Michael_Gia

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.

I don’t know about this whole Chief is being deceptive argument. Chief is a 3D modelling/designing/drafting program which is what you get. They’re not a rendering software or an image editing software. So to say that pimping up a 3D overview in Photoshop is cheating is a bit of a stretch.

You can draw a half wall and place a ceiling plane over it. That way you have precise placement of the height and slope. The ceiling plane will cut/crop your half wall. No adjusting little diamonds or drawing solids which won’t frame.

To compare look at the different shadows here... Also I think Chief needs to ask for a typo correction on designer’s website unless Chief Architect opened up a new restaurant?... Chef?

I’m way out of my league. From Michael Rust... What at a beautifully designed home and also how it blends into its surroundings. Well done.

That’s a lot closer than I got by a mile. Impressive. Also the pale green used for the cool color seems to have a transparency set to very low that I just can’t duplicate even with the eye dropper on a similar color.

What layer set is your Layout plan using? Check that

I guess I should’ve worded my post as “whoever can reproduce that image and tell us how they did it wins a trip to Disneyland” It’s not so easy. Anyone up for the challenge?

How do they get the shadows to be that pale green? The background then is an image with a gradient created in some photo editing software? Can it be created within Chief?

Looking for more than a guess. I also thought technical illustration and messed around with the warm and cold colours but failed. I was wondering if anyone knows exactly what’s going on?

Hi, how is this achieved? It's the image from Chief's homepage. I love it but can't quite duplicate it. There's a gradient background as well. I've tried with Technical Illustration but can't get it right.

Why are you sending views as image? What do you have on those views? Floor plans? Elevations? Are you creating construction documents? Are they simply 3D views for decorating purposes? If you’re talking about the blurriness before you actually print or print to PDF this is built in to reduce lag, that’s normal. Can you at least post a pic of the problem?

Somehow I remember paste in place would never maintain the floor level or elevation and you could freely past items on another level. Now it seems the z coordinate is also carried over and this does not work as intended. Especially if you’ve ever tried copying a staircase from one level and pasting it to another. Doesn’t work. Even if automatic heights are not checked. There seems to be a problem. (Could also be I’m the problem)