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Guys, I like to utilize fill style a lot on my plans. When I print to pdf is looks really good (shown below.) My print shop will get these ready and they are all blacked out. My walls and shelves have no transparency etc. Shouldn't their printer print the shades per my pdf document? I really want to get my own 24X36 plotter. On all of my plans I do, I like to add a colored rendering of an isometric view of the home on sheet one title page. Those look like crap too from their printer but perfect on the pdf.

I started a thread on this a couple weeks ago. Search AMD driver issues.

man that is awesome looking.

yeah, I found a decent molding type under the manufacturer catalog. Do we have to manually draw the profiles otherwise and add to the library?

Are these called window lintels in the window dbx?

Any harm in deleting these old video card files but keeping the most recent? They are taking up valuable space in the gigs and AMD releases new driver updates all the time.

done rene!

All good now guys, I deleted the foundation completely and rebuilt and it magically worked.

Sure are Rene, I am going to check and see if a layer is turned off and if I can upload the complete plan. I have reworked this house so many times starting in X11, around april, that there is no telling. We finally got it to the owner's liking after them reinventing the wheel but that is their right and what they pay me for. Time tracker says I only have 40 hours on it but it seems like 40 years.

yep, I tried that the other day and it was making stem walls for the carport and patio area. If I check the mono slab setting when I rebuild the foundation, then the whole home goes to mono slab. Kind of aggravating and exactly why i just manually draw in what i need.

It has been a little while but I remember the path to the setting to turn off was given by AMD when the upgrade failed. Rerun the upgrade and if you get the error again it will tell you.

Hey guys, I normally just draw what I need manually when I get these type homes every now and then. But when you have a home on a stem wall foundation but add a patio/porch and carport/garage and set their spaces to mono slab, chief only generates the main home foundation and leaves the mono slabs out?

this works best.....I agree.

just tried it, another good way.

Dude, that was awesome. Learned something new.

how do you guys fix this when it occurs? it seems connected in plan view.

Cool, that's really a good idea.

@Joe_Carrickcould you provide a screenshot of how you use the graphic scale? I am not too familiar with that.

I like this alot. When I send off for prints, I guarantee you they are to scale. In the email, i forward the pdf set of plans and ask them for a certain amount of copies, black and white, 24x36 sheet size. I just scaled one right now and it's spot on. The thing is, they can get reprinted by other people like the owner or builder and if it is printed wrong like you guys say, ultimately my name is on the drawing and that is not a good thing.

I work with multiple builders and aren't sure. They should be building to the printed dimensions and only use a scale if a dimension is missing, like interior dims. This issue isn't common but when it is, I like to investigate why they are saying that about the scale being off.

Agreed. I use a plot shop down the road. They print a lot of the local designer's and architects drawings so I trust them. I do know extra prints get sent off from builder's so who knows where they send them. I just don't like hearing stuff like that on my work. Last thing I want to be responsible for are my plans being screwed up and pissing people off.

How many of you have ever had a client/builder say something wasn't to scale on the dwg? I have at least 1 person a year say this. Now, here is the thing, how in the hell is this even possible? Especially when I am notified of it and I go and check the layout view and it is indeed to scale. It is always the floorplan view and when I send the view over to the layout file it defaults to 1/4"=1'-0" which is the norm. I do not print the drawings out when I am done anymore. We wait until the engineering is done and then send off for a couple prints for the client to pick up. So I never really go behind myself and check every view with my scale. Every one of my drawings get printed on 24x36 border. So, it is my assumption that just maybe, someone is printing off another copy on a smaller border, ie. 18X24 or something. I shouldn't have to not trust in chief's layout views and them being to scale when I send them over. I asked a builder I work with the other day " over the past two years we have worked together on your homes and reno's, have you had any issues with my work on the job sites". He said only once. It was an addition we did 2 years ago and nothing was to scale on the floorplan so we just had to do the best we could. They never notified me so I was clueless. I get back home and open the old file and sure enough, there it was when I right clicked on the view and went to "rescale", it was set at 1/4"=1'-0". Long Story for one topic but it just boggles my mind when I am told this. I had a guy 6 years ago say that none of the toilets were to scale. I had to laugh at that one.

Very odd but glad it has been figured out for future situations.

I am going to rename it to "porch railings". Thanks guys.

I found them with the "find object in plan". I know what happened. Those are my porch railings (-11.0000) which I gave a wall thickness to match the column thickness's which has been discussed here several times. Apparently that is when chief generates a particular name??