Alaskan_Son

Should it perhaps be on the attic level when you place your vent?

Make sure your correct floor is activated in your elevation view when you place the vent. You probably drew it on a different floor.

+ Various items in Electrical Defaults>Light, Black, and Mouse Wall Niche Defaults>Bone Roof Defaults>Skylight Frame>Dark Siding-6 Wall Type>Lap Siding

Those all look like materials that would be used in either material defaults, wall type definitions or room type definitions. Post a copy of that plan though and one of us will take a quick look.

Are you sure that you went through ALL your defaults? For example, did you check all your Room Type definitions?

I still don't have a GPU that supports RTRT but IMO X13 is still completely worth it.

@Chrisb222, there are no simple settings, especially since words like "Main" and "lower" are obviously subjective. I would suggest a simple text macro. One of these placed directly into an Object Information Field should do the trick: Using to_s and string.sub %floor_number.to_s.sub("0", "Lower").sub("1", "Main").sub("2", "Second").sub("3", "Third")% OR using hash[key] %{0 => "Lower", 1 => "Main", 2 => "Second"}[floor_number]% OR using array[index] %["Lower", "Main", "Second"][floor_number]% Side Note: Are you still on X12 like your signature says?

That will work, but it might also come back to bite you. I would recommend you study what all those tools do. In particular, you just sent the object to the very back drawing group. Now if you place a rug underneath that table, it's going to cover your chairs. I would suggest more refinement in how you sort things in the draw order. Instead of clicking the Send to Back tool, consider clicking the Send Backward tool just to get it so that its either at the back if its current Drawing Group or so that it's just one group back.

Click on the Layer tab and adjust the Drawing Group or use the View Draw Order Edit Tools in your Edit toolbar.

No problem. Depending on your processor speed and on what macro recording software you use, you might need to adjust the delay between keystrokes.

There isn't one. You need to use multiple commands (via hotkeys or mouse clicks). You can either manually do these in sequence or record a macro and assign it to a hotkey. There are multiple routes you could take, but I would probably suggest just assigning hotkeys and using those in the following sequence: Layer Display Options hotkey Shift+Tab (should put you into the Name Filter field) Type out the words "roof planes" (should filter the list) Tab (should move to the selected layer) Spacebar (should highlight the layer if it isn't already) Tab, tab, tab, tab (should activate the Display checkbox) Spacebar (should toggle the Display setting) Enter (should close out the dialog)

Select the Cabinet and then click on the Open Symbol tool. You can adjust the height using the Z Position offset. I would make sure that you haven't done something weird with your cabinet or countertop settings first though.

I have this happen all the time when sending as Plot Lines. I keep forgetting to report it. I always just delete them. I'll report it right now. You should as well.

I haven't actually seen your plan file and it may or may not make any difference in there depending on your various settings, but ceilings planes can and often do cause walls to frame entirely differently.

I think you're trying to repurpose the X/Y offsets for something they really shouldn't be used for. What we really need is some more refined bounding box control if anything. In the meantime, I suggest you reset your offsets and maybe try one of these options instead: Add a super small object to your symbol. This can be a very very tiny Face even that gets placed on the floor and that will be essentially invisible in all views. Add something to the symbol that may actually serve for increasing accuracy (Range ----> anti-tip bracket, Toilet ----> waterline, Dryer ----> Ducting, etc.) Place your symbol in an Architectural Block and just add a molding polyline to the back of the block that doesn't have a molding assigned. You could alternatively continue to use the offset along with a Custom CAD Block that creates the offset using a text box so it doesn't show up anywhere like I've done with this dryer example: Dryer with offset.calibz

Think about it like this: Chief normally build walls till they hit a ceiling or roof plane above right? So what happens when you uncheck Flat Ceiling Over This Room? Chief will build the wall up till it finds either a ceiling or roof plane. This is the reason that I believe Chief states that "The Baseline of a ceiling plane should be drawn along the outer surface of the bearing wall’s Main Layer." Admittedly, I draw ceiling planes inside the wall all the time, but if you want the behavior you desire, just model as Chief suggests and I think you'll be happier with the results.

From the looks of your screenshot, I would say that the source of your problem is those double walls. You have created a scenario where you have one large exterior room enveloping the entire plan because, although it might be very very narrow, it continues between those double walls. Try setting ONE of the walls at each of those double wall instances to a furred wall and see if that fixes your problem. Or, you could optionally set one of those walls to no room definition. There are other solutions as well but try those three on for size.

Your conditional statements are what causes one thing to supersede another. In this example, you're using what's called a ternary operator which consists of 3 parts separated by a question mark and a colon (condition ? value if truthy : value if falsey), and you're testing to see if referenced has any truthy value. If it does, your obj variable is defined as referenced throughout the rest of your code. That's it. You've created a fork in the road and have decided to head down the referenced path.

"if referenced ?" shouldn't have the question mark.

I know it might sound like a pain, but at this point, just consider producing you prints in 3 steps: 1. Print your set minus the page or pages that need rotated elevations. 2. Rotate everything on your Template Page or Page 0 (including the Drawing Sheet) to accommodate the rotated elevation page(s) and print just those pages. 3. Combine pages in PDF editor.

Can you just rotate EVERYTHING else and print portrait instead of landscape?

You get a lot more than just upgrades with SSA, plus, no one says you need SSA to upgrade. There's no reason you can't just wait till they release new versions and then pay the upgrade fee at that time.

Here's one I threw together for you on the house. The material definitions could probably use some work though. Rustic Wine Barrel Sink (block).calibz NOTE: I made a couple very minor improvements to the materials and edited this post to replace the one piece library symbol with a block that includes the separated countertop and sink so you can easily adjust those as desired.

Yes and no. Can be done in layout by sending multiple cropped views of a single column text box. Or in plan by using multiple text boxes and custom macros. There’s no built in function that will do this automatically in Chief though.

I'm not so sure I understand what you're talking about. Can you show an example? Is it the columns you're having trouble with, the bullets, or both?