Joe_Carrick

Basically, when you create a detail in the Plan and add it to the Library it is in "Real World Units". If you then just add it from the Library to the Layout it comes in at the Layout scale (1"=1") so a 2x4 created in your Detail will be much larger than you intended on your Layout Page.

Joey, You can move the Layout Box Label to wherever you want it.

OK, In your Plan with the Floor Plan Layerset displayed: Create a Text Box and Enter the Text you want for the Floor Plan Label - put that on a Custom Layer - Send to Layout With the Roof Plan Layerset displayed Create a Text Box and Enter the Text you want for the Roof Plan Label - put that on a Custom Layer - Send to Layout For the scale in the Layout Boxes - only include the %box_scale% macro. The key is to not use %automatic_label% for the Layout Box Label. Or, you could just replace %automatic_label% with "ROOF PLAN" and "FIRST FLOOR PLAN" in the Layout Box Labels.

Joey, You can put the Label in the Plan (per Layerset) and just use the Layout Box Label for the Scale

Thanks Larry, Since it's all part of my Default Plan - I really don't have to do much other than assign Room Numbers as a Part of the Room Label and copy the "Site Label" for the various "Site Objects". I don't do much remodel work so I will not normally need the "demo", "remodel" & "new" areas. However, I do have the macros available to display those items when needed. Note that the "Room Data Display" is done with just a single macro. That macro retrieves all of the areas - room by room - and formats it into the table. Ruby is capable of doing a lot once you know how to use it. However, CA needs to open up access to a lot more attributes along with Labels for Polyline based objects. If CA would provide the ability to modify attributes from within Ruby there would be a lot more that could be done - like automatic Room Numbers, etc.

If you select the end wall and click on the "Gable" wall icon on the Edit Toolbar it should eliminate the attic wall.

I've posted a video of how I'm doing Site & Building Area Analysis using Ruby in the Chat Forum https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5232-site-and-building-area-analysis-video/

I don't know - it works for me.

You need to turn off those Layers. Evidently you turned them on in the Framing 3D Layerset - which you really shouldn't do.

Maybe if I asked Wendy to post all her Plans, it would be very suspicious. She has a lot of different Plans and that's her business model. OTOH, she's in a totally different part of the country and the style of Architecture is much different from what I do, so it wouldn't make sense for me to copy her designs anyway. I have yet to see a Plan on this Forum that I would have any interest in copying. I think that's true for almost everyone that gives assistance on CT - we just need to see the settings, etc so we can solve the problems. It usually takes Scott, Perry, Glenn, me or any one of the users here only a minute or two to find the problem and give the answer if we have the actual Plan - otherwise we can only guess. Sometimes the guess is easy but sometimes it's not.

That depends entirely on what the settings were when they were added to the Library. In the case of most Chief supplied symbols I would assume the answer would be yes. For things you add to the User Library it depends on what you saved them as.

Why didn't you use walls and a floor and roof? That way it would be the normal way.

I just moved the exterior wall about 12" up - then dragged it back down and snapped to the interior wall face.

Mark, The walls are not in perfect alignment. Fix that and the WMR will show.

Doug, FWIW, I believe the problem Perry has shown is a "Wall" problem and I have forwarded my thoughts on how it could best be solved to Jason and Dermot. It's not really an issue that should be considered as a "Stair" issue.

Dynamic defaults are those things you see in the dbx that are marked "Default" or (D). If you change the Plan Defaults, any such item will use those values.

It would be nice to have the entire Trimble Kohler catalog (arranged in Folders of course) There would be a lot of work involved to set the materials, bounding boxes, stretch planes, origins, etc. But it's not like Adrean's team has anything else to do

Another option would be to simply "Add the custom shaped Window" to the Library. In the Library preview window it would look like the wall is included but it really isn't.

Not Save as Symbol..... Convert to Symbol

I think he just expected that existing cabine I haven't tried it but it should.

Just think Joey, Someday (In a Galaxy Far, Far Away) we might have fully automatic annotation of Elevations, Sections, Wall Details, etc. The computer will be plugged into a jack at the back of our head and will read our minds. Then the 3D printer will build our design using the latest materials. I would just like the automatic annotation by X9 but I'm not going to hold my breath.

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Mick, Look at Dermot's post #6 and my post #10. It's working exactly as it's supposed to. The cabinet in his plan that doesn't have the base molding was placed before he changed the defaults.

Alan, ACAD is not Chief Architect. However, SoftPlan does have the non-modal Object Specification Dialog and it's something that IMO Chief should implement. It isn't as simple as it is for ACAD simply because 3D Objects in Chief have a lot more variables. Still, with Tab Pages, Drop-Down Lists, etc. it is still possible.

Basil, The existing cabinets will not be changed by changing the defaults. Moldings are not one of the things that are in the Object Specification as (D). Only new cabinets placed in the plan will have the default moldings.