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As a builder, we had a problem with a designer who made repeated mistakes. We contacted the company owner and simply said, we are way too busy to keep stopping projects and losing money on plan errors by a draftsman, how can we obtain rights to the design that we can use to build indefinitely. We were entitled to a "print" or set of prints in PDF form, but not the actual native design files. The owner was very understanding due to the amount of money we had lost in repairs and downtime, so he allowed us to purchase and release indefinitely the design of the townhomes for two thousand and change. We were then able to hire another draftsman to take those designs and tweak what we needed to then produce them in a production format for us. Unless you have a unique contract of some kind I would simply say listen I own the rights tot he design you can take it, unless it is like a homeowner that hired you to design their dream home, I think that situation might be different.

Thank you so much for the insight, I never even gave those a thought for this type of application. I will give them a shot!

Hi Everyone, We are drawing a townhome building, and they asked us to show the 1ft "jump' between the units that will reflect the garage floor level changing, which then affects the floor/ceiling heights of the whole unit due to grading. Attached is the print of the building as it sits now. From left to right, they need the building elevations shown with the left 2 units being 1ft lower than the other 4 units in the building. I'm pretty confident it would be a change to the ceiling height of each floor, but with the walls already creating so many different rooms is there an easier way to change the ceiling height of an entire floor versus going room by room on that level of the house for those 2 units to drop them down 12"? TSM_15_20 Chestnut_LH_3BR.pdf

You rock! That was the problem!

Hi Everyone, Recently upgraded to X13, and a designer I work with sent me a plan file to work on. In previous chief plan files, the reference display would show the floor above with simply red outlined walls to make it easy to verify things line up properly. Now, you can see the walls are filled solid with color in addition to red outlines, but it is making the view very cumbersome to determine which walls are the floor I am actually on vs the reference floor over top. Does anyone know what I am missing to make the 2nd floor reference walls to not have any fill in them like the 2nd attachment shows?

We have an opening for a full-time employee with Cheif Architect Experience. We would also consider someone that could work in our Reading, PA office with the option of relocating to coastal South Carolina area in the future. The job description is attached for review. Draftsman-Forino.pdf