Alaskan_Son

These are both very dangerous pieces of advice for some of the colder northern climate zones.

In X12, there is no reason for the corresponding macros. Simply enter %$wallFraming% wherever you want to use the variable.

I could be wrong, but based on my professional experience, these 2 layers are almost certainly either/or and not both. That being said, you can accomplish what you're after by using a wall type like the one I have defined in the attached plan and then editing the framing in your wall detail. Inspect the wall definition and wall detail in the attached plan to get a better idea. The key things are that you need to properly define some materials, and you need to edit the framing manually. Continuous Insulation Wall Type.plan

First thing I would highlight is that any given page can have multiple layout boxes, so there's no reasonable way a Page Title could automatically be populated with that information (since there's no way of Chief knowing which of the layout boxes it should be using). You do have a few options though: Probably pretty obvious, but just enter the information manually. Use the Layout Box Label and just drag it over into position and rotate it. This of course wouldn't help your Layout Page Table if you use one. Use the %automatic_label% macro in a text box in layout and connect it to your desired layout box using a text line with arrow (with the invisible line style or with the layer simply turned off). This one is much easier to copy and paste from page to page, but again, doesn't help your Layout Page Table. I personally just enter the desired title manually.

Click the Browse button.

If you are referring to Joe's suggestion, then you would be placing that text box in the actual plan view (NOT in layout).

The Plan Footprint includes the finish layers of your walls.

What Joey is referring to is the settings for Use Edge Line Defaults and Use Pattern Line Defaults. I personally leave Use Edge Line Defaults unchecked (so my edge lines are all controlled by layer) but I check Use Pattern Line Defaults for most views. This allows us to control all the pattern lines as a group for any given view. This way I can set my siding and shingle lines to a thin gray line style for all my elevations, to a black line style for zoomed in details and I’m still able to use the material definition for any colorized vector views.

No. What does "can't retrieve it" mean? I don't understand either. Do you mean you can't open it? How about you describe what you're trying to do (i.e. what's not working). what happens when you try to "retrieve"?

A few ways, but here's one... Drag the roof planes out of the way. Change your railing wall to a normal wall. Adjust your wall polylines in 3d by dragging the tops up a specific distance and then back down the same distance (this essentially leaves them unchanged but unchecks Default Wall Top Height and turns the automated wall shaping off. Adjust your wall polylines in 3d by dragging the bottoms down a specific distance and then back up the same distance (this essentially leaves them unchanged but unchecks Default Wall Top Height and turns the automated wall shaping off. You may optionally want to actually change the Wall bottom heights. Turn your railing wall back into a railing. Open those rooms and check Retain Floor/Ceiling Framing Drag your roof planes back into position. You'll probably have to either build or patch some of your floor system with p-solids, material regions, or similar.

I’m away from my computer so I can’t open the plan and this is just a guess, but is the ceiling finish either nothing or set as a gap material?

Don’t use that tool for that purpose. It doesn’t actually rotate the plan at all. It just rotates your “drawing board“. It rotates the grid, the axis, everything. It’s really just used to adjust the way you are LOOKING AT the plan. I have used it to help visualizing things better when working on off angle wings and for Plot Plan Plan Views.

Totally concur. I go to pretty great lengths to model almost everything so that the model accurately communicates the important details, not only for views that show Textures but also (and more importantly many times)...those that don’t (Vector Views, Technical Illustrations, Line Drawings, etc.). Plus, even in Standard Views, PBRs, and Ray Traces, that painted image technique also has the tendency to throw a scene off with the flawed shadows, lack of glass transparency, lack of proper 3D depth (iron cage in the example above), etc. P.S. Nice work though @Rich_Winsor. It’s not my favorite METHOD, but you used the method well.

In X 12 there is a new option to Purge Unused Wall Types. I suspect you accidentally clicked on it. I’m away from my computer right now but if I remember correctly, all of the default wall types are in the core catalog. Just go to the library, select and draw a little section of each wall type that you want added to your plan, and then delete them all. The wall types should be available in your dropdown list now. You can also import wall types from another plan.

You bet. You're always technically welcome here, I just don't encourage it because the differences between the HD product line and Chief Premier can be pretty notable and it doesn't help anybody when tools or methods are being discussed that you don't have any access to. You can waste tons of time trying find and use a tool you simply don't have. In addition, most users here are unaware of what tools you do or do not have so their suggestions may or may not be useful. It's just not very productive in my personal and professional opinion.

You should really be posting over in the HomeTalk Forum... https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/?_fromLogin=CA3 This forum here is for users of Chief Architect Premier.

You’re not providing enough detail. I don’t know if you’re printing from plan, printing from layout, printing the current screen, using Chief’s built in PDF printer, using another PDF printer, etc. etc. in addition, you haven’t answered the question as to whether or not you can see the embedded PDFs in your newly printed PDF file or not. Is it the PDF they don’t show up on, it just the paper? And what color and lineweights are the embedded PDF elements composed of?

Also, what do you mean by “converted the CAD to a PDF file“? And does the embedded PDF show up in that resulting PDF before printing?

What do you mean by “print from the CAD file”? Walk us through how you are printing.

If you're talking about the stacked fractions, unfortunately, that isn't something Chief is currently capable of.

Rocky, your problem seems to be that you’re reading things very nonchalantly without any regard for the proper definitions of the terminology being used. Nobody at any time told you to use an Eyedropper or a Material Painter. In fact, I believe someone specifically told you NOT to. What we all told you several times was to CHANGE your Wall Type. This is a very important Chief Architect term. Changing the Material is not changing the Wall Type. You need to change the Wall Type.

...the lower wall should NOT be a Pony Wall.

Just to be clear, I'm recommending something a little different than what Eric showed. I'm talking about reading the Release Notes at every single upgrade (including simple version updates). Take this current example... We've had the option to select No Room Moldings since X11, but the separate options for Interior and Exterior weren't actually added with the upgrade to X12, they were snuck in with the 22.2.0.54 update...

You're welcome. For the record though, I didn't make it or anything. I think it's one that I just picked up here on the forum that someone else shared. I actually needed the reminder myself. I don't remember the last time I updated it.

Here's the one from my User Catalog by the way... Fireplace Vent.calibz