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Curt, You need to do 2 things. 1. In the Note Specification dbx>Note panel>Schedule>Type - select a type. 2, In the Note Schedule Specification dbx>General panel>Objects to Include, select the appropriate type of note that matches your selection 1. above.
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Rob, That sounds like unusual behaviour, but if works for you, all is good. Oh, by the way, the photo is not of myself. I am a little older, that is my grandson.
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Rob, Try Defaults>Plan>Ignore Casing For Opening Resize
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It is possible to do something like this using Recessed into wall, a 2 layer wall and external casing. You would need to clean up the openings in plan to show the angled reveal instead of the square casing (a shortcoming with Chief), but the 3D view looks OK.
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mouse-orbit camera as center button of 3 button mouse?
glennw replied to modaby's topic in Tips & Techniques
Using a mac, Mouse -Orbit Camera is the default move camera mode when I open a 3D view. That means I can rotate the model using the left mouse button and select objects with the right button without escaping or selecting any tools. Is that the functionality you are after, or do you absolutely need to use the centre button? -
Curt, The layers only apply to a plan view, not a 3D view.
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Richard, It IS possible to use real word heights in Chief so that all heights (floors, roofs, terrain, etc), relate directly to each other and the real world. I have done this in several plans. Although you can't change Chiefs default first floor level from zero, you can specify real world heights on a room by room basis. You can change the defaults for floors other than level 1. I like working this way on some projects because all heights are relative to each other and are returned in real world heights.
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Larry, Turn on auto roofs. Now make the foundation room larger than the floor above. If Roof Over This Room is checked, a roof will build over the "sticky out" bit of the foundation - nothing lost by leaving it checked even if it doesn't do anything and there is no "sticky out" bit. If Roof Over This Room is unchecked, a roof will not build over the "sticky out" bit. This is a very simple example just to demonstrate that sometimes that setting could be used.
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Whilst using a molding polyline may not be the preferred method for this case, it is probably worth a heads up on the fact that the moldings intrude into the interior. The end shape of the molding can be customised so that it is parallel to the wall and doesn't intrude into the interior. The trick is to use a 3D Molding Polyline (as opposed to a Molding Polyline. Add an extra line segment at each end and uncheck Molding On Selected Edge. Now, by rotating the last (no molding) line segment, you can shape the moldings end angle to make it parallel to the wall. The end angle of the molding will bisect the angle between the last 2 lines. This does not work with a Molding Polyline - in that case, the ends of the molding are always perpendicular to the molding.
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I used a molding polyline using a CA-35 crown molding which I grabbed out of the library pretty quickly. Not too hard to make any shaped molding you want, to better suit. No shortage of way to do that.
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Chad, Not so... I think that you will find that before she curved the roof, she turned off auto roofs. She was actually curving the roof and trimming it to the adjacent roof plane manually. If you try and curve the roof without turning off auto roofs, you get a message asking if you want to turn auto roofs off. She didn't get the message, therefore I assume she turned auto roofs off and then manually edited the curved roof.
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Rod, I am confused. Aren't the system layers the ones with a big red S in them?
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Larry, This could get complicated. How would you cover the situation where a layer is used in more than 1 layerset? Oh, on your comment regarding Modify All Layer Sets. When this is checked, Chief will apply any changes to a layers properties to all layer sets. If it is unchecked (default), Chief only applies any changes to a layers properties to the current layer set - which is what is needed in most cases. This allows us to display objects with different appearances in different layersets.
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Ben, I would like to see a hierarchical "folder" structure for the layers. Much the same as the traditional file folder setup. ie, we could have a layer folder called Dimensions. This dimensions layer folder would then have dimension layer subfolders called Dimensions, Automatic, Dimensions Manual, Dimensions Electrical, etc. This would allow for grouping of various layer groups and finer editing control. ie, we could turn off all the dimension layers by only selecting the head Dimension layer folder. Or we could change all the dimension layer properties in one go instead of having to group select all the dimension layers as we do now.
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Chad, I did it manually. You could probably build that whole roof auto and then just add the curved bit at the end. That way you can get all your other roofs at the correct heights and slopes and then it is just a matter of fitting the curved one in to fit by changing the radius, slope, heights, etc.
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Briefly...Use a curved roof with a negative radius and join it to a normally pitched roof.
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Barry, One at a time. 1. The balcony fascia disappeared because the wall definition for the railing consists of only 1 framing layer. The balcony fascia gets it's material from the wall definition. So...you can add an external cladding layer to the Deck Railing/Fence_2 and it will fill in the balcony fascia with that material (Soft Green?). Or, if you already had an external cladding layer in the wall definition, you could open the wall dbx and on the Materials panel, change the External Wall Material to Soft Green. This is what happened to the deck on the front house which uses an Interior Railing_3 wall type with Drywall as it's external layer, but the Exterior Wall Material has been changed to Soft Green in the Materials panel. Make sense? I will have a look at the other problems a bit later.
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Can you post a plan with a couple of different linestyles in it?
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Barry, Are you trying to do this in only plan view? My advice is to tile a plan and a section view (with some vertical dimensions), or even a 3D view using the Cross Section Slider. This makes it a lot easier to see what is going on with the various levels. You can even do the editing in the section/3D view. Toggle on Select Room Before Wall in 3D to make it a lot easier - especially to see what happens when you drag a floor down, for instance. You can use drag/Tab to move floors a fixed distance.
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Chopsaw, They are really only designed to be viewed in elevation. There is no cad standard that says you can draw them in section. They are just a hangover (in section) from as long as far back as I can remember - when Chief was a bit more basic. I would class this as a bug and worthy of a report.
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Hotkeys--I like my hotkeys, they work off first letters.
glennw replied to zowie123's topic in Symbols and Content
Barry, Very similar to my own. I use ones like ZA (zoom all), ZI (zoom in), ZB (zoom window building only), LB (library browser), PB (project browse), TV (tile vertically), TH (tile horizontally), etc. Generic Cadd had this figured out at least 30 years ago. -
Chopsaw, They are opening indicators and it has been like that for a long time. On the Opening Indicators layer.
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Larry, I am not sure that you understood what Kirk was saying, so forgive me if I am stating the obvious. If you have a layer specified by an annoset to use that layer, even though there is no data on that layer, Chief will mark that layer as Default which you can't delete. So you need to check your annosets for any layers they may be using - you would then need to delete that layer from the annoset (or delete the annoset). Then if there is no data on the layer, you should be able to delete the layer - as long as some other default is not using that layer as well. My best guess is that a most of your layers (that you have created) marked "Default" are referenced by one or more of your annosets. It could be a big job!
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Can you post a plan diagram of the left hand sidewalk/road junction. Is it curved or bent? If a sidewalk runs into a road at an angle, the sidewalk will trim to the road. You can snap sidewalks end to end and form a "bent" sidewalk.