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To expand on this, @Treehouse2339the simple solution is to make sure your plan and layout settings match.

Use File>Import>GPS Data to import your GPX file. I've never used this feature so I can't give you any more help than that, but if you get that far and still have issues hopefully someone else can help too.

I just found out that when you click on task view, you can right click any window on a desktop and select "show this window on all desktops." Any new chief tabs opened in a new desktop can be dragged to a new window and will only be on that desktop. So I now set my layout window to be on all desktops, and if I need to switch to another project temporarily I can switch desktops to avoid clutter.

Yes, I know that, but I want at least one Chief window opened in each desktop. Ben Palmer's first comment got me where I need to go.

Hey, that was a lot easier than I thought! Thanks!

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

So for those who don't know, in Windows 10 you can use the hotkeys CTRL+WIN+LEFT ARROW/RIGHT ARROW to scroll through different desktops where you can set up different working environments. I'm exploring this feature and think it might be useful to be able to have different projects on different desktops to avoid clutter. Is anyone aware of a method of having the same license of Chief open in multiple desktops? When I switch to a 2nd desktop and open Chief it gives me the error about opening multiple instances, and I don't have access to the instance that is open on the 1st desktop. I've tried switching the desktops while dragging a tab to another monitor, but once I release the tab it jumps back to the first desktop and places it. I hope there is a way around this.

You will get better responses if you post this in the Q&A forum. This forum does not get much traffic and is meant for people to showcase working methods they have developed or discovered that make certain tasks easier and/or provide better outcomes.

You will get better responses if you post this in the Q&A forum. This forum does not get much traffic and is meant for people to showcase working methods they have developed or discovered that make certain tasks easier and/or provide better outcomes.

How do you suppose that OP caused this without manual editing of the casing? Default settings would not get this result. It is more likely as Chris indicated that there is some issue with which side of the wall Chief considers to be the interior.

Does anyone know why my temp dimensions appear like this when I want to resize a cabinet? If the cabinet is not adjacent to interior walls or other object, it will show the cabinet width. Otherwise it will show distance to a nearby wall and not indicate the cabinet width. 2023-10-18 09-13-34.mp4

You beat me to this. Frustrates me to no end.

Thanks for sharing this. I was thinking something along the same lines. I would probably write a python script that handles a lot of this. I already use a script to copy my template project folder. Here's a quick video:

I'm looking to expand my team and am exploring the IT side of it. I want to have all projects stored in a central place, either my workstation or a server, but I'm of the impression that chief doesn't like to have files on a central server. I'm wondering how some of you deal with this issue? I'm not even sure if I'm asking the right questions as this is something I haven't ever really paid much attention to.

I'm curious about your setup, and also got thinking about something myself. I made a suggestion the other day that we need to be able to add cad and cad blocks to custom schedules, and I think it would be cool if the schedule would show the cad block like it does for roof planes, windows and doors, trusses, etc. Then a detail sheet could be just a schedule basically. Edit: Getting a cad block to show in a schedule at the proper scale would be a nightmare.