Renerabbitt

POST 119 I put together a really easy method for assembling arched cabinets. Included are a project file with plan and a calibz file. the video has the necessary files which are prompted in the first 30 seconds. If you are trying to build an arched cabinet, this method should only take about 5 minutes Click in my signature to navigate to our new forum for more free symbols CLICK ME TO GO BACK TO THE INDEX!!!

This is quite substantially discounted if you pay annually. Check with chief, you may be able to use a prior version such as X16. Also, for me SSA is the cost of doing business. Consider this, in 4 or 5 years your older software may not support your newer hardware if you upgrade a computer. This is a common occurance, where new graphics drivers or hardware render an older software incompatible. The inverse is true as well, such as the intel macs not being supported in X17. My last two cents and its specific to my workflow but the templates I have from my historical data are 50-60% more efficient than they were in X11. That more than covers the cost difference of staying up to date with SSA. ALSO, and keep in mind I do a high volume of jobs, just schedule wrapping alone saved me near $500 on the year, and 3d dimensions saved $1K just from an efficiency standpoint...so the new versions features paid for the cost of the software

This will get rid of it and draw a rail instead:

sure, send a file my way. renerabbitt@gmail.com

I personally prefer the whole project, often times it gives context or contains something we need depending on what's being groubleshooted. Also for sharing with work colleagues ot progress a set, this is a preferred sharing file formwt

I'm not sure why no one is mentioning this yet but in this industry you really should have a cloud service and give us a link to the download. Use wetransfer for free https://wetransfer.com/pricing?trk=NAV_pricing

Edit/Default Settings/CAD/General CAD/ set to "Quadrant Bearing"

thats not going to work for me, I am not so enamored with the AI results when its changing things like the sharpness and fidelity of my carriage doors and suddenly bringing a cityscape into the background and changing my siding over my carriage doors to board and battn. etc. This ends up being a large liability for me..no AI I am trying to get a very accurate spec representation with a close up interior shot and want a practical implementation not a generated one. I am offering spec, it needs to be exacting. I have a very specific geometric tile I am trying to show in a sun study.

ive done this but I dont seem to be getting a night time look at the end. Ill try again

I know its possible to do a stationary time-lapse but I can't seem to figure out how to make this go from day to night?

So to be clear, I wanted to say I am not combatting your request, that is still valid, I am responding just to give you solutions in the meantime. My answer assumes you make a multitude of framing defaults for different beam setups or possibly one beam with variable input concrete cover you can already create just by creating your own definitions based on the wxhxd of your beam your variable or your beam type determines stirrup type, i.e., change the framing default to beam type 2 and it changes your stirrup type. (You would be doing the same thing with your request, some type of user input would be required) This should be as simple as creating beam type 1 in your framing defaults equal to Two Legged Stirrups, etc.

thanks for responding scott, it was, one of your team and i figured it out, it has to do with it having a tray ceiling, logged as a bug

I feel like this changed? My temp dims are going to ceiling structure not surface

So I guess I am missing what the request is since a beam will not and will likely never be BIM based in this software nor do I think it should be( too uch potential for liability). So I guess I am wondering, what is the request? Since with a macro you could create variable inputs for yourself so you plug in your engineering parameters and the beam could output based on those variable inputs using comments/manufacturer/code/ or custom_fields etc. ?

see previous post, we have framing member defaults, add your accessory component to your default so you don't have to keep repeating. what would be the criteria for determining the size of the rebar? can you just create a calculation for this based on the size of the beam? can't you calc this based on the beam size? can't you calc this based on the bame size ? this is just another macro in the components of the default beam member that sums qty So far this all seems doable

yes, in X17 we have framing member defaults which have an OIP. build your macros and place in the OIP or in components depending on what you are reporting to, schedule or material list. Regarding everything else, you have all the info that we have if you've managed to use the object properties macro in TMM, it's just a matter of working with the data thats there to come up with your script(s)

many users I know having the same issue. I haven't reported it yet

This is pretty common because of 2020's cabinet ordering capabilities. Would be a monumental step forward if Chief could build that into this software. I can get chief to have this functionality but not on the big massive catalogs like crystal cabinet works

The other workaround is sending an orthographic camera set to 90 90 direction and tilt but you can't directly annotate that with regular cad based text and polylines

If you are sharing from X17 I would just export a project, because you were missing the as built plan. If you are sharing from X16 or prior make a backup which will include all files. You cant do a reference elevation in layout, just send your elevation from the as built and send your elevation from your proposed and layer it on top

FYI db stands for Dan Baumann as in Chief Experts Dan Baumann, so you could always reach out to him. That font got purchased and I believed tweaked a bit to become the chief font..it should be almost identical