ACADuser

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  1. Thanks fellas. The 3rd floor will never happen. The plan reviewer will likely do a completely new review. But the clouds must be used to show what changed on the 2 remaining floors. Having said that it's silly IMO to cloud a majorly modified plan. too confusing.
  2. Looking for any advice on a job I'm working on for an architect. The owner keeps making changes even though the first floor (slab on grade) is done. The house was permitted as a 3 story & is now a 2 story with changes to the 1st & 2nd floor. The architect wants me to create 2 sets of plans. One for the building department with changes clouded for them. The other set is for the builder to use in the field. BTW the first contractor was fired & so they want the new builder to get a fresh set of plan with only clouded items that took place after he got his first set of plans(the 2 story set). My dilemma is do I create 2 sets of plan & layout OR do I have clouds & notes on 2 layers, one for the building department & one for the new GC? Thanks
  3. Not sure where I got this. Maybe 3D Warehouse Golf Cart.calibz
  4. I send the plan PDF file as a reference to read any notes & pictures. For the CAD, I'm lazy, so I export the layouts needed to CAD, open the CAD file & scale up by 48 for my typical 1/4" scale model. The text does not scale up. You can grab all the text & change the font height. Or worst case open each needed view in plan view & export that. (only if I have to) If I do that I export all layers & all floors. The Chief layer names are hard to sort so I use a lisp routine to rename the Chief layers, sort the layers by floors & create Layer Sets to turn floor & disciplines on & off. Lisp attached, should run on most CAD platforms. Layer CA.LSP
  5. One out of 1000 have an adverse reaction to Pfizer vaccine for COVID & they are still pushing it. There seems to be no standard threshold for risk.
  6. Are they sealed when in the up position? Crock-pot on the counter & the ladle gets out of control.
  7. I've never physically seen one, only pictures. My point is how water resistant are they. Spilling liquids like soup into the cracks & crevices will create a cleaning nightmare.
  8. So when you spill the soup down the receptacle, who is going to clean it out?
  9. I have found this site useful. https://www.userbenchmark.com
  10. I'm not very good at Sketch up & have an old version but if you have a 3d CAD file give me a shout.
  11. I used the Autocad file to produce the dae file. Deleted the drain & under counter piping. Faucet-Lavatory-Delta-Stryke-Widespread-Single-Lever_Handles.dae
  12. Great sleuthing mark! Here is the dae file I created. Faucet-Tub-Delta-Stryke-Roman_Tub.dae
  13. Thanks fellas, Thanks Michael, more versatile solution than a complete override.
  14. Try here: https://www.bimobject.com/en/search?fullText=locker&sort=trending&page=1
  15. Any way to change the default "Fixed Glass" to "Direct Set" in a plan? I can do it through Select Similar & override the description but if I change the type in the future I will have to fiddle with the description. The GC is overly picky.
  16. Bob, sorry to mislead you but this is a code question not a Chief question. Thanks for the reply. Michael, I think the 2x4 bracing is too thin by itself to be rated, maybe a 4x4 would, as timber is rated based on a char value. I've never used that method. I like the drywall wrap on the 2x. I looked for a foam or caulk but they are limited in there use. The problem is there is 300 feet of wall to repair. Some walls run perpendicular to the trusses. So the wood truss bottom chord is now the fire rated bracing member.
  17. See below as to how the wall was supposed to be installed but they attached the top track to the 2X & stopped the ceiling 2X5/8 layer at the wall drywall. Any ideas of how to fix the top of wall condition so it remains 1 hour rated? I was thinking that two layers of rated drywall attached to the top but what to do at the bracing? 1) remove & reinstall bracing? 2) foam fill rated foam around the 2X bracing?
  18. Good info, I changed the "End Cap" to 1/64 In CAD Detail with the "Show Line Weights" ON it looks good. With the Line weights off it looks like dots.
  19. Here it is in the layout with "Use layout Line Scale" with 1/64 line & 1/64 space. Not too bad but does not help in the actual work environment (CAD Detail)
  20. I know you can use the Layout DBX to change the line style look but that is not helping me working in CAD Details.