Alaskan_Son

By the way, another little trick that can be employed is Ignore Top Floor in the Build Roof dialog.

You bet. Not sure which video you're referring to, but I would really recommend you watch any videos with a few very important pieces of information in mind.... The video may or may not be relevant or accurate in light of the most current version. Tools are added (and sometimes removed), functionalities are changed, bugs are fixed, etc. Sometimes what's shown in the video no longer applies. Unfortunately, its not feasible to remake every video for every new release though so this is just something you have to be aware of. The video may or may not apply to your particular plan. It's super common that the example being shown has some crucial difference from the plan you might be using and so the process or application thereof may be totally different. The video may completely skip over the thing you're most hoping to learn from it. Videos can be great for teaching some of the basic principles and for addressing some very specific issues, but for general learning, I think it's pretty common that they introduce just as many questions as they do answers.

Just FYI, there should be no reason you have to reduce the ceiling height in those 2 attic areas. That's actually the source of your unusual wall issues.

Although this is a very creative way to deal with numbering prefixes, it wouldn't solve the issue with the Layout Page table. Plus, I would argue that it would take longer and be more complicated than simply using the Layout Label field.

I agree. That's what I was referring to with...

Okay okay, now you're contradicting yourself. You can't have different line weights in your roof plan layer set and...

The ability to have the names different in different layer sets went away several versions back, so this one should be a non issue. For the rest though, I think the quickest way would be to resort and modify one column at a time. Start by switching to the layer set you want everything to match, check Modify All Layer Sets, and then... Click on the Color heading which should sort your layers by color. Group select all of the top color, click to change the color and simply click Okay. Do the same thing for the next group of items with the same color, and so on. Click on the Weight heading which should sort your layers by line weight. Group select all of the top line weight, click to change the line weight, and simply enter the same line weight followed by the tab key. Do the same thing for the next group of items with the same line weights, and so on. Click on the Line Style heading which should sort your layers by line style. Group select all of the top line styles that match each other, click to change the line style, and simply re-select the same line style from the list. Do the same thing for the next group of items with the same line styles, and so on. It will be a little slow, by I can't think of any method that would cover all your bases any quicker.

You are using the Page Number macro and manually positioning a universal prefix. What you're doing is pretty unusual and isn't something I think Chief was really designed to handle. My advice would be to drop the manual prefix from page zero and just use the %page% macro along with the Number column, OR take advantage of the Layout Page Specification Fields and their associated macros. Yes you have to enter them manually on each page, but they're also far more useful. As it is now, it seems like you're using a prefix for no real reason.

What is the macro you are using on page 0 then, because there is no built in "drawing number" macro.

Do you perhaps mean PAGE number? If so, add the Number column to your schedule.

None of this makes any sense to me. Why would anyone ever want all their Layer Sets to be the same? I'm sure there's something that just needs to be clarified.

"When is a Garage a Carport?" @dshallI feel a little disappointed. The opening line drew me in and now I'm waiting for a punchline. WTH!!? I feel like someone interrupted my sneeze.

I’m not sure who the person was, but unless you are 100% sure, I would be careful not to jump the gun too quickly. The online users list isn’t always as accurate as you might think. I’ve seen it display incorrect information quite often. For example, I’ll be having on ongoing conversation with someone on a thread and I’ll watch the list show one or both of us being absent or active elsewhere. In addition, I have seen reputation points given or taken away while the user list shows nobody at all active on that thread.

That's only if you're not doing anything and only have an object selected. There's no reason to hit escape if you're not in the middle of an operation though right? Just a quick example: I find myself hitting the Escape key all the time when I've accidentally started dragging an object, resizing an object, maybe dragging the wrong corner, or activating Resize edit mode instead of Concentric, etc.. Either way, I simply want to escape out of the operation. Switching to the Select Objects tool though, doesn't just escape out of the operation. It drops the current tool and loses the selected object(s) entirely. This means in many cases you're forced to reactivate a tool and/or re-select one or more objects.

Tons of ways to do this.... -No Room Definition railing wall -Molding lines (with and without 3D molding symbols) -Landings -Distribution Path -Manually positioned and distributed objects

I personally think massive overuse of the Select Objects tool is one of the most detrimental habits practiced by the average Chiefer. I think we all have those habits that we know we need to quit, and this is one of my own personal worst offenders as well. I know better, but I developed an affinity for the space bar years ago and for whatever reason, it's been a very very difficult habit to break. It is FAR more efficient to leave the appropriate tools active and either take advantage of the restrictive selection that brings with or use right click to select other objects. In addition, I think Escape is also underused. Escape simply takes you back one tool at a time. This can be used to simply back out of the current operation (without losing your selection mind you) or back to the last tool(s) you had activated. I guess this is also related to overuse of Select Object though since most people's initial reaction to escape an operation is to switch to Select Objects.

Don't turn it off. Just change it to Click Twice To Display

You're being limited by CAD items on other pages. I would consider this a bug that you might want to report.

You should only need a single macro and it can be a lot simpler. It could live in the label or in a text box with an arrow (I would personally do the latter so I have more freedom with text formatting the isn't tied to other labels). In fact, in X12, you don't need a custom macro at all. You could enter the code right in the text box or label. I would probably use something more like... %referenced_filename[0..6]%

In layout the macro is referencing layout file information. In plan, the macro is referencing plan file information.

I was talking about using the same %file.name% macro. Just using it plan instead of layout.

This is honestly a small lesson in and of itself.

Nice. He's another quick freebie tip for ya... If you want to use the plan file name, simply place the macro in your plan file, a CAD Detail is as good a place as any, send that view to layout, and instead of using a mask, simply crop the layout box. You can do a similar thing in layout by placing the macro into a CAD Detail there, sending that to Layout (yes...from layout to layout), and then cropping the layout box.

Good tip, but I personally always recommend people start in the Help files and then move elsewhere as a second option.