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8 hours ago, Dermot said:

Please reread my post above.  What you are showing in your video is exactly what I expect it to do. 

 

 

Dermot, 

I narrowed it down. It has something to do with when when you designate the file to be used as a Layout Template file.

7 hours ago, Dermot said:

Please reread my post above.  What you are showing in your video is exactly what I expect it to do. 

 

Look at your preferences. 

 

Dermot, I get that. I understand the Designer portion of the pre-filled text through preferences. I myself have never done it through the Preferences tab. I instead had it prefilled out on the sheet through the designer toolbar, and saved the filed ASIS. I'm guessing Chief is now overwriting the data boxes in the file because the Preferences data boxes were blank. SO I can fix this by doing it your way, which I see is the correct way. This data should never change anyway.

But what about the CLIENT info boxes. Is Chief clearing out those when opening a new template file, because the info is there when I manually open the file, but disappears when Chief opens it as a default file......which it hasn't done in the past. Here's my reasoning, and it's silly, I know. If you don't give employees explicit directions on how to fill stuff out, they do it hap hazard and wrong and then I'm fixing it. Text is done in lower case, they name the file wrong, they put the cell phone by the home phone, etc......stupid clerical mistakes. That's why I have these prefilled so they know exactly where and how I want it done.

I sent this video to Keri at tech, maybe she can figure it out.

7 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

Also are you using the "Save as Template" options to update your templates ?

 

 

Just now, Kbird1 said:

 

Are you using File>Templates> New Layout from Templates to open it , or Send to Layout or Open Layout > find Layout file? 

perhaps it matters and you have indeed found an issue?

 

M.

No to both. I keep a clean file of both the plan and layout files, with no walls or anything in them. I resave them with a new client name whenever I start a new project. I update the settings as I go, resaving the layout and plan files with new numbers....LAYOUT 91, LAYOUT 92, PLAN 91, PLAN 92, PLAN 93 ........etc...

Thanks for the input guys. I'll see if it's a problem on the office computer tomorrow morning. I know my assistance mentioned it two days ago on his computer too. I really think after 2 years, it's time for a fresh blank template plan to start over.

1 minute ago, Kbird1 said:

Is your Preferences filled in ? , ( as Dermot mentioned)  as the Layout is using a Macro that pulls from the Preferences File to fill that in....

 

Mick.

Yes. It is. See attached. Opens fine manually, but when it opens as a template it clears all the information and loads up blank.  

I attached the file here.

I'm guessing it's a glitch with copying over a template from X13. I think I'll have to start with blank and create a new template , importing all my data, defaults, and preferences.

LAYOUT - 92.layout

Just now, Dermot said:

Did you ever contact tech support and what did they tell you?

 

As far as I know, the way the program works with regards to the designer information has not changed in many years.  When you start a new plan from a template, the program will copy the designer information from your preferences and replace what ever was already in the template plan.  This was done on purpose so that multiple designers could all share the same default templates.  Each designer can setup their preferences to have the correct info and it will automatically populate the new plan.

 

You can modify this information under Preferences/Appearance/Text using the Define button for the Default Designer Information.  See picture below.

 

I don't believe the names or versions of your template files have anything to do with this.

 

I sent the screen grabs and the files to the bug submit 5 minutes ago.

11 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

These Files are from a Home Designer Program not Chief ...... UNLESS you named them that?

 

Chief's default Plan File is called  Residential Template but you may have also made you own and saved it under another name?

 

In Chief   ......  IF you use the Default location.........        C:\Documents\Chief Architect Premier X13 Data\Templates

 

No. I'm talking about my own template files that I've been using for a few years.

This annoying problem is happening again in X14. All template file border text is clearing from the designer info and client info when loading a template.

Just a dam weird bug for me. The template border and plan work fine if I open them manually, but if they are set as the template to open as default new plan/border in preferences........Preferences-General-New Plans, then it opens with all the design/client info cleared out.

Reporting now.

Did we lose the ability to move object's schedule labels or is this a known bug in 14? I was working on a plan yesterday in x13, creating a restaurant equipment schedule. This morning I opened it in X14 and I can't move schedule labels around. Some are populating in annoying locations.

