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Rotated layout box:

Is it rotating the layout box that isn't giving you what you want? ...or is it the portrait orientation of the layout page that is giving you problems?

Chief can't do what you want. You have to place the wall, then adjust. Chief does feature tracking, but doesn't allow dynamic input of distance or angle during tracking.

I doubt it's your CMOS battery - it should last longer than 5 years. And if you're computer is never turned off, the CMOS battery isn't required - it's only for holding info when the computer is completely powered off. AFAIK, the only way to check your CMOS battery is to crack your case, remove it, and put a voltmeter across the poles.

Yeah, I typically throw up an exterior room molding polyline to model the frieze when the auto molding is giving me problems.

I have constant problems with frieze boards at changes of pitch - I've never found a way to remedy it, so I generally edit the elevation.

This is an extremely intriguing possibility. I just tried it out on a test plan, and the only downside I see is having to cut the material regions into the door thresholds - a rather tedious process. I think you may be addressing this issue with your suggestion: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/3973-floor-finish-boundary/.

I'll bet there are a lot of people who would use CA's ruby implementation if it was well documented and easier to use. I have no experience with ruby, but coming from AutoCAD I can attest to the tremendous value in providing a scripting language with access to the internal variables and commands; with AutoCAD it created a huge third-party industry to create and sell AutoLISP and ARX routines to extend AutoCAD functionality. I invested hundreds of hours in developing scripts and menus to "customize" how we used AutoCAD. If Chief would give us something usable, I think it would be an extremely valuable tool.

Yes, I understand. From the RESCheck manual: The conditioned floor area includes the gross area of all heated and/or cooled rooms, including the floor area of heated or cooled basements. Granted, there are some slight variations depending on the code you apply, but the concept is pretty clear. If I've defined the conditioned rooms in the dbx, then there is no way the CA calculation should be LESS THAN the sum of the individual conditioned room areas. So, I don't think the material list can be relied upon, and I wonder about what CA is exporting to RESCheck - though in all fairness I've never sent anything from CA to RESCheck.

Cripes. I'll just use my calculator.

I know about the room dbx - I've adjusted each room as required. When I generate the material list for all floors. I see one candidate for conditioned area: "thermal envelope - floor area", but the figure shown (2003) is much less than my manual calculation based on room areas (3342).

Does anyone know if the conditioned area calculation is accessible by the user (macro or something)?

Build>Framing>Post Build>Slab>Slab If you want a visually accurate telepost/jack post, then you'll need to use a 3D symbol.

It's all about controlling the deflection and a providing a rigid connection at the headers - a structural glazing system isn't always necessary.

Post the plan.

What does adjust properties mean? What properties are adjusted? Transparency? Reflection? Diffuse strength?

I don't think temp dims would give you that much stuff. As Arthur mentioned, even with your dim layers turned off, CA will display them when you select the wall.

Glen, the X6 Reference Manual says: "When Auto Adjust Default Glass Properties is checked, the program automatically adjusts the behavior of window, door, and electrical fixture glass in Standard rendered and ray trace views in response to interior and exterior lighting conditions." But, the Manual doesn't clarify the nature of the adjustments. Do you know? I'd appreciate any info, because I'm very curious. Thank you.

Nope, no THM files for me, sorry.

For vector view you need to assign a pattern in the material definition. Again, I don't know how materials are defined in 9.5, but in X6 the Material Specification looks like this for my example above: The pattern and texture files: Extras.zip

I'm on X6, so I don't know the capabilities of 9.5, but you can achieve decent results in all views with a texture that uses a pattern for vector view: ...and a texture with transparency for standard view: ...and ray traces as well. If you need a particular style of obscure glass, just play with the pattern and texture.

I second that. Or roll your own. You can use a texture along with transparency if you can't find something to your liking in the default library.

To model exposure conditions I use a pony wall: concrete wall below for the foundation, and a framed wall above. I prefer to show the framed wall in my floor plans. The problem is that when I create my foundation plan the framed wall shows, and of course I want to display the lower concrete wall. How are other folks dealing with this situation?

It appears that the text style of labels for parametric objects (doors, cabinets, windows, etc) can only be controlled through the layer text style - I can't find any Default or other setting that has control. Is this true?

I'm no expert on annosets/layersets. I use annosets to control the scale at which my annotations are drawn, and layersets to control display; eg my 1/4" Floor Plan and 1/8" Floor Plan annosets are both assigned the Floor Plan layerset. I agree that if layersets were King I could "flip" this method and use layersets to drive my annotation scales with the layer text settings - but this never occurred to me at the time I set things up.