and then set your schedule to report only that one Category. Make sure your schedules for each unit are set to report a Totals Row and there you have it. In fact, if you set your Schedule to Swap Rows/Columns and then Right justify the schedule text then your total will always remain in the exact same location so that you can simply use a cropped layout box or you could even mask it. This approach can be used to tabulate all sorts of things. The 2 key elements though are: Having your objects report to the appropriate Category/Categories Having your schedule only report the appropriate Category/Categories The tip regarding swapping rows/columns and right justifying isn't necessary, but it will help you not have to reposition your schedule after any changes to the plan have been made.

Ironic, because that's how we've been showing topography on just about every map and drawing produced for the last 100 years. I think the general method you decided to try out was a really good one (the idea of simply copying automatically produced elevation data that you're happy with). I would however suggest that you can simply trace over the elevation data before deleting your points instead of using a picture. You could also optionally create a CAD Detail From View and then use that for reference.

That just tells me that you're probably: A. Working with too many data points and/or... B. Giving Chief conflicting information You're only going to get little humps or depressions like that if you've defined the terrain in the adjacent areas incorrectly. Like I said, less is more. Start simple and then add data as necessary to refine.

Curious where you got that number from.

I could be misunderstanding having not seen the lot, but I disagree. Typically less is more with terrain elevation data. It could take as little as 2 pieces of elevation data; 2 points, or a flat region and a single point maybe...

Hahahaha! I thought the EXACT same thing regarding the Pringle shape. At first, I actually fooled around with modeling it completely different by simply bending a flat circle twice (once along one axis and then again in the opposite direction along the perpendicular axis)... ...but it occurred to me that not only was this likely inaccurate, it would be ridiculously more complicated to model the frame. Using your terrain approach though, a person could pretty easily just use some symbols or even a railing wall set to follow the terrain in order to create the frame. Many ways to skin that cat for sure.

All completely doable using a number of methods and tools. For the sail itself though, I would recommend either roof planes or 3D faces. Either way, you're likely going to need to do so using a sort of manual wireframe modeling approach. The main things that you need to do though: Make sure you head wrapped around the geometry of what you're about to model. This will make planning out your approach much easier. Decide the basic pieces of information necessary to carry out your plan Model the skeleton shape one way or another Fill in with roof planes or faces. Let's walk though a pretty basic example using 3D molding polylines and 3D faces (and please note that there are other completely different but still logical approaches to modeling the skeleton shape aside from the method I'm showing): Let's assume that the perimeter frame is nothing more than a perfect ring that has been cut in half and one half tilted up. That means modeling the exterior perimeter should be pretty easy. Model it flat and then copy, reflect, and tilt the opposite side up... ...the frame part is done NOTE: I left the 2 sections of the ring as 3D molding polylines so that snapping was easy and so that I could add any desired perimeter framework details later Next, maybe you connect with 3D molding polylines... And then fill in with faces... Expand upon the system and dress it all up to your hearts content...

For this particular situation—heck, for MOST situation—I think your solution is much better than the one I posted.

Depending on what you're doing, you can put a very tiny partition down on the floor. Just make it 1/16" x 1/16" x 1/16" and place it up against the back corner of your bookshelf. This tells Chief there's an adjacent cabinet on that side and so toe kick will continue on just the one side. You can optionally place the Partition on a unique layer and turn the layer off, but even with the layer on, you shouldn't actually see it in any views.

You'll have some additional cleanup to do, but start by adjusting the Baseline angle to match the pitch of the roof plane that your roof-plane-in-question is intersecting...

I suggest you take a step back and learn to make it work with Polar because using your newly adopted approach will only work for objects perfectly parallel/perpendicular to the X/y axis. The other methods work for situations outside those parameters.

Just FYI, fr anyone else struggling with this, based on Mark's picture here, this operation shouldn't have worked since he's showing 45 degrees in the Enter Coordinates dialog. I suspect he has his Jump setting set to 12". Otherwise, he would be having the same results as Gene was seeing. We can't have both a Concentric Jump setting and use the Tab entry method on the fly. With Concentric, its one or the other. If you have anything other than 0 set in the Jump field, then you will be limited to jumping by that specific increment.

This step is an unnecessary redundancy that serves no purpose for this particular use case.

Don't drag diagonally, drag perpendicular to the desired reference line before you hit tab. Also read my note re: using the circular edit handle.

By the way, you can also simply click Copy/Paste and use the little circle shaped edit handle to drag out a concentric copy using the tab key. Again though, angle snaps need to be toggled on.

Edit>Preferences>Behaviors>Concentric>Jump is one easy way to ensure you get the desired offset, but you should also simply be able to use the tab entry method so long as you have angle snaps toggled on.

It's because the Leader Line tool always obeys the settings for the text object that it is created for. In the case of Rich Text though, the Border settings are the only place to set line style parameters.

That linestyle is being inherited from your Rich Text Defaults>Appearance>Border

2 quick suggestions: Use the term Default Set in your posts. Its just a little confusing when you use the term Annotation Sets or Annosets since those terms were changed quite a few verisons ago. You don't need to create a whole new Default Set. All you need to do is change the Dimension Default being used for your Saved Plan View. Of course you can create a whole new Default Set, its just not necessary in most cases.

Auto Exterior Dimensions Should automatically remove and replace any previous Auto Exterior Dimensions unless you have previously edited those dimensions in any way. Per the Help files, any edited dimension "...will be marked as edited, so if Auto Dimensions are later regenerated, your changes will not be lost."

Agree

I agree. It would be nice to have separate control over the polyline and the polyline hole. In fact, it would be nice if we could even control specific edges independently.

Try this next time (a small upgrade to the brightly colored material idea you already suggested): Open up Plan Materials and Select All. De-select the material in question Click the Merge button, click Edit, click on the Properties tab, change the Transparency to 100%, and click Okay. Click on the material in question, click Edit, and set a very bright color for the Material Color on the Pattern tab. Open a 3D view, set it to Vector View, and Rotate your model to you find what you're looking for. Click Undo a couple times to get things back to normal. NOTE: Using Vector View isn't necessary and actually won't work in older versions of Chief either, but I find it easier on the eyes than using a Standard View.

I don't think we've actually ever been able to do this Joe. To get the hole to have an invisible linestyle, you have to change the linestyle on the polyline itself.

Find in Plan would do nothing to find those materials used in Defaults.