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By the way, Glenn hinted at it earlier, but it would really help if you were to adjust your Segment Angle at Curved Wall in your Build Roof dialog. Turn it all the way down. I think you can only set it to 6 but that will likely be enough. Using the method I mentioned above you can go even lower but that would mean switching to manual roofs.

Sort of. You have to use boolean operations (usually subtraction) to get a true arc onto a roof plane. They don't behave when they're true arcs though and you still need to Convert Curve to Polyline.

What you're showing is what I would probably refer to as a Dutch Lap. Do a quick search for "Seamless Dutch Lap Texture" and see what you come up with.

Okay. Thanks for the update.

You betcha.

Looks like I may have misunderstood the question. I thought you wanted to overlay your actual Chief Architect® Plan View so that you could view the plan view line-work over your terrain. From the looks of it though what you really want is the aerial view image? If so, never-mind the poly-line solid idea with the PNG. That won't really give you what you're after.

If the tools functioned like I mention above, there wouldn’t even be a need for the extra Eyedropper tools and we could more affectively control which object(s) we were trying to reference. It would just require a slight workflow change. Instead of clicking on Eyedropper (and hoping you picked the right Eyedropper tool) and then clicking on the desired object, you would instead select the object and then click the tool to either Paint Layer or Set As Current CAD Layer. In addition to other benefits, it would allow us to tab to buried objects (which we can’t do with the Eyedropper) and it would allow us to leave any given tool activated. You could leave the line tool activated, select a CAD Block, click the Set As Current CAD Layer tool and immediately start drawing your lines. Or maybe you realize that your CAD Block was on the wrong layer? Simply select a different layer in ALDO/OLP, click the Move Object(s) to Layer tool and then immediately click the Set As Current CAD Layer tool.

I disagree with Chop on this. Pretty easy to accomplish. Eric suggested one easy method but you can also export an image of your plan view as PNG and assign it to a zero thickness poly-line solid or face and just place that directly above your terrain. This would maintain the single plane affect that would be lost if you simply paint the image to your terrain. In both instances you'll most liekly want to properly crop your image and use a Material set to Stretch To Fit.

I'm with you Rod. I've thought for quite some time that the various Layer controls need to be better consolidated and synced up. For example, both the Current CAD Layer and Layer Painter tools give you a list of layers but no way to create or edit those layers. I suggest that we get some additional buttons or right click options in Active Layer Display Options to... Paint Layer where you select the layer and then Paint it to various objects Set as Current CAD Layer In addition, I would love to be able to move the selected object(s) to a layer using Object Layer Properties or Active Layer Display Options so I'd also like to see a tool to... Move Object(s) to Layer

Ah, you didn’t say you were GROUP selecting. That changes things. The behavior is different during a group select and I believe it always has been.

It’s always about WHICH wall you select and which of the associated dimensions you click on. you can either select the wall and then click on a parallel dimension in which case you will be changing its length or you can click on a perpendicular dimension in which case you would be MOVING the wall along with any connected walls ends.

Preferences>Appearance>Minimum Display Size>Labels

I personally couldn't work without them.

Preferences>Edit>Selection>Show Start and End Indicators. They're not new to X12 either. We've had them for as far back as i can remember.

It won’t work in Excel, Word, Notepad, Mozilla Firefox, or anywhere else I know of either and none of them mention it in their manuals. I suspect because it makes little sense telling people everything they can’t do...particular when it’s something the software wasn’t intended to be used for or when it’s a regarding a subject that was really only designed to be utilized at the developer level (i.e. NOT by the end user).

Typing the character in a text field or using it in text macros (simple string replacement) is probably a lot different. In my own personal experience, I've found that you can manipulate left to right spacing (bearings/kerning) at the font level but line spacing and feeding (with the sole exception of a newline) is always controlled by the application. The application may or may not use Unicode characters to represent the line spacing but it's not something the end user can do using control characters. At least that is my experience.

Sorry, I think I misunderstood what you were after. I thought you wanted 1-1/2 spaces between characters. I see now that you must be after 1-1/2 newlines. Sorry, but I don't think Chief supports that functionality. In fact, I've never actually seen it put into use anywhere.

Is it doing what you want it to so far?

Sorry Chop, I posted that from my phone and the quotations didn't translate right. Use this instead... "  "

Copy and paste this and see if it does what you’re looking for... ”  “

Can you possibly expand more specifically on which characters you’re attempting to access or more specifically what you’re trying to accomplish?

Ah, I missed that you were talking about some non-printing control characters. I won’t pretend to understand exactly how those work but I don’t believe they even need or always have associated characters. I mean just because there’s a code point doesn’t mean it has an accompanying character. That means the font may or may not even matter (?) Also, I’m not sure which characters you’re trying to call or how you’re trying to use it, but have you tried simply using the ASCII range? Most of the ones we might use are included in that range as well. Also, if you’re trying to use them in Ruby, there are some built in backslash notations that might help... Backslash notation Hexadecimal character Description \a 0x07 Bell or alert \b 0x08 Backspace \cx Control-x \C-x Control-x \e 0x1b Escape \f 0x0c Formfeed \M-\C-x Meta-Control-x \n 0x0a Newline \nnn Octal notation, where n is in the range 0.7 \r 0x0d Carriage return \s 0x20 Space \t 0x09 Tab \v 0x0b Vertical tab \x Character x \xnn Hexadecimal notation, where n is in the range 0.9, a.f, or A.F

Arial Unicode MS has something like 35,000 characters I think.

Don't forget that Ruby support and Chief text box support are 2 entirely different things. Ruby might pass the information on to Chief but if Chief doesn't support it then you'll get the question marks. This was the case back in X9 where Ruby supported Unicode but Chief's standard text boxes did not. Having said that, I have yet to find a character range that does not work in both standard Text and Rich Text in X12 (at least for what I've used it for).

It sounds like perhaps your Stretch Planes were messed up then.