Michael_Gia

Edited my response as I didn't understand your solution to the problem. The delete surface tool eventually allows you to get through the building until you can click on the offending door or window and change the label display option as you mentioned, but it's not easy. Unfortunately you can't simply move through the house with the mouse like you can in a full 3d model view. It would be nice if you could in this situation. Opaque glass is really the only viable option.

The problem is these interior door labels are showing up on exterior elevation views.

Using "opaque windows" as temporary solution for now.

Thanks for the recommendation. I was just on the phone with tech at Chief. They also asked me to try the edge smoothing preference. It didn't work. I'll send the file into support and see what they can do. This wasn't happening in X10, so I guess X11 is the culprit. My aging MacBook might also not be helping. (I'm not a RayTrace kind of guy so I don't really have the urgent need to upgrade. Might have to though)

Hi there, I can’t remeber or find the fix to this issue. See photo showing an interior door’s dimension showing up on an exterior elevation view. I can always put my exterior doors on a different layer and then turn off the doors layer label, but I thought I’ve seen another fix for this in the past?

That looks better than my best Raytrace! Are you saying there are absolutely no lights or sun in that shot? Only material emissive properties turned up?

You mean, "create cad detail from view" in place? Like the "copy in place" command? that would solve a lot. good suggestion, if I understood you correctly, that is.

Howdie, When working on an elevation or cross-section there are a few challenges and frustrations when trying to snap to items, faces, edges, surfaces etc... I know a lot of people use the technique or work-around of creating a cad detail from view and then pasting back lines, points etc to locate items but that's not very efficient. It seems like trying to dimension the top of a window is like looking for Waldo when you can't seem to drag your dimension line to the right spot. I often open the window dbx copy the absolute elevation of the window and then draw a line and paste the height in the line dbx. I guess I could also us Story Pole for this sort of thing... Why does Chief have such a hard time locating items in elevation view? Why can't I snap to a p-solid in every view of that p-solid? Does everybody have the same frustrations as I do? Has this issue been brought up with Chief by anybody, formally, or even in a phone call to tech at Chief? (the dimension default does absolutely nothing to help, so don't refer me to the locate objects of the dimension default dbx)

Layers and Annot sets is head and shoulders above what Archicad and Revit has to offer in this area of functionality. We are fortunate for that. Just wanted to point that out. Revit has “categories” and are not global. No layers. No creating new layers or even assigning a drawing element to a new layer. Archicad has layers like in Chief but you can not have an anno set that will place a drawing item or annotation like a line or text on a specific layer in advance. You have to select the tool and then change it’s default layer and then begin to draw....every time! For every item.

Can someone expalin why you would ever need this? I mean it’s not like whatever you draw on the elevation or cross section will ever end up being visible anywhere else in your plan or layout. Right? That is, all annotations of any kind on the given cross section or elevation only “live” there. Am I missing something?

“I'm embarrassed to admit that I have no idea what annotation sets are, let alone what the correct one is to use. It's not something I use. I'll take a look at some training videos about them” Well, if your only designing models and doing interior decor etc then I think you can live without them. However, if you create construction documents then they are necessary.

You should make it a habit to always open the Layout Box dialogue box to ensure that the right annotation set is being used. It mysteriously switches sometimes to “using active defaults”. This is because you may have inadvertently messed around with layers or annotations while in the plan view. Which is why we should have an “apply” or “update” button in the layer set so you can temporarily switch layers on and off without affecting your layer set permanently. Here re is a video from Chief... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5222/plan-view-panel-in-layout.html

Any quad-core 15” MacBook Pro with 16gigs of ram and an SSD hard drive will fly through Chief Architect. Of course for the same money you can get a windows gaming laptop which will have more powerful specs. The actual difference in speed will be negligible except when it pertains to the time it takes to generate “raytraces”. Raytrace time is dependant on CPU number of cores and CPU speed. This is where windows machines blow Apple out of the water, dollar for dollar.

Mods? What Mods? haha

Doesn’t show up on mobile. Can you post the link here?

You need a YouTube channel. I will subscribe. Great video. You cut to the chase which is appreciated. Thanks.

Ha ha. That’s it. I still haven’t set up X11 as default.

Call me crazy, but sometimes I don’t see the Material List tab in the Define Materials DBX. It just isn’t there sometimes. Sometimes I get: - General - Pattern - Texture - Properties Other times I get: - Pattern - Texture - Properties - Materials List Am I hallucinating?

I always forget about this one! That is definitely the best way to do this sort of thing. Did that come in with X10 or earlier?

I opened your plan. The rooms on the second floor that are misbehaving simply do not have the default ceiling height "checked" in the structure tab of the room dialogue box. Check the default for ceiling height for each is the long way to correct it. Quicker would be to select the one room that is at the proper default ceiling elevation and use the "match properties" tool to set all the other rooms to that correct height.

Somewhere, there is a comment from someone at Chief Architect that said they were unimpressed with the Imac Pro and that its price was not justified compared to a regular iMac or even a MacBook Pro with regards to any noticeable performance advantages over these far lesser priced systems. Here is the link to that post...

Anything you put on page “0” will appear on all pages.

Of course you can. Change something in a default from the active default list in the “saved plan view” dbx, and any plan view that uses that default is changed as well. The only difference is that, as was mentioned, since you have this control from the saved plan view dbx, anno sets are redundant. Which leads us us all the way back to OP’s original question in the post he started.

Too bad we can’t create “plan view sets” for elevations. You know, so that the plan view sets list can reflect the layout?...

Is this your approach these days, Scott?