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34 minutes ago, Migaloo said:

I applied this to the front porch wall. I do not see a way to change the height or depth of the brick veneer.

heights are determined by rooms, so your foundation room's floor height should be adjusted to adjust the height of the stem wall

28 minutes ago, Migaloo said:

I have tried that also. 

and what was the result? what ended up happening that you didnt like?
 

3 hours ago, 447Debbie said:

The three items in the green boxes are what I'm trying to change.

I want to change the garage elevation from 1964.33' to 1967.328'

I want the 3" dip to go from 1964.08' to 1967.078'

I want the point 23' from the garage to go from 1966.08' to 1969.078'.

 

I want everything else to remain the same, with the exception of the slope which will change accordingly, if all works.

 

What tools do I need to do this since going in and changing the elevation lines is not working?

Get rid of all the other data and let chief interpolate. youre going to be grading anyways, just get all of it out of there and stick to the data you need. Remove the terrain retaining walls , they cause an automatic step. 
Put a terrain break in for your 3" drop with data on either side
 

3 hours ago, 447Debbie said:

Home Designer Pro 2021.

This forum is for the Premiere line, Hometalk is for the home designer line where people will know how to better instruct you

13 minutes ago, Migaloo said:

I am trying to show brick from the top of the floor down to the footing.

 

change your default foundation wall type to the type of wall you want (Brick over concrete masonry)

1 minute ago, SHCanada2 said:

example where you can see the blue of the polyline defining the area

Understood, makes sense thank you

11 hours ago, SHCanada2 said:

 

X16 schedules can do quite a bit as Rene indicates in another thread. After some fiddling, I also got the schedule to work for the window area as a percentage of wall area (required in Canada). Wall area still needs the polyline. But this eliminates the need to store the windows in a global variable.

 

So the request to publish the schedule total as an NVP is not actually required. The attached shows my original macro solution in the label, where the schedule shows similar output...except it does not have the "largest unprotected window"...not sure if that could actually be done in a schedule...maybe I will try

 

 

Why are you using a polyline for this?

6 minutes ago, SageDesign said:

How do I get my window schedule in Chief 16 to display "dimensions", "width", and "height" in feet and fractional inches.  It now shows in "feet" with 5 decimal places!

There is a Number Formatting column in your schedule in X16, pick the column you want to change the format on and format accordingly

1 hour ago, Vicki17 said:

Yes that sounds just right.  Do you know where I find the setting for plans vs elevations for this?

 

Hit the Edit The Active View Button for your current elevation and change the dimension default.
for defaults go to Edit/Default Settings/Camera Tools/Cross Section/Elevation and change your default for dimensions

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Free Porch extension tools here:

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A video is attached to rope you in
Here is the plan file with instructions on how to set this up for yourself:
Example Porch Extension Plan.plan
 

How to make custom cabinet doors, usually I would use a custom countertop and molding but lets try out a window instead

15 minutes ago, SHCanada2 said:

I saw this type of thing (although not quite as uniform) frequently in X15, so far I have never seen it in X16. you could download the trial and see

thats because we switched to multi bounce path tracing..you would still see it if you set bounces to 1

1 hour ago, winterdd said:

Is there a way to get ride of this when doing renderings physically based? Sun shouldn't be shining thru joints in the home.

 

This was patched in X16

7 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Unfortunately this misses too many variations.in the label.  What I'm trying to do is have a single macro that can give the exact syntax for a given mfr - including door & drawer qtys, butt doors if exist, etc.

 

I have done this for a few manufacturers but all from an index and match system...there are typically only standard rules up until you get a one off that follows no rules to speak of which is why I switched to indexing an entire catalog, then my macros look for a match based on parameters such as size and num_doors/drawers, size of panels, etc. 

3 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Rene,

The reason for making a metric version is to create a Layout Template with the same borders, title blocks, text, indexes, etc.

Offhand I can't think of any reason to attempt the same thing for Plan Templates since I would simply create the model in the appropriate Metric Template.

Of course an Imperial Plan can be sent to a Metric Layout at the scale.

I literally want to convert my plan template from imperial to metric. I have put it off for 2 years now because of how much work it is. I want to convert all of my CAD details to a system that works in metric, I want to run all of my same macros without having to re-script for different inputs and formatters, and I want to transfer defaults and cad blocks and text styles and wall types etc. 
There is NO easy way to do this, it is a lot of work

1 hour ago, JiAngelo said:

Cut and paste between mixed unit plans wasn't the topic of discussion. 

This was to illustrate the point of the dimensionless 1:1 conversion and why you can't simply "convert" imperial to metric.
 

1 hour ago, JiAngelo said:

convert the imperial plan to metric

There is no tool for this, what are you suggesting?

Chief does a unitless import of defaults, which means all of your text style dimensions will be wrong for instance
 

2 minutes ago, CAmichael240114 said:

 

Not sure if this comment fits in with what you are saying of how Chief handles or converts units, this is what I find.

We are metric only so my template is metric.

For example;

I download a plan or symbol say from this site which is in imperial units.

Open the imperial plan, add items to my library.

Open my metric template, the imperial items inported into my library are now in equivelant metric units, a length of 12 in is now shown as 304.8 mm

Bo that is a separate function. Take a text box that is 4 inches with size 4 font and copy it from imperial to metric and it will resize as a 1:1 number to number context. It does not convert the dimensions

All of these answers missing one very crucial bit of info. If you have something set as 5" in your imperial plan defaults, it will be 5mm in your metric plan. Chief just sees these as numbers not dimensions so its a 1:1 translation.
I know this because i've been working for countless hours trying to recreate my templates in metric

10 minutes ago, steve_stuart said:

I was in the middle of working on a plan and lost my custom toolbar configuration, everything went back to the Default configuration. Pretty sure there is a way to get it back by getting the program to look at the correct location (see image) but I can't figure out how to do that. Any help would be appreciated.

Right click your toolbars, 

then:

1 hour ago, jaaos123 said:

I have created a room with its specifications, room type, name etc and saved it to my library as "add objects to Style Palette" by right clicking on specific room. But when I open this style palette from my library, the room type is still Unspecified, even though I chose it earlier. Even saving it again does not work. Though I would be able to use this as quickly specifying my room types from library. What am I doing wrong? 

Send in a suggestion, it's not capable, I've been asking for this since they introduced style pallets 

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/28956-room-type-to-style-palette/?do=findComment&comment=230884

1 minute ago, kwhitt said:

Michael - thanks for the reply.  I'm not sure I follow you though.  Would you mind giving me some more info on your technique?  Kevin

Make your text box the same size as the size of the extent of your symbol in place of the lines you have to delete 

23 hours ago, djhplanning said:

I believe this is how I did it before!  I was missing the part of having to be in a 3d view to have the option to convert to a symbol.  I like this method because there is more control over the elevation of the building vs. the site terrain as I can just selected the symbol and manually move it up or down and around.  Thank you very much for the help!

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 

35 minutes ago, rlackore said:

Here's a library with two versions: full polys (53,987) and reduced polys (21,140). I don't have the hardware to test the light settings, so you'll have to tweak those no doubt.

Embra.calibz 4.55 MB · 0 downloads

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.