Michael_Gia

Watch this…

@RBSdrafterHere is one video where René is using a moulding to generate a sidewalk. This is a little more involved than what you are looking for but the procedure is the same for a simple curb.

uncheck curbs for the road. only use the molding for the entire curb. add breaks where you want the molding/curb to graduate down to street level. In a cross section, shape the molding as desired to create the lowered curb etc... Not sure if I explained myself correctly. there's a video of this floating around, probably from René or Alaskan son or someone else.

Roads meeting driveways often produce unpredictable joining issues. Don’t use roads with curbs. Instead use terrain features that you can shape easily. Use 3D mouldings to create curbs which you can also shape and manipulate as you want. More work but way more predictable and the connections will stay as you have drawn them as opposed to the automated curb feature in roads which, even when they do happen to connect properly that can all of the sudden disconnect and produce artifacts like in your post. This won’t improve ever either. But we’ll get cute new features like 3D dimensions that nobody ever asked for or uses.

I backup the important stuff by dragging it over to iCloud since I'm on a Mac. I'm assuming the odds of both cloud services going down at the same time is probably rare? I used to back up to an external drive every few months but I've gotten lazy.

OP was asking for shadows in floorplan view, not a sun study. In Chief you can do something similar in an orthographic 3D overview. OP was looking for something like a drop shadow effect like in Photoshop. Feel better now?

I’m here to tell you, it’s not you. Chief is still unpredictable with curbs and automatically joining to roads and stuff. I take a different approach. I use a road with no curbs. Then I use a molding polyline to create the curb. This way I have complete control of how the curb is shaped in 3D space, independently of those dumb roads. On occasion I even have to use a slab for the road to avoid issues with complex intersections etc.

Dropbox works for us. (Watch how you name stuff, though) We are able to markup plans and documents and even add notes to documents that are shared with an “@person” which will notify them of a change. The only way you could do this sort of collaboration with Onedrive would be to setup a SharePoint site where all those sharing files are in the same organization. For current projects, I start the project folder name with an underscore “_” so they float to the top. Once the project is complete I remove the underscore to throw it into alphabetical order.

I wouldn't worry about this too much. Anybody working with Autocad deals with this sort of thing on a regular basis. The scale tool in Autocad can fix this in under 1/2 a second.

It's fixed now.

Howdie, When I export the 3D model to Autocad, it shows up as a 3D wireframe version of the model. The same model opens up with proper exterior surfaces in the free Autodesk viewer online, however. Is there a way to export to autocad with exterior surfaces as well, or is this a limitation of Autocad?

lol you guys all sound like, "the horseless carriage will never catch on", what if you run out of gas? Besides there aren't enough roads...

check out.... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00038/resolving-a-gap-between-floors-in-camera-views.html

I’m curious, who is ever going to look at your truss drawings and actually use it to build or even install a truss? I realize some remote places don’t always have the benefit of a local truss manufacturer. As the Minnesotan mentioned, usually your truss company will have you approve their drawings and those drawings will accompany the delivery which any carpenter is already accustomed to reading. Are you just curious or are you going to manufacture those yourself. (cause I know some people do)

Pretty sure that just got imported as text.