DRAWZILLA

You can post the plan including the camera view and see if it's a setting or video card problem.

You might have something way off in the distant Neverlands.

Because my eyesight is getting worse, I would like to have something like room planner, just don't see it at this time. Maybe in the future.

I'm running X5 on 8.1 without any problems

fixed it for me also

In the past I've also had a problem with older lib items, text, getting shorter, not by me doing anything to it. Easy fix but I have a lot of lib items to fix, just open select text and check auto height and width and save to lib again. I wish each new version wouldn't do that.

Here is a movie of my setup and blink.

http://screencast.com/t/TYXiS7RKHYNn

YEP, I GOT IT ALSO.

Thx P. I would/have never considered that setting to adjust that cos it ain't a brick ledge , this is where CA's terminology throws me sometimes esp. as a Contractor as I use and know the "real terms" for stuff everyday. I see a setting for a brick ledge ...not want I want so ,move on and never looked further into it as I don't remember the last time I did "brick"...

On your image you have interior railings as the wall type so esp. in that case I would of assumed Chief would ignore a brick ledge setting or not even show it ,so thx. again. learning something each time I am here.

M.

Yes I wasn't concerned about wall type, just wanted to show where you could adjust this. Thanks

me too

Siding automatically stops at the bottom of the floor structure whatever it is, which isn't how it is really built but not sure it is worth messing with in Chief to fudge it, but you may need to alter cross section views to be right for planning approval.

The is fully adjustable in the wall definitions DBX, It also works for drywall, siding whatever. 

They have, Rt's are a lot faster then they ever used to be.

Thanks,Joe

Also make sure you are using the NVidia card and not the on board built in card that a lot of laptops have.

JG,

 

I am not sure from your diagram, what intersection you are talking about.

Do you mean like this?

 

Use the new Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool. 

It is made for this situation.

Not a workaround, listen to Glen, that is the tool for connections, now you can have any connection you want. I thought you wanted just to keep 2 walls from connecting.

It work fine for any amount of floors for me

I don't think so, only way I know is to change the label in the layout. if you set up a template layout page, you never have to do it again.

Sorry to see they didn't fix the Ariel view re-fresh problem.

Just change one thing in the new wall and they will not combine together , like layer, or make it 1/16" thicker. I add a different fill for new vs. existing.

@ DRAWZILLA

 

Do you have any specifics as to why chief made more sense to you?

Well, this was a long time ago and I'm sure things have changed but I have always liked the way Chief put together a set of Construction doc's much better than Softplan. Chief was much easier to learn. Being on my own with no help from anyone, I needed to learn this as fast as I could, I didn't have time to

mess around learning so I just went to a Class for Chief in San Diego and asked some questions and Bam, it all made sense. This forum is also the best

there is. Just ask and you shall receive. I wanted to get my money back from Softplan, mainly b/c back then they didn't do mono slabs. Talked to the VP there and he said to keep trying and I did that. Then my refund time ran out. Chalk it up to my stupidity.

I have Softplan and would never go back, even though I'm sure they have a lot of new features since I bought it.

I don't use Norton's and had the same problem. I use ESET

This happened to me a month ago and they know about it, should have been fixed by now but I guess not.

One big thing for me is that now, when drawing dimensions in cross section or elevations, it no longer takes forever for the curser to jump from one point to another, yahoo!

 

 

Andy.

Yes, its been that way for a long time

You can create a thick wall and create an opening and it will show stucco by changing Some of the materials, it won't frame correctly though. I would use walls, looking at that picture