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If the framer were mis-reading that correctly, it would be 12' and 11 quarters. So the framing should have missed by 6/4 of an inch. The trades need to take responsibility for their own work, not pass the blame on to the designers or the software (if that is what happened). As Mark mentioned, font choice is critical to legibility for dimensions, as well as text size and the printed document quality and scale being used on site. A font size (in Chief) of not less than 4", printed at quarter inch scale will be clearly legible, or min. 8" for 1/8" scale plans. I framed for 20 years and this issue is pretty simple. The GC points out the mistake, the framer says "doh, sorry" then gets to work fixing it, and learns to be more careful during layout. If Chief were to implement the smaller fractions, the next excuse would be that the fractions print too small and can't be clearly seen. Or the plans are printed at a low quality setting, or photo-copied, and again same issue with the smaller fractional text. And what about us? Don't we spend enough time zooming in and out? I for one, hope that such a change would not be implemented without a user choice.

It can, but it requires some heavy lifting. You'll either need to learn to create macros, or hire someone to create them for you, then modify your schedules to incorporate those new macros, and modify all the framing members by adding Custom Object Fields to place the macros. There's nothing good to say about the entire process.

and how would they know?

In the past, I've made the image into a material and added it to a polyline solid. Although an image may not be the same as a jpg in Chief. Did you mean an image object?

The door has an interior and an exterior and AFAIK that is based on the main layer of the wall. Remember walls have an exterior which is at the top of the wall dbx. If you were to reverse the layer of the wall containing that door, I think it's display would change in the schedule.

That's awesome Joe. Great info to quickly help us use those double doors!

How thick are your shingles? Make sure they are at least 1/4" thick.

Hey Rob, here's a simple nut/washer to help you out (just cause you updated your BA profile pic). You can rotate this symbol however you need. What I do, is download a Simpson dwg file into plan view, convert the outer shape (no holes) to a solid, 1/8" thick, then place this nut/washer centered over each hole. Then convert the solid with nut/washers to a symbol, and then add to your library. BTW, are you riding a motorbike down your hallway without a helmet or jacket?! STN22 WASHER.calibz

Thanks for pointing that out. That's quite helpful.

Make one interior door that is correct. Add it to your library. Select all the others and use the Replace from Library tool.

This suggest to me that you used a door from the library or it has been copied from an exterior wall to an interior or vice versa. An Exterior Door will always be an exterior door regardless of where it is placed. An interior door will always be an interior door regardless of where it is placed. Exterior doors must be placed in exterior walls for correct scheduling. If you want an interior door with the same physical properties as an exterior door, you'll need to use the match properties tool. Note that not all 'transferable properties' will actually transfer from an exterior door to an interior door.

The VERY simplest way to get this material takeoff is to forward the plan to the supplier. They'll gladly do it for free!!

Ideally when uploading a model, it should have max. 500,000 surfaces and a max. texture file size of 50MB. This can be difficult to achieve for many projects. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03068/viewing-managing-and-sharing-3d-viewer-models.html

For Carpet, add a runner. Then edit the components tab as shown

@andr0id What he said.

Thanks Michael. A logical explanation. Appreciated! A little context... I'm working on a commercial project and I want to calculate the # of occupants based on various room types. I had added an accessory to the Components for the room types, but I wanted live updating as the design develops (in a room label). 'Cuz toilets are based on the number of butts in the building! Any thoughts on the simplest way to get a value like that into a room schedule? Note Schedule I assume? That's what I've used in the past.

Bingo! Thanks!

Double click the terrain, select polyline and you'll see that the volume is displayed. So, you'll need to model 2 separate terrains to determine the volume difference. An original, and the desired.' These 2 models could be overlaid to create all sorts of drawings / visual representations of the alterations.

I'm attempting to use the room internal area to perform a simple calculation which I need rounded to a whole number. No matter I try, I can't accomplish this. I always get decimals or a zero. I need the following info: room area divided by 50 room area divided by 100 And I need the results in whole numbers...any help is appreciated. A 120 sq ft room gives the following result: %room.internal_area/50% = 2.4 %room.internal_area*0.02% = 2.4 %room.internal_area*0.02.round% = 0 %room.internal_area*0.025649518.round(4)% = 3.072 (just a random experiment)

It looks fine to me (I added the grid to help view the contours). I downloaded, then opened your plan. Chief gives this warning. I selected "Move". You could try the same thing. Or, you can fill the screen, select everything, and use the transform/replicate tool to move everything to absolute 0,0.

I model a lot of these and my preference is a truss.

You have two labels because that item is included in 2 schedules. The label with the prefix 'A' is usually a fixture schedule. Double click the exhaust fan to open the dialog box, select 'Schedule" and make sure only the electrical schedule is checked.

3d molding polylines drawn in section views. But not automatically.

You asked...and no offense but I think it looks pretty bad. If your client wants it to look the example you provided, then you'll probably want to make a CAD detail from your floor plan, or use a SVP so you can add filled polylines in order to exactly replicate the example, including the text font and size, and all other fills. BTW you can use the color eyedropper to match those fill colors exactly. Then, you'll have a satisfied client, and a SVP and layer set and fill and text items that you can easily reuse.

Not that I know of. You'll need to manually place the moldings using a molding polyline.