Alaskan_Son

@John_Charles, can you really not see what I'm saying here? The OP asked a super simple question. He just wanted to know if there was a way he could change the dialogs to use cm because that's what he is accustomed to and 3 of you guys all essentially jumped down the poor guys throat making him sound like some kind of idiot without offering any semblance of an actual answer to his question. Based on your response to another thread you seem to think this is on par with potential piracy/licensing agreement violation? I'd suggest you rethink your priorities a little.

That's true. This issue actually affects me as a paying customer though. Furthermore, piracy is a serious issue, not a subjective choice like I don't know.... say something like typing values in cm instead of mm.

Here's one little trick I know of: Before exporting, you can create one or more Terrain Holes to bisect the contour lines. Just make the Terrain Holes so that they're super super narrow (0.01" should do it) and so that they visually look like a simple line. Those terrain holes will cause different contours to generate on each side of the "line" and therefore you'll get an extra set of labels. Just turn the layer off before exporting, OR once the labels are generated, simply create a CAD Detail From View, group select the extra labels, paste hold position back in your view, and then delete the Terrain Holes.

Ah, I see now that you're back in X12. That name:value pair is new to X13.

I would make sure that you're not unintentionally pirating software and that the original purchaser isn't violating their license agreement.

Okay, in that case, what you're after is totally possible. How proficient are you with custom macros? If you know what you're doing you can parse and combine information from the following name:value pairs: width (returns the total window width) height (returns the total window height) component_section_size (returns the size of the flanking units unless set to zero in which case unit is divided into 3 equal sections) automatic_description (returns the window type_name followed by a description of the sections and their hinging) If you're not proficient with writing your own custom macros, that is a service I offer and I would be happy to help you, but I'd need to know a few more specifics with regard to how you like other window labels to display. Shoot me over an email to alaskansons@gmail.com if you'd like to discuss further. In the meantime, the information is all there so its definitely doable.

Are you using a triple casement or a mulled unit for these?

I see.

You guys are all answering a question nobody asked.

Opened plan and cannot reproduce problem.

The Key Frame has a Floor setting.

Cut/Paste Hold Position

Not if you exclude Bay Windows from your schedule.

From the looks of it you're probably going to want to use Vector View (as Joey already mentioned) and turn color off. In addition, its worth noting that sending to Layout as Plot Lines will result in crisper lines than a Live View will.

Default Settings>Floors and Rooms>Floor Levels>1st Floor>Structure>Floor>Floor Structure Set to Default.

Forget the Origin Offsets. Reset them to zero. And then either Set the cabinet to Traditional Overlay, open the Door Face Item Specification dialog and then adjust the Overlaps manually, OR get rid of the bottom Opening and just increase the height of the Separation.

4 most effective methods in no particular order: Material Regions Polyline solids An exterior framing layer in your wall definition Molding lines ...or some combination thereof. They each have their ups and downs. Material regions for example require very little exactness since they automatically cut for windows and doors and won't display beyond the wall polyline, but as with most automated features, their behaviors in this regard can also cause some goofy problems from time to time, particularly at outside corners, at abnormal wall intersections/overlaps, or where you actually want the battens to extend beyond the wall polyline. Polyline solids on the other hand offer a lot more freedom but are obviously going to be a bit more time consuming. 3D Molding Lines are similar to polyline solids in that they are a bit more time consuming but they also have some added benefits like the ability to add a profile and the ability to create more complex path's a bit easier. Adding a framing layer to your walls is one of the most automatic methods but also typically requires quite a bit of editing to get it looking right. Pick your poison depending on the specifics of your project, preferred workflow, and on which tools you're most proficient with.

One of the easiest methods is to simply use a normal Fixture Symbol set to Inserts Into Wall and then adjust the Wall Cutout Polyline.

Ya, I hardly ever use partitions for much of anything. I pretty much always use actual cabinets.

To deal with the automatically generated CAD boxes and polylines covering the framing members, one thing you can do is just group select all of them and move them to the 26th drawing group.

This is is the method I generally recommend: Keep a notepad handy (a word processor document, text file, or spreadsheet will do as well if those work better for you) During your normal daily workflow, anytime you make a change that you think you want to make to your template, write it down. Periodically open your template plan, go through your list, and make the desired changes. This can be once a day, once a week, once a month, or quarterly. You just have to decide what works best for you. A few of the benefits are that: Its far more efficient. You can just focus on the one task at hand and not have to lose all the efficiency and productivity that you do by switching back and forth between your current task and adjusting your template. You're not making a change to your template that you later (sometimes that same day) realize wasn't such a great idea. You can more carefully consider whether each change is worth making or not. It helps avoid file bloat. I've seen more users over the years with settings, layers, layer sets, default sets, etc. that they have long since forgotten why the have. It can help you skip over unnecessary generations. Some of the changes we make when doing them one at a time end up affecting other recent changes. A lot of the time as you're going through your list you'll find that some changes can just be skipped entirely because they're made obsolete by another change on the list.

By the way at, this can be done now with some custom macros. Using a schedule is even possible but requires a relatively complex system. It’s pretty easy to add a Component to your default base cabinets and just run a quick Materials List though. Try this (assumes you’re using X13): Add an Accessory to your Default Base Cabinet, name it something like Total Base Cabinet Run, type = width into the Quantity field and set it to Apply Formula to Source Object. Now draw a Materials List Polyline that encompasses the entire area, set it to only report Accessories, and create a Layer Set Where only Base Cabinets are displayed. Place your materials list polyline onto a unique layer that’s easy to toggle on and off. Do all that in your template plan and then anytime you want to total your base cabinets simply turn the Materials List Polyline layer on, select the polyline, generate materials list, and then switch to the layer set where only base cabinets are displayed.

You can't. You just have to get into the habit of entering the "cm" along with the number, so instead of simply entering 1800 you would enter 1800 cm.

Funny. While I was reading through that other thread and attempting to help show that everything still worked in X13, I was wondering who would want to show all their doors and drawers just so they could display end panels. Anyway, I personally don’t typically care enough to show that particular detail in plan view. There are a whole handful of alternative methods and different object types you could use, but I think the easiest is probably to just stop fighting it make yourself a little CAD block to paste over those. We probably could have collectively just patched it with CAD 100 times in the time it’s taken to post and respond to this topic. I’ve just found that you can easily eat up far more time and energy trying to shoehorn things into using Chief’s automated tools than it would take to just do them manually. It’s all about finding that balance.