Alaskan_Son

Go to page 0, group select everything and use the edit handle on the top to resize it to fit your new page.

Maybe I'm not understanding, but if you open that camera view and just either double click the little vector view icon or open the Rendering Technique Options dbx, you should be able to just adjust the shadow intensity there.

If I'm looking at the right spot, its a ceiling you built with a polyline solid right? I think there's probably a better way that spot could have been modeled, however to work with what you have, select that polyline solid, Convert To Solid, Explode Shape, and then paint the desired face.

Yes. Just suppress the room label and use a Rich Text box with macros. Here's a very rough idea. Insert basic macros using the circled tool. Using this method all you need to do is simply copy the same exact to text box to other rooms.

To clarify, using a custom schedule (made with a plant schedule), you can very easily get... 1. The callout label (Prefix and number WITH a circle around it) next to your posts. This callout would be automatically produced by the schedule. 2. An automatically produced list of notes with the associated callout prefix and number next to each note. The notes would be placed in the Label field of your note symbol and would automatically display in the schedule. The only problems I see are that... A. 3.1 would not actually work as an automatically numbered callout label. Those labels start at 01 (2 digits). I don't know of any way to change that to start with 1 (single digit). The closest you could probably get would be 3.01 (using 3. as your label prefix). B. The callout label (prefix and number) in your note schedule currently has no way of automatically getting a circle around it. I think this would have to be added manually. C. The callout label you have next to your note in the note schedule is placed at the upper margin of the note itself. Chiefs automatic schedules would place that label CENTERED with the note. There are a ton of other ways you can modify custom schedules to get exactly what you want, but if you want to do away with the 3 problems listed above, you would have some extra steps and manual modifications to make.

You can pretty easily get everything except the callout circle itself in in the footnotes. I would probably just manually place those after the fact if you really need them.

That might be nice. In the meantime, you can do that pretty easily by creating a CAD mask for the wall hatching. Just give your wall definition the desired hatch and then... - Turn off all layers except the Walls, Normal, and Walls, Main Layer Only layers - Create a CAD Detail From View - Group Select all the line work, put it onto a unique layer and then Copy/Paste Hold Position back into the plan - Change your wall definitions back to what they were to remove the fill The hatches of course would have to updated with any changes to the walls so you might want to wait till a little later in the game to do that.

Can you be more specific? If you drop a schedule into the plan, the label can be displayed as a callout. I'm assuming you must mean something else though.

Curved sectional and sectional sofa all turn up a ton for me as well. I'm guessing you must be looking for a more specific sort of look.

Yep. That's because we did not have those options at all in previous versions.

Yes. You'll need to remove any ceiling finish layer(s), build framing for the floor or ceiling above, and you'll need to learn how to model the ducts and pipes as well.

Yes. You'll need to remove any ceiling finish layer(s), build framing for the floor or ceiling above, and you'll need to learn how to model the ducts and pipes as well.

...or if there is a reason you had to place those manually, I usually just turn the layer off. Its pretty unusual to show cabinet hardware in a plan view anyway. Also, under the countertops Line Style tab you should have the option to Move To Front Group which should do the trick as well.

I think the reason they did that is because there's really no good way to do it otherwise. You can't make the main layer a layer of its own because the next wall layer over shares a line with it. Seems silly but I'm not sure what the better solution would be.

That particular layer is I believe the only layer that works that way. I agree though...it's an odd way to do it.

If you didn't mess with it, it should be a folder titled Chief Architect Premier X8 Data>Archives>plan name_xxxxxxx Look inside that folder for any available backups to the plan.

Check your X8 data folder>Archives and find the folder for the file you were working on. You might have an auto saved backup in there (depending on your backup settings).

It sounds like what you're looking for would best be accomplished by turning on the Walls, Main Layer Only layer like Joey suggested and applying your desired fill or hatch to the main layer through the wall definition.

Yes. Post the plan. And I would recommend almost never using the material painter in Blend mode. I turn that off and leave it off except in very special situations. That particular toggle may be responsible for more problems in Chief than any other. I have long believed that it should have always been toggled off by default.

I think Glenn might be right. That's probably the better idea. Maybe that coupled with a wall hatch will get you what you want. Hard to say without actually seeing how you want your walls to display.

I won't claim to understand this issue all that well as I haven't studied it much so I could be wrong, but I believe that happens in any situation where the new room definition requires any kind of structural change. I believe the only place a zero width room divider really works is where all you want to change is the finish flooring.

Curious...did you try to search sectional SOFA instead?

Yes. Try that, or maybe try the wall hatching tool. I would discourage you from changing the wall definition later though. Too many potential problems.

Finally got back to the office and checked this out. Definitely just looks like a modelling issue. I think Chief just needs to have someone clean up those extra lines and update the library.

Gotcha. It just looks like the door is trying to repeat itself. It looks like the pattern only works up to 12' (guessing) and then adds another 4' section and they appear to be overlapping by 5"ish.