Chopsaw

Snap a couple of cad lines to your roof plane and the angle dimension tool should be happy to attach to those in elevation view.

It may just be a font or font size issue. Try opening a closing first to see if it auto corrects. Or possibly the old screen resolution problem.

Turn on your Walls, Layers and give the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool a try.

Pretty sure that is a known limitation with STL files Dustin. "STL file format cannot store additional information such as color, material, facets, or triangles. It only stores information about the vertices and the normal vector. If you want to use multiple colors or materials for your prints, then the STL file format is not the right choice."

Unfortunately the same behavior seems to exist in X14. Seems like a bug to me worse than when you rotate something and it decides to face left when plans are read from the bottom or right side and stapled on the left no matter which way the water swirls when you flush ??

You could send a plan view to layout and crop the layout box if you need it to be live but if you a confident of the final layout and design then it may be easier to work with and edit a Cad Detail From View.

Yes and No. Not in the same view unless maybe it is the other way around and you just want some specific model or object to be transparent you could adjust the material properties. What you likely need to do is look into referenced views for what you seem to be describing so you can combine two camera views. Also this seems to be a question so should likely be posted in Q&A.

You can use the "Stretch to Fit" option but then there is scale to think about if your wall is much bigger than the material image. Ideally you want to find a "Seamless" image file but I have not had much success with that for natural stone as you would need to have all your border stones cut almost in half which never seems to work out so you end up with something that ends up looking a bit wonky every time. It also depends on what distance it is viewed from as if it is just a background item then you can get away with quite a bit but if it is a feature item then you will end up being scrutinized. You may be able to carefully crop what you have and make it seamless but it is definitely challenging.

I am not sure your situation is unexpected. It appears that the "railing" ? wall is building from the sub floor level and your are dimensioning from the finished floor level. It may just be a matter of adding 3/4" to your railing wall height.

Not sure there is an automatic way to do that but you can cut members from one wall detail and paste them into the other and then you would typically only need to edit the connection point. Unless there is a simple way to add that extra layer with a material region or other wise and keep it as one automatic wall.

I don't think you will find a setting for that but it can certainly be accomplished by editing the automatic framing and extending it into the wall so it is added to the material list. A note can specify the pocket size and bearing depth details. However if you want to show a realistic pre construction view then you will need to replace your wall with a solid and place the holes using solid subtraction which is all possible but likely can be avoided.

Enter your initials or user name in Preferences and it will appear on each line recorded in the Time Tracker log. It would work best if each person sharing the file worked from their own terminal but I suppose you could change the user name in Preferences before opening the plan file and it would work if you were all disciplined about doing that each time. Sorting out the hours is a different matter though and requires another third party app.

I doubt you under quoted on that one though.

If you want the subfloor 3" above the terrain then set the sub floor to 0 and terrain to -3 and if you are using the subfloor as your reference point then set the offset to 0 on the terrain specifications and all your inputs will make sense.

It kind of depends on how you have your templates set up and how you work. If you only spend a few minutes on the plan without the layout open use the recorded layout hours. However if you spend quite a few hours or days on the plan file before sending anything to layout then use the plan recorded hours and try to have the plan open if you do any dedicated layout work. A few years back I had a go at sorting out overlapping hours and collaborative users with some success in Excel with exported Time Tracker files but it took a lot of effort and the formulas got exponentially more complicated the more files you were comparing.

Polyline subtraction is the only way.

Did you try looking in the library ?

There is a special tool for that but Transform and Replicate does the job just as well. Resize 1.014085 ( if you mean that 72" measures as 71" )

They can be included in a Wall Schedule and have an area attribute and OIP panel as well as accessible layers, but it does make it a little more difficult as they don't seem to be associated with the wall.

From there you would use the "Select Material" button and go to that specific material in " Plan Materials" if the program does not automatically take you there. Then use the "Edit" button to access the properties. Now comes the hard part since you somehow did things backwards in the first place. You will need to find an image file for the texture as that is not generated but needs to be imputed.

If you can do without the sub titles then I think we can make it work. I assume your "Description" is the Wall Type so some custom wall types would be required there as I just used some default ones. There is a provided OIP field for Manufacturer that you can use and create or rename the others. Customize as required... The trick is the area which you will need to choose a relevant layer that accounts for wrap so an interior finish layer would likely be the most accurate. The formatting for wall layers would go something like this: %upper_layers[4].area.ceil.to_s% or if you are having wrap issues with paint you can use the coverings layer as well: %coverings[0].material_data.quantity%

Have a look at your material definition. Your elevation camera is using the "Pattern" since it is a vector view. A typical perspective view will usually use the material "Texture". They are not directly linked as sometimes you will want them to display differently. It is your responsibility to set them up the way you like.

I think it can likely be done with a few macros in the wall OIP fields. I am not a Revit user though. Could you perhaps post a typical Revit Schedule the way you would like Chief to do it ?

It requires that you start with a "post with footing" then you can select the footing and adjust for height and elevation as well as radius or width. Signature update required.

Ok so the Gas Fire place is a Symbol and the macro that reports is in the label , or are us using Symbol Object Information ? If you use the label I am pretty sure that it will not report if it is turned off so for better or worse, there will be a way to do it even if it is not the AutoCAD way. Are you reporting to a Chief Schedule or just a text box ? Or a referenced macro in a text box? Symbols have an option to report to a schedule that is just a check box if you are using Object Information Fields.