LeeDrafter
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Thanks Jon!! Sure enough, that was the problem. I can't believe I spent so much time trying to figure that out and it was that easy ;). thanks again
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Hi All, I'm having a weird problem. On the attached plan, the garage door and the garage man door are set to dimensions to the inch (no fraction) on the floor plan. On the foundation plan, the concrete cutouts are not centered on the door they are for. Check out the garage doors on the attached plan in the foundation plan. Why are they 1/8" off on the foundation plan from the doors in the floor plan? How do I fix this? I am in X9, but the same thing happened only with this particular file in X8. thanks!! Lee LOT 30 SPRING CREEK, CUTLER.plan
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Thanks Dermot, appreciate it!
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Hello, I just upgraded to X9 and I can't find the "final view" button. Where is it now? Thanks, Lee
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Hi all, I am working on a room where I want the ceiling to show the open steel joist framing for the floor above. I have made the floor above and framed it. I have turned off the check box for ceiling on the room. When I take a camera view of the room, the ceiling just appears to be dark space instead of showing the joists. Any suggestions? I am working in X5. Thanks, Lee
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Room dimension labels not rounding consistantly
LeeDrafter replied to LeeDrafter's topic in General Q & A
Thanks for the replies. Still crossing my fingers that this is fixable so I don't have to remember to change the labels manually every time I make a change. I forsee myself missing a lot of corrections, but I suppose I would get used to it after a while. I have attached a better zip file. Thanks! LOTS 112&113 BIGFORK LANDING.zip -
Hi All, I am working on townhomes that are exactly the same on both sides. I need the room dimension labels to be the same on my "advertising" plans or people will get confused and wonder why they are different. The actual dimensions are exactly the same, but I don't want to show people all the dimension lines for advertising. As you can see in the attached, both living rooms are actually 13' 10-1/2" X 16' 9-1/2". The room labels are rounding to 16'8" on one side and 16'-9" on the other side. I don't care if it rounds up or down, but I do need it to be the same on both sides. Does anybody know how to fix this? I am working in X5. Thanks! LOTS 112&113 BIGFORK LANDING.zip
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I figured it out, it was easy. Next time I think a little more before posting silly questions . Thanks for your help anyway
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Thanks for the quick reply! I actually already knew how to change the angle style, but I never noticed that you can change the angle of the north arrow right there in the dbx, thank you! Seems so obvious now . So now I need to figure out what I need the north arrow angle to be using the bearing info I have for my property lines. That is more of a general question than a Chief Architect question, but if anybody feels like sharing, that would be helpful. Thanks again.
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Hello, Is it possible to adjust a north arrow angle in order to make the bearing angles correct in a CAD site plan? I usually draw my north arrow first before I draw the rest of my site plan. That way the bearing angles I type in use that north arrow as a reference. Then I highlight everything including the North arrow and rotate it all together until the street is at the bottom or so the plan fits on paper and is easy to read. But, this time I must have accidentally not grabbed the north arrow along with everything else because the bearing labels are wrong. I have tried manually adjusting the north arrow, but my precision is pretty much only to the degree, not minutes or seconds. Does anybody know of a way I can input a bearing angle and the north arrow will adjust to that? I would rather not redraw the plan. I am working in X5. Thanks!
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Exporting Floor Plan as Picture in High Quality
LeeDrafter replied to Rosco2017's topic in General Q & A
Thanks guys, I don't have a bid enough monitor to use print screen. I printed to pdf and then used an online converter to get jpg. It didn't let me specify pixels, but it worked well and gave a high quality jpg. Thanks again! -
Exporting Floor Plan as Picture in High Quality
LeeDrafter replied to Rosco2017's topic in General Q & A
Hi All, I don't have answers, just more questions . I am working in Chief X5 and when I export to picture, there is no dialogue box that asks me what size (px) I want the picture to be. Was that feature added after X5? I would like to export the plan view to a jpg that is high quality and 1600x1200 px. Does anybody have a good way to do this in X5? I am trying what Yusuf said, below, but I am new to picture terminology. I don't know what width, height (inches) and DPI to input for what I need. Thanks to anybody who can help! -
Thanks Brad! that worked really well! I just adjusted my screen to a similar aspect ratio, don't know why I didn't think of that before!
