Joe_Carrick

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.

What do you want ? the set of icons for Chief $50.00 my complete StreamDeck XL setup for Chief $275.00 What version of Chief are you using

In California (CRC) a guardrail has to be a minimum of 42" if the floor surface is more than 30" above grade. Evidently the IRC requires only 36".

Evidently this only happens on a Mac - and then only under certain conditions.

I'm not seeing this problem. What rendering mode are you using? What LayerSet?

Not sure what that means exactly. IAE, it's up to Chief to figure it out.

IMNSHO there should be some other options to update the macros IOW,provide 3 options: replace macros in the library item with macros in the plan replace macros the plan with macros in the library item don't change either I know about @Renerabbittmethod but it's often not that simple. Having 3 choices provided by chief would make it so much easier.

FWIW, this is simply a matter of the Room Name assignment. You can edit the name in Room Types and the Room Labels will be changed in both plans & schedules automatically. Chief has only a fixed number of Room Functions. You can have as many Room Types aka Room Names as you want. Those each have their own set of Defaults and will automatically be created/modified accordingly as long as "Use Defaults" is selected. ps: I'm somewhat of a dinosaur and prefer the older names. I don't consider the word Master to be prejorative, sexist or racist but if you want to be PC all you need to do is modify the names (in existing plans and/or in plan templates).

How do you do that in your post ?

Can you use a custom Millwork Symbol, Mounts on Wall ? Set a stretch plane at the center of the width. You can then size it to whatever you need.

Use a Lintle as the board the track mounts to.

Maybe it was never added to the Wall.

Select the Wall and open the dialog. Then select the materials tab

Put a 1/16" thick interior & exterior layer in the wall type. or specify a wall covering in the room. Then select the paint color from one of the paing catalogs as the material