Alaskan_Son

Even easier. Don't use the reduced gable option.

Would I though?

Maybe. I guess time will tell. I do seem to recall seeing something in one or more of their little sneak peeks though. In the meantime, there are several methods, but if you use trusses, you can simply make them all Reduced Gable trusses and then manually drag an automatically generated lolookout right over the top of all of them.

I would call those purlins or strapping

Can't or won't?

If we're talking about simple construction documents then I'd tend to agree. If it's for more accurate 3D renderings or more detailed site analysis then that's a whole different ballgame and I'd say every example solution given so far misses the mark. For an accurate stream with anything but a perfectly consistent width, the terrain needs to be drawn to suit. There's no "quick" method until that happens.

I understand all that. What I don't understand is how this relates to your request for 'shortcuts'. I don't see the connection.

Just FYI, Chief provided their own OOB object_properties macro that works just fine too... X12 OOB Object Properties.json

Can you expand upon what you mean by this? It sounds like you're describing the Insert Macro tool...

I agree with Glenn’s general assessment. It’s only going to be an extremely rough approximation though because water needs to be contained by the creek bed/river bank and as such: the terrain itself needs to be more accurately defined first. The terrain in the attached example will result in a creek notably different than the one drawn in with CAD. First fix (or at least refine) the terrain definition and then the creek will be much easier.

I haven't been able to reproduce this issue myself. Thanks Michael. I will give your 2nd suggestion a try. Is this a known problem with Chief that an isometric camera will move? Did you ever give that second suggestion a try?

%room.internal_area*0.05%

This can actually be done with the Reference Display and custom macros, but I personally just recommend using rich text boxes with the %room.name% macro. You just need 2 text boxes (1 for each text size) and you simply copy and paste as desired.

I can't speak for Kevin, but the most obvious answer is that they can't be kept live that way.

It might be know to a small number of people. I do recall having seen it before, but I also hardly...if ever...send orthographic 3D cameras to layout and as such it's not something I've personally had to contend with. The real question isn't whether its a "known" issue or not but whether or not Chief has been made aware of it and how many people have reported it. If only one person is reporting the problem, then its likely going to take a back seat to 100 other issues being reported by 2 people...and those are going to take a back seat to the 20 other issues being reported by 3 people, etc.

The whole key to Kevin's issue is the "Isometric" part. To create a true isometric view, he needs to be using an orthogaphic camera. Try sending one of those orthographic views to layout and then try moving, resizing, reshaping, and updating those views. I think you'll pretty quickly see the problem.

If you report it then it certainly will be.

Another couple potential methods: Send To Layout using Current Screen As Image Use Perspective Cameras with a 10 degree Field of View (the smallest it will go).

There you go, that's what we needed. Use Craftsman style grids and set Lites Across to 3 and Lites Vertical to 2.

It's not quite as straight forward in previous version but definitely still doable using Text Macro Management.

Definitely need some clarification on this one. Probably best to post an image of what you're talking about.

Many ways, here's an easy one though... %area.to_sq_m.sq_m% ...Converts the square feet to square meters and then displays that numerical value as rounded square meters with notation (as long as you have Use Default Formatting checked). You could also use... %area.to_sq_m.round(2)%m²

Can you expand a bit on this?

You’ve already drawn the lines, just convert to 3D molding lines. Not ideal I know, but probably better then changing the size of your window and ending up with muntins that don’t reach the frame.