Alaskan_Son

I think the goal is to understand the hierarchy for more efficient control. Regarding door trim for Interior doors for example: -The General Material Defaults for Exterior Trim and Room Moldings control the Interior Door Defaults (assuming you have Materials set to Use Default). -If the Interior Door is set to Use Separate Trim (bottom of General panel) then the Room Moldings material is used on the Interior side of the door and the Exterior Trim material is used on the Exterior side of the door. Otherwise, Room Molding material is used on both sides -You can optionally bipass the overriding General Material Defaults by setting the materials right there in the Interior Door Defaults (not set to Use Default) but then you lose the benefits that come with using a single overriding default.

You can completely skip the library by just blocking your CAD before creating the copy.

That attitude is not going to get you far. In truth their responses were perfectly valid and would be helpful if you would take them to heart. You can't (or at least shouldn't) expect people to regurgitate information/lessons on complex fundamentals. If you needed quick clarification on a specific bullet point that's one thing, but your question is on a complicated subject that requires YOU do a lot more digging on your own using the proper resources. Sure someone might come along and make you a custom video or take an hour or 2 out of their day to repeat information that Chief has already provided, but doing so is just silly if the information is already out there. The guys above were right and gave you some very good and accurate information. I would also add that in addition to the items they mentioned (Layer Sets, Default Sets, and Saved Plan Views), I would also strongly suggest you read up on Multiple Saved Defaults and Active Defaults. You can do so in any order you wish and using any number of available resources, but my personal suggestion is to start with the latter 2 and to use the Help Files to do so.

This doesn’t really affect me one way or another, so it’s just a curiousity/observation... I noticed while poking around to see what has changed in the new forum setup and I noticed that I seem to have lost about 20 Followers. Are they possibly just users that are no longer active? Anyone else notice the same thing or know why this might be happening? @Dan_Park?

You might not be working on the roof but that doesn’t mean you weren’t either purposely or accidentally selecting roof planes. Just clicking on the roof planes will start placing those Intersection Points.

Sort of. A few things to consider: Are you actually going to need to annotate every single view type for 3 different scales? That's hard to believe. Are you actually going to use every single annotation object (text, dimension, callout, etc, in every single view type? Again, hard to believe. Even if you are going to annotate every view for 3 different scales with every single annotation object, that doesn't mean you need a new Saved Default for each and every view. In many cases all you have to do is set Text to be controlled by Layer in which case one single annotation can be used in multiple Layer Sets and result in a different (and suitable) text style for each scale. Do you really need a Section View specific Default Set? Any annotations you add to a camera view will only exist in that camera view so you should be able to simply reuse one of your other Saved Defaults for those. For example, you can simply use the generic 1/4" Defaults for both your standard Floor Plans and your Section Views. I personally usually use the same Default Set for both my foundations and my floor plans. To me there's no reason the foundation needs its own in most scenarios. Its not like I'm usually creating both a floor plan and a foundation plan on my foundation level. I guess my point is that you really only need to create the defaults you actually need. Take your time and just add what you need when you start to need it. Don't overdo it right off the bat. I've seen to many guys do that and you end up overwhelmed and shooting yourself in the foot. Not only are you doing extra work setting up unnecessary extra defaults, but you're also setting yourself up for placing more dimensions than you really need to. I mean if you actually find it necessary to create 12 different sets of defaults for every view at every scale, then you're also saying that you'll be placing dimensions 36 times, text 36 times, callouts 36 times, rich text 36 times, etc. etc. Its just not necessary.

While I do agree with the general premise of your gripe, I'd say you're probably exaggerating a bit. For MOST people, I think a single Saved Plan View is tied to a single Layout view and if its not it could at least be reused for other floors meaning conservatively speaking, on average 1 Saved Plan View = 1 Default Set or 12 total Default Sets. That could still easily mean 8 Saved Defaults x 12 Saved Plan Views for a total of 96 Saved Defaults though. If layer control were pulled out though and added as its own independent setting as some of us have suggested, then we could potentially stick with the original 8 Saved Defaults. Would be a big time saver for even the most conservative estimates. Yes. This is what most power users eventually do. New users just fumble with settings using an array of different messy methods until they finally figure it out and bite the bullet. Yes, once you set it up its done and you shouldn't need to mess with it again for a while, but I still think its an unnecessarily complex and convoluted system...having to set up a ton of extra Saved Defaults for the sole purpose of placing them onto different layers. By the way, even after you do set them all up, its equally as time consuming to make adjustments if/when you start drawing for another builder who likes to see things different or if/when you decide to adjust something about your system. I'm holding out hope that Chief will eventually change this. I know how it works and I still hate it.

