Michael_Gia

The wall with pass-through is good, but I would use a molding-polyline for your chamfers.

I’d like to get an MSI laptop with a 3060 in it because the prices are quite low but jump up quite a bit for a 3070 or higher. When you say, it works fine for you, are you able to handle larger projects? Like a 4 to 6 story multiplex with 20+ apartments? I don’t need to have framing on but I would like at least all the cabinetry and some furniture in place.

Hi, Robert, here is a plan that is behaving erratic. Room heights seem to randomly change from default floor or ceiling height, even when not messing with floor heights. Like I'll copy a wall and a bath fixture from one floor to another and then I'll get a prompt warning of some change in floor or ceiling height and then I'll have to hunt down the offending room. It's also extremely sluggish on my computer. Not that it's a screaming monster but I used to be able to handle models of this size with relative ease. Can you let me know if it's sluggish on your system as well? https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkpgj1xdifb1uxo/>CITY PLANS 18-Plex.plan?dl=0

I seem to be dealing with a new frustrating problem with X14. As I work on a plan, even though I'm not messing around with floor and ceiling elevations, Chief seems to randomly set new floor and ceiling heights in random rooms in a plan. It's been happening on the last 5 or 6 plans so it's not a one-off. Besides the slow-as-molases performance, X14 is really starting to piss me off. Am I the only one having these issues?

Nevermind, I must've changed the cabinet fill from 25% to 50% transparency by accident. 7 years and still feel like a newbie.

This is another plan, one of many, all in X14 and the cabinets don't have the grid lines showing through....as much. Barely visible.

Balloon through ceiling above in the structure tab of the wall dialogue box. Or turn on automatic attic walls. Or draw attic walls.

Why is the grid pattern in the Room Fill showing on top of my cabinetry? I've been adding a grid pattern to the room fill since X7 and never have I seen it behave this way. What have I inadvertently messed up?

First of all, you can thank Chopsaw, the real genius.

My question is, why doesn’t Chief have the standard elevation drop-down for all dialog boxes like the one in the majority of the dialogue boxes? Edit: gee, I wonder who downvoted me?…

Export your 3D model into TwinMotion and use their walkthrough tools. Much easier to use and it's free.

It works for me...

Let's say you just built the Burj Khalifa, and after construction you realize there are a million things that need regular servicing after construction and then you also notice that these millions of things are not necessarily what was specified (because things change during construction) so it would be nice to have a visual of exactly what all this equipment is and where it is precisely in your building. This is probably a scenario where Point Cloud is really useful and where the client would have the money and necessity to improve his BIM so that maintenance could be most efficient. I don't think Chief users fit this description despite our longing to be relevant in this field. Let's be serious...

Still happens, but a lot less since x14. Only really happens when I’m using an external monitor connected to my laptop. When there’s no external monitor, it never happens on just the laptop.

Just lock the pitch and enter the top of fascia height. If you try doing the math you’re going to have a really bad day. Not worth it. Unless I misunderstood you, you seem to be asking that your fascias line up in an elevation view, right?

You would think that that's how it should work but it doesn't. I'll go one step further and say that if you change any layer visibility there should be a "save" box before you close the Layer Display Dialogue Box to allow for temporary off the cuff changes to the visibility of an item that won't change your layer set. I'm constantly babysitting my layer sets. I'd prefer the extra step of clicking "save". Or instead of that checkbox at the top for "affect all layers" there could be a second checkbox for "save as permanent".

I export a chief 3d model to the free online version of Sketchup and share the Sketchup file so they can play around in 3D. I've found that even firms that use Autocad have no idea how to generate a 3D model from a plan in dwg, hence the Sketchup solution.

On top of that, if you were looking to have a bit of concrete wall below your railing then use a pony wall.

If you send your architectural plan to layout and then use copy paste hold position on each subsequent page all you have to do is edit each page and select the appropriate plan view (Architectural, foundation, framing, electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, etc) Is your way quicker? What is the advantage with your method?

The guy said boulders not potatoes. Impressive use of Chief but it might not be what OP was looking for.

Talk about, looking for a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist… I applaud the initiative, however.

Yes, export Chief 3D model as 3DS or Collada from the file menu and import into Lumion or Twinmotion, enjoy. A lot of us do this here. Search the forum or YouTube for, Export Chief Architect to Lumion or Twinmotion. example… (Keep in mind René did not use Twinmotion’s pathtracer on this video so the rendering quality could’ve been improved immensely with the flick of a switch, but I believe he said that his client wasn’t willing to pay for that)

Very nice, and I’m sure this was lightning fast to produce, and all at $0.00 cost. You would immensely improve the renders by selecting a Skydome and a reflection probe. An additional 3 seconds of work but well worth it. Check out René Rabbit’s YouTube page. I would also say that before Twinmotion got pathtracing, Lumion was miles ahead but I think they are a lot closer today.

They blamed it on Dropbox, in my case. I only use Dropbox for my plan and layout files. All Chief data and resource files are on the default local drive as per Chief’s recommended installation.