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Joe, is there a way to see which one are linked to which plan? Most of my notes and details are from a plan I DO want to remain associated with the Layout so being able to see the file association from a Project Browser of sorts, would be great.
Thanks,
Isn't that what this "Referenced Plan File" dbx is for? To see what the layout file is connected to?
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Keep in mind, in real film making there are walls called "wild walls". To wild a wall is to remove it so that you can get a good camera angle on the shot. If you really want to make useful video of an interior you may need to wild some walls to make the video suck less. Otherwise we are all making a less scary version of the Blair Witch Project with a Stedicam.
Much better. After I watched the video and whent back to read the info you gave in your post it all made sense at that point thank you.
I think I may design a haunted house for Halloween now. Boo!!!
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Are you using the walk thru path tool?
The video in my last post is what I needed. Thank you for very much for your help!
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Thank you, this is exactly what I needed
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Thank you, this is exactly what I needed
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Take a look at the attached image.
I have set 8 keyframes that show up looking like cameras on the path. These are each aimable and you can adjust the time it takes between keyframes (speed after...). By adding more keyframes to your path and adjusting the time it takes for each to get to the next you will modify your speed of the camera. You can also set the height of the camera by changing floors that the camera is on. You can see that my path seems to stop and start again. At that point I jump to the second floor to get a different vantage point on the subject.
I'm moving through the interior of the house using the mouse-dolly camera. It appears that you are doing something totally different. I reduced my frame rate to one because it was going thru the house to fast. I guess I need to figure out the terminology also. I need lesson 101.
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That happened to me before and I had to delete the roof and rebuild it and it was fine after but I'm not sure what caused it. Hopefully someone will post that knows how this happens.
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Increase the frame rate will help (that will also make the file larger too).
DJP
Do you know what the compression is? Not sure what that is used for?
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I just started using the walk through tool today. When I play it back it plays to fast. Anyway to slow it down?
Also are there any good video anyone can suggest to learn how to do good walkthrough presentations?
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Instead of than turning them off....
Make the text size 1" and it's color white. Also, lock the Layer.
That way, it's there if you ever need it (maybe to add a macro) but it doesn't get in the way.
Good idea!
Thank you Joe
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Then you turn both of them off. But that may be ok because I don't usually use the total living space anyway.
Thank you that is a good idea
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Yes, confused but getting closer. I guess actually seeing something in action might connect the dots.
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I was thinking 350 too , so maybe I'm missing something too.
Maybe Joe just had a "Brain Fart".
He's very intelligent but still is allowed to make a mistake once and a while.
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You can put it on a different layer and turn it off.
Jon
I will see how that good works. Thanks
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You should be asking this question in the "question and answers" section. The response will be better.
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I had no idea that tool existed. Thanks
Wow! That made me feel a little useful. Thanks
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Sounds like you just need to change the scale. You can change it when you resend it or after you send it you can change it in the layout plan as per attached picture.
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When I send my screen to layout in 1/4 scale it gives me a very small rendition? Am I missing something? I don't want to select fit to page because I need it in 1/4 scale.
Are you talking about when you send it to layout or send it to print? Be more specific or send a picture or something.
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I think most only tease those they like!
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Not sure , perhaps so you know it isn't included but more likely cos you probably can't have one without the other.
Can't you just delete it ?
Its not a big issue. Just curious to see if anyone knew something that I didn't. I delete it and as I'm working on the plan its pops up every so often and I have to remember to delete it again before it goes out to print.
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Joey - Excel uses formulas to calculate sums. Now, macros could be used in conjunction with them I imagine (I am not a programmer or that good at advances math).
The formula simply tells Excel to add, subtract. divide, multiply numbers in a range of cells. You do need to know a few of the formatting symbols for some things but it is very basic.
Of course you could make tings much more involved/complicated depending on what you are doing. I bow out at that point! ;o)
Excel is one program that I use a lot of. I built an entire estimating program that I use for my business. I started building it with windows 3.0 about 25 years ago and have improved on it over the years. But I only figure out what I really need or want and I keep it as simple as I can. I find that all the estimating programs I have looked at in the past are way to intense and I wouldn't use 90% of the stuff they put in it. I have actually thought about marketing what I have built because of how simple (but not to simple) it is and you can adapt it to whatever type of construction you do but you have to put your own data into it to make it work. So it keeps you stream lined.
My Point:
I would like to make my estimating program so it will automatically generate a proposal off of it. I think that I may need to use macros to do it but not sure at this point. That's why I'm so interested in understanding macros.
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A Macro in Chief - basically returns Text to be used in a Label or Text Box. Internally, the macro can do more but what the user sees is the text output. In most cases anything internal to the macro is both invisible to the user and can't be used for anything else.
Chief provides some predefined macros which they call GLOBAL & Object Specific. These provide some commonly needed text to be displayed in Labels or Text Boxes. In no case is that data available to use in another macro - it is simply displayed as text.
Even User Defined macros don't (usually) provide data that's available to other macros. However, Chief provides some data as object attributes that can be accessed and used to calculate values, manipulate text, etc. That way, additional information can be displayed that is not provided by Chiefs' Global and Object Specific macros.
So here's a kicker: Within a Chief Macro, a special type of variable can be defined. This is a Ruby Global Variable which is defined simply by using the "$" as the first character of the variable name. During the same session of Chief any such variable can be used by any macro. IOW, if a macro creates and uses a variable named TotalDecks it is confined internally to that macro and the value is not available to use in any other macro. However, if it creates a variable named ($TotalDecks = 235) then another macro can use it as follows:
x = $TotalDecks + 115
resulting in the output of 500
This is a relatively simple example but the key is that the data is available to use between macros, allowing more complex output. It is even possible to access (read and write) information to and from external files, format text, etc.
Joe
I know that you can also build macros in Microsoft excel.
Can you tell me the difference between what a macro is and what excel uses to calculate sums? I use math only on a very basic level just enough to do what I need to get the job done but I find myself interested in learning more.
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Some guys just have that gift to program. I am not a programmer so I rely on others to do that part for me and I don't mind paying for it. You find your niche (gift) and you stick with it.
Joe,
I could be wrong but I'm guessing that you shared with us that knowledge because you are trying to help us better understand macros. I have been researching ruby macros and trying to understand the concept and how it came about and with that information and what you just explained I understand what it is but I still get lost in the equation part of it. I was never good at HTML coding either. You did a very good job explaining it but I will most likely have to rely on other to do the custom stuff for me.
Thank You
Creating layout template from existing project layout
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Thanks Scott I will take the red mark, green mark, yellow mark..... as long as I get some sort of attention here so I don't feel left out.
As for this discussion for some reason I don't have any problems with linking and un-linking and cleaning up the files to make template out of them. My problem is I can't really tell you how I do it I just do it. I seem to make thinks work some how. Everyone on the forum has helped me so much that I am very pleased with my new automatic & live plan setup. Very efficient! Maybe I will have to do a video on it soon and share what I have learned with the rest of the world. Its still a drop in the bucket of what can be done with CA but its much better. You brainy-acks are still way over my head.