ComputerMaster86

Someone may have suggested this but, does the "Layer Display Options" or the "ALDO" have an invert selection option? I though I remember seeing a post where some suggested an invert selection option for the ALDO. I might be just seeing things. LOL

I don't know of a West Michigan Chief Architect Users Group but, I often contemplated the idea of starting one.

I am having trouble understanding why when I switch toolbar configurations I loose all my toolbar customization. This includes custom toolbars and custom toolbar icons. Would this be a bug perhaps? Either way it is annoying as all hell get it out.

Are you from or in Michigan? Just Curious? I live in West Michigan about a half hour east of Grand Rapids. I have been interested in who all from Michigan uses this software.

Thanks to the original poster for posting this. I am interested in learning ruby but, I sure have a lot to learn. As I was trying to use this ruby code in my plan, I could not get the info in the text edit box to populate for more than one roof plane. It only shows info for roof plane zero. I must be doing something wrong or overlooking something.

Thank you! That is what I was thinking.

I need to get clarification on this code rule found in the IBC but also found in the IRC. My question is if a given window meets only one of the conditions listed, does it trigger a safety glazing requirement? Or is it that when a window meets all four of the conditions listed, that it triggers the safety glazing requirement?

Do any of you guys get door jambs when you mull a fixed door with an hinged door? I am wondering if this is a bug in X11?

I think what I like about this is a label stays attached to the line. If I need to move the line or re-orientate the line, the label moves with the line and relative to the line. I still might have to re-orientate my text. If I use text, I always have to make sure to move both text and the line. I think this can be a little bit of a time saver for me.

I often draw my own 2D cross sections for the post-framed building projects my employer takes on. There may be instances where I need to add a very simple text note in the general vicinity of a single line. I can't really think of too many examples where I would use this at the moment.

I just noticed today that a single line segment can have a polyline label. I thought this was something new in X11 but, it works in X10. I don't believe I ever really noticed this before. Here is what I have noticed... Draw a single line segment. Double-click on the object. Notice there is no label tab in the dialogue box. Close the dialogue box. Draw an additional line segment to your exiting line. Drag the second end point of the second segment until it snaps to the second end point of the first line. Line segment should now be one individual line segment. Double-click on the object. Notice now there is a label tab in the dialogue box.

As a resident from West Michigan I have always been curious to find out who all uses the Chief Architect software here in Michigan. I am literally one half hour east of Grand Rapids. I would love to someday host a West Michigan Chief Architect User Group. You are welcome to join a facebook group I started for Michigan Chief Architect users. https://www.facebook.com/groups/MichiganChiefUsers/

Working with schedules, I have wondered if their is a way to have Chief Architect to sort listings in a schedule based on the values listed in one of the columns. I don't think this is currently feasible. It would be neat to have the schedule sort listings from shortest to longest based on a value listed in one of the columns.

I mis-spoke myself. The skew is placed in the description column of the cabinet schedule. The box that is title code is where I am typing a color. The actual color of the shelf doesn't matter. The box titled description has the macro that formulates my skew. Anyways Mark figured out my issue I had miss-typed elseif for elsif. I seem to do that very now and then. Thank you all for your input and help.

For some reason I can't seem to get this to work. I have a macro that I use in conjunction with shelves that creates a SKEW code. Shelves are being used to represent steel panels for the purpose of generating steel layout drawings. This skew code identifies the steel panel item in QuickBooks, when we go to create an estimate for the customer. I want to be able to type in a color into text box labeled Code under the shelves dialogue box. Based on whatever value (color) I type in the text box labeled Code, I want the value replaced with a color code when the macro formulates the skew. The skew is displayed in the code column of a cabinet schedule I use as a steel panel schedule. A 6'-9" long shelve with Burgundy as the value for "Code" would spit me out a skew code "G06/09J1". My macro works except for replacing the color with a color code. I think it's an issue with the part of the code I included below. color = owner.component_code if color == "Burgundy" color = "J1" elseif color == "Black" color = "D1" elseif color == "Blue" color = "F1" elseif color == "Burnished Slate" color = "BS1" elseif color == "Brown" color = "B1" elseif color == "Bright White" color = "U1" elseif color == "White" color = "M1" else color = "???"