MN_JohnH

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  1. Here I was able to upload the plan this time. polyline solids.plan
  2. I have tried all that. Nothing works. In older versions I would have to convert both symbols to solids before it would work but now I don't have the option to convert the cylinder to a solid. Before I rotated the cylinder in an elevation view, I could subtract the box from it just fine whether I had converted it to a solid or not. It's just the rotated cylinder I am having trouble with. Apparently. I don't know why it is not letting me upload the plan file here...
  3. I am trying to work with polyline solids. I have created a box and a cylinder that overlap each other. As long as I keep them in their original orientation I can subtract one from the other but if I go to a side elevation and rotate the cylinder, now I try to subtract one from the other and I get and error "this boolean operation could not be completed". I used to do this all the time with x12, so I don't know if this is an upgrade issue or what. I am trying to upload the example plan but I get an error in uploading "an unknown server error occurred" I have attached an imaged instead.
  4. This is awesome, I was able to use the Marvin regular slider and modify it. I should have known it would be so simple. Thanks!
  5. For some reason the Marvin Window and door library has a stacked slider door but it is really just a 4 panel slider with two panels sliding out from the middle which is not what a stacked slider is. I went to 3dwarehouse and they have the unit I want. Question is, how do I make it act like a door where I can adjust the divided lites and trim and jams etc. I have attached the file of the house with the door from 3d sketchup installed. Thanks, plan.plan
  6. Thanks, I am not sure what you are doing with the wall definition specs here. But let's even go more basic than this: how do I draw a slab inside ICF walls with no crawlspace or anything underneath, just fill? And then how do I put a double treated plate on top of my ICF wall?
  7. I guess the plan I sent was confusing because I tried to draw something simple to illustrate since my actual plan was to big. Let's just start with this question: How can I make an ICF wall that goes down to frost footing with a double plate on top and the top of the slab floor is level with the top of the double plate? I have a detail attached. ached.
  8. Got it, Thanks. Seems I spend half my time these days just trying to wrap my brain around layer sets and project views... Thanks again.
  9. I guess I don't understand the saved camera views. Say I just want to show the interior without the furniture so I remove the furniture and save the camera view giving it a new name. Then I go to open a previously saved camera view and the furniture layer is turned off on all the saved camera views. Am I missing something here? Shouldn't the saved camera view save the displayed layers in that view?
  10. I am wondering how I can set up my foundation walls and main floor so that I can have a slab on one part and a framed floor on the other that flush out at the same level. But I would like the top of the ICF foundation walls to have a double sill plate with the concrete poured inside of that where the slab is and the other side would have accommodations for the framing to come out at the same height. I have a simple plan attached and some cross section details of how the top of foundation wall would look. I know I can just build it with the slab at the same level as the house and then just have these detail drawings included in the plan but I am wondering if there is a way to actually have Chief build it this way? plan.plan
  11. I guess I didn't realize that somewhere along the way my main floor ceiling height got changed to 9' instead of 8'. The second floor should sit on top of the walls. I should have noticed that. Guess my question is not a well thought out one though I thought I had looked it over extensively before asking. Sorry. And thanks for the responses.
  12. I often have trouble with walls protruding through the roof like this. I am thinking it has something to do with my loft or 2nd floor being higher than the top of the 1st floor roof but I can't figure out what to do about it. I want those walls to define my second floor space even though they don't really exist... I will be drawing dormers in to get more space but where the roof cuts I want the walls to show on the plan where they are but then they are sticking through on the perspective view. Walls problem.plan
  13. Sorry, I guess it looks OK now. When I was doing it this morning the sides of the skylight hole were not covered it was just open into the roof cavity and I thought maybe the ceiling hole would be the answer even on a slope ceiling. But now it looks OK so I don't know what I was seeing earlier. Thanks for the response.
  14. I am having this same problem, weather I have fascia turned on or not, the edit skylight shaft area is grayed out. Skylight problem.plan
  15. Hello, I am trying to get rid of a little corner of this attic truss in the soffit area. Seems like I could draw it as an energy heel and it worked but when I changed the rafter and bottom cord to 2x8, the bottom cord continues through. I have attached the plan and a truss drawing the way i want it to be. Thanks, 7-27-20 plan 8-12 pitch.plan
  16. Thank you, I will look at these
  17. It would still be nice if I didn't have to make it a symbol to rotate it like this. I can rotate a polyline solid from different angles but having the molding in there seems to make it impossible. Is there a way to turn the molding into a poly line solid? Then I could join them together and work with it without making it a symbol.
  18. I can't figure out how to add a sash to a triple wide casement to make it a 4 wide casement. I know I can mull units together but I would like to have the window be a 4 wide unit altogether. Searches are coming up with nothing.
  19. Thanks! i was missing the convert to symbol thing. Thanks for the help!
  20. I am actually using x12. I don't see a way to change the rotation on a symbol, that is not an option when I open the symbol.
  21. I am wondering if it is possible to rotate an object around different axis's? The attached file is a door I drew using poly line solids and moldings. It is laying flat and I would like to rotate it so that it is standing up. In other words looking at it from a side elevation, I would like to rotate it 90 degrees. This does not seem possible in the transform replicate box or just using rotate handles. It looks like I could rotate the the polyline solid but not the moldings and not when I combine them into a block. Thanks screen door 1.plan
  22. If you look at the elevation camera you can see the window I am trying to create. The triangle one in the middle I had no trouble with. the one to the left I used Michael's suggestion and turned the window over once I had it shaped right. On the elevation it looks like it worked but on the full camera the interior wall surface is still there, the hole in the wall doesn't seem to be complete. truss window opeing.plan
  23. Wow, thanks, that is awesome. I got everything to work except the wall cutout polyline. I click on the wall cutout polyline tool but the whole still isn't all the way through the wall. Seems like the interior wall covering is still there no matter what I do...