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1 hour ago, Chief_Content said:

Use the included molding profiles to match your stair or railings handrail to the accessory style you'd like to use. Then manually place the decorative pieces and use the <CTRL> + Move features to align them into place. Adjust with resize and rotate handles.

 

Some of these are not properly modeled. Here is a elevation view of the end cut of a volute with the molding profile overlayed:

20 hours ago, KnotSquare said:

LM Lighting L47 Stair Light.calibz 46.52 kB · 6 downloads

 

These came out pretty nice. Thought I would share...

 

 

any chance you would post these on my discord server?
https://discord.gg/9R3KZ53mXK

**Quick Tips for Copying Elements Between Floors in Chief Architect**
*Published by Rabbitt Design*
*Date: December 22, 2023*
*Category: Architectural Design Software Tutorial*
*Video Length: 1 minute and 16 seconds*

**Introduction**
We start with a festive greeting and dive into a quick, useful tip for using Chief Architect software. The focus is on copying elements from one floor to another in a 3D view, specifically demonstrating how to replicate windows from the second to the third floor.

**Copying Technique in 3D View**
We demonstrate the simple process of copying elements in a 3D environment. The video shows how to use the Edit Toolbar to copy and paste elements. We emphasize the ease of this process, highlighting the copy and paste options in the toolbar.

**Pasting on a Different Floor**
Next, we illustrate the process of navigating to a different floor level and using a hotkey for the 'paste hold position' function. This ensures that the copied elements are accurately placed on the third floor, directly above their original position on the second floor.

**Final Result and Quick Tip Conclusion**
We conclude by showing the final placement of the windows on the third floor, which align perfectly with the floor below. The video ends with a reinforcement of how quick and efficient this method is for duplicating elements in Chief Architect.

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29 minutes ago, Latham said:

Thank you, Eric. I did notice that a double-click on a plan material closes the dialog, but that does not work for library materials. Hopefully that is a feature update.

 

Not understanding what you are referring to. A double click where specifically? You're opening a material from your library ot edit it and then trying to do what? or?

18 minutes ago, Jonathan3891 said:

I'm trying to manually change this switch to a 3 way but the symbol is not updating.

 

Is there a way to connect electrical components from one floor to another? For instance I have a light switch at both the top and bottom of the stairs. 

just place a symbol that is a 3way from your library,otherwise you need to edit the CAD block and add your annotation for the symbol you are trying to modify.
Use CAD Lines set to the electrical connections layer to depict a connection between floors

48 minutes ago, DawnSimp said:

I think I can create one by modifying a knob, but I'm not sure how I would be able to get it split in two?

This type of hardware isn't really practical in terms of integrating into a cabinet. You would need to have a very custom element in order to have a catch that is separate from the latch. If you dont plan on opening the doors in 3d, by all means just make it a single unit and attach it to the door, but the catch will swing with the door if you open it

3 hours ago, SNestor said:

Save yourself a lot of time/trouble...and just place a solid in the space and paint it.

 

The wall method suggested above is a perfectly good method...if you don't mind spending a lot of time and probably not getting paid to do it...nor, will anyone ever know how you did it...nor, will they care.  Just my two cents.

Custom Stringer is a very easy method if it aligns with the wall above. All you would need is the custom stringer the thickness of the wall

1 hour ago, ACAaron said:

Quite an annoying thing, you'd like would have been updated by now.

Use regular text instead of rich text

2 minutes ago, Mackenzie said:

No problem, it can be hard to explain sometimes, my goal was to have wainscot tile around the whole room and tile to the ceiling in the shower and on the 4.5" width portion of the shower opening. I was able to make it look like that with wall material region tool selecting the space to be drywall, then deleting all but the backboard layer and setting it's thickness to 1/32" after unchecking the "cut finish layer" box. It seems like there would be an easier way but that's how I got here.

Ah, ok, so this can be done very easily, just add a 1/16" or 1/2" jamb to your shower door and paint it then add the wall covering.
Though it looks like your way worked just fine

19 minutes ago, Mackenzie said:

just finished trying your suggestion, It looks like It mostly works but wants to wrap around that narrow portion of the wall to the point where the glass meets, I had forgotten about the wall covering tool from a tile video though and might be missing a step.

Sorry I was confused, do you want your tile wainscot to wrap or not wrap?

1 minute ago, Mackenzie said:

1) I didn't understand this suggestion at first, but your saying just draw a rectangle with the 3D solid tool and position it carefully?

2) I was able to get this one to work after selecting that and then just leaving it as one layer of backer board that I painted to match the rest of the walls. a bit of extra work but I'm very happy to have a working solution, thank you.

