rcmcdougle

I am trying to generate a railing to work with this entry stairway. I spent a LOT of time in Chief x10 trying to do this with landings and stairs and failing. I tried 3D molding polylines but no joy. I finally resorted to solids and a .dwg symbol created in Rhino 3D. I have recently upgraded to Chief x14 and wonder if there is a way to do this with less back and forth. To minimize cost, the return at the top is in plane with the rail, not on the flat... same with the return at the bottom. I can see how to loop the elevation views up / down to get around the corner, but how do you snap the polylines to those ends in the adjacent elevation views so they are connected properly? Entry.zip

I'm creating a new thread for this... 3D Molding Polyline challenges You have exactly focused on the issue. How to connect / extend an X plane line into a Y plane view. Secondary is the issue of the radiused return being in plane with the slope of the rail and not the plan view.

The real question is ... How do you construct that polyline ?

Here is an image of the challenge. Stairs to a landing, turn, then more risers to the upper level. It's a current project with the railings out to bid. I had to create the railing in Rhino 3D and bring in as .dwg. The good news is that there are options

I have had mixed results with molding polylines in the past. I look forward to seeing how well they play in X-14. Do you have good results getting around corners from an X axis elevation to a Y axis elevation with something like a custom stair handrail?

I just had the same challenge adding a gym into a basement. Not the thick wall issue but I needed to add another wall in front of the concrete foundation wall to accommodate some insulation and piping. This new wall is ultimately getting mirrors and I did not want the small light well windows to set into a tunnel. so, from the jamb of the windows I come out at a 45 degree angle on the sides and bottom. To do this I added a pass-through to the inner wall with no frame and then added poly line solids to the sides (grid fill) and rotated then stretched one of those (angled grid fill) for the bottom slope. This worked well as you can see from the attached. I am loving Chief X14.

Thanks for that... I did see that button but somehow missed the options for the camera. For me, it is all about height of eye and angle of view. Tilt is important too. Now on my toolbar.

I just upgraded from X10 to X14 Premier. Have we lost the Edit Active Camera tool?

Thanks everyone. "Convert to Symbol" worked perfectly. Most of my work lately has been industrial design so not much use for Chief. Thus, I'm still on X-10. I seem to be getting more architectural clients now so will be upgrading when I build the new computer. VERY hard to get video cards at the moment.

Seems a great idea... How do I "convert it to a door symbol"?

I need a gate in the railing on this deck. I've placed a doorway as in the picture but it does not look like the railing. Any ideas on how to have this look correct?

I do, but if I uncheck that the rail disappears from section 2. It seems that no railing at wall is working for section 2 but not section 1.

Chief Premier x10 - I am trying to eliminate the handrail shown in the image. I can't seem to do this through the Railing section of the stair dialog box. Any thoughts?

Exactly... I spent nearly an hour redoing the modifications after regenerating the deck so the renders looked good. A real PITA. And somehow there is always a change that DOB wants documented.

That did it... now I need to re-modify that framing to match the design. Oh well... it is always something. Thanks glennw.

I have 3 decks on a project with Alder assigned as the deck plank material. I need to change this to a custom material. I change in the room specification and bot the material tab and the structure tab show deck planks to be the new material, the old material still shows in camera views. When I changed the tread material to the custom material on the 2 exterior stairs to those decks, it shows perfectly. Thoughts anyone

You are right... I just downloaded the x11 trial and that plan works perfectly in there. It would seem that is a reason to upgrade. Do you know if there is any improvement in handling large image files in layout view? We need to include flood maps on a lot of our file drawings and they can be >20MB. We try to load those last in the project because of the performance hit.

Did you try to edit anything? Pan, Zoom, Select works real time. Move, Extend or Delete a wall takes >45 seconds on both my laptop and my desktop.

Nothing in the plan but walls and a few doors. After more work, it seems there is something going on with the amount of enclosed space. If I disconnect the walls in the upper right corner, performance returns to normal. I can move - extend - delete walls with no slowdown. If I reconnect the corner, just that effort to connect puts the blue wheelie into a tail spin.and takes almost a minute. Any other edit is affected the same. No impact on navigation - zoom or pan. This is repeatable on my desktop and laptop.

I deleted the PNG and saved to a different name. Closed Chief - restarted the computer - Loaded the newly created file - no improvement. clicking anything then delete takes >45 seconds. Close that file and then load a highly detailed file 10 times the size in that same session of Chief and all is well. The issue is specific to that file for me.

Thanks for the input. 2ndPlan.png is 1053 x 1070 pixels - 771 kb. I wouldn't think that would do it. I need that to trace over. I've done this sort of thing many times in the past with no issues.

All of a sudden this one plan has slowed to the point where any operation sets the blue wheelie going for 45+ seconds before I get my mouse back. No issue with any other (much larger) plans. Any thoughts? 1515Broadway.plan

Thanks for your answer. I checked my Preferences and fixed it per your info. Not an issue any more. I re-read my original post just now and saw that I had not corrected the actual path from pasting in the original path. I have edited that post for the benefit of others going forward. All is good now with both my B: drive and chief. Thanks again for you help.

I have been getting this error for quite a while now and I would really love to fix it. Always - when I close Chief I get this error message > Attempting to write the Master List file. Unable to write to the directory "B:\Documents\Chief Architect Premier x10 Data\". The file cannot be saved.< Clearly that location was created when I set up Chief at some point. The current path is actually "B:\Documents\Chief x10\". I have looked all through the registry and all of Chief's file paths and can't find anything that looks like the path in the error. Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Thanks for that Mark. I had never used Plan Views before. It will do the trick. I just need to create some additional layer sets for the specific views. Just name them beginning with z_ and they go to the bottom of the Layer Set list. Interesting idea for the portable monitor at the dining room table. Beats juggling a laptop in the living room. I guess I am good for now. Thanks again.