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    You need to draw it to scale in 3D and convert it to a millwork symbol. However that design will not stretch very far properly and look correct so you may need to draw each size you need. Stretch the library one out to 12' or so and see what happens to it. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02893/creating-custom-balusters-and-railing-panels.html
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    Yes set your terrain to "0" if you are using the sub floor as your reference.
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    Thanks Michael, That should work for most situations, but I think it could be set up to be live although it would be a lot of work to do it.
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    A wall schedule will tell you the length of all the individual walls but I am not sure that it will total them for you. It may need a custom macro.
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    The "G" is the prefix designated under the Label tab of the Schedule DBX "Schedule Number Prefix" It may help to post some marked up screen shots of what you are after for the other questions. You may be able to do what you need with OIP fields but not really sure what you are after. A fake mockup may help also.
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    That all seems reasonable to me. Possibly we could test your theory by flattening a file that prints as black background and then we would know for sure.
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    Wow is that ever confusing. Having one tool that is completely dependent on another unmentioned setting. And then having a behavior indicator stuck to your cross hairs just to raise your stress level another notch. I wonder if it would do the same thing and be just as effective to turn off the Terrain Perimeter layer in 3D and the Contours in 2D ? Am I understanding this correctly ?
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    I think they are referring to the actual shaping of the site - ie, contouring the site. Yup that is what I thought as well. Does that clear for you and flatten the 3D terrain when you use the "Clear Terrain" function ?
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    Neither have I but if it actually did what it says it should in the manual it might be quite handy but very confusing the way it works now. Clear Terrain To remove the generated terrain contours, select Terrain> Clear Terrain. When the terrain is cleared, contours do not display in 3D and contour lines do not display in plan view. Clear Terrain does not remove the terrain perimeter, elevation data, or terrain features from the model. Rather it deletes all program-generated 2D contour lines and 3D contours. The Terrain Perimeter has a variety of editable properties, including many that affect the appearance of the terrain in 2D and 3D views. See Terrain Specification Dialog. What exactly are "3D Contours" ?
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    It has really only happened to me once. I provided a sub contractor 2 copies of the drawings in 11 x 17" format. The workers showed up on the job site with copies that were printed out as 8 1/2 x 11" with black backgrounds that they could not read or understand. I was obviously not impressed. I think I will start providing more copies in the future so there is less chance for this sort of thing to happen. I also do some drawing sets with 3D PDF features and I am not sure other apps support this at all so explicit instructions go out with those drawings.
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    Hi Rockney, I don't have time to look at the plan file right now but take a look at your "Overhang From Baseline" Measurement. I think that is what is throwing you off. Can't explain the birdsmouth setting without looking at the plan file though.
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    Yes definitely been through that process. Everything you see that prints out as Black is using PNG transparency for backgrounds and built in transparency settings. Maybe I don't understand the question. Apps that print it out as Black are not handling it properly and likely displaying and printing it as JPG.
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    Yes Chief does use transparency and I am not sure they would go back if there ever was a time that they did not. Adobe Reader is free and quite a handy app so please give it a try. Yes Microsoft does have a PDF printer that shows up as an option in chief's print dbx but it does not have the large paper size options required by most of us unless you are comfortable hacking into your registry. There are also others that have been discussed in other threads. Most of the time after lengthy forum discussions chief's PDF printer seems to be the best option to use with chief and I wish I could use it with other apps as well. There may be other PDF viewers/editors that are compatible with chief's transparency but I have always used Adobe.
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    Others that have printed my chief generated PDF's have had issues but personally I have not, nor has there been and issue when I have my PDF's printed professionally. Yes if you were willing to give up transparency the problem would likely go away but I don't think that would be considered by chief. Do you have Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed on your system ? Pretty sure they were the ones that invented PDF's. Pretty sure the issue is that Microsoft and now Apple and many others are only providing a basic PDF viewing platform that works for the majority of applications but not for transparency that likely only exists in a very small percentage of PDF's.
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    Need more details here if this is going to be solved. Pretty sure this is mostly a Microsoft issue that came about when they started giving the option to have dark screen themes. I did not see the issue before that anyway. Are you printing from Chief or some third party PDF viewer ?
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    Well stairs and landings need more work, all the things we have been requesting for a while now but we always seem to get other things instead for better of worse I suppose.
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    I believe the landing gets it material properties from the attached stair so change that and the whole job should match.
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    Pretty sure that is what the "Automatic Label" gives you. Or %automatic_label% if you want to combine it with other data.
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    Hi Scott, This definitely needs to be fixed but possibly this will get you a temporary solution. Possibly Chief could fix this by allowing the "Exterior Room" to provide the necessary control.
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    It looks like the same situation I had with an X7 plan file. (Not a year ago) The trusses get all confused when there is an irregular exterior room situation. Just reading back through my support ticket now but would love to see the plan file Scott. If I recall correctly another roof plane below the main roof can also cause major issues still.
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    I find a note on the end of the connecting circuit is usually the least confusing.
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    The odd thing is that it is caused by the interior casing setting. Might be something to look into for sure. Maybe what Glenn said that the program is letting you know there is an issue but I did not know window were that smart.
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    You could experiment with using Edit Area and Transform Replicate to fix the scale but likely best to stay with the Imperial template and change the dimensions and notes.
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    Yes I sent it in and got the usual response....... "Thank you for contacting Technical Support.I have forwarded your plan and layout to the development team and we will see what can be done with this.Thank you for taking the time to put this test plan together." Unfortunately all this time has passed and it still has not been fixed in the latest edition of X12. You can replace the Layout Box Border with a Cad Line in layout where it fails to generate and put it on Drawing Group 1 but that really should not be necessary. You could contact Technical Support but it may be better to explain the problem to the sales department and let them know you were considering upgrading but..... Sorry I could not provide a better answer for you.
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    Yup something like that but with the door frame cropped out so people don't fall for that trick. We worked on the last one together Rich but that was a few years ago I think.