Tdgdesign

I have a high end residential spec home I am involved in - both on the design and ownership side. It is currently under construction but I want to begin a sales marketing campaign for it and will need some high end renderings done. I am using Chief X9 for the project. I can send you set-ups of the shots I want, with local background photos that would need to be used, some photoshopping required. Need this rather soonish so, if you're looking for some work please let me know.

Cheers! 

The engineer I use is in Maine but licensed in many states, including CT. Great to work with. He is doing a duplex for me in NH and has not requested or been required to perform any site visits. Are they requiring special inspections? Geotechinal engineering? PM I can give you his contact info. 

Hi, running X9 on a ASUS Windows 10 laptop with two additional external monitors. Been working great until all of a sudden when I go to use drop down menus in the upper left the center monitor splits the image between itself and my laptop monitor. Makes it incredibly difficult to get to further sub menus, etc. I have attached a full screen shot plus a iphone pic of the issue. All my drivers are up to date, I have rebooted, etc etc. Anyone have any insight? Thanks

Thank you! Didn't even know I had messed with the wall height! 

So trying to do a quick and dirty concept drawing of an apartment building and when I do an elevation view of it I get some random lines that are very distracting. I have tried shutting off a ton of layers, checking room heights, etc. I am stumped. Would anyone be able to offer any insight?

KEENE CRIBS PLANS.plan

Thank you.

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It is a room. It is the little bumpout off the kitchen on floor 1 thank you!

megson-dudley start.plan

megson-dudley start.plan

Cant seem to get the exterior of my boxed window to raise to the appropriate height. The interior is correct but Chief keeps building exterior wall down to floor level. I know I am missing something simple (as always!). Any help would be great! 

So, I have a live section view that appears normal in plan and layout but when I print it things jump out of alignment. It had been printing fine, then all of a sudden this started happening. I cant figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

3 minutes ago, robdyck said:

@Tdgdesign I've got a question: In the sample pdf, you've got the framed exterior portion of the building greyed out, but the foundation shows concrete fill. I'm sure you'll have a reason, just curious as to why? I'm not sure if that drawing was close to complete but I noticed the joining line for your greyed out polyline of the structure. Not sure if you are aware of the polyline subtraction tool that will create a clean hole in another polyline.

Yeah, drawing is far from complete. The grey fill is what I use to indicate wall or roof cavities filled with spray foam. Thanks for your input on this, very much appreciated. 

Yeah, I should have mentioned I turned the Line Style squiggle effects off for the post so as to not make it confusing. The problem of the shifted fill happens regardless of what I do to the nested options within that style. 

53 minutes ago, robdyck said:

Without a posted plan to examine, its difficult to zero in on the issue. That being said, I don't see the reason to use the 'line drawing' style for those sections. It will greatly reduce performance, and it looks to me like a 'vector view' will provide the same results, but with the benefit of more stability and increased speed.

I like to use  Line Style during the early schematic phase to have control over the hand drawn appearance. 

Sorry I uploaded the wrong file! Should be correct now. 

Also just realized it is also making what looks like multiple copies of the stair and floor system. It look perfectly fine in plan and layout. 

My cross section views are using the Line Drawing technique, live view. Everything looks good in plan and layout but when I print to PDF my CAD solid fill boxes jump all over the place. It happens if I leave the drawing DBX to default or not. Really frustrating the heck out me! 

Edited PDF to highlight area where solid fill is not where it is in plan and layout. 

SHEA PROBLEM.pdf

1 hour ago, MarkMc said:

I wouldn't go there. Whoever is supplying the  counter is not going to want to add up dimensions of parts to get a total run. Better off supplying them with a counter drawing by making a complete custom counter top, use an annoset with layerset that shows only counters and dimension default that puts dimensions on a dedicated layer. I keep a couple of cabinets labelled as DW and Do not include in schedule, in my user library.

What is the problem with having it as an option? I always prefer to have the option to turn something off than have no option at all.  Plus for my high end projects I use a custom cabinet maker who supplies the whole kitchen turn-key, including the counter. It would be way easier for me, and they prefer it that way. Like I said, to at least have the control would be nice. I suppose Ill survive, though. 

35 minutes ago, solver said:

 

Get control of what?

 

Note what in the schedule?

If it kept the cabinet as a standard cabinet and let us choose to label the dishwasher as a nested item within the cabinet. That way the schedule would show a cabinet that could then be noted as counter top only, etc. 

Yes, but if we could get control of it we could then note it in the schedule as such. Oh, well, no biggie. Thank you for your help! 

6 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

Can you TAB (next) into the Dishwasher once the cabinet is selected ?

 

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No, once its in there it cant be selected. 

2 minutes ago, solver said:

The dishwasher takes the place of the cabinet.

 

Open it and adjust the label as required.

Oh, ok. Thank you. So  I need to make note of that so the correct amount of counter top gets created. Why cant we keep the cabinet in the schedule and suppress the dishwasher label? 

How does one suppress the label on this dishwasher? Once its in a cabinet I cant select it check the Suppress Label option. 

I like quick solutions! Thank you sir! 

So there is a tread buried in the floor? 

1 minute ago, Kenoeightspot said:

Something like this.

 

Yes like this!