Alaskan_Son

There are a ton of things I use this behavior for all the time. It's a lot quicker and easier to create, edit, copy and paste a text box than it is to create, edit, copy, and paste macros for specific purposes and commonly its a lot more convenient to write a quick one-time-use macro in place than it is to create a custom macro for the purpose.

What I believe Rene is talking about is using one single macro to set all sorts of global "Job Information" variables such as $My_name = "Michael" $Wall_framing = 24 $Project_zip_code = "98765" $Setback = 40.ft ...and so on ...and then defining another macro for each and every one of those variables so he can use the values elsewhere... What I was trying to point out is that all those secondary macros are no longer necessary in X12. You can delete all except the job_info macro and simply place your global variable name directly into a text box, callout, or wherever you want to use it... In fact, you don't even need the job_info macro either. Those global variables can even be defined in a text box. In X12, I believe I could literally delete all my macros if I wanted to and just use single line code typed directly into text boxes. Not that I would want to do that, but I could. The only thing I'm really not sure of is how many commands Ruby will allow to be entered in a single line of code.

You can get the Recessed setting to work by just sticking to a single Main Layer and moving the rest to your Exterior Layers. That being said, you'll also have some other issues to contend with. Increasing the rough opening settings will fix some of it, but that causes some issues of it's own with regard to framing. Really just depends what you're after. I think you just have to choose your battles wisely.

Can you possibly post the wall type you are using?

I assume you've already tried Options>Recessed>To Sheathing Layer/To Main Layer?

I wasn't getting that precise. It obviously depends on the type of foam and type of facing. I was just speaking very generally and pointing out that a building wrap may not be necessary if the foam itself suffices. The product mentioned in the OP almost certainly does NOT. Around here on the other hand, we commonly use an EPS product that has both a plastic facing and a foil facing. It's actually too impermeable in many applications.

Just 20 years of firsthand experience in the industry, many hours in the classroom studying building science, many more hours studying and researching building science on my own, and several certifications in the same. Around here, our vapor barrier actually needs to have a perm rating of 0.06 or less. At best, a good latex paint is roughly 20 times that permeable and at worst its closer to 200 times...and that's assuming it's been applied properly and that it maintains that value indefinitely (which of course it won't).

In your example, presumably, the taped/edge sealed rigid insulation IS the building wrap. I think vapor barrier was a poor choice of words to describe the Tyvek building wrap/air barrier mentioned in the OP. Anyway, most rigid insulation works as a building wrap on its own (and even a vapor barrier if it's properly sealed at the edges). I think ComfortBoard is mineral wool, which doesn't have any such properties.

Your baselines are at different heights.

Make sure your Foundation layer is turned on.

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.