tommy1

I had this happen to me the other day. I didn't have CA open. I went to the task manager and it showed that Chief was running. Don't know why, but told it to shut it down and all was fine. This only happened once.

I have to assume you rebooted Windows.

I create my wall and electrical legends manually that are plan specific.

For both, I would an open cabinet with no shelves. Make an angled shelf, might be easiest to do in an elevation using a polyline solid. Control/drag the shelf inside the cabinet. In a back-clip elevation looking at the front, place it at the top or bottom. Select the shelf, and copy it up or down. Could use transform/replicate to copy it too. For the rod for the shoes, use a solid. Control/drag into the cabinet. Copy it as mentioned. This can be done in about 10 minutes.

This is how it is often done here.

Mike, if you like and if you don't have it fixed yet, send the dwg to me via my email below. I'll send it back.

Joey, I don't think most people realize that which is why I said what I did in my last post.

I think most people aren't looking at the plan. I believe what a lot of people are saying won't work.

Joey, I fixed it somewhat by selecting the wall shown, flipping it and realigning with the wall above. BTW, I flipped the wall so my snaps would work okay.

Scott, I too hope this long time problem gets fixed too. I saw that Scott Harris was looking at this thread late last night. I hope though that they fix the problem with mulled units and the schedules more though. It's a bigger issue for me. If your not careful, it can get you in trouble with builders in the construction docs. See link for that thread. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5150-schedules-and-mulled-windows/

Scott, what we are doing is a workaround because it DOESN"T WORK straight out of the library. If you use David's method which I believe is the best, you have to place each outlet separately in the plan. As you know, copying doesn't work. This and other things have not worked correctly since I can remember. What I'm going to show tonight is how to make it work. You won't be missing anything on this topic.

The only difference I see so far (I think) is that I used the horizontal cabinet outlet.

Mick, remember that you need to change it to place on the wall or yes you'll have to change the origins too in X7. X7 is better than previous versions.

Mick, In X7, I didn't have to change any origins. Only in earlier versions as stated.

David, good find about changing it to place on the wall. Didn't think of that....saves time. I ran a test in X5, X6 and X7 to see the differences on how this works. In X5 and X6 you need to change the origin as well. They improved it (probably by accident) in X7. In X7, do as David shows and make it hang on wall and change the height to center.

I might go into it later...working today. Quick answer, place outlet in plan where you want it to display, and set height, change offsets. BTW, we into this in depth along time ago. As mentioned, I'll demonstrate this at our User Group Meeting.

I did. At least it doesn't take long to do this...about as much time as placing an outlet on a slab, solid or column.

I think I'll show how to fix this at our User Group Meeting tomorrow evening. Good topic.

With the "Plan View" open and looking at it, go to file>print> page set up. Change it there. By default, it will be at 1/4". I don't have the program open so my wording may be off a little.

Scott, I complained about this for years back with V10. Gave up after a while. I just complained again about not showing mulled windows (and doors) in a schedule that has been broken since Version 9.5. There is a recent post here about that where Chief said it will be turned in. We'll see.

We have an online meeting Monday, June 1st. from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (Central Time). If you would like to join in, then please send me an email at my email address shown in my signature.

Just try placing the roofs. Make the fascia heights match. Join roofs to main roof. If you need to move the roofs to a better location, shift/select them and move them, re-join.

In general with the program, if an object is dimensioned, you click on the object and try to move it with the dimension but you don't see the "finger", then that generally means that the dimension line is not going to that object...it's going to something else.

In Houston, if you're buying a house in a Historic District, it is disclosed and you know it. Here, the districts are usually several blocks. There are several Historical Districts. If you are at the end of one of the blocks in the district, then yes the houses on the other side of the street could very well be new modern houses. There have also been times when there is conflict with the Historic District and the City of Houston concerning city codes. It always gets worked out. I know this because I had this problem once when I was a contractor. After a long fight, the city field inspector told us how to get around it and make it all work. Some city codes don't apply in the Historical Districts.

Construction obviously varies in different areas as usual.