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Nice. Thanks, Bob. I can turn you in the direction of great dictation software called Superwhisper and then you don't have to do any typing.

It’s just that you’re a former Framer and I wanna hear your experience in your words written on the screen. You probably have decades of experience that would be educational and entertaining instead of defaulting to providing something that we can all search. I guess I value human interaction over large language models

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/search/?q=toolbars

This appears AI generated. That's like phoning it in.

Thank you for sharing your experience and educating me a little bit deeper into the software design process. It’s much easier for me to be patient when I understand the depth of effort that is required in upgrading a software app or platform.

Public Beta? So when is Release Candidate? When I started with X7, it seemed that new versions came out in FEB/MAR timeframe. I've heard online debates where people make the claim that if you're paying a subscription to something, then the updates should be incremental and ongoing throughout the year. as opposed to when you own the software and you have to be enticed into paying for a yearly upgrade or an SSA.

Chief should buy SketchUp from Trimble and scavenge all the good 3D code into making chief a true "model in 3D" app if people want.........or stay 2D......shooter's choice.

Mikey likey! (in the voice of Tommy Boy) Take my money. PM inbound

Ball park time frame would be nice. Thanks.

So first of all, I'm using Superwhisper (macOS and Windows) to dictate what I'm typing here. It has a push-to-talk feature so you just pick a button on your keyboard and it works flawlessly so when you're done yakking you just let go of the button. ( I had no idea that's how you spell yakking.) It seems every time I try to search for something, either on Chief Talk or in the 1400-page reference PDF, I never seem to find what I'm looking for. And then I get distracted by other interesting things. And much of the time, I never actually find what I started out looking for. I downloaded the reference manual and the how-to guide, and that's where I started with Claude. I asked Claude to create an HTML, web-based browser search engine that would start by looking in the reference manual and work itself outward towards the how-to manual and Chief Talk and the actual knowledge base at Chief Architect. For being version 1, this is actually pretty cool. Now I just need to figure out how to make it understand natural language questions in a sentence or two then search and compile the relevant information. Here's the HTML file and you can open it with whatever browser you like. It's FREE. Now lets see some smarter input from you experts. This could be fun. Chief Search Tool.html

Is there a way to have multiple room schedules so that one of them could cover all the unconditioned space like garages and porches and the other one would manage the conditioned space? I’m only asking because I haven’t tried it yet but when I have time I will.

This is a Fantastic Thread. I am a rookie at this, so THANKS to all who are sharing!!!! A man who went by the handle Solver made some great Chief macro youtube videos about 5 years ago. I followed his instructions to make this on my coversheet. It has to be refreshed when you open the file, but works after that. The system that he described uses polylines and once your model is where you want it, you add polylines to the areas that you need to export. it and you can place these on your cover sheet in layout. Let's use Crawlspace for an example.......uh...... I'm creating a video because typing is so far down on my list of skills. It is "processing" to 4K at this time.....give it 10 mins and it should be nice and medium rare.

RENE #3 is my preferred method. I send a Footings Saved Plan View (SPV) to Layout - position it where I want it - then copy - next sheet Paste Hold Position - next sheet Paste Hold Position - next sheet Paste Hold Position - next sheet Paste Hold Position. On Foundation Sheet, reLink Layout View Port to Foundation SPV On First Floor Framing Sheet, reLink reLink Layout View Port to First Floor Framing SPV Repeat

This is Stream Deck Mobile with 64 buttons and if you dual screen on the iPad, you could have 128 buttons. And it only costs $49 for a lifetime license so that's probably the cheapest way to get the most out of Stream Deck. You can probably do everything that Joe would sell you, but I promise it will take so many hours that it's worth your time to make money designing and let Joe build it for you.