Alaskan_Son

If you do not check Save In Plan, the PDF box will always load from the source file when you open the plan. If the pages in the source file were rotated, then the pages in Chief will be rotated as well. Is this possibly whats happening?

I think so. Yes. Read the post again. It clearly communicated that he couldn't get dimensions to snap to footings at all and that switching to a CAD Detail was the only solution. Steve even went on to further highlight this notion in a followup post when he said... Bottom line though is this: Do footings have snaps? Yes Is a CAD Detail the only way we can dimension them? No Do Locate settings have any effect on the current behavior? No We can drag nodes after the fact as has been mentioned, we can use Point To Point Dimensions as has been mentioned (to effectively replace End to End Dimensions), and Locate settings have no effect on either of these operations. The only thing we can't do is use a running type dimension string like Manual Dimensions.

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It seems like you moved the goalpost a little. In your original post you said.... What you show in the video is what I get on my Windows machine as well. Footings do have snaps, and you don’t need to use a CAD Detail to dimension them. You just have to drag out new segments or move nodes after initial placement is all. I think you should send in a suggestion that footings be added to the Locate settings if this is something you really need.

Not possible using the room definition as others have stated. The room definition stops at the bottom of wall/top of footing and none of the room settings will affect anything lower than that. Very easy to model manually though.

For me it depends ENTIRELY on what I’m doing and I suggest people do what works best for their specific applications and workflow. Just a few examples: If I’m needing to monitor and edit the schedule a lot while drawing—especially when working on a single screen, then the schedule goes right there in the plan view. This is commonly the case for me when I’m setting up a schedule for a very specific purpose and I need to make sure everything is just right (I do this with cabinet schedules a lot). I also do this with note schedules quite a bit, particularly if my note schedule is serving as a checklist of sorts. The schedule doesn’t always stay permanently in the plan view, but sometime it does. There are certain things I find a lot easier to select and edit through the schedule rather than selecting them in the plan. I don’t however want to keep moving over to my CAD Detail or to the Project Browser. So, if it’s something I’m pretty involved with, I’ll put those schedules in the plan view. Again, this is something I do a lot when drawing up custom cabinetry plans. I also use this methodology with note schedules quite a bit. If I’m drawing up a specialized detail or a niche set of plans and want the schedule to occupy some part of the actual floor plan, then I find it better to just put those schedules in the plan view. This is way I can size and position them exactly to fit in the available space. Doing this in layout requires a lot of unnecessary back and forth. Schedules that I don’t particularly need to monitor or work with, or that don’t need to be overland onto my plan view make sense to leave in a CAD Detail for sure. Whether or not schedules go into separate CAD Details is mostly just personal preference. Chief gives us access to the various schedules using the Project Browser, so if quick access is the goal, the extra CAD Details aren’t necessary. The main benefits to separate CAD Details in my mind are that you don’t have to worry about schedules encroaching into each others’ space and the view is automatically cropped when sending to Layout. On the other hand, multiple schedules in a single CAD Detail can make it a lot easier to look at the whole picture in one place. This is particularly true of schedules that are related to each other or otherwise interconnected in some way like windows/doors, plumbing/mechanical/electrical fixtures, interior/exterior furniture, framing/roof planes, etc.

Set the line style to invisible and just place the little segments manually.

I never claimed that. That’s not what we’re talking about though. The conversation has kinda shifted bit. That was the whole point of my second to last post. I believe Steve was originally saying he couldn’t snap to footings AT ALL. I was just saying snap settings shouldn’t have anything to do with that and that there must be something else going on.

That just sounds really weird. I have no problem snapping to the footing and don’t need to futz around with snap settings to do it either.

I’m curious...what happens if you modify those files to replace the transparency with a “green screen” of sorts so you could just use Chief’s transparency slider instead. It might not do anything. I’m not sure. I’m away from my computer now and can’t remember whether or not Chief’s symbols use images with or without transparency of their own.

Bob, I would strongly suggest you learn to use the reference Display.

Have you tried hitting F5, F12, and/or clicking Rebuild 3D? I find sometimes that these types of issues are cleared up by a Rebuild/Refresh.

I don't know how you got to this point, but you've drawn your floor plans in totally different locations. In fact, you've even drawn your second floor plan twice....

I forget to consider that setting sometimes for things like this because I have mine set (in Preferences) to Color Off is Grayscale (yours is set to Color Off is Black and White). You may want to consider changing that setting if you prefer to see Grayscale in your drawings.

Its not too difficult to figure out using some of the various aforementioned methods as well as a few others, however I think its worth noting that we used to have a tool back in X11 that made this super fast and easy and I would really like to see it put back in. Specifically, we had the Change Roof Pitch or Height dialog. Here I was pulling my hair out over the last year or so on several project wondering why I couldn't get the tool to work anymore. I finally decided to go back and test it out, and sure enough, it look like it was just removed completely.

Change the line style, weight, and color as desired for the various layers. Same way you control line display for plan views.

If you actually refreshed that view, then my guess is that you failed to check Use Edge Line Defaults when you originally sent to layout. Send it again.

No idea what you’re doing Steve. You shouldn’t have to mess with the Locate settings at all though. Those should only affect the behavior when dimensions are initially DRAWN. Your original post makes it sound like you don’t get snaps after the fact either. This just sounds wrong. Are you sure you’re not attempting to snap to footing in your reference display?

Plot lines need to be refreshed. Click Update View. Also, I would recommend you control those Edge Lines at the layer level, not by using Edge Line Defaults.

I really don’t know why either, but if I had to take a stab at it, my guess would be this: The OP essentially asked if we had default settings and you told him/her to adjust their default settings. In other words, although your answer was technically correct, you really just told them to adjust the thing that they couldn’t find in the first place.

Are you working with a CAD Block perhaps?

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Here Eric, See if this works for you. I modified so that there are 2 different materials being used. One for the leaves and one for the berries. They're both set to Blend Color with Material so all you should have to do is adjust colors for the leaves and/or the berries separately. Its built out of 2 perfectly overlapping symbols so you'll likely need to make adjustments through the material tab instead of using the Adjust Material tool. Firethorn.calibz

You're welcome. Which one worked though? Or did you do all 3? I didn't actually make all the changes in your plan, but I'm pretty sure Item #3 would alleviate the need for Item #1.