Joe_Carrick

You are probably grabbing the Room rather than the wall - it's a setting in Preferences I believe. If that's the case, just press the Tab Key to get to the wall. OTOH, once you have actually selected the wall - you can open it and change it to a half wall (same as a Solid Railing) and set the height to whatever you want.

You will get what you pay for. Depending on the capabilities of the person you hire and the type of work, you can expect to pay up to $100 per hour - or maybe a bit more. Several (probably most) of the power users charge $80-$100 per hour. There are some Chief users that may charge as little as $25 but you might be disappointed in the performance. The power users are much faster and have their systems fine-tuned to produce as much quality work as possible in the shortest amount of time.

No way!!!! You can't blame me for your language. You can say whatever you want about my age, but your language is your own. BTW, thanks for the referral.

Nice tip Curt. I bumped your reputation.

I can see some validity for both arguments. Definitely for General Objects the current method makes sense. In some cases I can even see it making sense for joists and beams but I don't think it makes any sense for studs. OTOH, it might be nice to have the option to have the third alternative but it's easy enough to just select (or group select) and change the muticopy interval for those cases where a different spacing is needed.

The only reason I can claim so many years is that I doubled up (16 hour work days) BTW Scott, We only had 3 players on my team in the golf tournament last week (the day before the fires) so we had to take turns taking a shot for the missing fourth (I invited you but ...). Anyway, our average age was 72 (67, 72, 77) with me in the middle. We won low net with a 64 (gross 72) so I can finally say I've shot my age!!!

OK, thanks - I'm glad I didn't get the MAC BUG !!!!!!!

Doug, I'm curious about this - just about the only Text I have in my Layout is the Title Block and Layout Box Labels. I do all other annotation in the Plan and Camera Views before sending them to Layout. Does your statement about Text in Layout mean that the Text in the Plan and Camera Views is OK? Of course since I'm totally PC based and use a secondary PDF Printer vs Chief's "Save as PDF" - I'm evidently immune to this problem anyway

My advice: Get an 17" ASUS G74X Series with 12 GB Ram, NVidea Graphics Card with 3GB Ram and a minimum 2.4 GHZ quad core processor. You should be able to find one (new) for about $1200.00 It's big and fairly heavy but it's a Gaming Machine with adequate cooling and it'll run Chief just about as well as a Desktop machine of the same price. You can hook up a couple of extra monitors (VGA, HDMI & ????)

Ive got a few years on you - I remember the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's. The 90's to now seem to be a blur - but I still remember how to kid around.

John, Here's another way to do it. 1. Create the Door 2. Create the SideLites and Transom using Windows 3. Mull the Door and the SideLites 4. Mull That with the Transom 5. Save to the Library

John, I don't know how competent you are in modeling a "Doorway" Symbol, but that's what you need. I could do one for you to your details for $150.00 that you could then just put any door you need into. I would need the dimensions and the wall thickness. Most Door Mfg use 36x80 doors and 14x80 sidelights with frames either 4-9/16 or 6-9/16 deep. I am assuming that the pic on the right is the one you like to use - or is it the one on the left?. The Transom is typically 12" or 14" in height. Let me know if you want me to create such a symbol for you.

Kidding, I am. You spend more time complaining about this than it takes you to fix it ps: "Unspecified" automatically suppresses the label and the "Liveable Area"

For metal fireplaces I use an "Opening" (Door or Window) in the wall and then move a Fireplace Symbol (Fixture or Appliance) into that opening and apply whatever facing I want.

Select a wall - the 3rd from the right icon on the Edit Toolbar is "Edit Wall Layer Intersections"

Ron, Here's an alternative. It's a Panel Symbol that hangs on the wall. It has a 1/2" reveal all around it and you can stretch it to whatever size you need. The panels will but up against each other. IMO, it's not perfect but it seems to be easier than the Wall Material Region. Wall Panel.zip

Just use an "Opening" and a "Symbol" or "Solids" for the Roll-up Doors.

I believe you just need to display the appropriate layer in the Framing Camera Layerset.

Maybe add to that a Rep Point for every 5-10 downloads of an attachment. IAE, I agree that it really should be for a useful thread, suggestion or answer. In the long run, maybe we just need to be judicious and award a point when it's warranted and not award one when it's not. I rarely award a negative point - but there are a few posts that deserve to get them.

There's more than one way to skin a Cat. Some Symbols will work as Balusters and some will work as Panels and then some will work as either one.

Thanks Chris. Is it worth a reputation point? I just have a lot of experience with Symbols and understand the little tricks to make them work.

1. Copy that Baluster to your user Library 2. Right Click on the name in your user Library and open it. 3. Rotate 90 degrees about the z-axis 4. Go to your Stair (or the railing itself if it's not a part of the stair) - Open and select the modified Baluster for the railing.

Glenn, I was testing on X5 - trying to verify that Auto Detailing would use the Current CAD Layer as specified in the Section View Layerset. I thought I had it working that way but couldn't duplicate it later. In X6, I can define an Annoset to force the Current CAD Layer to function so that Section Views and derived Details are on the Layer that I want.

Jim, Post your exact sequence. You might need to actually save the Plan before making the section. Better yet, open the Template directly, make those changes and save the Template. Then when you open a New Plan, it should work. Basically I don't think the Defaults are updated until the Plan is saved. Nuts, now I can't get it to work either.

Jim, Jim, Are you trying this in X5 or X6? If in X5, you would have to make that change in the Defaults for the Section View Layerset - and then create a new section. That new section should have the prescribed CAD Layer. In X6 it simply won't work except by selecting an Annoset with that CAD Layer (or manually changing the Current CAD Layer) - again, before creating the Section View.