Alaskan_Son

I'm thinking a bunch of ceiling planes are your best bet, although you could explore using one single ceiling plane with an octagon shaped hole and then mouldings and/or polyline solids.

Interesting. I wonder what you're doing differently.

You should be able to just drag one of the nodes over to the other and it will essentially be deleted.

For what its worth, the issue only seems to happen when selecting Plot Lines instead of Live View when sending to layout. Live view seems to work fine.

You did that correctly. And I agree with Glenn. Send it in to tech support. I think its a bug. I get the same thing on my end.

I don't suppose you could attach the plan and layout could you?

Try using this method to isolate the appropriate layer... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/8130-isolate-layer-tip/ Or activate the Point Marker tool and then just shift select all the points with a marquis. The points are on the dimension layer, but they're still just point markers.

It actually doesn't appear to have anything to do with pasting from what I can tell. Just deleting.

Interesting. You are correct. I tried deleting one of the doors on that interior wall while in elevation and a point marker was added in plan view. Seems to be pretty consistent. Curious now whats different between my workflow and yours as I've never noticed this behavior before.

I still have X6 and no, it doesn't seem to do the same thing.

I just tested it to see what happens and I get the same results as you when printing directly from plan. Most of us never print directly from plan though. Send to layout first and then print from there and you shouldn't have the same issue.

Mark, I took a quick look at your plan. You actually don't have to go through the series of operations you described. Simply delete any number of cabinets WHILE IN PLAN VIEW and all associated dimensions locations are replaced with point markers. Deleting cabinets WHILE IN ELEVATION does not have the same effect. It does the same thing with both automatic and manual dimensions. Not sure whether this was an added feature or a bug. Regarding a way to delete those points, just turn off all layers except the associated dimension layer. You can then pretty quickly select all the points and delete them.

I personally do a save as of the plan in situations like that. Basically make changes in a new version of the plan and leave the camera in place.

I think what you probably need to do is use feet (also in that accessories tab I mentioned)... very tall feet. And I would probably build that shelf on the bottom using multiple cabinets (probably in the form of shelves or partitions) or polyline solids.

Not at my computer to test right now, but have you tried the match properties tool?

Just use the material painter.

Yes. Explore the accessories tab of the cabinet dbx.

Dave, I'm not so sure this is necessary. With each successive release we've been able to open and utilize newer SKP versions. I think everything up through version 2015 works with X8.

This is absolutely true. The reason I think that there are so many "workarounds" isn't because we need workarounds, its because people never take the time to fully grasp all the little details and how things work (and I think we've all been guilty at times). We mess around till it looks right without figuring out how or why. When we take time to figure out the how and why, not only are we unlikely to ever make the same mistake again, it can open up all sorts of new possibilities and often starts to solve what may have previously seemed like unrelated issues.

Create another backdrop for behind the camera using Build>Image maybe. If you like the sky in front of the camera though I'm not sure why you wouldn't want it reflecting in the windows.

I use an older model made by the same company and I love it. They've changed the design a bit, but I think the overall function is just about the same. Definitely worth a look... http://www.stanleytools.com/en-us/products/hand-tools/measuring-layout/fatmax-tape-measure

I suspect the real reason Chief doesn't recommend using the SAM has to do with the potential problems that could arise for less experienced and less knowledgeable users. If you don't know how to properly control your layer sets, plan materials, etc. and truly strip that plan back down you can easily make a mess pretty fast.

I'm curious if I'm missing something...How is that different than the SAM? It really all seems like semantics to me. Even Chiefs recommended template method is essentially the same as the SAM except that you do the save as to your profile plan rather than simply changing the name and using for a new job.I understand there are a few differences, but at their cores they all seem essentially the same to me.

I think once you get a handle on the way Chief works, you'll find very little reason to need any other software. Only thing I've found really difficult to create in Chief are free form shapes. Other than that, I personally prefer Chief over Sketchup for primitive modeling. Could Chief improve...sure, but it's a pretty stinkin' capable program.