Michael_Gia

Yes, they do. But I did just notice that in 3D Chief has interpreted the doors as interior doors. It’s as if the exterior walls are acting like interior walls. I know I’ve run into this before but can’t remember what causes it.

I have these two patio doors on the 4th floor that lead out to a terrace on the roof (attic level) They don't show up on my door schedule. I placed a copy of that patio door on an adjacent wall and it does indeed show up on the schedule. I can't figure out why these other doors won't? Here is a pic and the attached plan. Plan file: The door schedule is in the CAD Detail folder.

Ah...that’s clear now.

I got that by looking at this...

I think you’re client's bigger problem will be the flooding in his home. Please see an architect or draftsman to correct your roof. I’m not sure why nobody has mentioned it here yet. I didn’t open the plan. I’m just looking at the first image in the post. Yikes!

Hey Glen, your comment was past my bedtime. So, in attempting to post a pic of my Transform/Replicate tool to prove to you that this does not work for walls, I embarrassingly realized that I wasn’t selecting the proper reflect plane. I was selecting Horizontally instead of vertically. It’s only when I tried it on a cabinet I realized what I was doing wrong. Here’s a screenshot of before and after the operation on a cabinet and on a wall. It works fine. thanks for your help.

You understood perfectly. We were just trying to accomplish the same with the “transform replicate” tool.

Actually doesn’t work on my Mac, Glen. I tried absolute, current, Big Dipper, nothing works. The transform replicate tool would be the nicest option for this kind of take.

Chief also needs to be not so smart like some of us too. I totally forgot about that “reflect about absolute or current point” in the transform replicate tool.

We’re back to tricking Chief into doing something as basic as, mirror a copy of a wall. That’s pretty sad. Don’t you think it’s weird that there’s one “mirror a copy” procedure for walls and one for everything else? Certain functions live in a menu (which make them easy to find with the help menu) and other commands in a toolbar at the bottom of the screen? I’ve come to get accustomed to Chief’s ways but when something like this happens, I realize it’s due to these inconsistencies, more than it is my “senior moment” that I waste an hour hunting for the way I used to mirror a wall.

...Doesn’t work for walls though.

My hotkeys are: c = copy paste in place option c = copy/paste I just had not used that copy/paste for walls in quite a while and had forgotten it. It also isn’t in a menu. Only on the menu bar at the bottom.

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

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