Alaskan_Son

...better yet, select your Layout Box, open it, and study that dialog carefully. Hopefully that exercise will help you understand a little better what’s going on.

You can also consider using one or more Custom Object Information Fields along with text macros to place more information into your columns. This way you're not wasting quite as much space in the rest of the schedule. This example only has a few pieces of information combined, but I'm sure you'll get the idea...

Oh, I use them, I just uncheck the Scale Images setting is all.

Click the Renumber Schedule tool.

A similar thing happened to me a little while back. Both my Bonus and Manufacturer catalogs were emptied out. Never figured out what caused it. Never happened before that, hasn't happened since, and only happened on one of my machines.

The setting is Use Plan View Scale. I would take it a step further though and recommend unchecking Scale Images. When you scale images, out of necessity, the images you see will be scaled to accommodate the tallest or widest window in your list and will result in tons of wasted space. If you don't want that happening, don't use that setting.

There are several methods, but if you use trusses, you can simply make them all Reduced Gable trusses and then manually drag an automatically generated lolookout right over the top of all of them.

Don't recall any bugs. I do however recall video card issues. Some solutions in the past... Update drivers Adjust Hardware Edge Smoothing The ole standby...Hide In This View

It's actually the Rotate Plan View tool, and it's only a problem if you're using it for an unintended purpose. It really really irks me that they placed that tool right next to the Reverse plan tool. They had moved it to where it lived exclusively with the Plan View tools for a while (where it really belongs IMO) and to where it was separated from the Reverse Plan tool, but for whatever reason, they put them back together where they can easily mess up the unaware. I'm sure this isn't really the case, but it almost feels like someone is trying to sabotage the tool so it causes problems and gets depreciated.

Yes. Add the toggles to your toolbars or assign hotkeys. See Tools>Toolbars and Hotkeys

There's not. One thing that can be a lot faster though is to just manually place NEW posts after the fact. When the post is initially placed, it's automated behaviors will find the footing below and the beam above and automatically fill in the gap. So, rather then adjust each and every posts manually, just delete them, and place new ones. Could cut the time from minutes to seconds.

I think the answer to your question really lies in the level of accuracy you need. For example, I could train/coach you so that you could model your own and provide you with some necessary elements to get started, but the process isn't the easiest and requires a certain level of Chief proficiency to use effectively. On the other hand, if a general idea is all you really need to show, then Chief's floor trusses can actually work just fine and here are a few tips on the house to get you started... Here are some basic settings... ...and the various components can be edited in the truss detail as desired (in this case I just deleted the end members and made the bottom web shorter... ...after the trusses are built and multi-copied, you can reduce the depth of the floor structure, and visually it's not too shabby at all... Here's a quick crappy example plan too... Bar joist example plan.plan

Can you post an example of this behavior?

Yep.

Short answer... I think it can probably be forced by jumping through a bunch of hoops, but I think this is one where manual roofs are the better option.

Can't speak for Eric, but I would simply use the Stretch CAD tool or a CAD Line along with the Trim tool. Should only take a few seconds.

No problem. Glad you got it figured out. On a side note though, I would really encourage you to adjust your workflow and find and use a different font you like so that you can employ actual superscript characters. Your experience will be a lot easier and far more stable. It just feels like you're doing a lot of work to keep things not only manually synced, but also hoping nothing gets changed on accident so that you lose the "superscript" formatting.

I think my conflicting results have something to do with my workflow. My OOB settings in Word use 11 point text (although 12 point seems to work as well). Try starting with an 11 or 12 point text in Word and I think you'll find that it works better. It seems to behave differently depending on the source text size.

Don't know. Doesn't work that way for me.

More likely than not, when you did it in the past, you pasted it directly into a Rich Text box that already had the number height set appropriately and so you never had to go through the resize process. If you simply paste directly into the plan, it will come in at a size that is proportional to what it was in Word. To get what you want, open a Rich Text box, set the number height appropriately, and then paste what you copied from Word. As I stated above, that superscript tool in Word isn't actually using true superscript characters from the extended range, it's just making the normal characters smaller and repositioning them which is simply something Chief is not designed to do. Chief allows you to paste with that formatting, but if you try to make any changes, Chief can only do so using it's own limited subset of formatting capabilities.

Just to give you an idea as to why I typically prefer Custom Fonts: I don't t find standard superscript to be very readable, especially when the font sizes get really small (like window labels usually are)... Some fonts are much worse offenders than others... ...some just don't place the superscript high enough which makes them look a bit jumbly and stressful to read... ...and some just look funny...

For most situations where a person finds themselves manually entering these superscript labels, I think I could help you both automate and greatly speed up your workflow by writing you one or more custom text macros to handle the process. Just send me over an email if you want to discuss further. In the meantime, for anyone using X12 or newer who insists on entering these numbers manually, I just wrote a little utility macro that you can use right inside Chief to make the process a little quicker and I'm including it below for a limited time. Unlike using MS Word, the converted results will use the true superscript characters. Simply..... Download the attached file Open Text Macro Management and Import the macro Select the macro, click Edit, and follow the included instructions to enter your desired text. Simply preceed any numerical character that you want to be superscript with the caret symbol (^) Copy the results displayed in the New Result field Click Cancel Paste the results wherever desired Again though, for most situations, it really can be automated a whole lot more so that you can spend less time typing and proofreading and more time drawing. Just shoot me over an email if you want to discuss further.

Emma, are you still only in X10 as your signature suggests?

Just got back to my computer. A few notes: That MS Word superscript tool is not using real superscript characters. It's just resizing standard characters. All those superscript numbers that I posted above look completely consistent on my Windows machine, but 1-3 look different than the rest on my iPhone when viewed in Safari, so it must be an Apple thing. Having said that... They look completely consistent if I paste into any of the other apps on my iPhone.

One thing worth noting is that as I recall, 1-3 are part of the ASCII range whereas the others are only available in the Unicode range.