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I haven't switched to the Project Management style yet. I don't like that I can't find my files on my computers folder system, they are hidden. Not a fan of that. But I might be mistaken, that subfolder is not within the Text Macro Management dialogue. I'm guessing you can drag and drop individual macros from that subfolder into your drawings but it's just a work around. It's not a true subfolder hierarchy that organizes your macros in the TMM, where you can see them, their values, and edit them. Am I correct?

I wish I spoke Greek like you guys.

Hey guys, It's been a long time since I've posted. I'm looking to bring my X18 templates into the 21st century with some macros from Alaskansons, Joe Carick, and a few others. I use Macros for all my keynotes, therefore the Text Macro Management dialogue box is already pretty crowded. Is there any way to organize it better? Can we do subfolders? Can we store Macros in the User Library and drag/drop only the macros we need for each project? Thank you for everyone's advise. Starting to feel old and stupid here. I wish I could understand Ruby programming. I tried it 10 years ago and failed miserably.

One thing that just occurred to me, I keep all my files in a folder on the drive with pdf docs on invoice, picture of the project site, videos of project walkthroughs, etc., as I'm sure everyone else does. I'm not really thrilled the drawings are stored in a seperate folder that I can't see or easily locate. Can't Chief figure out a way for the File Plan Management feature to work with our own designated folder structure?

I too have been using chief now for 20 years and used to be an early adopter. But the last 2 releases I've been lagging. I initially tried the file Project Management option and didn't like that I couldn't easily find my files. Maybe I'm getting old and less tech savy. Or maybe they just didn't provide enough Video Demonstration at launch, so I went back to my old file way. But I also travel between New York and Florida offices, and copying files from Google Drive to put onto the relevant computer loses all links details. I spend way too much time relinking detail callouts. So now I'm going to try this again and make sure I follow up on all these videos. But maybe they could streamline it in X18?

Would you mind telling me if you think this text edits abnormally slow..... TEXT ONLY.layout

Why is text editing in large text blocks such as specifications so slow in X16? It was a problem years ago (can't remember what release) but it's been fine for the last few versions. I've been waiting for a program update that would hopefully address it. Chief always issued a few updates as the months went by but surprisingly there hasn't been any updates issued to X16. Anyone else notice this? I'm using Arial and its specifications on a full 24 x 36 sheet broken into two detail blocks.

Anyone else have trouble getting rendered elevations to sync correctly on layout sheets? The lines don't correctly overlay onto the solid fill elevation. I haven't had a chance to do a clean template with all my imported settings yet. This is from an X15 template brought into X16. I noticed this doesn't happen with a new clean layout and plan sheet in X16.

Thank you for the comment for buying Chief optimized trees. I don't have a clue, or the time, to buy and import trees from Xfrog that require mapping of textures....etc.... As soon as I clear some crap off my desk I'm going to check out your store, which I just looked at and it's amazing, and I'll be making some inquiries or immediate purchases. I don't get separately compensated for client renderings but I want to keep up with everyone else and provide some higher quality eye candy to the clients and it looks like your User Library is the way to go. I didn't know you have a virtual store until I hit your "Shop Link". Holy crap......very cool.

What is the best format to order for importing into Chief so you don't spend hours remapping textures onto the imported tree?

Dermot, When does the NDA expire? After some fishing I found the detailed features release videos online and I have some questions how they did a 3d plumbing plan....new feature or using complicated work arounds to make it look pretty as eye candy for the presentation. I saw a lot of potential for plumbing supply and waste drawings, and for fire sprinkler plans.

Thanks Gene. I was hoping for something more automatic, but this works. I thought Chief had incorportated something like this for their roof module since almost every old style CapeCod house is built like this.

Yeah, but that's for doing manual roofs. If you do that and then hit auto roof it gets deleted and redone on top of the lower top plate. (Attached). I though there was a way to tell Chief to frame it at a higher plate height (without adding a silly false floor above like GeneDavis's solution).

Is there a way to set up auto roof to be done ontop of the ceiling on a perimeter plate? I need it for a portion of my roof design, not the entire project. So it can't be a setting for the entire project. Just a few walls. See attached.

My office assistant has had this happen constantly but I don't remember if it was only on plans with bay windows. I though it was a glitch with the program on his computer. But today it's been happening to me all day. And yes, I have a plan with a bay window. It hasn't happened to me at all, until today, and until today I haven't had any bay windows in the plans. I exploded the bay window to see if that makes a difference, and so far there are no repeats of the bug.