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You can avoid this problem by simply creating a unique Saved Plan View where all other relevant floors are displayed as Reference Floors. Place your area tabulation macro in that view and you won't need to toggle through floors. As a side note, I should warn you that this particular approach you're talking about can work just fine but only as long as you are very careful to follow your own rules. For example, if you add a second floor you'll have to adjust your macro definition. If you add a third floor you'll have to adjust your macro definition. If you remove a floor you'll have to adjust your macro definition. If you break the room giving your current floor no area, your tabulation macro will still display the old value even though the area should be zero. If any of your floors has multiple independent floor areas your tabulation macro will only use the most recently defined. If you decide you want to display deck areas or garage areas, your coding requirements just got a lot more complicated, and again...you have to redefine your macros. Anyway, you can get all sorts of areas automatically tabulated using the same general approach you've spelled out....all using actual room information and no polylines. BUT BUT BUT, the more advanced your system, the more complex the macros are to write, and the more you have to make sure you're following all the rules as defined by your specific system. This is what leads most of us to just use polylines. They're far more easily customizable, super flexible, and don't require nearly as much coding complexity making them really easy for almost anyone to learn how to use. Yes you have to adjust the polylines with any changes to the plan but using the other alternatives you're really just shifting the maintenance from the polyline shapes themselves to the aforementioned macros and specific operational procedures. At least with polylines you can get some quick and easy visual feedback so you know exactly where your various areas are coming from.

Some of us like to avoid having to get our subs and suppliers to do takeoffs every time we want a rough estimate. It adds up to an astronomical number of man hours, adds extra steps, adds to the timeline, introduces an increased chance for miscommunication, etc. In at least the early phases it can be far more efficient to tabulate all those quantities ourselves.

That text encapsulated with percentage signs IS a macro.

Setting proper pattern match and efficient material usage aside for a moment, here are my quick pieces of advice: Yes, you can use a Runner but that has some notable issues. First off, it doesn't give you a proper total in the material list. To get usable information, you would have to customize your Component information for each and every set of stairs you build. And even then, this method won't work for winders, flares, starter treads, or other non continuous width stair designs where you want carpet on the whole step. To get a more accurate result that doesn't need to be customized every time, you can use the steps Collection. This method requires some pretty custom coding to parse and combine the information, but is far more accurate and can be added to the stair Components in your Defaults.

I do. I was just trying to figure out more specifically what you were hoping to accomplish. You could have been talking about finding where you defined it, finding where you have displayed the value, finding the actual vale itslef, etc. etc. If you're just looking for where the text has been used you should be able to simply use the Find/Replace Text tool. Just make sure under Macro Options that its set to Include All and don't include the leading space before the text like you did above...

What do you mean by “find”. Are you trying to remember where you put the text?

FWIW, it wasn’t actually even possible prior to X12.

Don’t rotate the Plan View, just rotate the layout boxes.

Chopsaw gave you a solution, but just to clarify, in the above 2 examples, what you're doing is rounding 0.02 down to 0 and 0.025649518 down to 0.0256. When I'm teaching people to use ruby scripting, one of the first things I typically recommend is that they always encapsulate their various calculations in parentheses whether it seems necessary or not in order to be sure that the calculations are being carried out like you want them to. In other words, make it very clear to ruby what you are doing to what. I want to take this>>>> (room.internal_area*0.02) and then round that whole thing.

What do you have this set to?

Read Glenn’s suggestion again.

You bet.

Didn't dig too deep, but looks like a bug to me and appears as if though its being triggered by your Trey Ceiling and its related ceiling planes.

Plan?

I assume you just added extra spaces?

Ya, I was wondering if that might happen. Was away from my computer and couldn’t test it.

You can try to insert this in lieu of your comma and space.... %”\n”%

Chief changes the wall so that it can provide a usually appropriate vertical structure at the height change. When you don’t want a vertical wall at the height change and would prefer to see a single line, I recommend using a Custom Wall Type. Just copy the OOB Room Divider wall type and set the thickness to .01”. Name it something like MY Room Divider. Because the wall already technically has a thickness, Chief won’t change it, and because the wall is nothing more than a single layer Air Gap, it won’t provide anything at the vertical transition areas.

Use the Gable Roof Line tool.

Not sure who this comment was directed at, but if the goal is to use the primary offset as one joist spacing and the secondary offset as an alternate joist spacing.... I’m away from my computer, but you might try right clicking and dragging in the joist length direction, releasing the mouse button just before the first copy is placed, and then dragging out secondary copies to layout joists. Not sure if it will work or not. Don’t recall ever trying to use the secondary copies with no primary copies.

Primary offset is one direction. Secondary offset is in the perpendicular direction. Right click, distribute in the desired direction, and release; and then distribute in the perpendicular direction and left click to finish. I use it all the time.

The DWG file you attached appears to have been drawn at a roughly 6:1 scale which is quite different than the 1:8 scale you initially described. As Robert already pointed out, the scale isn't consistent and varies a bit depending on the object, and your various CAD items are out of alignment. You also have a whole bunch of overlapping CAD, segmented lines, and partitioned fills. I'm really pretty curious how you even got this drawing to the current state. It looks like a combination of imported CAD, CAD Detail From Views, and manual drafting.

You just did. You attached a DWG. Do the same thing with the Plan file.

I must be missing something. I don’t understand how you were able to draw that entire detail at such an odd scale but you’re unable to do the math to size it back up to full scale. 1/4”=2” means that you drew a 1/4” line to represent a 2” line right? Your line is 1/4” long but needs to be upsized to 2”. 2.00 inches divided by 0.25 inches = 8.00. Either the initial information you gave us was wrong or you have already changed your scale to something else. If you were working off the 24”=3’ version then you would need to use a resize factor of 1.5 (1.5x24” = 3’).

You need to resize by a factor of 8.0