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  1. glennw
    Lew, What do you mean when you say that "Chief seems to struggle in these areas". I would have thought the opposite - Chief seems to excel in these areas. I have used Chief's sun tools on many occasions (both 2D and 3D, still and animated) to demonstrate shadows to authorities and clients. How many sun studies have you actually done to base your comments on?
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    What's the big deal? If you really want 0,0 exactly, place a point in your template plan. Or just save your template plan to the zoom and location close to 0,0. This will be close enough to 0,0, when you draw your first wall to not cause any problems. The standard Chief template plans I checked were all close to 0,0. If the plan is in fact a long way from 0,0, it is probably user error. And what if I don't want my first wall at 0,0 - ah, I know, we could make it an option! Who knows? It's only a guessing game without posting a plan.
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    Done manually. Place the first door. Place the second door next to the first one and then drag it over the first one.
  4. glennw
    If all you want is to have it look like that in plan, you can use the Swing Both Directions option in the door's dbx. Or, if you really want 2 doors, you can actually drag 2 doors to occupy the same location in a wall.
  5. glennw
    Lew, Why go to Sketchup when you can easily do animated sun studies in Chief with the Chief model you have already built?
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    d dot, You may be better off riding the horse back!
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    d dot, I just threw that in because the expected way didn't seem to be working. You would normally work with this setting unchecked unless you are working on an older version plan where textures were mapped differently than the later versions. It's worth a 10 second try if other things aren't working.
  8. glennw
    Do you have 3D View Defaults...Options...General Options...Legacy Compatible Texture Mapping checked?
  9. glennw
    Probably! This is the Chief Architect forum. I think you need to go to the Home Designer forum...or update to Chief Architect.
  10. glennw
    You seem to be using mixed terminology which is confusing your request. It seems that you need to save the 2D gas symbol (really a cad block) to your library. Then, from the Image Specification dbx..2D Plan Symbol, you can click Library and then select your cad block. Once you have associated your cad block to your image, you can then save it to the library and then your image and associated cad block will be tied together.
  11. glennw
    You can raise the sill of a door to any height you want. It doesn't have to sit on the floor.
  12. glennw
    Is your driveway made from a floor, part of the terrain, an object.... If follow terrain doesn't work, try Wall Specification...Rail Style panel...Build From...Generate on Low Platform. Otherwise...post the plan.
  13. glennw
    You need to click More Reply Options (bottom right hand corner of the reply window). I don't know why, but if you are editing a post, it's not called More Reply Options - it's called Use Full Editor. Then down below the text reply window, you will find Attach Files.
  14. glennw
    Select the room box. Transform/Replicate...Rotate
  15. glennw
    In relation to cabinets specifically, we have a lot more flexibility when importing a .3ds than when creating a symbol directly in Chief. Why is it so? We should have the same options when creating a cabinet symbol directly in Chief as we do when importing a .3ds - that was probably created in Chief anyway.
  16. glennw
    I think you exported it as probably a .3ds model and then imported it back into Chief. This allows you to save it as a cabinet symbol (base, wall or full height) where it has all the typical cabinet parameters and it acts just like a Chief typical cabinet.. You don't get all these choices if you try and save it as a straight symbol directly in Chief.
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    I can't remember what formats previous versions used for the libraries and I don't have V5 installed anymore. It may be possible to change the extension of a .calibz file to a .zip file and then use the contained .calib file to import into a previous version.
  18. glennw
    Na, didn't forget it, I am assuming that he just wants to move a certain distance (with nothing to snap to as the target). With point to point, you need an object as a target to snap to (otherwise click a random spot).
  19. glennw
    Select the object/s start dragging them in the correct direction, press Tab, check Relative to Start, uncheck Polar. Enter the move distance in Y Position. Or Set your Grid Snap to the required move distance and select and drag the object. It will snap to the Grid Snap distance as you drag. Or, instead of dragging the object, use one of the arrow keys to move it by the Grid Snap distance. Or Select the onject and use Transform/Replicate...Move. Is that enough choice?
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    Mike, What is your Preferences...Edit...Snap Properties...Options...Snap Distance set to?
  21. glennw
    Victor, I can duplicate what you are seeing. In the attached pic, everything looked fine to start. I have only changed 3 of the pages as you can see. What I did was to select the layout box and uncheck Retain Aspect Ration of... I then dragged the top down and the bottom up to make a smaller box. I then used the corner handle to drag the corner and make the box larger. This results in the effect you see. To get things back to normal, I can select the box, open it's dbx and check Reset Cropping - I then see the full page.
  22. glennw
    You can save wall types in the library. Open up some template plans and have a look at the wall types and save to the library the ones that you want. Or create your own wall types - it doesn't take long - a minute or less per wall? You could have done either of these in the time you have spent here.
  23. glennw
    Victor, I am on Windows7. I can click on the multipage pdf's and change the page that displays. I don't see anything apparently wrong with the .pdf's I assume you are seeing the problem on page A4 where you have several .pdf's. There are 4off 81/2"x11" pages and 4off 71/8"x51/2" pdf's. Pic attached. As you can see, I can select the multipage .pdf's and change the page that displays. I am not sure if that is good or bad - but things are really slow with this file.
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    Victor, I have had a look at your file and can't see any .pdf's that are huge or don't look correct. What pdf's are you seeing as huge? One thing that I did notice was that some of the .pdf's were multipage and you are only displaying one page. ie, CDworksheet current.pdf on layout sheet A4. Maybe why everything is so slow? I haven't had a play yet, but have you tried creating and importing .pdf's that are only 1 page per file?
  25. glennw
    In plan: Preferences...Appearance...Display...Images and Pictures...Display in Color When Possible? In Layout: Open the picture's dbx. General..Display Options...Grayscale?