Chrisb222

Scott, I'm getting an error when there isn't a pony wall. I got the script to recognize the presence - or lack - of a pony wall, however every wall segment with a different sq ft area generates its own row in the schedule. I also couldn't use the Total command to sum the areas of the wall segments. 1: Is there a way to cause the schedule in the attached example file to combine all like wall types into one row, regardless of differing sq ft areas? 2: Can the schedule total numeric results of macro scripts? See the attached example plan: Wall Schedule Example.plan

You are correct, those controls do not physically move the roof planes, they control on which floor they display.

If you want to stay with automatic roof, you can control individual roof planes through the wall specification. Does not always allow the level of customization that's needed, but greatly expands the ability to mix roof styles within auto roofs:

Quite a while back I saw a discussion about how to use an orthopedic camera to view a projected roof plane in 2D. Think it was @Alaskan_Son Maybe try a forum search.

It took a little digging but I think I found the problem. Locate Auto Room derives some of its settings from another panel in the dialog, namely Setup Automatic. I changed your Setup Automatic settings back to the OOB settings and Auto Room Dimension now locates casings. It seems your Line Separation and First Line Offset settings were not compatible with displaying both dimension lines, so one was omitted. See the OOB settings:

Huh, that's weird. Your file that I downloaded had Casing checked but it was dimmed because Openings was unchecked: When I checked Openings, it worked on my computer so I don't think it's a software bug.

A CAD detail is meant to convey to the reader how you're instructing that the subject matter is to be built. You don't "choose the correct one" unless it matches exactly how you want it constructed. Otherwise, you start with a camera view, or one of the supplied details that is close, and modify it to your specifications.

That's all done in the Layer settings. Turn off what you don't want to see, turn on what you do want to see, and edit what you see to make it look how you want.

You need to set Casing as a locate object under the Locate Auto Room settings: ...then it works:

Works for me using a quick simple test on an OOB X17 Template plan: Probably, if we had the plan file. Otherwise we're just guessing...

I normally see that when there's a change in the ceiling or floor height relative to the adjacent room, the single line will become a double line full thickness wall. In those cases there's no way that I know to change it back to a single line. When I tried this, the room divider remained a single line, but the rooms have the same floor and ceiling heights. If you don't have a difference in the floor or ceiling height in the room, maybe post the plan so we can take a look.

Yes has happened to me a couple of times. Called sales and they took care of it, no problem. Last year I was a couple weeks late due to the holidays and when i realized it over a weekend I was sweating big time, but called Monday and they bailed me out. Of course that's no guarantee but it has worked out for me in the past. Hope you can rest easy till they open.

See the image DBCooper posted above, follow those links and you will be editing your current dimension default: When you go that route, the current dimension default will automatically be highlighted. You can also simply double-click any dimension tool in your toolbar and it will open that current dimension default, where it can be edited.

Which Dimension Default are you using in your current view, and which one did you edit the settings under Temporary Setup, per the previous suggestion? In previous versions, Temporary Dimensions was a discrete tool with its own settings and controls. Now, Temporary Dimensions adopt the locate (and other) settings from the currently active dimension default. So your "Setup Temporary" settings need to be done on the dimension default you're using in the current view in order for them to apply to temporary dimensions.

I don't know, it depends on what you have done. Your file appears to be working correctly in version X7. X7 Automatic Interior Dimensions always produced duplicates within rooms, however you do have a few non-factory duplicate dimension strings in your plan. One of those duplicates appears in its automatic location, the other is in a different location. You may have moved or edited some of the automatic dimensions, and then clicked on Auto Interior Dimensions again, which will produce duplicates of any dimension strings that were moved or edited. Automatic Interior Dimensions is functioning correctly for how it was designed in v X7. Yes, it produces a lot of dimensions. The process for dealing with this is to only use the command one time, then clean up whatever needs changed, and don't use the command again. Or, if you want to regenerate automatic interior dimensions after making changes, first go to Edit > Delete Objects... and select All Rooms, CAD, Automatic Dimensions and delete them.

What is 4 pages? I only see a floor plan? But here's a PDF of it: ThreeMileEXISTING.pdf

What's the problem? Your plan appears to be working correctly. The original post was is regards to temporary dimensions, yet your question references auto dimensions. So it doesn't seem like the problem is similar? Or is it? What do you mean by "clean up"? And the thread is five years old, so it's dealing with a much older version than we have now, with radically different features and controls. And your signature reports that X7 is your newest version. Are you having an issue with temporary dimensions, or auto dimensions, in X17? Or what exactly is the problem you're having? You might get better response by posting a new thread with a better explanation of your issue.

Yes you do. Scroll your specification window, it's right below Hide Camera-Facing Exterior Walls:

I was having the same thought so I took a run at it. Pretty simple with manual roofs.

In my experience, the companies selling and installing those will provide engineered stamped plans that you can submit along with basic plans for permitting. When I've dealt with that, I just draw normal walls in Chief and use exterior materials to approximate the metal building, to get through the design stages, then add the stamped plans from the manufacturer. Your jurisdiction may require something different.

I agree mostly with this. I do separate basement and foundation plans about 50%, and the other 50% it's all on one plan. It's easy to create separate plans for the basement and foundation using Saved Plan Views, or to keep all the information to one plan, as you say, depending on the job. The idea of foundation on Level 0 and basement on Level 1 never made sense to me. Then the main floor, which Chief calls Floor 1 in defaults, is now on Level 2?? It seems that setting up elevations, following floor heights, and just keeping everything straight would be added mental work. And it's unneccesary, since SPVs make it easy to show different plans on the same level. Unless I'm missing something obvious...? If it's not even every plan that you're dealing with this, I would suggest managing those with separate SVPs, and just letting the basement's finished room designations supply the baseboard specifications - as soon as you define a room it will add your default baseboard. In my case, I'm usually not finishing the entire basement anyway, so I don't want trim on the poured concrete walls, and therefore wouldn't even want automatic baseboard all around the foundation walls. What I would like is to be able to specify that a basement foundation has only a slab, and not finished flooring.... but I stopped bothering making suggestions a while back.

Your Shadow Board settings are all bass-ackwards. They should be set like this (Gable Only is a preference, not required): Unfortunately I had to turn Auto Roofs back on to get it to correct the issue.

Posting the plan is always best, but I would start by playing with the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool. Select the wall and click on this tool:

You turned off auto roofs. Roof directives in the wall dialog don't work with manual roofs.

Although I agree you should leave this post up for others to learn from, in the event you do want to delete an entire thread that you created, as the author you should see an option toward the top-right of the thread that says "Moderator Actions" with a pop-up option to delete the thread: