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I think I just found them in the garage doors included - all good
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I should of also checked how these look on the elevation view. Is this normal for it not to show the detail? Maybe its a layer thing - checking that... Not that I can tell. Thoughts?
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I have downloaded the three garage door catalogs from the Library, and non of them have a standard wide paneled garage door. They also do not have a wide paneled 8' high door (5 panels high) What they have is 5 panel high flush doors - so this can be stretched - cool But there are no standard paneled, wide (16' and 18') 4 or 5 high garage doors. Does someone have access to such doors? The long panel door comes in both 4 panel wide and 2 panel wide - very good. The door with the 4 panels across come should also come with 8 panels for wider doors. Am I missing it somewhere? It's like the most common door used from Menards and Lowes. Starter doors. Thank you
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Plan vs Elevation Line Styles, Color and Weight
Steve_Nyhof replied to Steve_Nyhof's topic in General Q & A
That was it!! Wow! Thank you so much! -
In plan (foundation) view I open the layers and what I change seem to work just fine. When I send it to the layout, it retains the colors, line weights and dashed line look. Even when I print to PDF. But in elevation view, (I made a copy of Section View Layer Set, renamed it to Elevation View Layer Set) and make my changes, it works fine for lines above the foundation, but for the foundation, the lines remain black when I change the color to gray, and I can change the line style to solid, and that works. But changing to the dashed line, second option down, it has these very small dashed line style. In the PDF (red arrow image), the dashes are even much finer. Ideas? Thank you SND_D_Residential Template.plan SND_D_Residential Template_2.layout
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Ah! I was hoping there would be direct height values to mess with - Thank you
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I used the wall above and dragged the ledge up and then dragged the all over the one on the house foundation - that worked. So maybe a room height issue
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I think I have a height issue
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I have a pony wall type with a 12" dropped brick ledge. This is used often in our foundation design to line up the main floor walls. After setting up the main floor and generating the foundation, I used my brick ledge wall type to replace the area in the circle - which works great on the level 0 floor, but does not show up on the elevation - like I didn't even add it. Would anyone like to look and see if you can figure this out? I had it working several days ago when I made it. Here is a previous post Thank you SND_D_Residential Template.plan
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Set elevation dimensions for header on a different line
Steve_Nyhof replied to Steve_Nyhof's topic in General Q & A
Very good - I may try the transparent tip - but I am liking what it looks like. And I use End to End to add the header dims, and the 8'0 foundation height. As long as I find solid ways to do things I want to keep learning and move forward. If I am happy (enough) to where I know I can draw a nice looking and easy reading plan, I will begin sooner. As I move forward I will continue to learn more of these little tricks and tips, thanks to many of you guys who are very helpful in this new adventure. Today I just draw several two story homes and ranch homes, over and over - fine tune some defaults - erase all the floor, update my template, start again, learned a lot about rooms today and then got side tracked into these sections lines. All that to say, I can see that on more straight forward homes, a lot can be done in an hour! Roofs were another thing I messed with but lost interest with so much to them, but learned a lot about joining - will keep going on this tomorrow. When I was drawing on the board and learning about ACAD, every job that came in made me antsy to try the CAD. I think it was over a year before I forced myself to just jump! I remember it well, back when things were 2D yet, but I was drawing the railing on a large front porch, copy, paste, click, click (I still did not learn the array). Then my 2 year old son was playing under my desk and pulled the plug out of the wall. I learned real quick that saving your plan constantly was also very important! Well, that is the way I feel now. I thought I had a pretty amazing set up with ADT and the years of work I put into that, and now working with Chief, I am feeling that same antsy push to jump! Soon Steve, soon! Anyway, thank you and all you guys for all your help! -
Set elevation dimensions for header on a different line
Steve_Nyhof replied to Steve_Nyhof's topic in General Q & A
Very good! Thank you -
Set elevation dimensions for header on a different line
Steve_Nyhof replied to Steve_Nyhof's topic in General Q & A
The header solution is perfect! For the smaller dims, I know I can drag them, and I will - But, while dragging them works - just wondering if there is a setting for the dims that do not fit between their extension lines - like so they are not overlapping the other dims. Thank you again - Enjoy your weekend! -
Set elevation dimensions for header on a different line
Steve_Nyhof replied to Steve_Nyhof's topic in General Q & A
Thank you Michael! -
Set elevation dimensions for header on a different line
Steve_Nyhof replied to Steve_Nyhof's topic in General Q & A
Here it is - Thank you SND_D_Residential Template.plan -
First question, see image, is there a way to add header dims as shown? Not cut into the wall height. The dims that do not fit between their extension lines, is there an offset somewhere so they do not cut into the other dims? (see 1-1/2" and 10")
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That is good to know! That makes more sense to me
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Its things like knowing others like yourself can take this and modify it and end up looking amazing that keeps me excited about Chief when I get frustrated. But I am only like 3 weeks in, so feel like I have come a long way. Thank you
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That was simple! I love when defaults work. I think in the video tutorial, she set the wall height to 12" to start the roof from. I got the strange results, but changing the walls AFTER the roof was on back to the defaults seemed to do the trick. I will also remember what "Renerabbitt" showed in the video. Thank you guys!
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Will do
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thank you for this!! Seems so simple -perhaps the training video was trying to show options - maybe to get the roof to start from a lower starting point so it was not placed on the second floor top plate.
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I'll come back to this tutorial. I have messed with a lot of roof examples now from multiple videos and doing quite well - just got stuck here
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I'm trying to figure out where this is located
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Yes, I must be misunderstanding
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That was too simple!!
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I used this, but get 0 results for that I was looking for. So when I enter Thank You (no quotes) plenty come up - everyone seems to be thankful! When I entered ~Thank you into one of my posts to test, I tested by entering ~Thank into the search and 0 comes up. I did see my activity but did not know there was a button - maybe that shows them all Checking it out now Thank you all!!