Joe_Carrick

This is where you edit that.

Richard, I don't see any advantage to a CAD Detail for the Plot Plan at all. Anything that it provides can be done with an Annoset/Layerset combination. I still have to put all the Terrain Features, Dimensions, etc in the Plan View anyway.

In the Window Label Style uncheck Transparent.

The ALDO is basically a non-modal combination of the LDO and the OLP dialogs. When no object is selected it functions as the LDO. When an object is selected it functions as the OLP. The ALDO is configurable using "Settings" but otherwise it's only benefit is being non-modal and movable. None of these dialogs was intended as a way to actually edit an object. For that functionality you have to open the object itself. For my purposes, I would much prefer having a non-modal and movable Object dbx. I don't use the ALDO just because it takes up additional screen real estate.

For Labels, I just rename the view in the Project Browser and use a Text Box with the %view_name% macro. For the scale I use the %box_scale% macro of the Layout Box.

Here I added it to the Default Room Label. I had to manually type the macro name in that dialog because Chief doesn't allow us to select such macros in that dialog.

It would need to be provided as an option for the Room Macros that Chief provides. IOW, we can't do it except as an addition in the Default Room Labels.

Ray, The only way to do that would be with a user defined macro assigned to the Room Label.

I just did a bit of experimenting with this and I found I could superimpose 2 Roof Planes so that the one that is for the eaves can extend back up into the house. Then that Roof Plan can be selected and the framing can be built with different member sizes and spacing. It eliminates the need to extend all the eave rafters individually. All you need to add is the blocking.

Thanks Glenn, That was exactly what I was looking for but I would never have thought to look at that location in Defaults. I know I must have done it sometime in the past because I have some older projects with that annotation of Property Lines. My Default Plan somehow got changed but now it's good.

I can't figure out how to get the Property Lines to have "Quadrant Bearing Decimal Dimensions" to be displayed on the exterior of my property lines except by using a text box. This should be an automatic feature. If I create dimensions, I can manually add the bearing text by copying it into the "Leading Text" but that's extra work and I then have to make the actual dimension line, arrow and extensions somehow disappear. Does anyone have an easy way to have this work?

Kathleen, You can put together several cabinets and Block them. Will that do what you want?

Yeah, I saw that in the "Update Notes" but really haven't played with it.

Dennis, See post #4

Many years ago, I arrived for a site inspection at a hospital project. I noticed that the masons were up to 3' high on a wall that had windows starting at 2'4" and I stopped them. I then told the masonry sub that there were 3 supposed to be 3 windows in that particular wall. He said "No, there are only 2" which of course I disagreed with since it was my design. The sub insisted on a 100 bet and I told him I didn't want to take his money to which he responded: " I bet with my workers all the time and I never lose." That was not the right thing to tell me and I took his bet. Then we proceeded to look at the plans and all he could do was open his wallet and hand me 5 $20 bills and say "Well, I learned a lesson not to bet with the Architect - but it was cheap. If he hadn't stopped my guys when he did it would have cost a lot more to take the wall down and rebuild it." Now to answer how I would have handled the original question: I would have contacted the Architect and asked him if he intended that the ceiling in that room be sloped? I would have done that immediately but I would not have told him I had discovered a mistake that he hadn't. This is a diplomatic way of pointing it out without saying it was a mistake. That would have given him the opportunity to deal with it without losing face.

I don't know, but it's in the Help File

The Default Designer Info is in Preference > Appearance > Text > Default Designer Information. If it is set there it should be automatic in all new Plans. If you change it in an individual Plan it will over-ride that information in the Layout. Note that there is no "Default Client Information". IAE, whatever is set in the Plan File for Designer and Client Info will be pushed to the Layout File. What I haven't checked is which Plan File controls when more than one Plan File is used.

I have the Designer Info save in my Default Plan. When the Plan is Linked to the Layout and both are open the data in the Layout is displayed correctly. This has been the way it has worked for as long as I can remember. It makes some sense for both the Designer Info and the Client Info to be attached to the Plan since it any Plan could be sent to different Layouts for a variety of reasons. OTOH, if the info is present in both the Plan and the Layout - which one should be dominate? This is a bit of a brain twister.

This was supposedly fixed. But it still isn't right. I created a new Line Style Patio and that's what is is named in my user Library. However, when I examine it in Ruby it is reported as custom_line_style_114. This is pretty much worthless. We need a name that can be relied on to be what we expect it to be, not an arbitrary name assigned internally. There is no way to use the reported name to compare with what it's supposed to be.

It looks like he has just 2 stainless steel hinges while the real kitchen has 5 black hinges.

I would love that - it would make it much easier to build a Library of reusable objects.

I have a mask that I use for Interior Wall Elevations. It includes some additional graphics to display the Callout, View Name & Scale. If I place it in the Library, I have to first Block it. Then when I put it in the Wall Elevation view I have to UnBlock so I can edit the widths, etc. OTOH, I can add it to a CAD Detail Window and then group select to copy to the Wall Elevation view and avoid the UnBlock operation. I kind of wish there was an "automatic UnBlock" option for CAD Blocks placed in the Library. That's probably never going to happen. How would you handle this.

Ray, I will be doing a video next weekend showing how it works. If you like what you see.....

You shouldn't need to reorient the plan. Change the direction of the North Arrow. I generally orient my Plan so that Reference North is to the top of the screen and true north is within 45 degrees +/-.