LeeDrafter

thank you Carrie, that is exactly what I needed!

reference plan.ziphere is the plan I'm trying to reference display. i didn't have room for it in the first post. thanks!

Hello, I have recently learned that you can use reference display to overlay a neighboring house next to your current project. This is so cool!! I would like to use this feature primarily to analyze terrain and plan ahead for drainage. The attached file shows the current project I'm working on on the left and the reference display of the neighboring house (also not built yet) on the right. I was able to locate the reference display correctly, but the elevations are different between the two foundations, and the terrain perimeter elevations are also different. When I move the terrain elevation reference point on the reference plan to match the current plan, it leaves the reference plan foundation lower than I want it. The right house foundation should be higher than the current house. Is there a way to set the different heights correctly? thank you! Lynx current.zip

thank you both, I actually just needed to do a bit more trial and error with the new update and how label manipulation works. If you click on the room and then clock again on the little handle in the middle of the label, the text box then appears and it can be resized. So, it still works essentially the same way, just a little different series of clicks. Sorry for the dumb question, and thank you!!

Hi all, I just updated to X18, and I lost the capability to manipulate the room label text box size so that the room label (2 words) displays on two narrow lines rather than one longer line. Is there a new way to do this in the new version? It has been so easy before just to drag the text box smaller a bit until it became two lines. Thanks, Lee

Thank you Jonathan, the problem was that I didn't have a road drawn. Once I drew the road and made the intersection connect the driveway to the road, it fixed itself and follows the terrain. thank you!

Hello, I am working on some home designs on lots along a street that is sloped. So, the driveways will be sloped side-to-side as they connect with the street. The driveway tool allows slope to follow the terrain from front to back of the driveway, but as far as I can tell, it does not allow slope from side to side. At the house, it obviously has to be flat as it connects to the level garage, but the street is not level, so it will have to have slope in multiple directions. How can I acheive this? And thank you for any help.

Hello, I have a very large CAD file of terrain elevation and lot data for a subdivision that I have imported to Chief Architect. It is too large and complicated and slowing down my computer significantly. Is there an easy way to reduce this file or make it faster without going through and deleting portions I don't need? Perhaps is there a way to know which parts of the drawing are causing the problems? I have attached the zip file. 200917.6_FP-1B for City.zip

yes, that's actually what I have been doing, that works well too. Thanks!

yes, I just tried it and that does work. You're right, not the solution I was hoping for, but it may be a bit faster than deleting redrawing the grass region.Thanks for the recommendation!

Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one having the problem. Maybe I'll suggest a fix to CA. I don't dedicate much time to my renderings which is why a really like the new grass- it makes it look way better with no extra work. I'll probably just delete grass when I don't need it and replace it when I do. But thanks for the reply!

Hi All, I think this is probably a question with an easy answer, but I can't think of it. I would like to be able to turn on and off a "grass region". The reason is sometimes I'd rather just see the terrain perimeter and to save some of my computer's energy, but I still want to turn on the grass region for final renderings. I have put my grass region on it's own layer so I can turn it off, but it leaves a hole in the terrain when it is off. Is there a way to have the grass region not make a hole? Thank you, Lee

thank you Jason and Rene. I appreciate the thoughts!

Hi Chief Community, I'm wondering if anybody has advice for updating multiple plans with the same information, and I'm wondering if technology has or will help to make this easier. I'm working on designing a new floor plan, and it's not totally finished yet. I have it finished enough to send it out to trades for feedback and start the estimating process, but there will be changes that come from all that. Meanwhile, I need to make a copy of that floor plan and adjust some things to make it work for a different lot. My usual method would be to get everything as perfect as possible on the first plan before I copy it and then just make sure I keep track of all changes to both plans so I can update them both. Then of course this gets even more complicated if I move it to a 3rd lot and start adjusting a 3rd plan. I think the people in the Chief community are all probably really organized and detail oriented and used to keeping track of mulitple changes as us drafters have to do. However, I'm wondering if there is a better way to work on plans simultaneously like this? Thanks for any advice or conversation. Lee

thank you Rene! this was very helpful! I really appreciate your efforts in making the video, that helped a lot!