Michael_Gia

...I really wish that “number style” selection box at the bottom left of every dialogue box would have this kind of functionality. At the moment it’s pretty useless.

Hey there. First use this macro to convert your window dimensions in the “Label” tab. Then show “Label” in window schedule.

Bullshit. It’s happeming on Mac as well. Really freakin often. Too often!!! CHIEF! FIX YOUR DAMN TOOLBARS!

Hey thanks! Worked like a charm. Now why didn't I think of that?...

This is a great tip except!....You can’t rotate the orthoview if it is sent as a plan view only if it is sent to layout as image for some reason. At least that has been my experience. Can’t rotate, not even with the “Transform/Replicate” tool. So this is why I send as image and resize since your tip about “fill building to window” doesn’t work unfortunately.

...need to make room fills as transparent. Whoops

I send top ortho view to layout as image and place it over the plan. The image will have to be scaled and then point to point place over your plan view. The image is even set to “back” by default so even that is already set up. Here’s an example. (Assuming I understood what you were looking for)

Hey Scott, it wasn’t a solution to create the rebate only a way to snap a dimension to where the rebate should be for his slab. That’s how I interpreted OP’s question. I wish I had a solution for you...

Dont forget to designate one concrete layer as main and the other as interior or you won't get the snap. Of course it would be nice to control how that line appears on the wall in plan view...

Not sure but you might have to define your foundation wall with multiple concrete layers. That is, if you have a 10” wall and want to dimension 4” into that wall then you should define a wall with one 6” layer concrete and another with 4” layer concrete. Then you could snap to the layer that is defined as structural.

Mac here as well.

Ok, so remember when every once in a while the toolbar would suddenly disappear or rearrange itself beyond recognition? It used to be cute right? I called tech support and the fix is easy enough... 1) close Chief 2) rename toolbar folder 3) relaunch Chief 4) import your saved toolbar. The only problem is that now it happens every damn day. Anyone else experiencing this?

Yes, that’s what I did. I first changed all my existing window labels and then went in and changed my window defaults. I know next time to use a defaulted metric plan. In this case the client asked me after the fact to send him all measurements in metric because he was buying his furniture in China and his decorator there requested metric measurements. I’ve already started building the house here in Montreal.

Ok thanks! That works. (For those who want to know the details)... I defined two new macros. (height*25.4).round (width*25.4).round Then in window label I specified the label using these 2 macros to show width x height in millimetres. Thanks a million. Crazy that tech support doesn’t know to mention this? Another question is, what is the “Use Default Formatting” in the window label dbx? How or where is that controlled?

No, I’m using my default imperial plan preferences. I just tried creating a new plan with the default metric plan preferences and the window labels do indeed display in millilitres as you say. But, is there no way to change that in an existing imperial plan?

Is there really no way to have Chief display my window dimensions in millilitres? Currently my window label is specified as: %width% X %height% This returns a label of width x height in inches. Is there a way to display these measurements in millimeters? I called tech support and they told me there isn’t. I can’t believe that.

Look up reference floor display videos on Scott Hall’s YouTube channel. Here’s an old one that really helped my grasp how to use reference floor display in layout, and why to use them....

I’m going to guess the layer that the mirror is on, is not turned on in your elevation view.

Maybe make the ceiling a material with some emissivity? PBR is not quite there yet but I’m excited about where they Chief is going with this approach. Personally the Srandard rendering serves me well especially since it is updated in layout.

Ok alternate solution is: -Open symbol (icon with chair and pencil - bottom toolbar) - Options tab, chose “floor mounted” - 3D tab, “Z Position” = finished ceiling height less an inch. (In my case Z = 173.5”) You can also chose “ceiling mounted” but uncheck “flush mounted” and then enter your ceiling thickness plus an inch for “Z Position” (in my case Z = -7)

So the solution is to draw a small ceiling plane outside where the eave is and then place your spots on it? Great fix but I was hoping there was some setting in roofs or wherever to allow a quite common item such as soffit lighting to behave as expected. Thanks for the suggestion though, it is a lot easier than fiddling with the light height and angle.

Plan is attached. I placed 3 spots in the soffit above the 3 garage doors. Chief placed them originally under the plywood of the sloped roof. I had to then adjust the height of the spots and angle to get them to sit flush to the soffit. What am I missing? Why doesn’t Chief automatically place them where a soffit/eave spot should be? Plan: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6qmbb6apn7ur98/Joseph and Johanne test plan.plan?dl=0

I second the motion regarding “story” or “levels” to deal with floor and ceiling heights as opposed to the “room” approach that Chief utilizes. Since we are already defining walls with materials and paint it seems that we could simply add baseboard, crown mouldings etc right in along with the wall definition and be done with it.

This is the exact reason I switched to a MacBook. It’s the same speed today as it was on day one. I also never experience the video card compatibility issues I used to have with my previous pc’s. It’s also true as others have mentioned you will pay less for an equally or even superior spec’d pc and you can’t really build that lightening fast monster machine like you can with a pc, (if money is no object, that is). It really, just works.

I’d guess they want to select a polyline segment instead of the annoying default treatment of polylines as a continuous connected group of lines. Just guessing. There are no dumb questions though. Right?