Alaskan_Son

You have attic walls on both your 2nd floor and on your attic level. They're conflicting with one another. Get rid of the ones on the attic level.

There must be something in the water. It feels like this hadn’t been brought up in months and then about six people asked about it within a span of about three weeks. Yes. Use Plan Check to bring it back. I wouldn’t call it a “known issue“ though. It’s just the way the software works and it’s in the documentation. It’s definitely a little goofy but I’m guessing Chief just didn’t see the need to make an entire tool for “bring living area label back”.

Or if you want specific lengths...

This is true and also not true. The information needs to be somewhere in the plan, but it doesn't necessarily need to be modeled. Chief's material list capabilities are very robust and there are many ways to get what you're after. Yes, you can model the fascia, but you can also just click on the Components tab for any given object and add the information there. Take this fascia for example, here's just one example out of many ways you can get it into your material list without actually modeling anything: Group select all the walls defining your deck (at least the ones defining edges where you want fascia). Open Object and click on the Components tab. Click Add Line Item (the little plus symbol) Adjust setting in that dialog to something like I have shown below... In this case I'm using the length of the wall to get my desired fascia length, so I need to make sure to Apply Formula To Source Object (the wall)... The resulting material list...

You’re not being forced to upgrade. You can keep creating and editing X11 plans all you want. The real question is this: Where did you get an X12 plan file? That had to have been some choice you made, no?

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Google slides is another one that I know has shown problems. But again, it’s mostly only problematic on Macs as far as I know. I think you are wasting your time testing to see if its related to transparency or not. It’s a well-documented issue and we KNOW it’s related to the transparency.

It’s been mentioned many times in this thread, but the most consistently problematic app is Preview. When people say they’re printing from Preview, it’s not a generic term. It’s an app on the Mac platform (just in case you were missing that detail).

Try opening it in X11

This relationship can be adjusted as well... That being said. Sometimes it makes sense to go this route and sometimes it doesn't. If you have a complex terrain that's been surveyed using sea level and your house is 734.52' above sea level, it would be silly to label all you sections and elevations as 734.52'+ (unless specifically required by your building department) and it would be very inefficient to adjust all your terrain information to subtract 734.52'. Elevations are typically meant to communicate information about the house relative to itself and the house relative to the lot. There's rarely any logical reason to communicate information about the referenced elevation datum in an elevation like that (unless you're in a flood plane). If the building department or the situation requires it, then that's one thing, but forcing terrain data to mesh with section view data for a lot of situations just isn't worth the time or effort.

If you're using the Spiral Ducting Bonus Catalog, my advice is this: Activate either the Molding Line tool or the 3D Molding Line tool before clicking on the "Spiral Duct" molding object in the library. This will both ensure that the molding is being applied to your molding line as you draw it but also that you're drawing a manageable line rather than a closed polyline. Once you draw the length you need, simply click Convert Selected To Symbol. You'll have to reposition the symbol, but this way you get the plan view you want, it's a lot more stable, and you can more more easily align with your fittings. Now if only Chief would allow us to Convert To Symbol In Place!!!!

When you're defining the terrain, don't worry about too much about the building elevations at all. Define your terrain using any reference datum you wish. Maybe it's sea level, maybe it's the street, maybe its a stump where you're placing your transit, or maybe its a walkway. Doesn't really matter. Just use whatever works best for you and your specific scenario. The terrain elevation data has nothing whatsoever to do with the floor heights. The relationship between the terrain elevation and floor elevation is easily adjusted as necessary using that Subfloor Height Above Terrain setting. That setting just adjusts the 0" terrain elevation plane relative to the 0" subfloor height. This means if you're using sea level as your elevation datum and your flat terrain is 55' above sea level, you would set the subfloor height above sea level to 55' + the thickness of your floor system + the thickness of your sill plate + the desired distance to grade (typically about 6").

Yes. Using some custom macros it can be done so that there’s a live total in the schedule. I’ve set up a handful of similar systems for other users. It really kinda depends on what the end goal is as to whether it’s worth the trouble of setting up and maintaining said system.

You can just copy/paste the schedule into an excel spreadsheet and add them up in there. No macros necessary.

Sweet! Glad to hear it

Drop a room finish schedule onto Floor 0 and look at the areas of some of the rooms. Now use the Open Row Object tool to change the floor heights in those rooms. Your problem is that you have created rooms between your furring walls and the foundation. You may optionally want to read up on the Furred Wall setting (found in the Structure tab in your Wall Specification dialog).

Agreed. That's just how these things go sometimes. We shouldn't fault Chief because other apps can't get their act together. Read my second to last post again. It's not desirable for more reasons than post processing. It's a notable issue for sharp lines and curves since those vectors then need to be converted to pixelated images. We can already do this using another PDF generator. The problem as I see it though that is getting glossed over a bit is that the very reason Chief's PDF generator produces a better quality product in the first place is because of the transparency. Remove the transparency and you remove most of the reason for using Chief's PDF generator in the ofrst place.

There is none.

Are you talking about diamond bins?

Can easily be done with molding polylines as well if you want to keep your walls as walls.

No problem. I'll let you know if anything ever comes up. Thanks

Project Browser>Plan Views. Select desired Plan View, right click>Edit View.

Not something I have time to describe in great detail but it's totally doable. I offer custom modeling like this as a service, but here's a quickie on the house. Just take a look at the attached screenshot and plan to see roughly how I did it. Essentially though I just used a bunch of arcs, modeled a single quadrant, then copied/reflected, and joined. Tabletop.plan P.S. All those little + signs are Arc Centers/Ends

I actually have NOT run into this problem with any of our clients. If I did, I imagine I would just encourage them to print from a different app.

What a great idea!!