raltd9245

i kind of old school. I import pic trace over with a line drawing, add street names and site location. Then I erace the pic. Whole process takes about three minutes or less.

On 11/7/2020 at 5:05 AM, dshall said:

I am not convinced the SCREEN GRAB is the best method.  I take a screen shot of both a MAC map and a GOOGLE MAPS map,  and then put into layout and it is not super clear.

 

lLately I have been PRINTING a PDF from the two map apps.....  not sure if that is the best either.

 

For some reason mine always appear muddled.

 

When I see this on a PC,  it looks much better.

 

Sometimes the plan checkers complain and I need to overlay CAD on the screen shot.

 

Point is I use the screen grab and the print to PDF and then import and neither system seems super good to me.

 

Just now, solver said:

Do it from the desktop.

Chief says the program is running on another computer!!

I just got home from a trip. I had changed license to laptop which has crashed. How can get changed to my desktop?

Much Thanks it worked

I want to replace my user lib with a new one How do I delete the existing user lib

1 hour ago, MarkSM said:

I am drawing a lot of these elevations with angled or "sloped" walls, like in the pic below.  Im drawing them with a polyline solid.  The problem is that the framers are framing them out because they aren't showing up as actual walls on the plans. Do anyone know of a way to draw an angled wall that looks like this?  Thanks in advance for the help!

My suggestion is old school. put a detail bubble on the plan & show a framing hand drawin framing elevation on the plan as a detrail or mark it as a detail and show it on your detail sheet. Chief dfoes not pay much attention tho these short commings

in the past there were many more standard door options, for instance class room door lites, other glass options can't seem to find them. Where did they go????????>

A Big Thank You to All who helped, me 

All of a sudden I'm getting panic bars on all my exterior doors. don't want them HELP PLEASE

GThanks Eric, I just found that. I swear there was more choices back then. Thank you very much for your efforts

David,

Your a better Man than me I can't find them

I keep upgrading and all of a sudden I do not have any of the basic Lighting fixtures like a 4' Fluorescent surface mtd fixture.HELP

Why do all my residential doors have a panic bar which I can't seem to delete, HELP

Just looked at my chief libs cant fine many cars and especially trucke where can I get more. Thanks for the quick input.

32 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

I think you mean Top of Wall Plate and Rough Ceiling are the same thing...   Typically  that is probable right, but I usually use Top of Plate as well

Depends on construction I usually use strapping theen apply the ceiling makes for a more uniform ceiling.

On 1/22/2020 at 9:56 AM, wjmdes said:

Not sure if this was an issue in X11, but in X12, I added "FIELD VERIFY" to Trailing Text under Segments and it also added "FIELD VERIFY" into the extension next to the elevation.  Fortunately, in this case, that is fine, but maybe an issue in the future.

The framer does not care about ceiling height but instead top of stud wall.

It is programmer's having way to much time on their hands. I think we need more commercial type stuff. for those of us who do contempory houses and small commercial projects

37 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Sometimes it seems like we all have a gripe about a feature or a feature limit that seems so petty but small changes can make such a huge difference in work flow and the ability to move through a plan just that little bit faster. A (again) small example is the ability to turn off a back splash with a check box instead of changing the value to zero - small, but huge regarding work flow.

 

Just now I went to edit a plan view and instead of the old 'Open Object' option (which is so software engineer speak) it now says Edit View. Seems really small again but it makes a difference and all of the small changes just speed work flow that much more. Appreciated Chief guys!

 

Any others you've noticed?

I set all my layouts at "D" size and then use chiefs half size plot to a PDF. I now have d size and a pdf that I can print at 13X19 and get a 1/8" check set. Works well.

ACADuser. you are a prince. Thank you so Much

20 hours ago, Ridge_Runner said:

@raltd9245I placed the grab bars in an X11 file. Hope you can use it.

 

 

raltd9245-ADA grab bars.plan

What I was looking for Thank you so much

Thanks much. I'm looking for a symbol with the vertical GB.

3D warehouse has shut off older versions like mine. Here is the file if anyone can open and save a a DWG it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Grab+Bars-+ADA+Toilet.skp

I'm looking for an ada grab bar symbol which includes the vertical bar