glennw

Would this dbx help any?

A couple of things. First off, I would change your spa wall definitions slightly to make things a bit clearer and to be better able to keep track of what is happening. Do this by opening the 14" Concrete Stem Wall definition and changing the Line Color for one side of the wall to red (or any color). This will let you easily identify if a wall is "inside out" in plan view.. I would go around each wall and use the Reverse Layers tool to fix things up. This may make it easier to apply the Wall Coverings to the correct sides of the walls (by group selecting the walls and changing them all at once). Next. There is a way to do this. The default wall heights are determined by the ceiling height of the room - in this case the room is the spa. Group select the spa walls and open the dbx. On the Structure panel>Default Wall Heights, check Default Wall Top Height. You can now control the wall heights by changing the ceiling height of the spa room.

Yes the Room Divider walls are permanent. I think when i was trying out the Room Divider walls, I had them going completely through the spa walls and then when I had it all working OK, I dragged the end of the walls bak so that they were only on one side of the spa walls. Therefore, i didn't need to drag the bit of spa wall away. I believe the Room Divider walls go on the Walls, Invisible layer by default. Just turn the display of that layer off in whatever the floor plan layer set is. Or put them on their own custom layer and turn that layer off.

Post the .plan file - not the layout file. It looks like you need to break the Elevation Lines where you want the flat area and then use Terrain Breaks where you have the retaining walls. My advice is to use ordinary walls and a Terrain Break rather than using Retaining walls. Use an elevation region for the flat area.

OK, I think I have it sorted. I am having the same problems as you. The easiest way to control everything is to use 2 Room Divider walls to control all the various parameters. Place 2 Room Divider walls perpendicular to the spa wall and then break the spa wall at those points. You can then control the location of the spillway by moving the Room Divider walls. GLENNSTerrain w: Footprint (new pool:spa) work.plan

I didn't open you file before my last post. I have to go out now, so will have a play a bit later and report back.

Try pulling the wall away further so that it doesnt snap back.

Have you tried getting what you want by using the Bifold door tool?

You do exactly what you said. You Break the wall into 3 sections. Pull the spillway section forward out of alignment so that the wall doesn't want to snap together again. Change the cap. Move that section of wall back to its original location. The different cap will stop the wall from snapping together as 1 wall. Or create a new wall type for the spillway section. In a vector view, you will probably get a line where the walls meet, but that will probably line up with the edges of the waterfall anyway.

Have you tried exporting and importing layersets?

Now you can fill it with water by using the Floor Finish setting, applying a water material and making it the height of the water.

I don't get that behviour on my mac. You can try the built in mac screen capture by using Shift+Command+4

Did you start by looking in the library?

Or you can try Backup Entire Plan from within Chief. Select the Send Backup Files To Zip Archive option. Should save you a bit of fumbling around if it gets the file down small enough. Or...I have used a free service called WeTransfer - free and great for large files.

Do not use terrain walls - there is no need to - they will only complicate the process. Just use plain walls. My best tip if you want to use curved and straight walls is to use the one with the 45deg corners. Use the Change Line/Arc on the 45deg walls. Then use the Make Arc Tangent tool where you can specify a radius during the process for the curved wall. No need for guide lines or worrying about locating arc centres or trying to get arcs to locate.

It is possible to do rounded corners like this (I can't get zero inside radius, is, square inside) but they play havoc with some of the auto functions like auto roofs and auto foundations and chief doesn't handle them well generally.

The "side panel" can mean anything, depending on how the user has customised the UI. There are many ways to do what you want. Are you thinking about the Style Pallets? You can customise these and then apply the style to objects in various modes (ie, Object, Room, Floor, Plan) Start by selecting a window and then click Add Object To Style Pallet on the Edit toolbar. You can customise the style pallet in the dbx before it is added to the library, or you can open it from the library and customise it.

I think you need to turn on the locate Cad objects in your dimension defaults.

Chief is dimensioning to the extents of the cad block - not to the objects within the cad block.

When you create the Cad Block, you can nominate where you want to locate the Insertion Point by using a Place Point snapped to the centre of the circle. The obvious place for an insertion point is the centre of the circle - but it can go anywhere, on the line, centre of circle.......even away from the Cad Block. After you create the cad block, you can then snap the Insertion Point to the Place Point (which doesn't get included in the cad block). This means that not only can you move and snap the cad block with the nominated insertion point, but you can dimension to it as well. You current Insertion Point is off centre of the circle for some reason - I am guessing you eyeballed it there? so...to clarify: Explode your cad block (the circle and the line). Snap a Place Point to the centre of the circle, or on the line - where ever you want the Insertion Point to locate. Select the line and the circle and Make Cad Block. Select Insertion Point and snap to the Place Point. You can delete the Place Point as it is not connected to, or part of the cad block - it was just used as a temporary snap point.

In Oz (about 35 deg south) we are typically required to do shadow diagrams for June 21 at 9am, 12 noon and 3pm.

Copy and Paste from one plan to the other.

I will put my hand up for this one. Send me a private message with your contact details and the services you require.

You can change the default for vector views. 3D>3D View Defaults>Vector View Options>View Types With Color On.

It sounds like you used Rotate Plan View - bad move. Read up on Rotate Plan View and don't use it - except to rotate your terrain back to zero degrees. Then use Edit Area to do the rotation.