Joe_Carrick

You might want to change the "Patio" to a "Porch"

Greg, Just use %layout.label% The E# will automatically start numbering at 1 E1 E2 E3 while %page% would be using the actual page number.

Create screened walls adjacent to the porch walls (inside or outside) and set them as "No Room Definition". You should then be able to move them into position without effecting the columns. I don't know exactly how you've defined the columns/porch walls but I would assume you used railing walls "Post to Beam" with an "Open" railing. There is also the option of using "Panels" within that sort of railing wall.

Of course, if you modify a cabinet and then select the "Make Default" (little wrench) icon on the Edit Toolbar it will set that as the default.

Select the W09 Window in the Schedule and drag it down to the W13 position. The Window designation is just a representation of where it is in the Schedule. You might need to check all the other windows after doing this (particularly what were W10-W13) since they will have changed. Note that there is also an Edit Toolbar Icon to "Renumber Schedule" which will renumber everything in the schedule starting at W01.

What is Sheet 1 of the Plan ??? Please explain this. Don't you mean Sheet 1 of the Layout - or maybe even Sheet 0 ?

Where do you access in the Plan? Do you ever have a different set of info in the Plan than in the Layout? The reason I ask is that I only use the built-in macros for this information in the Layout. ei: Title Block fill-in.

Why does this exist in both the Plan and the Layout? It seems to me that having it in the Plan is superfluous. It's useful in the Layout for title block fill-in but I don't understand why it needs to be in the Plan.

Hi Larry, I don't disagree with you at all. I was simply stating what I think might have been CA's reasoning for why they didn't make that feature available for doors. As far as only clipping a corner of the door using a Tudor Half Arch - that isn't possible. It only works for the full width of the door. I also agree that CA should give us the ability to "over-ride" their built-in restrictions so that knowledgeable users have more flexibility. However, it isn't always easy to program these options. There can be hundreds or even thousands of places in the code that have to be tweaked to make it work. Chief is a very large amount of program code and probably not nearly as modular as it needs to be.

Auto Framing is almost always just a starting point when there are any special conditions.

Note that you can use a "Tudor" half arch and manually set the height of the arch to the needed dimension. It's not going to automatically match the roof but if you know the pitch it's not difficult to figure out. Just be sure the hinge side is at the tall edge of the door.

One of the problems that this could create would be interference with the door opening and hitting the ceiling - depending on the hinge side. I suspect that CA didn't want to deal with that so they didn't provide the same ability for doors as for windows.

I use Notepad++ as my editor of choice. By setting the language to "Ruby" I get things like that in color. So when I see: elsif I know it's correct elseif I know it isn't correct. There are many formatting and spelling variations and having an editor that points out problems can be very helpful. After editing in Notepad++ I simply copy/paste into Chief's Ruby Editor and save.

Common mistake. Ruby is one of the few languages that uses elsif instead of elseif.

Here's the best I could do modifying the "Slab" Barn Door. The door thickness isn't correct and the hardware is not what I would expect to be on a modern "Glass Barn Door" but otherwise - not bad. It required a bit of tweaking of both the symbol and the doorway size. I could create a better one if needed but it would help to have a pic of what you need.

Once you have a "Barn Door" in place, the "Glass" portion of the problem is to change the actual door material and thickness. You might be able to do that in the symbol dbx but it might require a completely new symbol. I'm not sure the symbols in the CA supplied library will work.

I tried it on an existing plan. I changed the layer of a Cross Section Camera to a new Layer which I created. Then in another Saved Plan View that didn't use the same Layer Set I unchecked that layer for display. It worked perfectly. When I switched back to the first Saved Plan View the Cross Section Camera was displayed.

You definitely need a custom field to use in the schedule since the "Code" column is hard coded to use the value in that OIP field. With a custom field, you can put macros in that will display what you want for the SKEW in the schedule. If you don't want to create a custom field then use the Comment field to put your macro(s) in and rename that column in the schedule.

Note that you can then use the Shelf Label to display the color by typing %component_code% in the Label. Another options would be to use a custom field SKEW_Code and enter the "J1", "D1", "G3" etc directly thus eliminating the need to convert from colors to codes.

Lance, Put your color code in the OIP for the shelf. That's what owner.component_code uses to get the "color". This is completely independent of any actual color in the shelf since there's no attribute for the color names. You could even create a custom field "color_code" which could be used instead of the "component_code" but that's only if you want. IAE, the actual object color would be irrelevant except for graphic representation.

Yes, that works. Just set that layer to not display in the plan views where you don't want to show it. There is also a setting in the Camera dbx for "Display on All Floors" which can be useful.

I am now using Wall Material Regions (3/4" thick, 2" wide, full height) and multi-copy at the desired spacing. This skips all openings and I use the exterior Room Polyline to create the horizontal bands as needed. It's full 3D with proper shadows and very easy to edit. ps: Window and Door Trim + Corner Boards provide the rest of the job.

Please add some "Shower Towers" to the Bonus Library and/or the Manufacturer Libraries. There are several examples which can be found in Houzz. Some of these fixtures are only $200-$400 and are pretty easy to install so they make a super upgrade to showers from the standard mixing valve and shower head.

No, it will show all the finishes but not which walls the finishes are on.

Hi Glenn, I didn't see it in the wall dbx before, but it's still messed up in terms of how the schedule displays it. There really needs to be a separate set of columns for each wall of a room. In addition, the Wall Material Region doesn't appear in the schedule at all.