Alaskan_Son

Reference Display hands down. No need to draw things twice.

My thoughts too. You don’t even need to use a molding polyline necessarily. You could just apply a molding to the room itself. Plus, you have full control over what material gets added to the side of that opening.

Is there a specific reason that you're using the Hole In Floor Platform tool rather than just defining the hole with walls? If you use walls then you can get the desired behaviour.

You're right that they're inaccessible, but you're really thinking about it all wrong. Don't think of it as accessible vs. inaccessible. Just realize that those "global" Text Macros are Chief things, not Ruby things. Ruby has no clue what %blahbahblah% means. It's gibberish. %blahblahblah% is pure Chief.

Copied and pasted from something I posted a while back... I tell it like this: People have to look at Chief and Ruby as 2 entirely separate constructs/entities. Whenever CHIEF sees two % signs enclosing some text, it will display any appropriate automated text. If that text happens to match a user defined, evaluated text macro then Chief will defer to RUBY to run the code. RUBY has no clue what anything between percentage signs means though. Only Chief knows that. When CHIEF “sees” the percentage signs on screen, Chief either fills it in per the defined macro, leaves it as dumb text, or defers to RUBY. The only thing Ruby can and ever will do with the text wrapped in % signs is display it as a “%name%” string or error out. My favorite example is to write a custom evaluated macro with a value of “%layer%” into an object. You should see the result is what you might expect...it reports the layer of the object. Now modify the macro to “%layer%”.reverse and see what you get. In both cases, RUBY is doing nothing more than placing the dumb text on the screen. CHIEF is the one that replaces the text with something else when the resulting on screen text results in either a defined macro (either internal or user defined) or (starting in X12) when Chief recognizes valid Ruby code. The above is the fundamental reason we cannot access those built in macro values using Ruby. It's because Chief is the one producing that output. Ruby has no access to it. Yes, Chief chooses to allow some things to route through Ruby, but not every macro in Chief is handled like that.

Tim, You have to mentally separate Text Macros (simple string replacement) and Ruby (a programming language) . They are 2 entirely different things. Chief has Text Macros, and as an option, Chief allows us to use Ruby as a programming language inside those Text Macros. In X12, Chief added the ability to enter Ruby Code directly into various data entry fields.

I always recommend that even Interior Designers really consider just upgrading to Premier. There are a handful of extra tools that you'll eventually find irreplaceable. In this particular instance, we have something in Premier called CAD Detail From View that makes super quick work of figuring out those offsets. Set the desired Fill style or Material Pattern, CAD>CAD Detail From View Use the generated linework to figure the required offset(s) Enter the offset(s) in the Fill Style or Pattern settings.

You can use the Material List to do this quite easily. Are you familiar with the Components panel?

Switch to your Text tool and you will automatically select Text items when clicking on them.

Open that Patio Room and change your Stem Wall Top to match your Floor (0")

I can’t believe you just typed that whole song!!

This only works if you have Auto Width checked. The factors are many and as Chopsaw alluded to above, seem to be somewhat controlled by the initially pasted text. That being said, the main controlling factors are the Tab Stops and the Margins, and you can gain quite a bit of control by individually adjusting those. Also... Not quite correct. First...The first column can indeed be resized. Don't do it using the left side of the column though. Do it using the right side. Second...Just a quick power tip, but you can reset the seemingly uncontrollable width of the column on the far right to its minimum width by unchecking Auto Height and Auto Width, changing both those settings to zero and then immediately rechecking both.

Bear in mind that some of the advice above may or may not help you if you're using Interiors. The roof tools in Interiors are a bit more limited.

Why does your signature say X13?

The “exterior” notation you’re seeing is just telling you which side of the door you’re looking at. Spin it around and you’ll see it says Interior on the other side.

I’m really not sure what you’re talking about about but it sounds like you must be trying to marquee select walls. If so, you have to hold down the Shift key while drawing your “window”.

I don’t see how any diagnosis is necessary. It’s a simple informative message that means exactly what it says. The symbol has a bunch of faces and might slow things down. Either use something else or check Do Not Show This Message Again.

You just have to make sure you have the correct object selected. Chief will move or resize the object that is selected. It sounds like you were just inadvertently selecting the wall instead of the window.

You might be able to get a little extra speed with an upgraded video card but if you do, I really doubt it would be much and I doubt it would be worth the investment. Maybe if you were a techy geek who did the work themselves and had another use for the video card and possible power source upgrade (that may or may not help)...Otherwise, I think you should probably just keep plugging away with what you have and save up to upgrade to a completely new machine when you’re ready to pull the trigger.

It looks to me like the CPU itself is most likely your bottleneck. I really don’t think upgrading anything is going to do much good. Well, the one thing that MIGHT help would be to upgrade your hard drive to an SSD. It’s not clear from your description though and you may already have an SSD installed. You could also upgrade your video card

Ryan nailed it. Very easy to reproduce too. Its because Chief only recognizes a Room's defining walls with the wall elevation camera. Those walls in the middle are not being used to define the room. It's reasons like these along with many many others that I very rarely use the Wall Elevation tool and prefer to use a standard Cross Section/Elevation Camera along with a simple CAD mask. You could also optionally draw some Room Divider walls somewhere in order to actually enclose that kitchen area within the larger space. If its me, I'm just gonna use the regular elevation camera and a CAD mask though.

Not ideal, and I typically don't recommend using this method very often, but I think the quickest and easiest solution is probably to just break the Wall Polyline in 3D somewhere in the middle of that door opening and drag the bottom so that it's up above that other opening. Just remember you did that because the wall bottom will no longer automatically adjust for certain plan changes.

Schedule Specification>General>Object Preview Options>Scale Images and Use Plan View Scale.

I did those by adjusting the Baseline Angle for each roof plane one at a time....

Check 3D>Camera View Options>Toggle Textures. I'm guessing you have Textures toggled off.