Richard_Morrison

This is obviously an OLD thread. Have any of you discovered solutions for the display of these 3D crawlspace vents, other than the pony wall solution, possibly with the advent of new features in the interim?

I think that these were eliminated since we have more flexibility with the glass panel door being able to have different non-uniform panel frame widths. It would be great if you could add your version to your signature. This is one of those questions where the version really matters.

I guess that was a little imprecise. I was referring to any view that is using OpenGL. There is a significantly longer delay with the initial generation, but after the view generates, you can spin it just fine.

I have a Surface Pro 6 - i7 w/16 GB RAM. For everything except rendering it's great. If you can stick to vector views, it's very fast. As mentioned above, for regular work, you will want a larger secondary monitor. It can do rendering just fine, but nowhere close to a dedicated graphics card.

This has been happening for many years. Files, screen shots, and bug reports have been submitted. Tech support apparently has been unable to reproduce this, and therefore nothing has been done. The best they've been able to come up with is likely a display "scaling setting" causing this when it is other than 100%. Welcome to the club.

Also, keep in mind that what appears to be a left hand door could be a right hand reverse. They are not the same and I'm not sure Chief is smart enough to know the difference. This could be an issue if door edges are beveled or if you are ordering hardware with a key.

Or you could log in with an iPad or even just a smartphone, I think.

So, about the time that the mortgage calculator got added.

Glad I wasn’t the only one who missed this. Not sure when this got slipped in. Thanks, Michael.

Since Chief doesn't do curved doors, you will need to fake it with an opening and a polyline solid (or slab). Just draw the outline of the door in a plan view as a closed polyline and convert to polyline solid.

David, When you create open the Detail Management and create a new detail, you will get a window as shown below. When you go to Drawing Sheet Setup, you can set the detail's scale, and the sheet size will adjust accordingly. When you save, the specific scale you've set will stay with the detail. When you send this detail to layout, it will appear at the correctly scaled size.

You need to set the scale in the CAD Detail window by going to Drawing Sheet Setup, and setting the correct scale there. Each CAD Detail window can have its own scale. Then you send it to layout at the correct scale, which should be automatic at this point. If you have drawn everything at real world scale (1"=1"), the detail should be the correct size on layout without any rescaling.

David, Using CAD details in layout is a great place to store your office standard details in your layout template (like legends, specifications, nailing standard details, etc.), and you never have to worry about CAD details that live in other files being missed, changed, or moved, since the Layout will stay with that one particular project.

While we're on the topic of fonts today, I am SOOOOO tired of opening my drawings and seeing this. PLEASE fix this. This has been reported many, many times, files sent in, etc. This has been going on for YEARS with no resolution.

Thanks! Why isn't this getting more publicity? I completely missed this.

Well, that's a little pricier than I was hoping for.... I may take you up on your offer.

I really appreciate the offer, George, but I'm hoping to learn how to do this myself.

Mick, I did try your method, and I think that it's brilliant, especially if you need a materials list to include the battens and furring strips. Resizing and rotating battens is very easy, too. It gets a little messy with building framing so early in the process, though, because if you have to rebuild framing after you've done a bunch of adjustments to the battens, you lose all of your customizations.

George, Thanks for this! This material looks great! If I wanted to modify these to get larger spacing between the batts, what would the process be like?

Michael, Thanks for the detailed explanation. This works great! I don't seem to be able to get the Polyline Distribution Path to work, though. I save a batten as an object (it is listed as an architectural block) and looks like a tiny rectangular flagpole in the preview. Then I draw a distribution path and select that block. They shows up perfectly in plan, but in 3D (even with all layers turned on)... nothing except the first one. Exploding the path does nothing. Not sure what I'm missing there.

The region/backsplash is far better, of course, and it looks like you have more control over the location of the battens. I confess that it's not clear to me how you get the battens, though.

Thanks, Michael! I'm on the lookout for one with a little more apparent depth for the battens. Something a little closer to: https://db-homes.com/home-building-options/siding-crane-premium-pointe-board-batten/ which I just came across.

I'm looking for a board & batten texture (image) that has a smooth finish, rather than the rough finish that the Chief library has. White preferable, but maybe other pastel colors, too. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

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It's working okay for me, so you may not be doing something correctly. After you eyedropper something and it turns into a spray paint can, click on the Select Properties to Load icon on the Edit toolbar and make sure that the correct items are checked.