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So they are identical commands then? (these are the kinds of things that happen when I work weekends)

Ha ha, I've been using a hotkey for copy/paste but I kept hitting my hotkey for copy/paste in place. I had forgotten my hotkey for copy/paste and was momentarily perplexed. thanks, and why do we have both copy/paste command and the copy/paste in place command? one works for walls and everything else and the other does not work for walls. Or is it only one command?

Hi, is this new? I could've sworn I could use transform replicate on a wall so I could make a copy and then reflect it? Since "copy and paste in place" is not available for walls how would you mirror a copy of a wall about a point/line? I know I could make a copy of the entire plan and reverse it to copy back and forth but that's a little extreme. What am I missing?

Also for those who are worried about Chief not having Twinmotion as an add-on like it has in Revit or Archicad it’s really no big deal and works almost the same. If you make a change in your model in Chief all you do is hit the update button on the import tab in Twinmotion and the change will be incorporated automatically. Your Chief model stays where it is in TM with all the work you’ve done preserved. Here’s a tutorial showing the procedure with Sketchup (identical scenario with Chief):

When you un-mull a window Chief loses its dimension extension attachment to that window. It keeps the dimension and extension but inserts a point marker (cross) in place of where it was originally snapping to your window. You have to adjust the extension by dragging it and resnapping it to the window. You’ll know you’ve succeeded when the point marker disappears. It’s a pain but I can’t blame Chief on this one. A mulled window is a different object after all. I’m thankful Chief allows us to mull windows to create limitless window styles on the fly. In most other softwares you have to redesign the window from the ground up.

I can’t go back to Raytrace anymore. I’ve been spoiled by TwinMotion. It’s not just all the features and ease of use, with all the real-time slider adjusting, its that the rendering time is a fraction of what it would take in Chief. And better results... Chief Raytrace: 6 minutes TwinMotion: 40 seconds

Hey, how’d you get all your nifty icons that size?

3D text in Sketchup. Import into Chief. Here’s a how to in sketchup...

Compacted soil or fill. Pour slab anywhere you want. We usually just fill the whole thing with 3/4 net. No compaction needed. No headaches with sinking etc.

Is this why my crappy MacBook seems to behave the same as some of the other guys with monster machines? Other than raytrace I don’t see why I would even need to upgrade.

I’m on a Mac so I don’t that would work for me. Thanks for the link anyway.

Thanks

What is Chiefware Garage Door Maker?

Hey thanks for that. I already had made a symbol myself (yours was nicer) but I just though this was already possible by taking an exiting library garage door and somehow setting the number of lights? Wayne Dalton has one that is called ERP Styleline II which is close except it has 4 lights at the top instead of 2. Just thought there was a way to set number of lights? Anyway, no big deal I guess. I made a symbol with cabinet doors and a p-solid as well.

I thought I could make this door style from the library and choosing lights etc... I thought I had done it before, but apparently it's not so obvious. I have even loaded the libraries from Amarr, Clopay, TruStile and Wayne with no luck. Anyone have a clue? (without making my own symbol that is) The image is just some cut and paste for my client to see. The door I'm looking for will be all black, 4x4 inset panels with the double wide glass panels at top.

For stepped footings I draw the p-solid in an elevation view and set the depth. Drawing in elevation I can use a standard polyline and trace out the step. Then convert polyline to p-solid and set the depth. Go back to plan view and place it where I need it. Usually centring it on a foundation wall. Then I go back into elevation view, add breaks to my wall and drag the wall bottom to snap to my p-solid stepped foundation. Of course you can step a foundation wall with footings the same way just that you loose control of the independent shaping and visibility of your footing. Here is the master, Scott Harris from Chief showing that method: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6185/foundations-for-extreme-slopes-lake-point-project.html

For these situations, which is often the case for interior support walls, I use p-solids for footings that way I can control them. Deselect footing and add your own footings. It's easier. I've even built an entire floor that contained only footings. Basically putting footings on its own floor.

Is your SSA up to date?

But if you change the wall to no room def then you won’t be able to independently change stuff in those separate rooms right?. If it’s for room name and area and you want to group them as one area then use a room area polyline that includes the shower and toilet and give that a name and area etc. Instead of the room label. (I learned that from you, by the way)

All my stuff is on dropbox. no issues

Although Chief is much more versatile and flexible for creating construction documents, you will miss Softplan's all in one place, plan and layout system. In Chief you have to create a separate layout file and keep it in the same folder as your plan file. Weird system that almost everyone on this forum thinks is totally normal and awesome!

What I do is turn of "wall layers" this removes the wall fills and displays only an outline. Then to see the walls a little better, I turn on reference display and set the same floor so that there is an overlay with the coloured dashed lines as well as the exterior walls.

The only upgrade I’m looking for is for elevation and cross section views to snap, dimension and locate elements just like they do in a cad detail view. We shouldn’t need to create a cad detail from view in order to locate an object or snap to an item. The storypole has helped with some of that though.

Well, I for one, have thoroughly enjoyed this adventure into discovery of yet another side of Chief’s capabilities. To think that I was apprehensive to post this question at first because I was convinced it was something simple like a toggle setting in a view or whatever. Instead as is often the case, simple is beautiful and not so easy to achieve. I admire the talent of this designer and I really appreciate Chief for taking the time to dig this up for us. Color me impressed! ( no pun intended)

Hey David that’s really nice work. Feel free to make a video and show us how you did this. Very creative.