TimSchrock

Now that we know it's there we can search help. Do they release a list of new classes when they introduce one? Can't wait to check out your Youtube channel! YOU'RE EricOnChief? Cool! I hadn't put two and two together until just now. Nice to meet you!

@Joe_Carrick & @Alaskan_Son where did you learn about Ruby? And where can I find out more info about the classes that Chief has available? Like you mentioned the new measurement class and the new label name:value pair. How does one find this info?

Click on the "Edit" Button to see the WHOLE list of that series. If you drop another series or style (casement, Hung, fixed, etc), then a new macro and list will be present.

Found it! Doh!

It's been forever since I've submitted a suggestion. I can't remember where to do that!

Right. The label should read as the Pella label size. When the library object is inserted, it comes with a pre-packaged macro (nothing you can see in the Object dialog) that has all the standard sizes pre-baked. To see the macro and the sizes (after placing a Pella Window), go to CAD > Text > Text Macro Management in your menu, and then click on the macro that lists "Pella" in the options there.

THANKS Michael! I've added this as a topic on the suggestion forum, hopefully they find this and update the library!

The standard size chart is in the macros provided with the Pella library. Drop in a Pella window and then open the macro dbx.

Hi All, I have a client who has spec'd Pella windows, so I was sizing them according to Pella sizes and noticed that Pella labels by inches, where Chief labels by ftin. Then I remembered that I have the Pella library, so I dropped in a couple Pella windows...one DH and one CS. However, BOTH windows show the label as "CUSTOM" even though I've sized the window exactly to a Pella size. The size is even in the macro data list as a standard size. Has anyone else found success with the Pella labels? Or fixed them?

I found it. I can't use the Automatic light set. I switched to default go what I wanted

A client wants a tall tower of their stairs and I want to show it light up at night time like a lighthouse, but my exterior camera, night shot isn't showing interior lights. I've turned off all other light sources than the one I want, Default lighting set selected, lumens cranked up to 10k, show in both ray trace and renderings, but nothing... When I turn on the light source that is in the "Outside" room, I can see it thru the stair AND front door glass. When I turn on that light source and update the lighting, THAT light shows as "In Use" but nothing I can find turns on the added light source that is in the "Open Below" room (which is the staircase). Using X13 on Windows 10 pc with Nvidia RTX3080

Does this mean M1 will run RTRT?

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I was hoping that I could create a cabinet door and drawer library each with their individual pricing guidelines. In my catalog a certain group of doors and drawers are standard, another group has a specific $$ deduct and the final group has a specific $$ addition to the price of the cabinet. So, I thought, if I'm adding door style XYZ to my cabinet, and that door object in the library has a cost of $55/door, then, the door would be listed for the proper pricing in the materials list. But no. It seems that the pricing from the door object in the library doesn't get transferred to the cabinet component pricing. If I place the door in the plan as a separate item (not attached to a cabinet), the pricing is present in the materials list as it should be, but it's a separate line, not "attached" to a cabinet sub line-item. Am I missing something? Is it possible thru macros or a minor setting?

Nevermind. I found it. I'd forgotten that I had adjusted the cabinet width to include a fraction and the lookup was throwing the error. Now, to manage the custom widths... I am curious, though, how far you'd gotten on the project.

@MarkMc I've been working on a CSV lookup as well, and things were going great while I was testing hard-coded numbers, then I tried to grab the width & height of the cabinet, and it seems when changing to a Material List, the object links may be broken. I can import the CSV table, parse it, look up a hard-coded width and height, and pull the correct price. Have you had any luck with this yet? I've tried to evaluate based on Owner Object, Referenced Object, and Materials List Line Item, and still get "Evaluation Error".

@Alaskan_Son, I was following your global variable thought from a previous post, and I have a question re: global variables. I found if I set the variable %$Client_Name = "Bill & Nancy"% then that variable is set across any and ALL files that I have open, until I set the variable again within a specific file. Otherwise, the a textbox with the variable %$Client_Name% will just reflect the set value of the last file I looked at. Correct?

Thanks @Alaskan_Son, I was just finding some other posts that basically stated that we can't access the client or designer info. Kinda a bummer. I guess this is why the "Global Variables" disappears when I check the "evaluate" box? They're just not accessible.

I'm back at it again...Ideas for Ruby macros. I want to use the Layout client info to enter my title block information (I've got that set up) and then since I have the state entered as the two-letter abbreviation, I figure the general notes could recognize that data and spell out the state's name ("PROJECT TO BE BUILT ACCORDING TO THE BUILDING CODE OF THE STATE OF xxx"). I'm struggling trying to find the object to reference for %client.state%. If I do NOT evaluate, I can enter %client.state% and return the same IN but cannot perform any functions on it. When I change the macro to evaluated and "Referenced Object" I can enter "%client.state%" (with quotes) and return IN. But then I want to pass that to a hash to show INDIANA so I set up my hash array and pass states["%client.state"] only to get evaluation error. Here is my hash setup currently... states = { "IN" => "Indiana", "VA" => "Virginia", "MD" => "Maryland", "MA" => "Massachusetts", "DC" => "District of Columbia" } states["IN"] will see Indiana states[%client.state%] will see evaluation error states["%client.state%"] will see evaluation error Is there a place that I can find the objects or hooks that a file has and what class the instances will return? I'm assuming the %client.state% will return a string, but it almost doesn't act that way since I have to put quotes around %client.state% in the macro just to pass the info to the text box.

I solved it! Enter this into the label or code (under the "Object Information) box: %automatic_label%%has_stile_between_double_doors == false ? (num_doors.to_f > 1 ? '-BT' : '') : ''%

I'm actually decent at programming languages, but the Ruby tutorials I've found aren't geared toward Chief and talk about local, class, instance, and global variables, of which I can't figure out how that connects to Chief. Can you point to tutorials of Ruby within Chief?

I've tried this in a macro I call %ButtDoors% - has_stile_between_double_doors.to_s = 'true' ? (num_doors = 2 ? '' : '-BT') It only returns that very same text when I place %ButtDoors% in the text box

@solver or @Alaskan_Son, I'm on a mission to get some cabinetry codes working with Ruby. I see a property that is "has_stile_between_double_doors" (TrueClass) and a property that is "num_doors" (Integer). If num_doors = 2 and has_style_between_double_doors is false, I want to add "-BT" to the code.

what does that do?

I updated my signature after OP, but it still shows X11 here. odd..... Anyway, the real reason for replying is that the code worked! Can I beg another question? What does it mean? I had the %width% working - it showed the accurate width. What is the "width.to_s.to_i" and "width.to_f" doing? convert "to string" and "to integer"? Not sure what to guess on "to_f".