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Why are you building your site plan in a separate file? Why not use the plan with the model, it's far more dynamic, especially since we have additional capabilities when the house is present such as flattening pad and retaining wall intersections

Would probably add a emissive material area light in this and change the glass to translucent with a clear coat

Would suggest you bring it into the very free and robust software blender and decimate it and then remap it using the tutorials available or the knowledge base.

I've started selling a standalone package for Area Analysis of your project. It is the same package that exists in the Pro Plan Template that I sell. You can download an example PDF of how the system is installed and how it works HERE It comes with free installation which you can schedule at your convenience SCHEDULER LINK The Listing is HERE The system works with a single polyline for your lot perimeter and then specialized macros and schedules that are modifiable. It does come with a free toolbar configuration with 5 tools included in the package for single click modifications to reported values.

residential template

default template is in program files if you are on a PC within chiefs directory

File/Import/Default Settings/

Use dropbox for plan and layout Data files require manual work for multiple users. Advice you to store your chief data directory off of the cloud and when needed, export or transfer the data files to another machine. If multiple users are adding symbols or textures, make sure they save them to their library then export them as a group, then take the export to your cloud server and have other users import. In this way, chiefs core data remains off cloud and independent for each machine, causing no redundant issues, and you are simply transferring assets as needed. For sharing files, make sure to create backups which will export materials and pdfs as a zip archive for another machine that does not have that asset

Export your entire user library and it will prompt you to locate missing data files and point it back to your directory where you restored them It's still free

What is your end goal?

In case it isn't clear, you cannot work on the same project file at the same time. Also, having your Chief architect data in onedrive will cause a redundancy over time as onedrive tries to cache files while you are working in chief which locks those files, causing onedrive to say create a duplicate of your user library with a suffix which will not be read by Chief. Furthermore, as someone else said, you would need to set your onedrive to offline all files for Chief. I would not use onedrive for projects, its terribly slow and has terrible caching and redundancy algo's when compared to dropbox. I still use onedrive for backups as well as google drive for some email storage but dropbox is my main cloud backup service as well as a local NAS and secondary drives for redundant backups. In terms of using chief within an office environment, chief looks for missing files in two locations, within its data files and within the folder that the plan and layout are stored in. If those files are not there, missing file errors will populate. So either export plan material libraries from one machine to import into another or backup your plan file to the cloud and then extract contents on the second machine. (if you want to get fancy, just drop the extracted image and pdf files from the backup to the second machines data directory

See attached video for solution on what you are asking for: 250108.mp4

Murky waters...Do they have permission from the designer of record to modify there original drawn plans per the Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act?

you could do it, a polyline for area and then you need something that reports elevation reference to bottom like a geometric shape.

take it one more step and put a check mark in always open with

one polyline for lot size and just a bunch of schedules...didn't do any work but shape the polyline which you would have to do anyway and choose my room types

If I understand you right, this would be really easy to do just by making custom room types with a prefix or suffix "Below" and then doing a schedule that includes area from below grade room types

Can you expand on this?

This is using one of my macros which Ethan asked me permission for, thank you ethan. Its also letting loose a bit of info that I have largely kept to myself for the last year or so, that you can build a calc into a summed row total. This works particularly well for mixing and matching different objects into a total formulation.

What do you mean. Windows do report their room name and schedules can report windows by room

I have stated this before, and unfortunately this is not one of those things that I would give away for free as others sell a similar system. All I am willing to tell you is that it is totally doable without the need of a rich text box. My next version of the Pro Plan has an expanded area analysis that is very easy to adapt to many different conditions. It only requires one polyline for the lot size. The rest is done automatically.

Most cloud point services offer a converted obj file which chief can import. Regarding Ai request...it's just not ready for prime time...you might get 1 good image out of 20 and it will just cause a bunch of support calls. I am with Jason on this one. Drastically improve the style palette tool to incorporate roof and trim styles and exterior materials and landscaping and then we could get great images programmatically which would be accurate.

Thanks to whoever took this floor plan down. It was downloaded 29 times and is my proprietary work product, I would appreciate it if those that downloaded it do not distribute it.

You can also type 4 in 12 for an angle