EmmaCox

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  1. 3 hours ago, glennw said:

    I think that is because you have a plain curve selected - not a Walkthrough Path.

    You can convert the curve to a Walkthrough Path by selecting Convert Polyline from the Edit menu.

    Or cancel your selection and you can then use Create Walkthrough Path to draw one.

     

    That is a walkthrough path that was created which has different key frames on it.

     

    Thanks everyone for your help. I have decided to keep the door open as I don't think what I'm looking for is an easy solution or possible without a lot of editing required. Originally I was looking for the door to open as the video walks into the house. Here is the final product just keeping the door open which I think looks good enough! :)

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  2. 1 minute ago, mtldesigns said:

    Once I start my walkdown (I use a 3DConnection mouse too so its more smooth, left hand), I click (with my regular mouse, right hand) on that pull down so the pause button is always on top.. I pause for doors, changing directions or rooms.. Am I ready for Hollywood, no way.. but it communicates what I need to show.

     

    I just have a regular mouse, is there a way to pause during a "create walkthrough path"?

  3. 14 minutes ago, mtldesigns said:

    I do open doors via Chief walk trough vid.  How I do it is once I start my walkthrough and approach a door, I pause the recording, open (or close) that door, then un pause and keep on walking.. works perfectly.

     

    I "solved" this post too quickly lol! Thank you, this is very helpful. I'm fairly new at the walkthroughs, how do you pause?

  4. Hi Joey - I don't use the auto roofs, I just draw them manually with "roof plane". What do you mean by "full return" is that an option in the settings I need to uncheck? I just tried deleting and re-drawing but same thing is happening. I also just tried on the other side of the garage, same thing but also weird it worked fine by the porch. See screenshot (very rough right now).

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  5. 12 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

     

    Try starting with an 11 or 12 point text in Word and I think you'll find that it works better.  It seems to behave differently depending on the source text size.

     

    I tried copying from 11 and 12 in word and it still pastes as a slightly higher fractioned number in chief, very weird.

    The transform replicate resizing works alright, although I am a bit OCD with the sizes being exact, it will do for now!

     

    Thanks Michael!

  6. 30 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

     

    More likely than not, when you did it in the past, you pasted it directly into a Rich Text box that already had the number height set appropriately and so you never had to go through the resize process.  If you simply paste directly into the plan, it will come in at a size that is proportional to what it was in Word.  To get what you want, open a Rich Text box, set the number height appropriately, and then paste what you copied from Word.

     

     

    I tried this at the start, but for some reason it still wants to change the height automatically to a slightly higher fractioned number. I've came up with a way to sort of solve the issue, I used the transform replicate to resize the rich text to get it closer to the height I want.

     

    PS thanks for your help guys, I really appreciate it!! :)

     

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  7. It's working in X12 (sorry I misread the message above from Michael explaining that). I copy the text from "new result" and open rich text, I set the font / size, and paste but then it changes it to arial automatically (which looks proportional) and then I go to change it to another font and it spaces out the numbers.

     

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  8. Michael, I tried copying the numbers you had posted above from your phone and they show up and resize fine, they just look very spaced out. The black numbers are what I had before when I was having no issues (from MS Word to Chief) compared to the blue which is the copied numbers from your phone.

     

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    I'm using X9, although we have X10 and X12 here at work... I hate change haha!

     

    I downloaded your attachment above and followed the steps, I don't have the "new result" field but it seems to be showing weird symbols rather than superscript.

     

     

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    I have 2 chief files where I've done these window numbers before, I will try to make do and copy and paste what I can from those. I'm sure I have similar windows sizes so it shouldn't be a problem. I was just hoping there was an explanation why this all of a sudden wasn't working for me, just weird it's worked fine in the past! 

     

     

  9. I'm trying to make window numbers with superscript in rich text. I've done this before and not sure why it's not working this time. I go into Microsoft Word, type out the numbers with the superscript, copy and paste into chief rich text but when I go to  re-size the fonts it makes the superscripts back to normal size (if that makes sense). I've also tried the Microsoft keyboard shortcut directly in the chief rich text by highlighting the number and pressing ctrl, shift and the plus sign at the same time but that's not working either.

     

    Any thoughts on why this isn't working?

     

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  10. Hi Dave, thanks for the video. I looked at all the settings and everything has shadows checked off and it's still not turning on in the 3D views (regardless to generic or sun angle).

    You mentioned the driver on the video card may need to be updated, how do I check if it needs updated?

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  11. For the past week the shadows button hasn't been working for me (I'm using X9).

    I usually just click the "toggle shadows" and it turns on, but nothing is happening on or off.

     

    Any ideas of how to fix this?

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  12. I am working on a project with a split entry. I have created a pony wall for the basement foundation / framed wall above. The framed wall has stone veneer on it and I would like to have a masonry ledge / cap on it. Looking at other tutorials it looks like there should be a “wall cap” section in the wall specifications, but mine seems to missing. See attached screenshots. Not sure if it is because I am using version X9?

     

    Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!  

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