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I really liked how apples San Francisco family of fonts was extremely clean and easy to read, even more so than Arial. Once I set my default font choice to SF pro, I started having problems between my two machines with the pop-up, asking me to choose a font as a replacement to the one that it couldn't find on my system. Just a subtle change in font caused all kinds of text changes, and often a paragraph of text would become longer or wider, thus causing more time to correct on the layout pages. Now I stick with Arial for everything.

Yes i work on two different machines - same file - no issues unless I choose some font that isn’t present on the other machine.

Hey Big Rob. I feel your pain. I had a client (my best man - so I made it a free job) make so many changes that I went through the alphabet in revision letters and was climbing to revAK (over 35 revisions) Chief started getting really unpredictable. Windows would be gone, roof planes would disconnect...........I had to finally stop. I sent him the exported DWG files and he finished it.

When I framed hotels and apartments in Kentucky in Tennessee, all those plans used control lines. They help to keep the project broke into sections and are excellent for reference lines, unless the guy that is pinning, the slab by GPS, does a poor job. Then the project gets crazy, then you have to have meetings to explain that where he marked the control lines on the slab don’t match where they are drawn on the plans. I found that it is often best on a long, rectangular structure, like a hotel, to get the original cad files and place a control line down the middle in both directions, left right and up down, and dimension from those. Then on the slab when you pop those lines, you can measure out from the center and any of the corrections to the building are made at the exterior, which means about 90% of the walls can be pre-built and assembled on site with minimal corrections to the some of the exterior walls.

Another great video, Steve. Your calm demeanor is a welcome contrast to the cussing inside my head when something doesn’t work as expected. Keep them coming.

It happens randomly for me. I am operating in clamshell mode connected to 2 monitors through a Caldigit TS4. It might be something more specifically chief code for macOS and how the program responds to the differing screen resolutions. I found it occurs almost regularly when I open a 3D cam and then drag that tab to the other monitor to view plan and 3D on two different monitors. But who really knows?

Thickness of your fascia. If you are calculating to the face of sub-fascia or tails, the thickness of the fascia will show up if the elevation is only seeing the outside face of the fascia. Im answering as a framer. I doubt it applies to Chief. ‘We match fascia on actual buildings all the time. Pack up the steeper pitched roofs (taller HAP).

Contact the admin at ContractorTalk. They have a much larger internet exposure and never have this kind of problem.

I used solid builder for whole house panelization back in KY 2004-ish. It has very clunky work flow but the ability to print each wall or each rafter, even plywood sheets - dimensioned was perfect. We would precut an entire home and take it to the site and put it up. Apartments and hotels were a hoot. It becomes more about sequencing and on site material handling. I have SB v24 but I don’t use it. Chief does plans for permit which is what my market wants…..soooo

These are from WEYERHAEUSER

MTS12 or larger. At the wall we would fill the I-joist web with plywood to add strength per vendor literature. LP https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/woodproducts/document-library/document_library_detail/tj-4000/

When I opened a camera to see a practice kitchen (I'm still trying to absorb Rene"s template and tools) the tool bar went poof. I guess I will see if I can set up a copy replace script to run that copies my archived toolbar folder to then be pasted over my corrupted one. Kind of lame but I need to move forward.

Framing is crazy for having many different regional names for things............HAP, heel height, etc. If a plan was to have the facia match at the same elevation (typ), as well as the overhangs be equal all the way around the house (on a bastard roof), we would raise the plate height on the steeper pitch portions. I would CAD the entire roof the night before I started cutting to make sure everything would work. Most plans are not very detailed for production. I still go to this level if I'm framing the roof. If not, I don't include this level of detail because it's confusing to some.

Baseline = HAP? (Height Above Plate) That's how it seems to me.

Update: Ever since the latest Chief update, X14 has been running smoothly on my M1 MAX MBP except for the occasional loss of toolbar icons. The worst was when I was laptop only on the kitchen table in a client's home, when I lost all the toolbar icons. That made doing real-time edits during the presentation much more unprofessional.....but I survived. All in all, chief things are much more stable now on macOS. I've even upgraded to the public beta of Ventura and everything seems solid. I wish every success to you.

I used Chief and an app to take specific screen shots.

Stream Deck or even better, Touch Portal, is great for automating things including app-specific shortcut keys (hot keys)

I bought the whole package (device, walking stick, etc) because I'm a sucker for new tech. It didn't work as I wanted so it sits on my shelf. I can't recommend it. That's about $400 cast to the wind.

Supported Hotkeys CA X14.xlsx

I love it! I offer this to builders who might find it valuable to have access to a Matterport scan BEFORE everything is covered up, at least for the life of any warranty they provide.......just in case. Great job!

2018 iPad Pro. (the overly big one) I think the iPad mini would be a great size. The one I have is a bit large and the size isn't necessary to mask off the windows or mirrors.

Great job, Doug. I use my Matterport as a back up, in case I miss something. Saves me a return trip to measure something or to ID a window or whatever. Mattertags are useful to store textual info or to link to other things. I try to imagine what info would be useful to the H/O or a contractor, that they could access from a computer and not have to go to the site. Noting code violations was a great use of the Matterport. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zyDT83Qz1rs&brand=0 Best to you.

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oxmWCZm23nz&brand=0 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=EF9QfzT933w&brand=0 Since it didn't stitch together, I ended up with two separate single scans. It wasn't as useful in the crawlspace as I was hoping. I had a Milwaukee floodlight on top of it and did my best to get it level, but who knows when it's 3 feet of vertical working space with the camera sitting flat on the ground and me crawling around like a grumpy old man down there.

- 1 ½ hour. The H/O wanted to follow me and talk so it slowed things down quite a bit. - Matterport suggests about 6 feet in between shots, all doors open, a shot outside and inside each door.....each shot takes only about 14 seconds to rotate the camera. It can be quick. The one room had an ousting door that if open blocked another door, so I did closed and open and it is the room you can get digitally "stuck" in. - I was hired by the first contractor to ID the code violations and create a plan to correct them. - the post production work was another 2 hours to annotate all of the matter tags. - The close-up stills were from a camera phone. As I was working the site, I was thinking what additional info would be valuable to the client or home owner, say you're out to get a breaker, but you forgot to check your panel...etc. I just saved the close-up shots to dropbox and then linked to them in Matterport. The only downside to Matterport is that I have to pay $800/year to have them process and store my projects. There is no file that I can have to keep. It only works under subscription. I tried scanning a crawlspace of a house built in 1900, but the scans would not stitch together because the ground sloped too much.