Plainwacky

What I am saying is.... shoot me your ideas, tell me what you would you do differently, what you don't like about my plan, etc...and if I like your idea(s), we come up with an agreement including cost for the service. It could be as simple of marking up my camera view using Microsoft Paint and sending it to me. I'm not expecting someone to work for free, and to me this is no different than having an interior designer/contractor come to your house to tell you their ideas prior to hiring them. Such as "we can move this wall, put an kitchen island here, etc". As an example, if someone responded to this posting and said, "what I would do is get rid of two of the garages, or I'd separate the garages from the main house, or I'd get rid of the balcony, or get rid of the second floor, etc", of course I'm not going to enter into an agreement, cause I don't like any of those ideas. In regard to the restaurant comment.... It's no different than looking at a menu to see if there is anything on it you like prior to ordering. Do you pay for dinner without knowing what the restaurant is serving? I believe a confident and experienced designer would immediately have some creative ideas and have no problem sharing them, knowing I'd going to love their ideas.

I designed my floor plan but not real happy with my roof and front of house design. The problem I have is that I can't visualize a roof design, so I'm looking for someone to give me some ideas. This is a mostly a single story house (see the floor plan) with a second story (game/gym room) over the bedrooms and baths I initially had the front of the house and garages all in-line and thought it looked like all garage, so I decided to angle it as shown. I'm open to changes to the garage. I just don't want to go with an L-Shape with the garages cause of how I enter my property, which right now is a vacant lot. If this is something you'd be interested in, please let me know your ideas and how much you might charge. I'm not sure how this would work cause I certainly don't want to pay someone for something that looks ridiculous, or I really dislike. The only way I can think of getting around this, is for you to give me your ideas, perhaps a mark-up, and if I like it, I can send you the plan and pay you for implementing your ideas with my input.

I'm looking for someone that can take my plan and give me some ideas on different roof designs. I can't visualize different roof designs, and even if I could, I don't have the expertise to design one. Currently I have the following roof design, but I know it has drainage issues and perhaps too busy. At this point, I'm just looking for some rough ideas, and if I like one, it can be perfected later. Unfortunately, I can't visualize roof designs, and I don't have the experience to implement one if I did. Anyone interested?

Hello - I have my plan laid out, but I'm looking for some new ideas when it comes to the roof design. The way the roof is right now, there is a lot of wasted space. To give you an idea of what the floor plan looks like...see attached. If anyone is interested, please let me know.

To create the terrain, this is what I do (see enclosed photos) 1. Set the Z-BNDY to Terrain Perimeter 2. Click on the property line (took a few times to click on it), then when it shows up (all grayed out) 3. Selected to close the perimeter 4. Defined the grayed=out area as the terrain perimeter. It shows up, but just no elevation.

Hi Mark....I appreciate any help you or anyone else van give me. What I did was just create a new plan (which would be blank) and import the DWG file and I see no elevation. I don't think you need the HD plan, but if I'm mistaken, please let me know.

Everyone give up on me? I have tired selecting what I think is the elevation data...so much so, I had to create a list...and I still can't get the elevation to display. Can anyone with Chief try to load the DWG file (see enclosed) and tell me if they can see the elevation? And if so, is there a way to export it, send it back to me, and see if I can open it up? Or would I be in the same spot? I contacted the company that created the file and they told me they are too busy. I reached out to Technical Support and they said I would have to upgrade to get help...I have upgraded multiple times and I can't keep dumping money into upgrades for my one project. Elevation Civil-base-050319.dwg

What I was trying to explain is that I didn't see a specific menu to "open the layers display"....that is why I posted the screen shot to show where they are. I didn't know if perhaps Chief Architect had a specific menu to open up the display layers for the plan, camera, elevation...which would be nice. Regardless, as I said, the terrain layers are selected as shown and thus still not seeing the terrain elevation.

When I uploaded the DWG file in the free AUTOCAD program (see enclosed photo), I see the elevation...the hillside and valley. So, the elevation data must be there...right? Am I not understanding what you are saying?

You said, "open the Layer Display Options"...I'm not seeing a "Layers Display Options". What I have done, is just import the DWF file information and labeling what I think is elevation data. Then in the plan view, I go to "Tools -> Display options" (Properties for working set) and all the terrain is checked to be visual. (see screen shot 1) I then take a camera view and look at the I see the perimeter of the property, but it's flat. (see screen shot 2) Then I go back to the plan view and take a cross section and look at those layers (see screen shot 3) All show the terrain is checked. One can see in the terrain perimeter in the second screen shot, but it's flat. Argh...

I just uploaded the DWG file in the free viewer, and I can see the elevation. So, it's obviously there. Now I just need to figure out what parameter is the elevation data

I think the first thing I need to do is get the elevation data to show up. If I can't get/extract that data, it's not going to matter if I can align the DWG file info. I could always hand copy the data onto the HD program, but that would be very tedious and not as accurate. I'll check out that free AUTOCAD and see if I can make sense out of it.

Hi Eric...if you look at the screen shots I provided, you can see the "layers" that are locked...but they are only visual as far as I know. Unless I am mistaken, are no "layers" in HD Pro or any HD.

I can move and rotate the DWG file information, the problem I'm having is that everything else that I don't want to move, moves and I'm not sure how or if I can somehow lock all the info I created in HD and just move all the info I imported that is in the DWG file.

Apparently, I cannot create a layer and import the DWG file on that layer...that would be nice. From what I have read online; HD Pro has only a "Layer Display Options Dialogs" one for plan view and one for each camera type view...that's it. I'm at a loss here...I have tried to 'edit area" only selecting the DWG file elevation data within the perimeter and rotate that to line up with the perimeter in HD and if I have to adjust it, everything that I created in HD will also move. Maybe I just can't do this in HD??