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4 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

This tends to happen if the Wall extends less than it's own width past the intersecting wall in my experience ( CA is sometimes too smart for it's own good )  and as Mike said the easy fix is to Break The Wall and reverse the short section.

 

 

That' what I think now that I saw this in the help files under CONNECTING WALLS

When walls are drawn sufficiently close to one another, they will snap together to form an intersection.

This snapping occurs when the walls’ center lines are within a distance defined by the larger of the two walls’ widths and will occur even when Object Snaps are turned off. See Object Snaps.
 

27 minutes ago, conwaynorth1 said:

 

Why doe the right wall snap back when I drag the front wall over to meet it?

Possibly just turn off object snaps ?

Otherwise you should be able to drag the right wall

back out to its desired length. 

I would think someone like Dan Baumann who both; is adept at and teaches CA

http://www.chiefexperts.com/public/100.cfm

I would be surprised if you could find a structural engineer that uses CA.

They just add their structural pages (S pages) to your A pages.

There is a group in Palo Alto (I think) you might  check out.  They are soliciting business in the bay area

See them out at;

https://designeverest.com/

Then email;

bryce@designeverest.com

2 hours ago, limitless8 said:

Nope checked everything from macro (which I dont use) to ht keys...tried the previous version of chief and both keys work fine...go back to the newer and boom pain in teh ass...

I just tested my X8, build 18.3.2.2x64 and the backspace key is deleting correctly.

Can you reload ?

1 hour ago, HumbleChief said:

Famous last words....

Kind of like, " hold my beer, and watch this " .

21 hours ago, cjanderson66 said:

Has anyone created an isometric gas plan layout in Chief.  I am getting more and more comments from the cities to provide an isometric gas line plan and have not come up with a good way to create one.  I think it is just silly that I have to do one in the first place because I would just be guessing on the line sizes anyway and I am sure that the plumber will do it his way anyhow.  Still, I am not sure if I should just be doing a 3D of the house with a molding polyline.  Just wondering if anyone else has any thoughts or is you  guys have had to provide one.

Probably so that all the pipe lengths and fittings can be seen, you only get the horizontals in a plan view.

Then you can add up the lengths, count the fittings and size the pipe using a simple chart like the one 

attached.

7 hours ago, Garreth said:

Thanks all and Dermott,

apologies haven't updated my profile from X10 Beta is X10 is current.

I will apply some of the advice and get back to you.

here is a copy of the plan file

ELDO 28 Anchorage Dr PROP floor plan BP REV A.plan

Garreth, thanks for this thread.  I was having some of the same issues.

Now I have shadows turned on, by making sure to select
In Preferences; Render, Use Enhanced Lighting

UL has rated designs for walls and other assemblies.  

A guide for searching for exactly what you need is a attached

FR-assembly-searches.pdf

4 hours ago, misterwiley said:

I'm trying to get my manual dimension tool to snap to the inside of the casing on windows and doors because I took all my existing number to a from there. Toggling the (Located Objects -> Openings -> Casing) only allows to the outside of the casing as shown below but wont snap to the other side of the casing. Anything I might be over looking?

Turn off object snaps and grid snaps, and use the point to point dimension tool.

1 hour ago, DRAWZILLA said:

sorry, I just don't see it.

Perry, look at the little address numbers over the doors in plan view, they are legible.

Then look at them in layout view, just a blob.

14 hours ago, rlackore said:

 

I"m running Chrome on Win10, and I get this:

Using Chrome 63 on Win 10, supposed to be latest version, and it works fine.

1 hour ago, javatom said:

Does the schedule show that many doors or is it just a doubling of the label and not a doubling of the actual door?

Thanks, was just double labels, Solver knew the answer.

1 hour ago, solver said:

That usually indicates 2 schedules. Anything different about the windows with only one callout?

That was it,  thanks !

Has anyone else seen

 this ?

Most doors on the plan are doing this, three sets are not.

