Chrisb222

Wow, nice to see several things I've asked for. Fill Style by Layer is huge for me. Looks like a really good upgrade. Thanks @ChiefArchitect!

Drywall area, sheet count, thickness, type* all can be captured from the wall object properties. But you can't get that into a schedule without ruby macros, as far as I know. *An actual "type" property doesn't exist. To define different Types (eg standard, fire code, green board, etc) you would create separate materials for those, and identify them in the Material Name field, which is a property. Not that I'm aware.

It requires a custom macro, custom schedule, and some initial setup in your wall definitions. Can be done but a little beyond the scope of free assistance for most. If you don't know how to do it, several people here offer custom work for hire, maybe post in Seeking Services if no one volunteers: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/15-seeking-services/

@JonathanK Well, in my defense I was specifically replying to your complaint about having to draw everything manually, so forgive me for assuming you weren't aware of easier methods. You mentioned manually drawing things multiple times and didn't mention other methods, so I thought my post would be helpful. You're right though, it's ridiculous that the line weight and color options for those layers has no effect on elevation views. Sadly, it's not the only thing about Chief I'm disappointed in...

Be aware, many times turning off the endcap produces a tiny dash at the end of the line that doesn't look good. I don't like the endcap, but haven't been able to get away from it because most times the endcap looks better than nothing.

In Preferences, set this value to zero:

I don't know what you mean exactly by "work correctly" since the software is working how it was designed and intended, but if you send your elevations to layout as Plot Lines, you have complete control over every line in the drawing. You can also add lines. It's not automatic, but by marquee-selecting lines you can edit them pretty fast. Certainly faster and easier than manually drawing it all from scratch.

Go to CAD > Lines > Line Style Management, copy one of the dashed lines and see how it's defined, edit to what you want. Or use one of these: dashed lines.plan

Yes, this can be done automatically using the "conditioned = true/false" Room object property. You'll need to insert a call to that property in the OIP for each room. Pull the value for this property into your room schedule. Set it up in your template plan and layout so it works on future plans without any further manual work, unless you add a room type, then just copy an existing type for the new.

All my SPVs that go to layout are specific floor. But I tested it when switching to the design-stage SPVs I use that are set to Any Floor, they maintain the floor level of the previous view before relinking.

Yeah, put it on the partition:

I've found the copy/paste hold position, then relink the plan view to be the fastest and easiest. Something's off on your SPV settings. This doesn't happen to me.

So I showed that the software generates accurate numbers. This is a question for your designer. Sure there is. Change 500 to 472.

No clue. See attached, these are "software generated numbers" derived from an OOB factory Chief Architect template file: What software is your designer using?

Fix the stair tool!!