Michael_Gia

You made me go back and check one more thing... I had accidentally checked the box for "Floor supplied by the foundation room below", in my frantic messing around. Open the DBX, close the DBX, open the DBX, close the DBX. Wish we could affect these parameters and see the changes live rather than the idealized representation in the Dialogue box side window. My fault, but Chief has a pretty arcane way of working this stuff out. my apologies.

What does rebuild foundation mean? I don't use auto rebuild. It should adjust when I adjust the floor or stemwall height? I tried changing the room names from unfinished to living room, but no luck. Thanks for chiming in so quick. I'm cramming to get something out this weekend before I leave on vacation. Looks like I'll be bringing my laptop with me....

Hey, no matter what I set my basement ceiling height or floor level or stemwall height, my stemwall won't budge? Are we not able to affect floor 0 anymore? What am I missing? Cross section: I was hoping the 4'-6" would change to 24" or something close to that? Stemwall doesn't budge in the cross section view no matter how I change ceiling heights, of stemwall height in either floor 1 or 0. Am I missing something obvious, like a check box or do I need to cast a spell and tap my heels 3 times? Either a bug or I suddenly forgot how to change stemwall heights? Floor 1 room dialogue box: Floor 0 room dialogue box:

I’m marking this as the solution only because it’s the most elegant and duplicatable way to make up for Chief’s severe deficiency in this aspect of the program. Even a newbie could use this method, thanks! Pretty sad I couldn’t figure this out myself since X6. It seems like this could take a programmer all of 5 minutes to bake into the client info dialogue box. At least allow us to edit the filed names? come on X18… I realize there’s always a Chief dude coming in and saying that there’s too many requests and topics to follow to keep up, but may I suggest they follow Alaskan Son and René rabbit at the very least? they don’t post that much on a daily basis.

This is exactly it! Even better than I ever dreamed it could be. nice work

Wouldn't it be nice if we could edit the labels of these fields and add to them? Am I the only one? Do you guys just create custom macros for these labels? Or something else? I fill out a lot of forms for each project. It's all the same damn forms. It would be great if all I had to do was fill in this card per project and then all of my forms (which are on layouts) would be filled automatically. Isn't this why we use computers?

Your plan set should include a "foundation plan" that only shows the concrete foundation and footing, ie the lower part of the wall only, since your excavator and concrete forms guy don't care about anything else. Then once the foundation is poured and your rough carpenter starts, he can work from another "finished basement" plan. On that plan page show only the upper wall type, since that's all he cares about. No need for anything else, in my opinion.

Wow now that's some heavy coolaid drinking right there. Mac has it's problems but have you not been on any Windows forums lately? Microsoft and Apple have both become misguided and deaf to their user base lately. They really should just merge at this point. I hate them both equally. I have both a PC and a Mac.

These are absolutely gorgeous! Nice work. Arial all-caps. I don't know why I never thought of that? I switched to Arial a while ago but never thought of all-caps. Very clean and readable. I also like the water colour with lines. It looks more professional than my less than stellar PBR's. I should quite trying to impress with "realistic' renderings. leave that to the pros.

meh, not impressed. I have a detail page that’s standard and follows what the current local construction association dictates and not what ever I dream up that day. If I need to detail something special then I’ll take the time to build the framing properly and take a 3D cut of that and detail it. Try doing framing in Revit out of the box. Good luck with that.

50 samples on M3 took 22 seconds. So, M4 is about twice as fast. (unofficially) Thought it would be faster. Maybe the M24, whenever that drops?….

Just curious, but could you tell us how long this scene takes to render and at how many samples? A few of us on here want to know how the M4 fairs against M3 or older Macs.

….or opt out of X17 file management system.

House in the heavens, I hope you're charging extra for that? anyway, like Gawdzira says, there is a layer off probably. I always select "all layers on" in situations like this to determine the culprit. Sometimes you inadvertently assign something to the wrong layer. (in case you turn on Roads and you still see the sly)

Is there a quick way to get all of my exterior walls to go back to the default material for the exterior? At the moment I have to click on every wall, go to the materials tab, select the offending material, chose "library material" then select the little check box at the bottom, "use default material" This is a very common occurrence since I can go through dozens of material changes with my clients before they settle on something they like. I'm sure there is a quicker way. Also group selecting walls doesn't always allow me to change them all at once for some reason.

I turned Project Management off but I checked "manage external resources" It's not clear what this actually does. Can you explain?

I've perused many forums, Revit, Archicad, Softplan etc. They all complain about the same stuff. It could be all summed up with, "stop giving us new features and just fix the stuff that's broken/not working to our liking" And all these companies know that only new fancy features is what maintains their client base and attracts new subscribers. And we want that, because only a healthy wealthy Chief Architect can keep improving. Chief's Room Definition paradigm is what allows us to go quicker than any other software of this type, from concept to 3D rendering and construction documents. The downside is you have to get real comfortable with patching things up with 3D solids that are assigned their own layers. Material lists are still inadequate. Client 3D viewer is still half baked. And this new File Structure is awesome but only if they implement a cloud version so we can really collaborate with others and even ourselves, since a lot of us are often on the road or abroad and use multiple computers. Chief still assumes we are all sole proprietors, all hunched over our one computer in a basement somewhere with no internet.

Other than a slick new project management system, I don't feel there's much else especially with respect to a lot of the long standing issues we've all been whining about. I can acknowledge that this new file system is the way to go, I just hope it doesn't take me as long to adopt as it did with Saved Plan Views. Anyone else have anything to add?

Wall height in Chief is controlled by Room Height.

It's "keep hierarchy" now.

Step 1: Windows + Shift + S

Hey, I'd love to upgrade to X17. I now see that big beautiful green UPGRADE button teasing me... Is it too early? Any issues?

Don't get offended, my man. I'm responding simply to OP's problem, which has nothing to do with code compliancy. He just wanted Chief to not add nosing overhangs, from what I understood. And maybe the building codes are ridiculous in my area but that's a discussion for another day and time, as para-Cad mentioned. (which I totally agree with as well) Anyway, let's be friends.

There are more codes than the one in your backyard.

As much as I would like to jump on the Chief bashing train, if you look into it there are is a ton of software that wont run properly on windows/arm configuration. Look at the Surface Pro and see all the complaints surrounding that half-baked idea from MS. arm/snapdragon are there to compete with the macbook's dominance in laptop portability and is intended for people who's software demands are at most the likes of microsoft office, email and Teams. It's for folks who like to sip bubble tea in a coffee shop cross legged in sweat pants all day and pretend they are busy. For portability I was looking into the Dell Latitude 7350 with the detachable keyboard in order to replace my useless ipad. I need something when I go on site during construction. the 7350 at least has an intel core ultra processor which should run Chief and the built in graphics should also do some lite PBR albeit slow. I'm used to slow PBR on my Macbook anyway, lol.