BryceEngstrom

Dimension defaults/ Locate Objects/Openings.

Finally just tonight got X7 on to my laptop and will start seeing how this works and will report back. One thing I have noticed with X7 is that I am not getting the "file locked" or referenced plan files not getting recognized when closing a Chief plan and/or layout file, and then attempting to quickly re-open them. This used to happen frequently in X6 and the only thing that would fix this would be to restart the computer, a real drag. Now sometimes I get the same warnings, but find the problem goes away if I just give Google Drive a few moments to complete syncing. Then everything seems to open up fine again. Not sure if this means improvements to X7, to Drive, or both. We'll see if the common cloud Data File adds to this issue or not.

Does this mean you think one is faster than the other? So far I have found Google Drive to be nearly seamless.

Glad this got bumped again. A while back I did a major house cleaning of my User Library and just now finally started to refer Chief to my Google Drive for that. Will see how it goes from my laptop at home tonight.

You could also just draw a polyline solid in cross section to have it be continuous and put that on one of your framing layers.

Is this more or less what you are after, but with the battens running continuous? I generated the trusses, then locked the truss envelopes on each, moved the roof planes up, and then generated the blocking. I think you can move the roof planes back down later and the blocks will stay. Not exactly right in 3D of course, but would work for most 2D views in your plans.

Some more information, or maybe a sketch attached of what you are trying to achieve might help you get an answer. Are these battens running along the top of the top chord, or perpendicular to it? For corrugated roofing I assume?

HOW did you get it?

First, post the plan. Close Chief, zip the file, and try and post it here. If the file is too big, make a copy and try to remove items that aren't part of the problem to reduce file size and try again. This can be tricky to nail down sometimes. It could be an errant roof plane not fully contained and spiking out in to space somewhere, or other similar things. One way to try is to do an Edit Area All Floors and select areas within the overall window you are seeing in plan, but that are clearly areas where you don't intend to have items and see if something pops up as being selected.

Something is fundamentally wrong. Do you bundle TV and phone with your internet too? My tenant next door complained last year about her internet all of a sudden being unbearably slow (when it as just as fast as mine before) and they sent a tech out and he spent a couple of hours here re-pulling cable from the pole and who knows what else. Then, they tried to tell me it was the cable I had run when I first built the place that ran under the house. I was really skeptical of this because I KNOW I had done it right and it had been working perfectly for like 10 years and nothing had changed. So, I went an got 100 ft. of high quality coax cable and just ran it along the ground outside and jumped right from the cable company's box to my tenants (bi-passing "my" part of the cabling) and she still had the problem. Don't ask me why the first tech they sent didn't do this already. So, they sent some other tech out the next day and after about an hour he finally figured out it was something in THEIR cable TV box (she has bundled phone and TV too) that was causing the problem and they swapped out their box and it was fixed. Maybe you've got something like this going on too.

Wow. Way too cool. Way to be resourceful Curt.

That sounds like a fun project. I think you could have just guesstimated from the information that is available online. I think the basic idea is what matters, not whether your profile is within 1/8" of the original. Post a pic of the completed project. I have done quite a number of tables myself over the years and would love to see the finished product.

Nice solution Jintu.

Thanks Joe, these are GREAT ideas. The best way to get Chief's attention is to send this in as a support ticket an then perhaps include a link to this thread. It would be great to see this type of thing as a new feature and not have to do a workaround with plant schedules, etc. I use this kind of callout numbering of notes on many types of plans (architectural, electrical, finish, etc.) as well as elevations and sections. It really helps the drawings themselves from getting too cluttered with text.

That is pretty cool. Yeah, I must've see him on that news story. Sounded so familiar when you described it.

That is AWESOME. I want to say I thought I actually saw this on the news or something. They have biplane rides down in Oceano, about 5 minutes away, that I did for my 40th birthday about 9 years ago. Loops and rolls over Pismo Beach in the open cockpit. It was a blast.

Yeah, it's pretty nice. Came here to go to Cal Poly 30 years ago and never left. Kinda hot today, but mostly not. My wife has been teaching 3rd grade in Santa Maria for more than 18 years now, so we know it well. I do quite a bit of work down there too. A new restaurant I did opened a few months ago, and now working on 15,000 sq.ft trucking business building down there. But, I prefer to live in Arroyo Grande for sure. Santa Maria's just gotten too big and flat and sprawled out all over the place. There is no real downtown anywhere, no real sense of community to me.

Well, it's all relative. The county seat here, San Luis Obispo, is only about 45,000 people. My little town of Arroyo Grande is about 10 minutes south on the freeway and has about 14,000 people. Not exactly a major metropolis, but not in the boondocks either. I think the main thing is just access to the coaxial cable originally put in just for TV. Many years ago I know they put in a lot of fiber optic cable, but the majority of that still isn't accessible to the "last mile" single end residential user yet. You can get it in some places in downtown San Luis Obispo but so far I think that is about it. It will come, though, eventually- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber

Yes, this is a common counter-criticism, but it's also true if you compare major city to major city. It really is mostly about private monopolies. In most major cities, there is only one provider (cable) that provides the fastest speeds without the major outlay of fiber optics or other technologies. Yes, they are likely subsidized in other countries, but that's part of why ours is slower. We are lagging behind in all kinds of other infrastructure as well. This isn't some fringe theory, it's pretty well documented, and fairly common knowledge. http://advanced-television.com/2012/07/23/us-internet-slowest-most-expensive/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/america-land-of-the-slow/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 http://theweek.com/article/index/257404/why-is-american-internet-so-slow

Not really. The U.S. pays the most and has the slowest internet speeds of just about any other developed nation. Monopolies anyone? http://mashable.com/2010/01/16/united-states-internet-speed/ Here are my results (Charter Cable)-

Thanks for looking into that. I ended up just not mulling the lower units to the upper one and that works fine for now. Just have to have a casing width space between them. I am going to send it in as a bug.

In the attached plan, I have a mulled window, and a standard window, each attempting to use a custom, wrapped interior lintel. The window on the right is obviously what I am after. What is happening with the mulled unit on the left? Bug? Secret handshake I don't know? Lintel on Mulled Window.zip

Is there such thing as a non-residential home?

I think it is usually faster just to manually dimension for the interior. I just do one point-to-point and then click/drag to subsequent points through a particular area. I find this to be faster and better than even bothering with the auto-interior dims. And, it's easy to over-do dimensions. I see a lot of drawings with redundant interior dimensions that are already taken care of with exterior ones.

No problem. Requests like these are posted here all the time, but I would suggest you post this in the Seeking Services section of the forum instead of the General Q&A.