 I believe there are two types of pdf files, one contains data and you can copy and past from them, the other

is an image file with no data.

If you zoom way in on the data type, edges remain straight.  If you zoom way in on the image type, the edges become jagged.

I think one is called vector and the other raster, but I may not remember correctly.

1 hour ago, Alaskan_Son said:

...OR, if you want to simply edit the object(s) and stay in the schedule, you can click Open Row Object(s).  This one is very well suited for keynotes.

Very nice, thanks 

pdf files seem to really slow CA down on my set up, so I scan to jpg then import.

If you can get the file scanned to jpg, you can reverse in in Paint Shop,

jpg files just work better in CA in my opinion.

I needed to go back and open my previous version of CA, export the User Catalog (right click on it) to

Desktop, then close old version, open new version, then click on the library which should then be on your desktop.

CA should bring it all in.

On 3/24/2016 at 10:16 AM, Richard_Morrison said:

This is way too simplistic. The butt-to-butt idea works okay on most interior doors, but falls apart when you're dealing with mortised locksets (usually at exterior doors) or other non-reversible hardware. Calling a door a "left hand door" when it's really a "right hand reverse" door could get you the wrong hardware. The CORRECT way to determine the hand of a door is to stand outside of the door - on the exterior side, the hall side, or the main room to subsidiary room (like bedroom going into bathroom)-- and see which side the hinges are on. If on the right, and the door swings away from you as you are entering, it is a right hand door. If it swings toward you, it is right hand reverse, not left hand. This is probably "old school" with cheapo locksets that are reversible now, but I don't see how this could be a regional thing.

An interesting bit,

This image is scanned out of Architectural Graphic Standards, third edition, 1941.

To me it means the "handing" of doors was meant to get the locksets, which were not reversable, correct..

4 hours ago, crosscutter55 said:

WHERE do i start ??? how & where  ?? Do I start with the all on set & hit copy or new ? Do i check or delete the layers before i copy or hit new ?

Open layer set management ( a button on the top menu with three pages, the middle one has a red check mark on it )

Create a new layer set called Deck Plan Set.

Open that new layer set and, set up your layers.

the image is from the Mandatory Measures Summary (copy attached)

According to the ASHRAE Standard 62.2 Best Practices Guide (attached), you will have to have both.

Indoor Venilation Best Practices Guide.PDF

2016_Residential_Mandatory_Measures_Summary.pdf

On 1/12/2018 at 5:37 PM, BoiseDesigns said:

Hello Designers.  I am just getting back into design here in Boise. I was waylaid by the crash of 2007 like many. The last version I upgraded to was X1. I have lost my dongle though and Chief headquarters does not have any and are not sure when they will get any in. Does anyone have one they would like to sell me. Please contact me if you do at bradssidejobs@gmail.com.  It would be very much appreciated.

If you haven't already found one, I have one you may have.

Check with CA headquarters and make sure it's allowable.

They should like to have you back in the family

9 hours ago, dshall said:

 

Why keep them,  once I move to the next version,  I don't think I have ever gone back to an older version.

Is just because an answer ?  I have never gone back to an older  version either.

And I only keep three of four past versions.

I have been saving plans with special names to bring forward, leaving the originals

in place so they can still be opened in their original versions.

But with so much room in disk drives now, just seems like the thing to do.

On 2/20/2018 at 7:34 AM, dshall said:

I thought this was interesting.... the different sizes of the last 5 versions......  I think I might toss out x6-x8

 

Why not keep them but on a larger data drive, or external drive ?

6 hours ago, Vintageltd said:

I updated X10 as per the instructions, and my missing textures reappeared.

 

However, it seems that the "Pine" and "Cedar" wood material library categories have been removed completely in X10 release?  As a workaround, I've imported those from X9.

 

Thanks,

 

Roland

 

I had to import Redwood too.  

The imports go into the User Folder, not the Core Catalogs.

Any way to get them where  they should be ?