Alaskan_Son

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  1. I actually already had watched the video when I responded. There are at least a couple things you didn't do or that I couldn't see though. 1. Whether you had always display images in color on or off. I guess that one might not matter though as you had it set the same for both plans. 2. I'm not sure I ever saw you send to layout in the problem plan with color fill unchecked and color DISPLAY toggled on.
  2. O ya... There's also the plant image settings that could possibly come into play but I doubt it.
  3. You're welcome. You really got me curious now and I want to test when I get back to the office. Just to make sure we are on the same page here though… There are three different things to look at with regard to color display. 1. The setting to always display images in color when possible. 2. The color fill checkbox when sending to layout. 3. The actual color display (in both plan and layout). Make sure to explore your settings for all of those.
  4. Wish I was at my computer to test... In your other plan do you have images set to always display in color when possible? If you do, it's possible that they are still allowed to display (albeit in grayscale) when you have colors toggled off. Just a thought.
  5. Larry, your plants won't show if you send as plot lines because they are based on images. Images will not create any plot lines. If you need to send as plot lines and still display plants, maybe consider switching to 3-D plants or overlapping a non-plot line view for just the plants. I'm away from my computer or I would test this, but I believe it has always been that way unless Chief made a special exception for plant images that was recently removed with the latest update. No matter what though, the plant image could not create plot lines. The image itself would have to be the exception. And by the way, the reason they show in color is that you are seeing the colors in the plant image. Once you turn colors off there are no plot lines to display.
  6. You can set any symbol to act as an electrical item, and you can change the CAD block for any symbol to an arrow. Between the 2 it seems like you should be able to get exactly what you're looking for. At the most it might require putting the item on a unique layer, turning that layer off for 3D views, and unchecking "Include In Schedule" for that object.
  7. Yep. hotkeys are fantastic. I customize them and use them extensively (I rarely...if ever touch my mouse) in excel, word, and my PDF editor, and I use them quite a bit in Windows as well, but for whatever reason I don't use them quite as much in Chief. I think its because I have to use the mouse so much anyway that I don't feel they save me quite as much time as they do with other programs. I definitely still use them in Chief. Just not quite as much.
  8. We've had that ability for some time now. Oldest version I currently have installed is X6 but we had it at least that far back. I think we had it a lot further back than that too.
  9. At least a couple ways to do this... 1. Open the cabinet, select the face item on your cabinet and then down where it says "Appliance/Door/Drawer" click on "Library" and select whatever door style you want. 2. In an elevation view, simply select a door style from your library and click on the face item you want to change. It works essentially just like the material painter. Note: Option #2 will change all default door fronts at the same time, all default drawer fronts at the same time, or custom face items on an item by item basis.
  10. I guess I wasn't clear enough. The crown will not align by rebuilding 3D. I'm talking about rebuilding before you ever even made the 1/16" adjustment.
  11. Michael, are you already using the %layout.label% macro in your layouts?
  12. This has been a bug for several versions now and I have reported it. I suspect its something they're just having a hard time tracking down and since it fixes itself as soon as 3D is rebuilt its likely fairly low on the priority list. Anyway, as Graham pointed out, open and close one of the cabinets, click Rebuild 3D, or (what I usually do) Undo and Redo (Ctrl X and Cntrl Y).
  13. Those are controlled by the Windows, Labels and Doors, Labels layer settings. Change the text style for those layers to whatever you want them to be for any given Layer Set.
  14. I think the only way to get what you're looking for would be to change the truss labels to a custom macro. Try this... 1. Open Text Macro Management, click New, and name the macro "Custom Truss" (or whatever you want). 2. In the Value field enter the following: truss_number-1 3. Check "Evaluate", under Context select "Owner Object", and then click OK and Done 4. Group select your trusses (easiest way is probably to switch to the truss tool, hold down shift, and draw a marquis selection box around all your trusses), in the Label tab select Specify Label, and then enter the following: TR-%Custom Truss%
  15. Not sure I have a perfect answer for you Scott, but that layer essentially controls anything and everything built on floor zero.
  16. Open the schedule and uncheck "Use Callout For Label"
  17. I suspect you're using the Perspective FLOOR Overview or Perspective FLOOR Camera (which only display the single floor). Use one of the FULL cameras.
  18. You don't think that perhaps posting the plan (even a stripped down version) might be a good idea do you? ; )
  19. Similar suggestions have been posted in the past and the overall idea isn't bad. I personally don't feel its all that difficult to get what you're after right now though. Here are a few ideas to consider... 1. You don't have to create a CAD Detail in order to use a CAD mask and keep the view live. Simply place a mask over your plan view and turn the mask on or off for any given layer set. This is one area where "Make Copy of Active Layer Set" can be extremely beneficial. 2. You can also very easily create a CAD mask over your actual layout box in lieu of reshaping the box itself...just takes a couple extra clicks. 3. You can explore using CAD>Plan Footprint to essentially create plan view cameras. They are basically live CAD Details and are saved in your project browser. You can use whatever layer set you want and whatever CAD you draw (including masks) are part of the CAD Detail only and not the plan itself. You also have the unique ability of being able to place multiple plan views in the same detail and you can move them around as necessary...you could have all floors visible in a single CAD detail and they can all be kept live. There are some limitations as you can't use reference sets (although you can overlap views in layout) and if you have multiple floors or views in a single Plan Footprint CAD Detail they are all limited to using the same layer set. Its definitely worth a look though. Anyway, those are just a few options that come to mind.
  20. As I understand it, the OP was referring to the PLAN VIEW shape being a non-rectangular shape.
  21. For a simple shape yes, but for something with no radius or a more complex floor shape...not so much.
  22. Yep. This is what I would probably do as well.