Joe_Carrick

Have you talked to Chief to se3e if they could accommodate you ?

Do you have your Data Folder on a Drive other than "C" ? Maybe you are using a secondary drive like Dropbox. I've set mine up to use the "D" drive and Dropbox. What's shown in my "C Drive" isn't complete - it only shows the initial X17 toolbars, not subsequent additions. Otherwise, contact Customer Support.

So the question is: In waht version did you create it ? Have you migrated from that version ? If not you can still copy that toolbar from the version data/toolbars folder.

Have you exported your custom toolbar ?

It would be real nice if there were default settings for: Plan Views Exterior Elevations Interior Elevations Cross Sections CAD Details Where we could specify the scale and maybe even the drawing sheet size.

No arguement, I'm sure they would leave all of that out. BTW, I think they should hire @Medeek to do the Stairs improvements.

Check the .....\Chief Architect Premier X17 Data\Toolbars folder. The extensions will be .toolbar

My experience is that when I develope something of value Chief will almost inevitably come up with an alternative to accomplish the same thing as a new feature within a couple of years. In a way, that's great but usually they don't make it 100%. There's also a tendency to eliminate something that's needed for my system to work - or that requires me to make changes to my system because of changes they made. A great example was the "Measurement Class". I had a lot of macros which used floating point NVPs and formatted them to feet,inches. Those NVPs were changed to measurements vs floating point and I had to rewrite every one of those macros. My bet is that Chief will at some point provide a way to "peel-back" the layers of a Perspective clipped by the Cross Section Slider , provide solid fill for objects (such as framing) cut in section and a few other enhancements. Then we'll be able to very easily create 3D Details. It's not there yet but I'm pretty sure it will be.

This is very common problem. Maybe X18 will have a solution.

create the half wall "out of plane", no room definition and then move it into placein the opening.

Elevations I just place and adjust to what looks good.

I use a different method. My drawing sheets are the same size (point markers lower left and upper right) as the layout pages. When sent to Layout they fill the page 100% automatially. Another option is to place a polyline on the drawing sheet matching the sheet boundary.

It could be done, but it would require an NVP for "heel_height". The only way I know to do that currently would be with a custom field in the OIP. It's probably not worth the effort since you would have to assign that value to all roof planes.

Has anyone tried setting the deck ceiling height to match the top of railing? I think that might help with the dimensions.

I'm currently selling it for $275.00 I accept payment via my Venmo account Joseph-Carrick-6 - Once I've received payment I will need a couple of days to put the package together and email it to you.