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We now have a few more options for arrowheads and as you can see the settings tab has grown signficantly.
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I've added the ability to edit, delete and also move openings in walls from the various elevation views:
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Duly noted. I will look into the arrow head style and the dimension to centerline of walls (interior). I agree that this is very important.
- Yesterday
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Do you have "auto rebuild" turned on for your roofs? You should be able to find it in the "build roof" dialog. If auto rebuild is off, changing the settings in the wall dialog won't actually change your roofs until you rebuild them. Same as moving a wall or pretty much anything else that might affect your roofs. If you do have auto rebuild turned on, then it should work so you might want to post your plan so that someone can check it out. There are some more obscure settings that may or may not affect your situation, such as having made roof baseline polylines or the minimum alcove size. BTW, HD Pro 2013 is pretty old at this point so there probably are not going to be a lot of people that still have it. Some of the advice you get may not work for you. Also, there is a separate forum for Home Designer and you might find someone still using an old version there: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/
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I am working with Home Designer Pro 2013. I have a wall needing a gable to it. I clicked the full gable wall in the menu as shown. But the gable does not show up in the 3D views. I am confused on why this feature does not work. Can anyone guide me to make a correction? Thanks
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Room Space Box walls work off of your wall defaults. Just make a super thin room divider wall and put that as your Exterior and Interior wall default. Same tool, just no wall thickness.
- Last week
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That is how I do it. I always use separate plans, and sometimes I create a symbol. Using separate plans allows you to reference the garage in the house plan in 2D and 3D, without the symbol being created. This you to easily alter the angle and elevation of the garage, again and again... Or, you can use the separate garage plan to create a garage symbol and place it in the house plan. This also allows you to easily alter the angle and elevation of the garage, again and again... Best, Charles
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Add a break so the two roof planes over the longer walls can make a ridge. Your plan before adding breaks: After I added breaks and joined opposite planes to make the ridge: Temp 5.mp4 I hope this helps. Best, Charles
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They all join in X18 with no problems.
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This is definitely an interesting topic. I think your best route would be to sign up for a software like Slack and upload the .plan file every time it’s updated. It seems like it is tedious, but unless you have a multi user license for chief Architect, I am unsure if you can access the same files. There is also another solution you might be able to do for free…’m assuming your company has one main server so when one employee saves the file on that server, another employee from the company should be able to access that exact file if you can’t do that then sending updated. .plan files either through slack or another CRM is the way to go.
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That’s tough using a much older version. I noticed that with using versions like X 15 or X 16 and not using X 17 and 18 I find that they are more glitches so I feel your pain but it might be time to update.
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I would create both plans either on the same plan file or on two separate files and then bring it over to a Layout and import either both plans or the same version of one plan just with the garage close-up and the main house close-up onto one layout page that has worked for me in the past, and hopefully it will work for you
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Arrow style is also desired. Slash filled dot etc
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Often we dimension to the centerline of interior walls. There should be an option for that and also notation of C/L
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I still have some rough edges to work on in the UI but progress is being made: All dimensions are associative, there is no concept of an orphaned dimension, however I may eventually change my mind on that. The nice thing about associative dimensions is that when you change the location of a wall or opening all of the dimensions auto-update. Additionally the dimensions snap to the grid so it is easy to setup your dimensions and keep them all aligned as para-CAD has noted.
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Third way is to reference the garage plan in the house plan. You can drag and rotate the reference plan to get it where you want it located, then set the z-axis so the garage doors are at ground level. Drawing the drive pad location in the house plan helps with alignment.
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Very nice! I have seen a de facto standard arise in some people's dimensioning where the outermost line is for overall. Then the next line closer to the building is for wall offsets. And then the third line is for the center of openings. So they use a three-line dimension system. I'm sure there's people that would use four lines, so even though automatic dimensions may not be needed, it would be nice if there were user set distances away from the house that you could snap these different types of dimensions to so that they look as good as the ones in your example images.
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First look at some walls with dimensions added: I was going to setup an auto-dimension algorithm. However after building the manual dimension tool I found it so easy to use that I don't really see a reason to bother with auto dimensioning. What you see here I was able to do in about 2-3 minutes.
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Hi there, Long time chief user but Im using an older version X8. After years of being able to join roof planes in 2D, all of a sudden roof planes aren't joining with the 'Join roof planes' tool ?? Can anyone help ? I have attached a sample plan. ROOF PLANES WONT JOIN IN 2D.plan
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i would do one of two way. create garage on separate plan, convert it to symbol then place on house plan or 2 draw the garage and when done, select all areas and the rotate..but its is a bit if a paint to get exact location. you could also do a reference display, but given it is only a garage I would probably do 1 or 2