Looks like some kids were just playing a game of jacks on your plans. No. They’re Temporary Points like the guys above already said.

I usually just copy and paste myself so it's not something I typically have to deal with, but I can tell you that the export results with regard to hidden cells varies a bit depending on which columns you have displayed and on how many columns you have displayed.

Short of running a custom script, no. I think this is just a bug in Chief's export.

I think you probably just need to scroll to the left and you'll find that it does indeed do what you're looking for. P.S. It may be that you're not selecting anything. Select All before unhiding.

No. There isn't. Me and others have requested this in the past. It would help if you would send in a request as well. Bottom Line: It sure would be nice if we could simply change the desired Layer for the annotation object to be placed on without creating a whole new Default...much like we can with Current CAD Layer except we would need Current Dimension Layer, Current Text Layer, Current Point Layer, etc. etc. This is from a request submitted over 5 years ago back before Saved Plan Views, but it illustrates the same basic idea. It would be great to have some additional settings like these....

@Katy_DDR, Depending on the specifics of the situation, you can also turn off the railing entirely and use a manually placed railing wall set to Follow Stairs... ...this has challenges of its own but can serve as a very good way to refine newel placement for many situations. Don't have time to elaborate on all of them, but here are a few more tips as well: You can use Invisible walls to define your decks, rooms, or platforms and No Room Definition railing walls for your rails You can place wall breaks to force a newel to generate at that location. Stop wall from rejoining by either alternating wall types or flipping the new wall section. You can refine wall break locations by using a small perpendicular Room Divider wall. Place a break at that room divider and then drag the Room Divider to control the break location. You can use molding polylines for railing components You can use Polyline Distribution Paths for railing components You don't have to approximate locations. Create a CAD Detail From View of your Plan View and then Cut/Copy snaps from that view and Paste Hold Position back into your Plan View. This way you can place objects with precision.

OR.... Edit>Preferences>General>File Management>Associate Files With This Program

Just a wild stab in the dark here, but this sounds like it could be a textbook case of working with a laptop, a 3D mouse, and a regular mouse over in the passenger seat during a 12 hour road trip across the country. I’ve seen it too many times to count.

For me, this would depend on how I charged for the first set of plans. If it was billed using a standard square footage rate and the client was difficult to work for or the plan took longer than expected...same price as first time. If it was billed using a standard footage rate and the client was super easy to deal with or job was super profitable... I might give it to them for half price. If I had charged by the hour? Again, it depends on the specifics. If I spent 200 hours with the builder hammering out every tiny little detail to perfect the design for future use, then I might charge no more then a minimal base fee plus whatever time it took for the new site plan. Also depends on how much I like the client, how much work I do for them, how much work they give me, how much new liability (either actual or implied) I’m taking on, whether or not I personally want the same house built twice, etc. etc. Definitely no one size fits all answer from me.

It WILL but its not very intuitive and I don't believe it was by design. You have to rotate the camera with your normal mouse while the 3D mouse is being used. Easiest and most stable way to do so is by lightly activating the 3D mouse as if you're trying to Rotate the view. For me this means I just very lightly twist the 3D mouse left or right. While you're doing that, you can Rotate (and even Tilt) the view with your normal mouse.

I was talking about setting the angle when rotating the camera with a 3D mouse.

I think your best bet is to just copy the notes, create a new camera view, and then Paste Hold Position.

Yes, but only if you have a 3D mouse. I don't however know of any way to set it at a perfect angle using the 3D mouse though.

You can either completely do away with the unnecessary exterior walls or you can finish adding walls and then assign the Attic room type to the appropriate areas. I personally see no reason to keep the walls and call them No Room Definition though. If you're doing that, then I can't see any reason why the walls should even be there in the first place.

By the way, read my original post again. I'm trying to clue you in to something.... You can simply change the wall to Invisible which will not only be a more accurate representation of what's actually happening but will also remove the unwanted wall layers that you're having issues with.

Did you turn off Auto Rebuild Roofs? If you did, then changing the Raise Off Plate/Birdsmouth setting won't do anything.

...and does your problem still exist?

2 additional questions/hints for you (assuming you're purposely starting to model some finished areas up on the 3rd floor): 1. Did you purposely set a negative Raise Off Plate/Birdsmouth value? 2. Are you really using brick exterior walls up on the 3rd floor? You're giving Chief some confusing information. You're not only saying that the roof is lower than the floor and wall system above but also that you're using brick walls where no walls will exist.