Alaskan_Son

Did you check your wall type definition? Your wall finishes may be assigned to the wrong layers (i.e. your siding is defined as an interior layer and your drywall is defined as an exterior layer ).

Just a wild guess here without a plan, but I'd bet you have your exterior walls backwards...siding inside and drywall outside. OR...your wall definition is wrong...you have your interior and exterior layers mixed up.

Very true

...or what Joe said INSTEAD of resetting your toolbars. What Joe said wont work though if you have dragged the edit bar off screen or shut it down altogether. Edit: Actually, what Joe said will work even if you have dragged it off screen or shut it down. Only if you go and and lock the toolbars though...go figure. Edit again: You shouldn't even have to right click and the edit bar should appear somewhere (could only get this to happen after locking the toolbars though in my experiments).

Or... Try Tools>Toolbars and Hotkeys>Customize Toolbars>Toolbar>Reset Toolbars You may have inadvertently moved it or shut it down. For this reason I would suggest Tools>Toolbars and Hotkeys>Lock Toolbars once you have things where you want them.

Try View>Toolbars

You can also consider just going into preferences whenever you need to check things and temporarily changing your background back to white.

For the record, I didn't previously realize how easy this actually was until Kevin suggested using the spray can and going through the list. I checked to see how fast that method was and discovered the eyedropper thing by mistake. Previously what I had always done was to use the library browser to search for the material I wanted>Show In Browser>Copy>Paste into my user catalog and then adjust from there. The new way is definitely faster and easier.

First click on the material eyedropper and select the material. Then click on the material painter (spray can). The material you previously selected will automatically be highlighted. Then either copy and adjust or add to library and adjust. Easy peasy.

I think you just don't have a clear understanding of how to set up your annotation sets.

Just to clarify... Are you using something other than a white background in plan? And if so, do you have "Show Drawing Sheet In View" checked in layout?

Both are pretty basic. Probably covered in the Help files but here's where you go...

Lower right of reply window...More Reply Options...Lower left of the new window that pops up...Browse...select the file you want to attach...Attach This File.

Did you perhaps forget to click "Attach This File" when you attached your picture?

I was working with another user recently and we ended up having to reinstall his toolbar files because those were somehow deleted or corrupted during the upgrade.

Regarding the error message: I was getting that until I switched to the "basic uploader" (lower left of the reply window just below the Attach Files area). I think maybe I don't have Flash 9 installed (maybe you don't either).

This thread has a bunch of info. too https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5346-can-chiefs-auto-elevations-match-this/?hl=%2Belevations+%2Bwith+%2Bshadows

Here is a really quick example done with the a Technical Illustration rendering...

It might sound a little daunting at first, but I would probably build that detail with primitive solids. Shouldn't actually be all that hard to do. There might be a way to use the roof tools for that framing but not that I know of.

Good point Glenn, It's under Preferences>Edit>Snap Properties and you can override it by holding down the control key while you click okay.

Do you happen to be running a Mac and did you possibly just upgrade your OS?

I'm sorry Johnny, shouldn't have any affect on your previous statement, however I just realized I made a poor choice in words. I should have said OUTSIDE corners (as in the sharp corner that always gets dented), not EXTERIOR corners (as in the inside corner of an exterior wall where cobwebs form).

Working on a custom wine cellar and realized there's not a lot of available components for this sort of thing. I had to model basically everything from scratch. Tons of tiny shelves and dividers for storage racks, custom symbols for display racks, etc. Anyway, in the process, I created a library of diamond bins and thought I'd share them if anyone else can make good use of them. Please note that I may not have set the material direction right on one or 2 of them and I also included a block of the original P-solids so one could build other custom configurations without building from scratch. Diamond bins.calibz

Try Tools>Toolbars and Hotkeys>Customize Toolbars>Toolbar>Reset Toolbars

Agreed. The one fairly notable problem I have with them is that like custom backsplashes, they don't behave properly at exterior corners. They are tied to the wall and therefore won't display past the exterior corner which means they don't overlap each other. I would use those tools a whole lot more if that issue would get fixed. I know I can fill in that outside corner with any number of methods, but its still a pain and shouldn't be necessary. Besides that though...yes...very cool tool...same goes for floor material region (I suspect a vastly underused capability).