buzzsaw204

heres another mis-function of this topic.....

why cant CA print in grey scale??

It has to do with the red color you are using.

If you want it to not to go black use a lighter color of red.

 

RGB color (R-255,G-70, B-70)

it appears after testing this that if your green, blue is below 60-65 it looks black.

this is really, really, ridiculously silly of CA function like this.

hi,

what is the setting in the Wall fill that make it in print color, but no Fill when print NOT "Print in Color"

i just alway use the CA 6" Stucco Wall type and all other CA standard wall type. no custom, no frills.

but whens come to printing, all wall fill show when "Print in Color" ON

and only 1 wall fill show as the black wall, when  "Print in Color" OFF

whats the option that controls the Fill printing??

Vs.

Hi Buzz,

 

Try this one

yes. i think you and i have to same solution.

only way is to break the Garage space into 2. then set the desire height in each of the garage space

i was hoping that CA have another solution to this.

it'd be great if you can just "lock" the Bedroom floor height, so that is fixed. 

so when you change the Garage wall height, it dosent affect the Bdroom Floor/Garage Ceiling.

it should just Auto create a void space to make up the changes.

attached plan.

my solution i think of is to break the Garage into 2 spaces. at the Bedroom wall above.

then set the Garage 2 space wall height @ 10'9", Garage 1 @ 9'6"

2storey_over_garage.plan

This is my first attempt at creating a contemporary home for a client in the Los Altos area with Chief Architect.  It was much easier that I anticipated although it is a fairly simple design.  I started this last night at about 7 pm and finished the design by noon today so I put about 6 hrs into the project and I have a complete design with a 3D rendering that I can show my client.  This is the benefit of the software when it comes to Designing a home for a client, I only wish it would fill in the blanks when it comes to the working drawings.

 

Would love all your feedback.

 

Chris

hi chris,

nice job!! 

is that a translucent glass garage door you have and what did you use for the garage wall surface for get that reveal lines?

HI, i've struggle in with this subject for a longest time.

i have a bedroom over the garage.

when drawn by Default...the garage Ceiling height (11'-0" )and the Main floor ceiling height in the same, and Bedroom floor/height over the garage typical and the same @ 8'-0".

here what i am trying to do....

i want lower my Garage ceiiing to 9'0"....by doing this, it will cause the Floor of the bedroom to drop as well.

what im doing now is draw a Invisible wall and divide the Garage into 2 spaces, 1 space keeping the floor heigh of bedroom over it, and the other space with the dropped ceiling height.

is there a tool or some way to Lock the floor height of the space above (the Bedroom) so that it wil not drop when i modify the ceiling below?? 

In Layout, i can rotate the Layout Box when Plan View is sent.

is it me? or you CANNOT rotate the Elevation / Section Layout Box.

 

 

I still need to do the documentation and instructions for the last 2 but I should have them all available by June 1st.

do you have this yet??

if you're leaving X7 and going back to X6.

is there any way to open your X7 file in X6?

Not the best way,  see pic,  

i use this method and found it most suitable for me.

i wish it could do this with 2 lines and smaller font size.

i've upgrade to SSD for my Application drive. 

thinking about upgrading my Data drive to SSD too.

any increase in performance in doing this??

hi, 

is there way to downgrade my X7 (plan and layout) files so my client to use it on their X6 version?

thanks,

 Just do an ortho view with shadows and 'technical illustration".   Play with settings...etc.

 

Not exactly what you are trying to do  (I did not take time to paint windows black...but took me 5 min)

 

An ortho with shadows combined with an elevation.  If I took a little more time, I could make it nicer.

I THINK WE A WINNER!!! VERY NICE. 

I'LL BE ADOPTING THIS METHOD.

my problem was...

There are several different potential reasons why you may exhibit this behavior, known as z-fighting. The most common reasons are

• The plan is located too far from the origin.

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moved plan to 0,0,0

problem solved!!

thanks all for reply.

hi,

im using 3 monitors in my workstation.

when i use the Perspective Full Overview with Mouse-Orbit Camera in my main monitor,

it display this wierd layer, showing all my wall & roof components.

when i show the Perspective Full Overview when Mouse-Orbit Camera in my other 2 monitors.

everything is normal.

any idea on this issue?

hi,

is there setting to change the Width of the Casement Window??

hi,

what is the setting to hide or Turn Off the glass transparency in Vector View so that my interior partition walls is not showing.

hi,

when i insert the pier into the foundation (red dotted circle line). it's place it into the center of the Concrete/Furred (with exaggerated air gap) wall

is there a setting to override the center line of the Pier placement?

to place the pier into center of the Concrete wall only

when you insert the Joist Direction arrow, it just shows 2x12 JOISTS @ 16" o/c.

although i'm using

11 7/8" I-JOISTS @ 16" O/C

Is there a way to override the Joist Direction Arrow text to show actual joist use in plan?

I use a lot of macro's every chance I get. Text macro's are very easy to create, and we all know we hate typing the same thing over and over again. You just type or copy any text into create Ruby box. this is the simplest form of a macro.

I do have lot of others thanks to the fine people here.

 

here is a simple text macro

 

http://screencast.com/t/KV6kdcftHJ

is there a way to export/reuse the txt created across multiple plan??

i made tons of these simple text macro in one plan.  

just use that plan as Template Plan? or can you Export/Import macro plan to plan??

Yes the reference layer will print. I use them for almost every plan sent to the layout, a big time saver. You just create your own custom reference set just like a layerset.

how do you print Ref layer??

Looks like Flux Architect

 

http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=Flux+Architect

 

jon

yes...but not quite as rigid and strong as the FLUX.

more notes and paragraph. i use the Flux for labels and title, etc.. and Frank for note & dims.

Buzzsaw, just curious, what font is that you are using?

Frank the Architect

see attached....

the DRAFTMAN font is really nice too, and a it's CAPS font. 

but i cant get it to work on the Mac OS.

they have this option for Footing object.

when you draw Pile footing, you can turn on/off, change property, in differ level.

wonder why not for dimensions??