Or did they create a new setting to move it?

Attached image I can't move E06 label onto the warming oven, to align with the three other units above it.

It's funny how this came up twice today in separate threads.  I should buy a lotto ticket tomorrow.

1 hour ago, Joe_Carrick said:

I include the Layout Table and Revision Table in each of my Page Templates as a part of the Title Block.  That way they are automatically on every sheet of the Layout.  

 

Thanks for that idea Joe. I also have some left over paper space above my revision table that I can insert that. The sheet index has been getting squeezed out by the increased code references like the new climate data Manual J criteria.

2 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

Not a dumb comment at all.  This is exactly what I suspect is happening as well.  The next thing I would suspect is that perhaps Include in Layout Page Table is not checked for any of the other sheets.

No, they were checked. I'm just a putz for not looking in the help file.

Mark, 

Thank you so much. I never knew # was an option.

I've grappled with this before and decided to give it another shot. But it still doesn't work for me. I want the layout sheets to automatically number themselves. I tried using A-%page% in the Layout Page Specification, Label. It works for the sheet numbering but it doesn't report to the Layout Page Table Specification correctly. It only displays the sheet number your currently on. I know someone smarter than me has already done this. Any ideas? I'm trying to set this up to eventually work property with X-14 and the linked callouts to sections sheets, elevation sheets, and detail sheets, but still work properly with the layout table (biggest feature I've wanted for years LINKED CALLOUTS.......yay yay wahoooooooo

I hate renumbering sheets when I've deleted a sheet, or combined 2 elevation sheets onto one sheet. Going through 22 pages of drawings to renumber them should be an automatic feature.

Still on X-13

Maybe a dumb comment, but the layout table only includes sheets that have something on them, besides the border template. If you don't have any text, plans, or layout views on that sheet it won't report to the table. If your just starting out a new border template you won't have any sheets reporting to the table.

On 12/16/2021 at 9:47 AM, robdyck said:

I haven't used TM in awhile, but here's a couple of images done in X13. Somehow squeezed these out in between the 40 crashes per day.

Just catching up on some Twinmotion comments and saw your post. 30 crashes a day on X13? It's gotta be your hardware. I run it all day and it never crashes. I mean never.

I haven't been impressed with the PBY with X13 yet. I lose the sunlight rays coming through the windows whenever I move the interior in 3d. I have to scroll outside of the house, move in 3d, the rayed shadows reappear, then scroll zoom back inside the house. Then whenever I move around the interior I lose those crisp sunlit rays through the window and I instead get these fuzzy glowing globs like I circled on the attached image.

I don't understand why Chief was able to give us a column grid tool that automatically populates those same grid locations onto our elevations, but they can't make that same automatic feature work on the section cut lines. Why? WHY? WHY? 

12 hours ago, DRAWZILLA said:

Gene, your video card is very old and might not work correctly with chief

Yup.

 I just realized my old computer at home that I work on late at night isn't compatible with the new version. It's sporting an old GTX 780. I also maxed out my 250 gig ssd boot drive with the install.

It's a sad day when you realize, you either need to buy a new preboxed computer from Dell Alienware just to get a decent video card, or pay an astronomically high price for a video card component if you want to build your own computer, which I've done for the 4 office computers. Pic attached is from my late January build. Looks like I'm headed to Microcenter, Newegg, and Amazon again. Maybe Bestbuy?

It seems most use Wrightsoft.

https://www.wrightsoft.com/

3 hours ago, para-CAD said:

I’m working with Puget Systems to build a new beast. I too try to rotate about every 5 years. I’m saving up to go really big (because the kid in me wants to just once in life)

I tell myself it’s only a couple jobs and paid for, so after the new fence and landscaping, this is my next target. 
 

Maybe by fall. 
 

Holy crap! And I thought the system I built in my signature was overkill!!!!!!

On 5/12/2021 at 6:43 PM, Archnot-Boltz said:

Is the Terrain Tool going to stop sucking?

It does what it wants, not what you try to make it do. 

Thank you. I should have looked through the rest of the attributes available.