rgardner

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  1. 1 hour ago, StephenM said:

    Looking on how I can adjust the thickness of this? I used a fixed door with glass slab but it's limiting it to a 4" thickness. Would like to have a 7" thickness. 

     

    T.I.A for the help.

    Do they make a 7" thick glass block IRL?

  2. From experience with clients who like to place cabinets holding down the ctrl or cmd button, 99% of the time the cabinets are not precisely joining.  Its hard to tell if its the quality of the screen gram but it looks like the upper cabinet was forced placed and is just very slightly pushed into the wall if the line at the front is indicative of its location.  Use the bumping arrows to move away from the wall and the adjoining cabinet then bump it back into place and see if that is what is up. Otherwise post the plan.

  3. 37 minutes ago, ACADuser said:

    How would you make this pattern show up in vector & standard view.

    This is a sketchup model.

     

     

    Texture.JPG

    Textures are used in Standard type views such as standard, PBR, RT, etc.  Patterns are used in Vector type views such as Vector, Line overlay options, etc.  Unless that is an actual texture that you can do a conversion from texture to a pattern in the material dbx then you will need to find or create this pattern and apply it to that material.

     

  4. 13 minutes ago, Ed_Orum said:

    Is there a way to show (plan view) stairs on the second floor and first floor at the same time?
    Thanks,
    Lane

    Do a search for that question in this forum (been asked and answered hundreds of times.   And additionally you can search the help file, specifically for "reference layer display".

  5. 2 hours ago, HannahMcNee said:

    Does anyone know how to create moldings on beams on a vaulted ceiling? I've tried adding the molding to the room, or creating a cabinet to follow the roofline, or adding moldings to the soffit but nothing has worked. Any input is helpful! 

     

    I've attached two images. One with the vaulted ceiling, and one of the adjacent flat-roofed dining room. I'm trying to achieve a similar look to the dining room. 

    Great Rm.png

    Dining.png

    Use soffits for the beams and set as sloped to follow ceilings.

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  6. 9 hours ago, DefineDesign said:

    I have had numerous crashes with chief architect. Sometimes several per day. It seems to be getting more frequent.  Mainly when editing in the 3d views or using the library browser. Today I got fed up and called chief tech support.

     

    Tech Support basically said using external monitors connected through usb ports (24" Samsung SyncMaster 2443) with my Macbook pro M1 Max is causing all the issues. The Macbook pro only has USBC Thunderbolt ports to connect monitors so what else am I to do. He said this will almost always cause crashes when working in large files in 3D views or the library browser. He said 80% the crashes will not happen if I just use the laptop screen with no monitors hooked up. He blamed Apples choice to only use a CPU. He said GPU technology is so much better and more powerful. I I don't experience these crashes with other CPU intense software. I dumbfounded Chief Architect does not disclose this when purchasing the software. Seem disingenuous to say the software works on a mac with such big limitations. They clearly tell you Ray tracing is not supported why is this left out.

     

    Do other Mac users experience these crashes? Curious if this problem would go away if replaced the dual monitors with one large monitor. I would love to hear from other Mac users.

     

    Macbook Pro M1 Max 

    64gb Ram

    OS Sonoma 14.2.1

    Chief Architect Premier 25.3.0.77

    Dual Samsung SyncMaster 2443 (1920x1200 resolution)

    Pretty sure Apple also states that it only supports one external monitor for the M1 Max or regular M1 chip.  The m1 ultra on the studio and newer laptops can do multiples.

  7. 29 minutes ago, DBCooper said:

    Seems like a lot of silliness to me.  If you want more than one sink, just place them free floating in the plan and drag them on top of the cabinet.  Done.

     

    *eyes rolling back into the top of my head so far I think they might be stuck now*

     

    Haven't used this in a couple of years so may be fixed now as I dont often do it but I believe that way had an issue with custom countertops or maybe it was standard countertops.

     

  8. So assuming the following;

    1. That you just want that page in your final documents as it is from the engineer with their title block.

    2. You want to add that page to your sheet index

     

    If this is the case then you can do what I usually do with any consultants’ sheets and not import the pages at all in Chief.  I will put a blank page with the engineers sheet name/number and place a single cad item on that page so the sheet will show in the index appropriately. Print the pdf set and then use any standard pdf viewer to remove the empty sheets and add the engineers sheets.  It results with the full set with structural sheets included both in the location you want them as well as how you want them and you don’t get file bloat from importing a pdf into a sheet.  I use this technique with structural and mechanical engineers, title 24, cal green, interior designers, spec sheets. etc.

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