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I am working in X5 and it won't let me use these grass files because they are in a newer version. Does anybody know if I can convert these to something I can use in X5? Or does anybody have any X5 grass textures they like and would like to share? Thanks
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I forgot to mention, I am working in Chief X5
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Thanks guys, I do not have a scroll bar in the rendering screen (another problem I need to learn how to fix?) but I did try zooming out, and it did not reveal anymore of the picture. I attached a screen shot of when I zoomed out on the ray trace screen. I also exported it to a jpg also, and still got the incomplete picture. Any other ideas? Maybe I need to learn how to add a scroll bar and that might work? thanks
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Hi all, I am in need of a picture that is 1600 px X 1200 px. My monitor is not that big and is not in that proportion. So, in ray trace current view dbx wizard, I uncheck use active window and uncheck retain aspect ratio. I input the width and height pixels that I am after. But the ray trace only does a portion of what I have on the screen. I'm guessing because my screen proportions are different than what I am asking for. Is there a way to create the view in some sort of border that matches the proportions I need before I ray trace? How do I know where to locate thing on screen so they don't get cut off during ray trace? I attached the screen and the resulting ray trace at my input pixels. Thanks!!
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Thanks all! I will try these things. Haven't had time to revisit it lately. But thanks for all the suggestions. I will post the file if I am still having trouble.
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hello, I am drawing a CAD detail that involves hidden (dashed) lines that are only 3" long. I selected the smallest dashed line from the drop-down menu, but it still only shows as a solid line. The dashes don't show when I print from layout either. I have read through forums a bit before I decided to ask this question- so I made sure the page setup dbx says line weight of 1=1/100 mm. I don't know if that has anything to do with my problem or not. All I want is to be able to draw a very short dashed line and still be able to see the dashes. The dashes are visible if I toggle off the lineweights, but that won't do me much good if it doesn't print that way. I appreciate any help- Thanks!
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Thanks all, I look forward to upgrading my software someday. In the meantime, I will edit the header it the framing detail. Or I can just add the appropriate amount of boards to my materials list when I actually order the lumber.
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mine doesn't have a framing tab. I am using X5, maybe the framing tab is in a newer version?
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I am struggling to find a window framing dbx. Is it different than the window specification dbx? I can't find where you can specify a header for a specific window. Thanks Dshall, adding end trusses worked really well. Speaking of trusses, how can a build a truss where the bottom chord extends all the way to the fascia and creates a flat soffit?
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good idea!
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Thanks all, that helps. I fixed the stud spacing so it is defined by the wall type. Still don't think it's possible to define the amount of header boards based on span. I will just have to learn the rest through trial and error. I sure wish there was a step-by-step tutorial. Does anybody know how to tell Cheif not to frame the gable walls? We use trusses and they come with framed-in gables wall trusses on the ends, so I don't need lumber for that part. Thanks again.
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interesting thread. Has anybody found or put together a workshop for a Chief Materials list? I have been using X5 for a couple years now but have put off learning the materials list. I have been doing lumber lists manually, but I would love to learn to use CA materials lists because it might save a bunch of time. So far, I have come up with two questions right away: 1. How can I tell chief to build my exterior walls @ 24" o.c. and my interior walls @ 16" o.c.? 2. The builder I work for uses 2x10 lumber for all window and door headers. We use 2 boards if the opening is 4' or less and 3 if it is more than 4'. Is there a way to tell Chief to do this? I see that you can set the header depth based on the span, but I don't see that you can set the amount of boards based on the span. Thanks, and please share if anybody knows of a good workshop or webinar on Materials Lists Lee
