Joe_Carrick

Does anyone have an example of a "Fire Sprinkler Plan" submitted and approved by the building department? I would like to provide this for my clients without having to get another specialist involved.

Hi Ben, That was in fact my plan that you looked at. I replaced the room divider with a full height doorway and the warning went away. But IMO this needs to be fixed. Room dividers shouldn't result in such a warning, especially when the Tray (note the spelling- it's not Trey) Ceiling doesn't cross over thru the room divider.

semi-local ???? Where ?

Hi Ben, I sent the offending plan to support this morning. I'm pretty sure there is only one room and I don't think there's a separate ceiling plane either.

Larry, Open your Note Schedules and mark them to just include items from floor [ n ] so that each of your Note Schedules is unique. It's that simple.

I don't see it in the Digital Locker. Can you post the file or email it to me?

I'm still having some problems with macros not getting automatically updated. In some cases I have to select an object and open TMM in order to get them to update. In another case I have to open a Wall Schedule and then close it to get a Custom Field to update In addition, I get a warning message when I place a Tray Ceiling in a room. "The rooms that contain this Trey Ceiling have different ceiling finish definitions. This may lead to unexpected results." Not true and the message won't go away. Does anyone know where I can get the list of features/fixes for this release?

I have a macro package that can be used. One macro is added to the label of each roof plane to accumulate the data of all the roof planes. Another macro is placed in a text box to display the data including the totals. I sell this little macro package for $50

I don't think you need to go thru the "CAD Detail from View" to accomplish this. You can just create a rectangle in that view and convert it to a Molding Polyline.

Draw the Polyline in the Elevation View. The Molding will then be perpendicular to that view.

X11 and X12 both have it in: CAD > TEXT > NOTE TYPE MANAGEMENT > NEW X12 has Custom Schedules that can include different object types. Not the same as Note Types. DEFAULT SETTINGS > SCHEDULES > Any Schedule Type > NEW CUSTOM CATEGORY

It does, see my previous response.

Schedule Defaults > Note Schedule > New Custom Category

You can create as many as you want.

I would just make the wall with the columns 13.5" thick and then create a "Doorway" without casings that starts 3.5" from the other walls.

Note, This thread was started 4 years ago. The "Niche Tool" Chief created has largely made this thread irrelevant. OTOH, for those still using a version that doesn't have that tool (X9 or prior I think) this thread is still appropriate.

If you use the %view.name% macro to label the view it will use the name as specified in the Project Browser.

"Use Layer for Text Style" is much simpler. That way you can customize Layer Sets. I use this for almost all Text & Dimensions. I also use the Layer Settings for Linestyles and Colors. It greatly simplifies the appearance in different drawing types along with Reference Sets.

Edit the Dimension Text Style (whatever your dimensions are using - usually accessed from the layer dimension layer) and check the box for "Transparent Background".

OK, so this is not a "LINK" created in a text object within Chief. It's text that has the actual URL. That's not what I'm using within my Plans and Layouts. If you create a regular text object in Chief ( can be any character - I like the special "Section" character ) you can then open the dbx for that text and add a "link" that works directly within Chief. This allows me to go directly to a text file on my computer and edit the file. When I save the edits, a macro in my plan or layout that reads the text file can update and display the associated data. That link however will not get transferred to and be active in the PDF.

I have text objects with hyperlinks in my Layout - some which link to websites, and some that link to internal files on my computer. They all work perfectly within Chief. However, when I create a PDF it doesn't matter what PDF program I use, those links are not active in the PDF. I can create links in the PDF using Adobe Acrobat, but none of the links created in Chief are transferred. Am I missing something?

So I need to try links to web sites using "Chief Architect Save as PDF". If what you say is true then that would be the only way to get a link in Layout to work in a PDF. Only Chief's PDFs would be able to pick up and include the link.

What program do you use to create your PDFs? What are you linking to?

Hyperlinks in both Plan and Layout are very useful as references, both to local computer files as well as web sites. I actually use some in my Layout to link to text files on my computer to allow editing of the text file data. Hyperlinks transfer to PDFs however so you would have to add those via Acrobat as the other responses have indicated.. It would be great if printing to a PDF would pull the hyperlink from the Layout and include it. Perhaps CA could program it into their PDF output but I use another PDF Printer (Nuance) which wouldn't work.