HamlinBC

A lot of 3rd party rendering software use a "layer based" material system.  It's how you can achieve more natural and realistic material properties...

You basically did a simplified version of that...good job!

Looks like it's actually part of the wall, but hard to tell without actually looking at the plan.

Please post the plan...

It's a mirror

Hi Tim,

We are a lumberyard in South Dakota and use Chief for all of our drafting services.  We have found the material list portion to be....lacking.  But we know that Chief is perfect for showing our clients their homes, and we just use other software for material lists.

Feel free and PM me your email address, and we can talk if you'd like.

Sweet!...thanks!

Where'd you get the 3D grass from?

You could have right clicked on one of your toolbars, hover over "Toolbars", select the "Edit" toolbar.

Just in case it happens again sometime...

Post a plan, please?...

Did you somehow change your fill pattern on the brick to be "NONE"?

If you make the windows full height, then the lintel works...weeeeiiird.

Hi Barb...

I would say you found a bug.

Something with mulling the windows and door with a lintel over it produces the weird result.  I could duplicate the same thing on one of my plans...

Not sure how to fix it...maybe one of the guru's could chime in.

I did submit an email to Chief, so we'll see what happens from there.

Nobody?....ok, guess I'll just keep doing it like how I normally do.

Make sure both P-Line Solids are intersecting...or touching.

Open your stairs, set them to have winders.

Then go to the style section and set the Winder Max Tread Contraction to 5", or a little thicker than your wall.

Click ok, and drag your stairs to go to the outside of the wall, and it should draw correctly.

See Attached...

Untitled 13.plan

Use GIMP, it's an open source Photoshop.

Just to take out any guess work, here's a link:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Ok...I know I'm missing something here, but why can't you copy the fill style from one polyline to another??...

I tried the Object Eyedropper and the Match Properties tool...

Is there a way I don't know about??

Looking into it a little further....

You need to block all of the elevation lines and the terrain perimeter.  Then you can add the block to your library browser.

From there you can drop it into the new plan, but you still need to convert it to a plain polyline, and back into terrain perimeter.

I'm sure there's something I'm missing...

...It's a pretty straightforward method, and you could be done by now.

Right...but now you need all of the terrain data.

Delete the terrain perimeter on your plan with the house on it.

Then, open the plan that I saved here, and select the "All Off" layerset.

Then turn on the terrain perimeter, and the countours (because someone doesn't know how to spell CONTOURS) layers.

Highlight everything, and copy; switch to the plan with the house on it and paste.

Your terrain perimeter that you paste will only be a polyline, so you'll have to convert it back to a plain polyline (using the magic wand with black trapezoid down below), then convert it to a terrain perimeter (using the magic wand again, only this time the trapezoid will be orangey-yellow).

Click ok through all of the DBX's, and it should work.

It's going to be a little trickier, but when you import the .dwg into your drawing (and go through all the steps), everything will be selected.  You can simply do a point-point move, rotate, etc... to get it to where you need it to be.

Like I said, it's going to be tricky and might take some back and forth to get it perfect, but definitely doable.

I'm sure someone has an easier way though?...

Sent a message...

Here's a picture process of what I did...

I too learned it from the guy sitting next to me

The contours worked for me.

There were a couple lines that had elevation set to 0 on them, but I just selected one, ctrl+J, then select the option of all objects with elevation set to 0", click ok, and delete.

Attached the revised Chief Plan...

terrain question.plan

...I also don't think it works if the points are in blocks.  He had the surveyor send 2 copies.

One with blocks, and one where everything was exploded...

If there's no elevation data associated with that particular layer, then you will get "0" for the elevation height.

You have to find the layer that the elevation data is associated with...