Chopsaw

I am still rather new to this but I think I have experienced that issue before and hate staying up all night. So if your sidewalk top is sitting at 0" on your Terrain Perimeter and the subfloor of you building is 12" above that then you need to go to Terrain Specification right beside your select objects tool when you are in Terrain Configuration Mode and under the general tab adjust your "Subfloor Height Above Terrain:" to 0" or a little more so the door clears your doormat. Best of luck with your presentation tomorrow.

Hi There, I am currently working on a video walkthrough tour of a four level building that has the Chief developers stumped as to why the camera will not consistently go up and down the four sets of stairs in my plan. So I thought it might be a problem with my plan and while I am waiting for an answer back from Chief I have downloaded the X8 Modern Bungalow plan as used in training video #10033: https://video.chiefarchitect.com/?search=10033 and, sure enough,the same problems are occurring there. I was able to get the camera to climb the stairs as described in the video but no luck going down. If there is anyone who has mastered this move, I would love to hear from you. Not too worried about the details as I know how to shoot a single level video, just need to get downstairs again. Please see failed attempt in attached Plan. X8 Modern Bungalow walkthrough test.zip

I am currently using a User Defined macro for my header in layout, it is written as t = Time.new.strftime("%B %d, %Y") and displays as February 26, 2016 a format that I am happy with but would like to have control of when it updates. If it could be updated with a couple of clicks when I choose rather than every time the file is opened that would be great. I assume that my idea of a "Print date macro" would have to be written right into the program, possibly X9. I am currently using X7 ( just for a few more days ) so I assume that the printed date macro you are talking about for layout is a Global macro where there are only two choices %date.long% which displays as Friday, February 26, 2016 and %date.short% which displays 2/26/2016. I believe that both of these also update every time the file is opened, no choices. Many thanks for taking the time to help me out.

I am rather new to this but I was wondering if anyone has or knows how to write a "Semi-Automatic Date Macro" that updates only when the text box is opened rather than every time the file is opened? I noticed that X8 now has features that update when printed so this would also be a practical solution for a "Print Date Macro". The issue I am trying to avoid is putting a new date on an archived file when it is opened only for reference. Any help or suggestions on this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.