Joe_Carrick

Yep, a 2D CAD App in 1984 would do it that way.

1. 3D Faces (Primitive Solid) can be extruded. 2. Molding Polylines use a Profile and extrude that 3. Solids can be "Exploded", resulting in 3D Faces (see note #1)

Glenn, That's a good method for 2,4,8,16 segments - but it won't work for 3,5,6,7,9-15, etc. Ken's method works for all cases.

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Another thing to check: Click on the Layout Box and then Open the Ruby Console and type "referenced_full_filename" <enter> Does that show the name of the file with the revisions or a prior version?

That should be automatic unless you've converted those to CAD Details and sent the CAD Details to Layout. If you just send the Plan Views directly to Layout they should automatically update as you make modifications.

Larry, If you use Text Styles religiously, you can just go to defaults and check that box for each of your Text Styles. It only takes a few minutes. I think unfortunately that many users have a hodgepodge of text definitions in their plans and layouts. There are so many different places in Chief where the text parameters can be defined that it makes for a mess. I've been spending some time over the last month cleaning up my Templates (Defaults, Layer Sets, Text Styles, Annosets, etc.) Personally, I have some Text Styles that are not all Caps and some that are. I use Arial and Chief Architect Blueprint for just about everything and I have those for 3 scales (1/8", 1/4", 1/2") and 3 sizes (1/8", 3/16" & 1/4").

Jared, This could be done with the following: internal_area * (finish_ceiling_elevation - finish_floor_elevation) I don't think it would be much work to add it to the Room Area Macro Package. Essentially $RoomAreas already has that data stored for each room so it would be a simple matter to create a Total_Room_Volume macro that just goes thru that array and sums them up.

OMG, P found a spelling error by DSH

Johnny, I can make it work in Ft-In - but only using the Label, not a Text Box. It requires custom macros to convert the numerical values to formatted text strings.

Johnny, You are using Chief's built-in Global, Object Specific macros. Those are fixed format in inches. Unfortunately user macros can't be used in Text Box Room Labels so you can't format those to Feet and Inches.

Johnny, Any .pat file can be used. If you change the Fill Style "Type" to Custom you can browse for additional pattern files. Chief has several OOB but you can import additional files. There is in fact a Gravel pattern in C:\Program Files\Chief Architect\Chief Architect Premier X8 (64 bit)\Patterns\CHIEFARC.PAT

Replace %file.name% with %client.name% (Insert>Global>Contact Info>Client) You can add addional text in this box by using the other macros available. This will pick up the Client Name as entered in "Tools > Project Information" BTW, if you convert that Text Box to Rich Text you will have full formatting control of all the text in the box.

Open the Room and un-check "Use Room Type". Then you can type any name you want in the "Room Name" box.

Post your Layout Template. There's no way we can determine what you did without the actual file.

That get's much more complicated. You need a way to accumulate and store the values for each Polyline. This can be done using Ruby Global Variables. I have a macro package called "Hash Areas" that I sell for $25 that does this for the areas. I consists of several macros, one to collect the data and others to perform calculations and display results. I spent a lot of time figuring how to do it and create the macros. The functionality is well worth the price and by studying the macros you can learn a lot This same system can easily be modified to use for "Total Length" instead of "Areas"

result = (owner.visible_length-72)/2 result = result.round(2) or result = ((owner.visible_length-72)/2).round(2) To use any "Ruby Method" just use a "." before it. That tells Ruby that the following is a modifier.

Johnny, That looks like a job for the "Plan Notes Schedule".

So you would need to use PSolids or Molding Polylines for the framing.

You can use a custom macro to do that. Create a user text macro named MyCalcFormula as follows: result = (owner.visible_length-72)/2 Then in the Polyline Label insert %MyCalcFormula%

I'm not sure if Home Designer has the "Open Symbol" capability. You really should do your posts on the Home Designer Forums - you will get better answers there for your software.

Open Symbol is the little "Chair" icon on the Edit Toolbar when you select the light fixture. If the Symbol is in the User Library you can right click on it there and open Symbol to make those changes.

There are a couple of things I would check. 1. The mouse settings 2. Make sure the NVidia Graphics Card is actually in control. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel and select "Configure Surround, PhysX". In the PhysX Settings make sure the NVidia GTX970 is shown as the Processor. It's possible that when you installed this monitor it didn't get the NVidia assigned to it. One other thing to check is the amount of memory in your GPU. I recommend at least 3GB.

OK, so it's the "Build Platform to" setting as you posted. I never get that wrong because I always have it set to the "Main Layer"

These Forums are getting cluttered with posts that are in the wrong place. Questions are being posted in Tips and Techniques, Symbols and Content, Suggestions, etc. They should be in the General Q&A Forum. Please look at the notes below the Forum Names and at least try to post in the right Forum. It makes things a lot easier. If you happen to see a thread that's in the wrong place - report it to the moderators so they can move it to the right place. Also, if you have a question or comment that's not really pertinent to a thread - use the correct Forum and start a new thread. It will prevent the thread from getting Hi-Jacked.