Alaskan_Son

How can the wall height be the same if you have a sloped ceiling plane?

Yup. That's why I said...

Chief has a couple built-in global macros that will provide elevation data for walls at the point where your arrow head makes contact with the wall: %wall.bottom_elevation% %wall.top_elevation%

If you're trying to model cabinets more correctly (as opposed to just making it super fast to throw in place holders), then I suggest going into your General Cabinet Defaults and turning off Create Automatic Fillers. Just place those fillers manually.

By the way, if you use Rich Text instead of normal text, I think you may reduce or even completely eliminate the tracking/kerning issues. You might also consider using a font like Bahnschrift Light Condensed or similar which may allow for increasing the font height since it takes up quite a bit less horizontal space than Arial would.

Then what's the problem with the jumbled looking text? No, but neither is your idea of inserting a "hot link". At least not that I'm aware of. Are you saying that you're somehow using Chief to produce a PDF that contains a clickable link?

Does it really matter if you can't read it then? And can't you just change the link text anyway? Also, why not just add the text in your PDF editor? I feel like you're expecting Chief to do something extremely unusual and making it sound like its somehow totally shocking that Chief doesn't handle it super well. Never once in my 20 years of typing up construction related documents have I seen or needed .25mm text.

Not sure why you would need to do such a thing in Chief, but try increasing your DPI.

Might your confusion have anything to do with the fact you're quoting from an entirely unrelated thread? The thread I was responding to is waaaaaaay over HERE...

It doesn't matter. Functionally speaking they're pretty much the exact same thing. Main difference is really just that you can give your own Custom Fields a more appropriate name.

Yup. That would do it. Soffits are cabinets. You're just mounting your sconce to a cabinet which works just fine.

Looks like that's probably a railing wall. If so, you're just attaching it to a wall.

Place your fixture on a wall or cabinet, click Open Symbol>Options>Floor Mounted, and then move it to wherever you want.

Simple text macro placed into an Object Information Field. Using the #String.split method along with the #Array[] method for example you could just use %room_name.split("/")[0]%: room_name = "Dining/Balcony 201" room_name.split("/")[0] #=> "Dining" ...assumes you don't use the forward slash in your room names though. If you do, the macro would need to be a little more complex.

Are you talking about the same thing that's happening with Patio, Roof at Stairs, and Rear Entry?

Don't forget that we can also control the Schedule Number Start these days.

Just put any new windows onto a separate schedule.

Just to reiterate… If you're using the Orthogonal Movement Method, then the angle should be parallel to or perpendicular to the associated edges, otherwise you'll be using the Allowed Angles (assuming your Angle Snaps are toggled on). Try turning on your Angle Snap Grid while you're going through the exercise and I think you'll see what I mean.

It looks to be working exactly as I would expect Rene. The Movement is behaving entirely differently depending on whether you drag with your left mouse button or right.

That sounds pretty weird. Can you make a quick video showing this? Try move a single rotated line both ways and then a rotated rectangular polyline both ways. In addition to using the right mouse button to activate the alternate behavior, also try just using the Alt key to activate the behavior.

Don't remember. I probably just group selected them and changed them all to match each other though before checking if that material was still being used.

There's an automatic behavior that will rotate the selected edge counterclockwise as you make changes to the dimensions, but its a little hit and miss as to whether or works or not, and you still have to click on the desired dimension. Is that what you're thinking of?

It seems to me like you may just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the program works with regard to its associative dimensions. You don't change the dimension line, you move the object. That means you must select the object that you would like to move and not the dimension line itself. Once you select the object, then you can click on the desired dimension (assuming the dimension is actually associated with/connected to that object). As a side note, if you're trying to select an object in a busy area, it also helps if you have the same tool type activated as the object type you're trying to move. If for example, you're trying to select the Point Marker that you dropped with your Point To Point Dimension tool, you want to have the Point Marker tool activated an not the Dimension tool. You can also simply switch to the Select Object tool which will select the top object in the draw order and then hot the Tab key to Select Next until you get to the desired object. Again though, you select the object and then edit any one of the associated dimensions.

I'm curious if anyone will be able to find where the "Maple 5" Plank-Natural" is being used. Seems like it might be hard-coded somewhere, maybe for Legacy purposes. I don't know, just a guess. I gave up trying to find it.

Try dragging and hitting tab. First with your left mouse button, and then again with your right mouse button. The left button is your Primary Movement Method and can be specified via Preferences>Edit>Behaviors>Primary Movement Method. The Right button is your Alternate Movement Method. One will be Orthogonal (the one you want), and the other will be Polar (the one you probably don't want). Now when you start dragging and ht Tab, the Enter Coordinates Dialog will open up. This you DO want to change to Polar. You should see that the proper Angle is already set. You just need to enter the desired Distance and then click Enter. You can also get the Angle to properly populate using the Polar Movement Method so long as you have Angle Snaps turned OFF and Perpendicular Extensions toggled ON. You just have to watch for the Perpendicular Extension indicator. When you see it, hit the tab key and use the prepopulated Angle and your desired Distance as already mentioned above. BONUS TIP: You can also hold down the C key as you drag your line, and in doing so, simply use the Concentric Jump setting as set in Preferences>Edit>Behaviors>Edit Type>Concentric