Alaskan_Son

When I need to do things like I simply open both walls, check Retain Framing, open Wall Detail 1, Select All, Cut, open Wall Detail 2, Paste Hold Position, and manually adjust framing as necessary.

To me this is just evidence of how much more complex this is than it seems on the surface. For example: 1. You’ve just hypothetically created the ONLY dialog in Chief that actually REQUIRES interaction with the preview and with no textual feedback as to what the selected item is. Not helping the intuitive case if you ask me. 2. You’re giving no clear way of changing the basic default for the entire unit. Again, not very intuitive. I think my suggested solution of 2 data entry fields would help with the latter, but it becomes super messy having setting for doors and drawers available when you could be selecting one, the other, or neither. In addition, you would essentially be required to de-select items to make certain changes as well. I just think you’re asking for trouble.

That's a tricky one. I think Chief just sees that area as needing a roof plane for some odd reason. So it builds an extra little plane which cuts your wall off. You may have checked both Retain Manually Drawn Roof Planes and Retained Edited Automatic Roof Planes, but that is neither an edited auto roof nor a manually drawn plane. Chief simply sees it as a missing plane. I say just delete the extra little roof plane or draw the entry roof manually. I would personally just do the latter.

Right off the bat we have a major problem. There's currently nothing in that dialog that allows for selection of all face items even with the face items dropdown Anyway, if you really want to see these changes then you'll need to suggest it. My suggestion to you would still be to show how this might look. Even a rough sketch. Everything you've talked about sound nice but as soon as you try to put it all in a single tab I suspect you'll start to see some of the challenges. I still like it exactly as it is. Very easy and intuitive to set up generic stuff and just use the deeper and more powerful controls for custom stuff.

Possible, yes, but in my experience, its more likely that you did something slightly different upon opening the plan again. There are a lot of possible little variables such as.... How the material list was generated (all floors, materials list polyline, selected object(s), etc.) What layer set you were using and whether or not the layer was set to report to the material list Whether the components were edited only in a default or in the actual object(s) in the plan Whether the desired accessory category was actually set to report to the materials list Whether or not the parent object category was set to report to the material list Whether or not the desired categories are being displayed in the materials list Whether or not you may have simply overlooked that the items actually were being reported (this is very easy to do in a long, busy material list) Whether or not an actual material is defined properly to actually report to the materials list ..... Anyway, there are certainly a handful of problems that can be solved by closing the plan and/or closing and restarting the program, but I tend to think that closing/reopening gets a bit more credit for fixing things than it really should and that super commonly all it really does is give us a fresh go at it where we don't make the same mistake we did before. I obviously can't say for certain not having witnessed exactly what you did though.

I get the basic idea you’re after and it sounds nice on the surface. The reason I asked that you “show us” how it might look though is because I think if you try drawing it up you’ll see there are some pretty notable issues to contend with such as how and where you set the panel and hardware “defaults” for that particular cabinet and how/where you situate all the extra controls in a way that doesn’t add its own confusion. I suppose part of the solution might be 2 data entry fields...1 for “Object Default” and another for “Selected Item”.

That could be mostly automated with a custom macro...especially easy if you're almost always using round numbers for your decks.

Can you show us how this might look and where it might go? I personally think its pretty reasonable right where it is.

That should really be the entire purpose of this forum if you ask me.

That fascia alignment issue is always a bit of a problem. If you want accuracy, then those fascia's need to be modeled manually. What I typically do is something like this... Set up an elevation camera that faces the problem fasica Create a CAD Detail From View Trace the fascia to create a closed polyline that is the the desired profile Cut that polyine Paste Hold Position that polyline back in your elevation view. Convert that polyline to a polyline solid and position it appropriately in plan view. Depending on the roof, I either turn the actual fascia off completely or reduce its height to nearly zero

Yes. The items generated by any given object can be edited, deleted, or even added to in the Components tab. Just edit your default foundation wall to remove that particular line item.

This was fixed in the latest update. Thanks for the quick fix Chief!!

Not sure who this was directed at, but I personally have not and I most likely won't. It's not something that has ever affected my workflow and I currently don't see an reason it ever would.

For the purposes of the discussion they’re definitely still dimensions and not “CAD lines and numbers”.

I wouldn’t overthink this one. Super easy to reproduce. Just needs to be reported if you hope to see it fixed. Try the workaround I mentioned previously too. Seriously only takes a matter of seconds and your problems are solved.

Almost all door manufacturers make those 3 lite doors. ThermaTru has several. Here's one... https://www.thermatru.com/explore-doors/door-style/CCA230XJ-SDL The closest in the Therma-Tru Manufacturer library available to us in Chief though is the "Villager" that Robert already mentioned. You just have to paint the glass a standard glass color is all. In addition, we have the one in the Core Catalog JJohnson mentioned. Here it is with the dentil shelf removed... 3-lite door.calibz

Or use the Align/Distribute Objects tool.

You can get this behavior by creating your CAD Detail From View from layout if you want.

I’m not trying to condone converting floor plans to CAD Details. The OP seems to have his reasons for doing so though. To each his own. Anyway, I stand behind what I said. You made an erroneous statement.... This simply isn’t true. They’re still dimension lines. It’s just that the Text Above Line setting doesn’t carry through properly.

Like I mentioned before... Just because it was drawn in AutoCAD doesn't mean there's not a ton of totally usable 3D information. Unlikley? Perhaps...but totally possible.

I don't know why either. You should report it to tech support if you want to see it changed. In the meantime, here's a workaround for you:. Before creating your CAD Detail From View, activate a dimension tool, Shift select everything (which will grab all your dimensions), and Copy. CAD Detail From View Activate a dimension tool, Shift select everything (which will grab all your dimensions), and delete Paste Hold Position

Simply not true.

That's an oversimplification. It actually does a lot more than handle variables. It does indeed insert and execute code in general. Quick example... "8+2=#{8+2}" ----> 8+2=10 I guess a more precise and proper definition might be -- a method of inserting an expression into a string

It's called interpolation. Its a way to insert code into otherwise "dumb text".

Your version still has the same problems because the original geometry is flawed. Any vector based views show the extra lines. It needs some more involved fixes.