Michael_Gia

Not to rain on your parade but I just want to warn you that you will continue to have connection issues at these intersections as you progress with your plan. You just have to go back and use the wall connection tool to fix them multiple times. Chief has issues with these kinds of connections. Sometimes just by adding a door or window on a wall close to one of those connections can trigger some funny lines or connections errors etc…it’s normal.

I was exactly where you were about 7 years ago. The transition was not difficult. Chief is more forgiving and more versatile than Softplan.

Make sure you save the file in X12 then try working on it.

You’ve discovered the secret with working with Chief. To be fair though, is it really necessary for the model to be identical? Detail notes are so much easier and it’s what people will look at who are building from your plan. Nobody is zooming into your 3D model anyway.

I have an idea! Everyone on SSA unanimously stops paying their SSA subscription until they fix this very basic and fundamental problem. Let’s see how long it takes them to fix it then? I mean, this isn’t some feature like, gee I wish stairs had independently adjustable stringers etc… This is a toolbar issue. EDIT: I will continue my assault on the Toolbar Bug, damn the downvotes, full speed ahead!

Just opened your plan and took at "Orthographic Framing Overview". Seems like the trusses are displaying just fine?

Check this out... https://www.loom.com/share/e5290d224b814346b438e34041cca56c

I guess your cold water feed is coming up the floor on that one…

Here is a PBR from your plan file. Standard view looked the same. The water is reflecting the sky. Presently you have no sky and you have a grey color in your retrace settings for the sky. Chose a sky background for Raytrace. By the way, you should raise your patio doors at least 3/4" or even 1.5". You're getting z-fighting with the floor finish and you also need some breathing space under those sills.

check out this video. skip to 1:38 https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/303/using-the-break-tool.html

Sometimes the wall will rejoin. Copy the wall definition and give it another name so that the program won’t re-join it. That is, use the break wall tool to divide your wall up in plan view. Then click on one part of the wall and go to the wall definition. Copy it and give it a different name. Then it will stay disconnected and you can change the material to what you want.

Check out Rabbit Design's videos on Youtube. Especially the tips on "decals".

If it’s for exterior, then I would check out Twinmotion. Not sure if it’s still free however.

I’ve always just loved the look of vectorworks. really nice work!

There’s quite a few sites that have downloads for all kinds of street markings in cad format. Just import those into Chief?

Your fascia top heights should match if you want a clean roof plane join. If you drag your soffit in plan view by stretching the soffit edge instead of moving the roof plane then you'll change your fascia top height. Move the planes so they line up where you want in plan view first and then join the roof valleys. This way you won't be changing the fascia top height.

...next few months?

2 weeks and you already got a chimney cap and vent? Bravo. I'd send the plan or a modified plan keeping the problem area and deleting everything else. Somebody on here will provide the proper way to handle these issues and not simply a quick and dirty work around.

Unfortunately you are wrong sir. Scott Hall did a video about this a while ago. He exhausted all possibilities, and along with colourful language, he demonstrated that the horizontal aspect fails when you move the object you’re pointing to. You're demonstration only works if you are only moving the text box. (great video by the way, but please kill the music)

I'm able to dimension to all lines in your test.pln, even the terrain lines, so I'm not sure what you're having a problem with?

I really just wish that first part of the line could be locked at a horizontal angle regardless of how I move the text or the item I’m pointing to.

When you click on a line is it being highlighted as a polyline? If not then you probably just have a raster image, I'm guessing. Your conversion app might not really be producing vectors from the pdf source.

I think the real question is where your carpenters are placing the sill plate. This determines where your floor is built, which provides the ledge for your brick veneer, air space etc… My brick veneer usually overhangs past the foundation by at least 5/8”. But, of course this means you have to be careful that you dimension to the right layer if you want your exterior dimension of your foundation to agree with the floors above. (If you want to get picky)

Have you tried a scaled model in Lego?

Here’s the video. Skip to 17:43. Snappable extension lines and rotatable dimension values. Nice to see but they sure are bringing this stuff out one bread crumb at a time. https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/recordingView?webinarKey=6504698007979730955&registrantEmail=michaelgia%40me.com