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WOW!!! I am a complete idiot! How did I miss that? Thank you so much!

Well, I never was able to figure out this problem and now it's back. I've attached a file. Does anyone have any ideas on this. When pulling up a material list, the foundation walls and footing have disappeared. Missing_Foundation.plan

Unfortunstely, when I try to recreate in a small plan, the walls show up. It seems very random. I even started a new plan and did a copy/paste in place of all content and it showed up again. Just very frustrating to get well into a plan and suddenly those wall materials disappear. It's strange, but a cross section of the foundation walls reveals a hollow wall as well.

For some reason, the 8" thick foundation walls are no longer showing up in my material lists. They don't show in the General section lineal footage or in the Foundation section for concrete yardage. I've tried everything I can think of and can't get them to show up. It just happens every once in a while. If I start a new plan it works, but then randomly it stops. I've tried to attach the plan but for some reason it is 65MB and exceeds the limit. Any suggestions?

Just figured it out. I accidentally had merge lines selected.

Oops, I just checked and suddenly all my new elevation views are blurry. All the old ones previously sent to layout are fine, but any new ones are low res and not vector format.

Hi everyone.... I've looked everywhere and tries everything I can think of. For some reason the cross section that I send to layout is pixelated. Very low quality. My other elevations are just fine, but for some reason the cross section is blurry. I've already made sure that I'm in vector view. Any suggestions?

For some reason the auto text below the line in the elevation callout is incorrect. Selecting the auto text below line on this is supposed to indicate the layout page it was sent to. But mine was sent to layout page 3 and the text indicates P-5. Any ideas?

Thanks Glen. I completely didn't notice the rename or double click capability of the specification dbx.

Also, if I add text to the story pole, why is it automatically assumed that I would want the text added to both the callout text and the dimension line?

Is there really no way to edit the text on the auto story pole markers? I mean, I know that I can add text, but I really cannot edit the auto text that they use as labels? For example, one of the main benefits when creating con docs is the ability to list the stem wall top as the grade level and then dimension from there for the excavation depths. The problem is that the default in CAX8 is to include the sill plate in the wall height. So it lists the top of the sill plate as the top of the wall, which throws off the excavation by 1.5". The inability to edit the auto story pole text literally makes the functionality nearly useless.

I completely AGREE!!! The concept of dragging one dimension marker on top of another to delete it is a ridiculously cumbersome feature.

Just an FYI in case someone else runs into this issue. Recently I noticed that when working with roofs, the snaps were not working as expected. Typically, you can highlight a roof plane and then select an edge of an adjoining roof plane and a CAD marker will appear to indicate the precise intersection. Then you can select a handle and resize the roof plane; the plane would snap to that CAD marker as long as object snaps was enabled. But lately the mouse would simply hover over the CAD marker without snapping to it, making precise alignment very cumbersome. It turns out there is something quirky in the software. It will only snap to that CAD marker if the CAD, Default layer is visible. This makes sense to some degree, because in most other cases, if an object's layer is turned off there wouldn't be anything visible to snap to. But in the case of CAD markers, they stay visible even if the CAD layer is off. They simply become non-interactive. This is a bit problematic, because if you are like me, all CAD details on the Roof Plan Set are asigned to the CAD, Roofs layer so they can be turned on seaprately. Then the CAD Defaut layer is switched off to hide unwanted object on the Roof Plan. Just know that if you want the CAD marker snaps to work, the CAD default layer must be visible. Cheers

While drawing trusses with older versions, when I drew trusses under a hip roof, the truss would snap to the roof peak. Also, the jack trusses would snap to the intersection of the ridge line to the girder. Now I'm using X6 and those snaps seem to be gone. Did they remove that feature?

Thanks guys. Mine tend to look like Drawzilla except that we're almost exclusively trusses over here and I typically have a separate page for roof framing and another for floor framing.

Thanks Joe, I've been using callouts too. Do you have any screenshots handy? I'm trying to do a better job of cleaning up my docs. The foundation/framing crews are either scewing up too often or calling me too often. More intuitive layouts might save me the headache. Lately it seems that nobody wants the hassle of figuring proper location for the panels and ties, so they just throw a couple straps on almost every foundation corner and call it good.

I'd like to hear or see suggestions on clean and clear ways you guys are designating braced wall lines, panels, and foundation ties in your construction documents. Thanks

Solution..... There were not two sessions running. There was a preferences problems in chief. To fix it, I had to figure out how to get it to launch. David Potter was correct. 1. Go to task manager to ensure no sessions are running already. 2. Right click and select run as admin. 3. Edit > Preferences > reset the "remember selection" setting to defaults. This solves the problem.

Sorry, it doesn't say two versions. It says two "sessions" are running.

Switched computers recently and migrated to windows 8. Chief was working fine for a month or so, but I just tried to launch the app and it says that it needs admin privilages to run. I only have one user setup on this computer and it is the admin. I get a message that says the app is going to relaunch with a prompt for admin privilages, but then I get an error from windows saying that there are two versions running simultaneously, so it won't launch at all. Any ideas?