Joe_Carrick

Jon, Not to my knowledge. %page.print% will give you the number of page, but I don't think there's any way to make the schedule do that.

No, the OOB setting has the drywall in the "Ceiling Finish". IMO that's just a left over inconsistency from long ago. Remember that we didn't always have the "Room Material List".

Dennis, I don't think there's an inconsistency here at all. I think the "Ceiling Drywall" is an effect of having Drywall as a part of the "Ceiling Finish". With Walls it's part of the "Wall Type" so for Ceilings it should probably be included in the "Ceiling Structure". I have it set up that way in my Defaults so a Room Materials List doesn't include any drywall at all.

Joey, Your Material List is for the entire structure. Try it with just a "Room Material List".

Dennis, Take a look at the Room dbx. The Ceiling Drywall is in the "Ceiling Finish", not "Ceiling Structure". I'm not saying that Chief should include the Ceiling Drywall, but if you add the Ceiling Drywall to the Ceiling Structure and eliminate it from the Ceiling Finish it won't be reported in the Room Material List.

This is (in a way) logical. The "Room Material List" includes everything inside the room perimeter. It uses the wall surface as the limit of what's inside and what's not. By definition, the Structure itself is not inside the room. If you really think about it the Walls, Floor Structure & Ceiling Structure are not a part of the room - they simply enclose it. The Floor Finish and Ceiling Finish are considered as being "Inside the Room Perimeter". Perhaps a toggle (checkbox) to include the surface wall layers would work, but it's never going to be a perfect fit.

Terrain Modifiers & Features are the absolute best way to do this: The Pool Deck should be a Terrain Feature, not a PSolid.

Todd, Just copy the Annoset, rename it and change the default CAD Layer. It's that simple. You now have a working Annoset for the desired CAD Layer.

I don't notice any slowness as a result of how I'm doing it. If anything, having more Plan Files makes it faster simply because I'm only editing smaller Plans. If you open the Layout, you can use it to navigate to the Plan that's linked by double clicking the Layout Box. Just having a Plan open doesn't effect the speed. Speed in Chief is mainly effected by the size of the Plan that you are currently editing.

Almost all of mine are in different Plan Files.

I do details a couple of different ways. 1. Section View - Auto Detail - Clip Edges of Camera - fully annotate. (basically I use this for full Cross Sections and for Wall Sections) 2. For larger scale details I do CAD Detail from View of the above. and Trim that Detail to just include the area of interest. I use a "CAD Frame" around the detail so the Layout Box will be the size I want in the Layout - just for consistency. 3. Standard Details I have in CAD Detail Windows in dedicated "Detail Plans" which are at the Scale I will send them to Layout. (Door, Window, Railing, etc.) I do not create any of these details in the Layout File and I do as little as possible in 2D CAD. I do not place details in the Library. I've found it difficult to manage scale from the Library to Layout. For me, the Detail Drawings with CAD Detail Windows is a better way of organizing and my details are basically live. If I change a detail in a Detail Plan that's linked to any Project's Layout it is changed in the Layout.

1. Export to DWG 2. CAD Detail from View - but I personally don't like to do that unless absolutely necessary. Any future changes to the model will not be reflected in the CAD Detail.

TennVol, Your Plan is referencing files on the "F:" drive which means that I can't open it. IAE, you need to understand that the foundation in Chief is actually one or more "Rooms" - at least that's how Chief deals with it. The values for the floor elevations, ceiling heights, etc can get very confused when you try to use Level 0 as the Basement. You would be much better off deleting the Foundation and making your Basement on Level 1. Once you get everything to look right (correct floor and ceiling heights for all floors, the correct wall types, room names, etc) then build the Foundation. It will be a lot easier than trying to do it as you are currently.

Question #1 Is your Basement Level 0 or Level 1? Level 0 (IMNSHO) should only be used for the Foundation. Use Level1 for the Basement, Level 2 for the First Floor, etc. If you don't have a Basement you can use Level1 for the First Floor, etc.

Joey, The basics of doing this is to have all your Camera (Elevations & Sections) and all CAD Details such as Schedules, etc saved in your Template Plan. Then, send them to Layout and saving that as your Layout Template. When you start a new project you copy those to a new Folder, rename them to your new project name and link them. Now, with both the Layout and Plan open you can start working on your design. Almost everything you do will automatically update the Layout. Of course you will have to open the Elevations, Sections, Interior Elevations, and any other 3D Views in order to insure they update in the Layout. But you don't have to send them because they're already there.

Thanks Alan,

Another way to deal with the issue is to create the Master Window Schedule with all the windows. Then create a CAD Detail from View. You can delete specific data from that CAD Detail and send that to Layout instead of the Master. Of course it won't be live, but it works. Or, that way you could have "Existing Window Schedule" and "New Window Schedule. You can even make some of the lines print in a lighter line weight and some darker.

I thought that might be the case. You could maybe fool Chief by having some windows in a wall off to the side that don't show on the printed plans but that could be tricky.

Larry, Just the last technique would do it. The Schedule order totally controls the callouts.

Larry, Are you using a different Label for each window? If so, you can use the "Callout" and just rearrange the rows of the Schedule (move up or down) and the Labels will change to match.

Perry, He doesn't want "Automatic Labels" in this case. The other way to manage the numbering is to rearrange the rows of the schedule itself.

Larry, In the Schedule dbx, turn off "Use Callout for Label"

Since Rich Posted it at 12:14 am - I think you can know who the jokester is. I'm sure Doug was sound asleep, not out riding in the Idaho hills.

Use a normal Wall 16" tall as a Solid Railing. Then draw some normal Railing Walls outside of the balcony and check "No Room Definition", "Include Bottom Rail", adjust the Railing profiles and heights. Now move these railings so they are on top of the Solid Railings. You might need to add a Molding Polyline so the bottom rail will mitre at the corners. Or, you can just leave off the bottom rail and make the first rail a half wall with a Cap Rail.

After creating some "Multi-Line Text" using a Ruby Macro, I thought I'd see what would happen if I put that into a Component Field for an Item in a Schedule. Amazingly, the Multi-Line Text is displayed in the Schedule and it pushes all the subsequent lines down so that it fits. The grid lines of the schedule need to be suppressed, but it proves that Schedules could have Multi-Line Text. Even more importantly it proves to me that I could actually build a Full Schedule with Word Wrap and Multiple Lines of Data per Schedule Item.just using Ruby Macros. By coupling that with a Rich Text Box it's possible to create some really nice looking Schedules. Don't get me wrong, It's a large task. But, it's possible.