Richard_Morrison

1 hour ago, MarkMc said:

Adjusting Euros to dollars the median salary is just under 24K USD with 90% earning 45k. 

This means the 90 percentile, meaning that only the top 10% make more than 45K.

For a homeowner, say, these prices are quite high. For a professional, they are a bargain. If I can double my output (and income) -- which may actually be a low estimate -- spending $3,000, rather than hiring employees, is a bargain. I know an architect nearby who does maybe 60 projects a year by himself using Chief Architect. If he charges only $3,000/project (and he usually charges more), he is making $180,000 for an investment of only $3,000 in Chief Architect software. I can assure you that he does not care how Chief Architect spends his money.

9 minutes ago, parkwest said:

I watched Dave's videos on my iPad using Chrome... no problemo.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/9/13903878/google-chrome-block-flash-html5

This will likely be a limited shelf life. (Adobe is completely ending support for Flash in 2020.) I certainly wouldn't base a business on deprecated software.

12 hours ago, parkwest said:

 

I am able to watch Dave’s videos on my iPad with no problems.

This probably is because you have one of the few browsers that support it. https://www.lifewire.com/play-flash-on-ipad-1994160

The fact is that many people who are surfing the net are doing so on their iPhones or iPads, and if your website is based on Flash, then you are blocking a significant percentage of people from seeing it. Why would you do that?

Flash doesn't work at all with Apple iOS. Dave, you should get Flash out of your life right away.

3 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

where are you seeing invisible walls in the kitchen though? , they are turned on but I don't see any?  I do see some demo walls and Std. Polylines....

They go from the corner of the kitchen pop-out (a few feet to the right of the outswing door, to the small dashed rectangle. If you drag-select, you'll get them.

There is a skinny little demo'd wall to the left of the ovens, which overlaps onto the green fill. Delete that, and everything seems to be okay -- at least for me.  However, I should mention that you also have some weirdness with multiple invisible walls on the left side of the kitchen.

EDIT: I spoke too soon. The slow behavior is back. You seem to have two sets of stairs, one on top of another, too. So, I dunno....

You can also export wall fills as a separate .DAT file to a central folder and import it for each plan.

The short answer is a polyline solid drawn in an elevation view. Then probably you'll have to move it into place in the plan view.

Yes, open a CAD Detail window in Layout first. Import the DWG. Then copy/paste onto the Layout page.

14 hours ago, chrismarsho said:

Finally found the problem, I think  . Early on in the plan and 24x36 layout pages,  I was using my 11x17 printer and had set the advanced line weight setting to 1/400 ,in the drawing sheet setup to work with the scale to fit option on my smaller printer ( I was getting huge lines ) .

This easily can happen when your advanced line weights are set with an incorrect unit. Earlier version line weights were set with scaling set to 1/600 INCH. Then it was changed to 1/100 MILLIMETER, but with heavier line weights  assigned to the layers, to match industry standards. This really should not be printer-specific.

No, there isn't. You will need to ask for DWGs.

EDIT: I've used both Chief and ArchiCAD for about 20 years each, and go back and forth between the two all the time. It's kind of sad to give someone correct information and get downvoted for it. Reminds me of Jack Nicholson: "You can't handle the truth!" 

When you send a view to Layout, you should send with "Use Layout Line Scaling" and make sure that the scale selected matches your intended final scale. You can change Layout Line Scaling later by using the "Rescale Layout View" tool.

Try using the "Full Camera" rather than the "Floor Camera." Attic walls are on a different floor and won't show up with the floor camera. (Unless you are taking a camera view in the attic.)

And if that doesn't work because some rooms don't have a default ceiling height, there is the "Match Properties" tool.

17 hours ago, CARMELHILL said:

. It's a video of my thought process when I was doing the design. It draws more traffic to our website too.

 

http://www.carmelhill.com/client-updates.html

 

 

 

Ed,

I'd encourage you to use a solid color background rather than the sky with clouds. While this is probably insignificant to you, I think there is an element of, well, "creepiness" for your clients in having their house floating and rotating in the sky that is probably quite distracting for some.

Why not just use the materials list tool and get everything in an instant? If you really need perimeter lengths, you could take the baseboard number and divide by two. 

5 hours ago, Dermot said:

"I can create the first, but when I create the second, it joins up with the first and makes a single stair section."

 

Don't panic.  It probably only looks like a single stair section but you do actually have two separate stair "sub-sections".   Stair sub-sections are like different line segments in a polyline.  If you select either one, you should see the extra edit handles along the center line indicating that you have multiple sub-sections.  Also, you should see that the sub-sections are labeled 1-1 and 1-2 and you should see both sub-sections when you open the stair dialog. 

I have never understood, though, why different subsection LOOK like they should be able to have separate widths, but for some reason the widths are locked together as the same width. (Unless you put in an intervening landing.)

On 1/5/2019 at 5:28 PM, glennw said:

 

Isn't that what Rotate Plan View does?

Glenn's comment is a good reminder that there are existing tools that we forget about, maybe because we so seldom use them, that already do what we want a new proposed feature to do. However, sadly, this doesn't rotate the grid or let us use a new vertical or horizontal at the rotated angle.

On 1/5/2019 at 9:50 AM, johnmarkey said:

They are not marketing to professional architects and sticking to their home building segment. 

Just curious. Did Chief folks explicitly say this, or was this your conclusion?

I think Graham's double stair probably is the most likely contender and very clever!

I am hoping to see if there is any simple way that I have overlooked of doing paneled wainscotting that follows a stair with one wall curved. Essentially like the attached, although I'm dealing with an outside curve.

Stairs R1 _ 2.pdf

Michael,

I use the plan footprint in a CAD Detail frequently so that the property lines can be entered directly from a boundary survey, and the house located accurately on the lot. Anything you are drawing in 3D outside of the plan can certainly be displayed in the "footprint view." So, things like driveways, terrains, etc. can be displayed in the CAD detail (in 2D, of course), you just can't dimension to them. However, you can certainly dimension them in the plan view, and the dimensions can be displayed in the CAD detail, so I guess I'm not totally clear what your dilemma is. There is no need to draw things twice.

Any of you guys using hi DPI scaling or overall display scaling in Windows? I just discovered that resetting scaling to 100% from where it was set at 125% for my 4K monitor fixed the issue. Not happy with this solution, but may help tech support track things down.

On 11/25/2018 at 8:43 PM, johnny said:

In Vectorworks we have a similar tool to the point-to-point resize with the option to keep the aspect ratio the same.  Therefore, when we bring any object like PDF into the drawing we simply point-to-point and type the new dimension.  I guess I was thinking somehow point-to-point inside Chief could be constrained.  This other method you mention works though.

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