 

3) once I switched to a pony wall I was able to control the upper and lower portions independently but they would both wrap around the corners respectively, is there a step or box I missed with this solution?

 

Option 2 is very much appreciated, just trying to learn as much as possible. thank you!

Did you try what I suggested?

On 12/9/2023 at 6:15 PM, adgtx08 said:

Does anyone know if Chief Architect is able to actually perform structural calculations and point loads on the foundations and framing it generates? If not, do you think it can be done using Ruby programming to generate those calculations through an add-on to the software? Or does that have to be in another calculation software like StruCalc or Forte? I have a programmer willing to make a utility for me, but I was just curious if anyone had attempted actual calculations in Chief Architect.

Not really, a wall can report its trib length on one side of the wall and be marked bearing but it cant do both sides of the wall. So no matter what there would always be some manual input

22 hours ago, ozaheman said:

Hi,

Has anybody any idea for following:

How i can add formulas in schedule as in totals it just adds total area not quantity or any other items i.e total car parking

Not possible in schedules....yet
You could instead build your own schedule out of macros inside of a text box

use a wall covering in the wall covering panel of the wing wall's dbx.

19 minutes ago, Estrada12 said:

I am new to this. I am making a custom shower and need help adding a wall above the insert. I have the insert in between 2 walls but need to add like a half wall the drops from the ceiling. Can someone help? 

It would be great if you included your .plan file as well as some photos illustrating the problem and some additional info in terms of what you are calling an insert.

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9 hours ago, Gawdzira said:

let it run overnight.

Secret Sauce...only took e a few hours to put this together  Keep in mind bitrate is 1.2 to get under chieftalks darn 14mb cap..real version is 256mb and doesn't have the artifacts

This is a chief walkthrough..the speed ramps were in time to the music track I was going to use. super low bitrate to be able to post under the 14mb cap

4 hours ago, GeneDavis said:

I'm always interested in the clever ways to do Chief cabinets (I am a dummy with them),

no not a dummy, thats a good question.
Make a custom millwork symbol and adjust the bounding box of that symbol to be the depth of the cabinet. Then apply it as a shelf. You're very close to making something cool

2 hours ago, GeneDavis said:

Timer on.  Eight minutes.  The four parts below the wall cab are 3D solids.  

 

I have fat fingers.

Try what Ryan Suggested and turn those side pieces into doors..You can make this be a cabinet with no additional solids needed

6 hours ago, Gawdzira said:

I am pretty sure Rene does this differently but this is my method. I make a distinct default set for every Plan View that is sent to layout. Generally I have 10-12 unique plan views sent to layout. If I have some new distinct layout (I occasionally have a Fire specific plan view) then I can make a new plan view with defaults in about 2 minutes. The default sets are exportable to update a template plan.

 

You just dont need a default set for saved plan views is why I do it differently. I might do a different default set for different scales only.
Your screen shots show the SPV defaults, so you couldve just set those and not used a default set. Then you have the power of the default set being able to designate something else

In Active Layer Display Options you can check Modify All Layer Sets and then do a Layer Search for "Labels", then at the bottom check the select all and then uncheck display

9 minutes ago, Elliot said:

I am struggling with plan views and layer sets.  In the plan I am working on now, I created two views. A ceiling framing view and a floor framing view.  For each one I created a layer set and assigned the layer set to the corresponding view. So the Ceiling framing view gets assigned the Ceiling layer set and so on.  And for each layer set I create layers which would be very specific to just that view. For the Ceiling view I have Text - ceiling framing,  and for Cad I have CAD - ceiling framing , and same for dimensions.  So those items show up only on that view.  I have watched the videos and   I think I am doing all correctly. 

But  I am in the Floor Framing View and the layer set is the Floor Layer Set with the Text - floor framing turned on. But I start to place text in that view and CA asks me if i want to turn on the Text- Ceiling Framing layer. 

I don't understand how the layer sets coordinate or are affected by what I set in the defaults/setting.  I thought the selected layer set overrides whatever is in the defaults. Is there a setting to make it ignore the defaults and just use whatever I have set in the layer set.  

Why is it doing that and what am I doing wrong? 

thanks

Well first up I will offer that I sell templates that take all of the hassle out of this..shameless plug.
Layers are plan wide, you can create a custom layer(Though I advise people to make as few custom layers as possible for business scaling/onboarding complexity) but that layer wil exist across all layer sets.
Also, you need to edit your active defaults for your saved plan view. This can be done by editing the active view and in the selected defaults panel, setting up your defaults for that view. The layer set for your active view only determines how layers will show up for that view, they don't determine annotations/dimensions/ etc.