Alaskan_Son

Ya, I've tried that too. Can't seem to make that work either. Oh well, I guess its copy/paste when I need additional control. I wish they would bring back some of the old capabilities though.

Ya. Me neither. I was only messing around and piling some silly responses on top of @DzinEye’s lovely, but totally unintelligible answer. I was hoping it might elicit a few smiles. I don’t know...silliness often makes ME smile

...and the plot thickens. You’ll never know what would have happened had you not done that first set for free.

Exactly my friend. Exactly. You hit the nail on the head. That's the one I'll use from here on out.

Another vote for just combining with a good PDF editor. I use Nitro Pro, and it's something I use daily. Well worth the investment for many many reasons.

As an aside, I just noticed after posting my first post that although any additional lines I added seemed to obey the paragraph indents while I typed it up, they didn't carry through once I posted. Only the indented lines from the original copied text retain their behavior properly. Any added lines lose the behavior once posted.

Way ahead of you buddy. Already tried that. Works fine until I try to include underlined text or an underscore. I need a more dependable solution.

Edit Area (All Floors) Just beware that the Defaults in the current plan will override the defaults in the old plan. This can be an issue with ceiling heights in particular.

This is something I've meant to ask about for quite some time but I keep forgetting... Are there some secret hidden formatting controls in the forum that I am unaware of? At one time we used to be able to easily create paragraph indents and I see some of you guys using them to better organize your posts from time to time. I can only get that level of control by cutting and pasting from my word processor. If I do that, the paragraph indents carry over and function just fine. I just can't create them directly in the forum. I want to be able to create indents like below: 1. We can create numbered lists 2. We can create bulleted lists But we can't create indents without using one of those options And we can't create varied indents Outside of Chief: A. I can use any combination of indents that I want B. Which is great -I just want to be able to do the same thing in Chief -Why can't I? a. What are b. the rest of c. you guys d. doing? Please Note: The indents carry over into the forum just fine but they can't be removed which is another problem, and the word wrap can start to act a little funny as you can see on this particular line In addition, the pasted formatting does funny things with... bulleted lists as you can see here and with numbered lists as well (notice the buried bullets and numbers in these last 4 lines What's the deal?

I know you said this in jest, but I think there is a general feeling amongst a lot of users that Chief is diverting resources to create all those cabinet libraries. I really doubt that's the case. I could be wrong, but I don't for a second believe that Chief is choosing to invest resources in cabinet libraries that could be used for improving program features. I can't speak directly for Chief but I can just about guarantee you that those are either being created by or at least paid for directly by the manufacturers.

To each his own. We all have to decide what's best for our individual businesses in this regard. In your case for example...Maybe you made him pay for the first one and maybe you didn't even get that first job. You could have effectively cut all the other jobs off at the source. Nipped that thing right at the bud!

You're welcome. I wouldn't quite say that the repeat is coming from the tub though. It's just that when you "paint" the wall with your material, you have to remember that the wall behind the tub is also getting painted. The main reason I mentioned it wasn't to explain the repeating pattern but to explain why Stretch To Fit wasn't working as you might expect--that is, it was stretching to fit that whole wall (all the way down to the floor).

Here's a crappy video thrown together on the spot. Sorry, it's not the cleanest or best thought out as you'll see, but contains a few useful basics. Hopefully it helps get you on the right track...

Black on my screen too.

It’s not upside down. It’s just the offset that makes it look upside down. just like in your other thread, adjust the horizontal offset.

That's so funny. I too have some very specific memories of a Chinese restaurant with mirrors on all the walls, but I was about 8 years old. It was a restaurant in a mall in New Hampshire that we would visit from time to time and I was fascinated by the way my own face was always in the corner no matter where I moved. It's one of my most vivid memories.

I'm curious, have you ever designed something like that before where there are 2 mirrors facing each other? Reason i ask is that I have, and after doing so decided I would try to avoid ever doing it again. That infinite mirror effect can be really unpleasant.

In this particular instance, I just checked it immediately because David pointed it out. I usually find stuff like that by systematically deleting things and/or by toggling layers off until I find a specific area or group of objects that seems to contain the culprit. Then I whittle it down further from there. It's the material definition. One of your "Textured Solid Neutral" colors is using a Pattern Type called 326 Peppercorn that is producing a ridiculous number of pattern lines due to it's very small scale setting. Remove the pattern and the problem goes away. I think its just greatly exacerbated due to the fact the robe has 110,000 faces. The question I don't have an answer for is this...Why are Pattern Lines affecting non-vector views?

It's actually the robe, not the hook, but you're right. It's that Architectural block causing the problem.

I personally draw trusses in my plans all the time for various reasons, but if I'm having trusses designed and engineered by others, one of the most important is this... Trusses aren't designed for a project until my job is all but finished and I can't effectively finish my job without having some idea of how the trusses are going to be built. I need to have some idea of HOW trusses will be used, where they will land, where girders might be located, where I need to put beams/point loads, and whether or not trusses will even be possible for certain areas. In addition, I can totally guide the design of trusses if I want to. There are commonly several ways any given job can be done and I want to communicate to my truss designer exactly how I want them done.

Those are just CAD Blocks. You should report it. You can still use them if you want though by placing them in plan, exploding them, and then clicking Add To Library.

AutoCAD is totally capable of producing 3D files which can be imported into Chief and used as is as long as it was actually modeled with 3D information, and so long as all the various materials have been appropriately mapped separately. Anyway, that’s a discussion that’s hardly worth getting into until you know what type of file they have. To answer your other question. I have shared many many large files with lots of people using various methods and platforms, and Dropbox is by far the easiest, most user friendly, least obtrusive, and least problematic in my experience and it’s not even close. Google Drive, One Drive, and iCloud can all be a major PITA.

There’s one major piece of the puzzle that hasn’t been addressed. Are you talking about 2D DXF/DWG files or 3D DXF/DWG files? Big big difference.

The house-wrap is NOT set to zero OOB. It only shows zero out of necessity when you have your Number Style set to fractional inches. You can however manually change it to be truly zero by manually entering zero. . I oftentimes switch my Number Style to decimal inches so that I can better see the actual dimensions.

From the perspectives of both a framer for many years and as a builder and designer, I say edges for walls hands down. Its not even close. Walls very rarely if ever are placed where they're at based on the center dimension so why would you dimension them like that? The vast majority of the time, its a specific edge or opening dimension that's so important. If someone decides to increase a wall to a 2x6 or decrease to a 2x4, I'd say it's probably only 1 time our of 20 that the wall should be adjusted about the center. Edges and openings are really what matters.