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14 hours ago, mtldesigns said:

How do create and use a custom structural shape?  I need to use z-channels in lie of the C's on this exterior wall.  Interior wall are good with the C's.  I am not finding a lot of guidance... but as it usually goes, it's probably right in front of my face. 

 

Actually, I already created the profile, but not clear on how I can use as an option in DBX  

 

Thanks in advance

3 hours ago, robdyck said:

You won't be able to replace that c-channel in the wall dbx. If you want to model a z-channel, you'll need to add them manually.

As Robert says the framing profiles are hard coded so if it is something you need please make a concise suggestion with the reasoning of why it would help your workflow.

In the meantime you can make the wall with an invisible framing layer and then do a room molding polyline with the framing members as a vertical molding.  Or manually place symbols.

All that being said.  Is this something you need to show in 3d or can a cad detail suffice?

8 hours ago, Sandor09 said:

Good morning gents and thak you for your prompt help but I don't want to use standard cabinets doors, I wand to use my own design, similar but different from the standards.

Thanks!

Not a problem.  Create your door in chief or whatever modeling program you want to use.  But if you try to bring in a DWG 3d file it needs to have the textures separated prior to bringing into chief.  I was just pointing out that the door you are working so hard is in fact in the chief catalog already so you are going through alot of work for nothing.

3 hours ago, Sandor09 said:

Good morning dear friends,
I'm once again having beginner's doubts.

I would like to make an upper cabinet for a kitchen. This cabinet is 43" high and 36" wide and has two doors of different widths and styles, the one on the left with glass and the one on the right with a slab door.
I can size the door on the left but I can't finish the door on the right.

The style of the doors was created in a 3D DWG with glass but when I import it as a cabinet model the door only accepts one texture for the entire door, either white or all glass.
Can anyone help me with these two questions?

Thanks!
Attached files

CUSTOM WALL CABINET.plan 4.75 MB · 1 download

When you import door items like that they need to have different textures for each item otherwise it will be imported as the same material and will only change completely.  However this is a very basic to build cabinet in Chief. Check out this one and see if its what you need.  It is a full cabinet so it can still be customized more.

Wall Cabinet for Sandor09.calibz

1 hour ago, agriffiths said:

@Gawdzira@ericepv - Thank you both! Why would that turn off from project to project? I don't touch those things..

When you manually adjust walls which 99.5% of the time is not necessary and is highly discouraged to do, it will turn off the parametric features of the wall because it thinks you dont want the program to change what you did.  So at some point you grabbed that wall and dragged it up.  

Currently the only option is to have multiple copies of the layout box and cropped and adjusted.

1 hour ago, StephenM said:

I guess what I'm really trying to do here is get rid of the ledge part. As I want this to be flush on the exterior.

change the swing of the door to exterior swing and will be flush with exterior.

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?

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.

14 minutes ago, TGMTom said:

I have rel 9 and someone wants me to modify a drawing done in rel 13.

What can a person do to allow rel 9 to open newer files?

 

Most CAD file have a way to open previous versions...

As mentioned nothing can be done.  No backwards compatibility.

37 minutes ago, ACADuser said:

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

This is a sketchup model.

 

 

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.

49 minutes ago, BeachHouse1 said:

All of the library references are broken

 

Do you have the library on your local hard drive or in a cloud storage location?

On 2/29/2024 at 7:33 AM, mountaineer said:

This is a new one for me?  I no longer have a search option in my library?  Not sure where it went...

This is the type of issue that you should post a screen grab of your library panel so we can see what you see.

34 minutes ago, TomBiggs said:

I wish there was a type of reference that viewed stuff below the current level.

Literally what reference display does...

1 hour ago, cbucks said:

I can calc manually but there are small areas and curious if there is a way to sum up the total amount of grass and display as an automatic calculation?

Maybe check out @Renerabbitt's pro template.  Has all of this already built in with macros and FAR/Area caculations schedules.

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".

On 2/16/2024 at 11:46 PM, Mark3D said:

Also apply this setting show in image.

I actually disagree with this statement.  That will cut the wall to the profile of the terrain.  I would personally do it how they would build it IRL and manually cut the top edge and step it down where needed.

1 hour ago, cbucks said:

How do you convert a foundation wall to a terrain retaining wall?

Place a terrain break line in the middle of that wall and elevation lines on each side, then shape it manually in a cross section view as you want.

Looking at that I would probably use full walls and place doorways in those spaces that look like doorways.  Base trim should be automatic as well.

I personally would do them in separate plan files.

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. 

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

12 minutes ago, DreamDesign said:

How to create a sloped wall in the vertical plane to connect the top and bottom part of a chimney that was different widths (tapers at the change in width).

Use a roof plane.

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.

37 minutes ago, cbucks said:

Is there a key command Mac or pc or quick way to turn stairs view off and on?

I recommend you review this video: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/4/understanding-layers.html

as well as keep ALDO (Active Layer Display Options) box open while you work.

15 minutes ago, cbucks said:

Curious everyone's opinion on this whether this will be something will regret?  

Makes it that much harder to move furniture or larger items.  Add in the winder stairs and it makes it even harder.  I personally don't like to do stairs narrower than 39" and prefer 42... FWIW

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.