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Orthographic Overview> Camera Angle 90°/Tilt Angle -90 > Standard View> Daytime Ambient 100%> check hand drawn lines on top all with min. values.> generic sun set to 25000lux, tilt angle -88°> send to layout and send to back.

Also send a floor plan view set to front for wall poche fills and room labels

15 hours ago, mthd97 said:

Not really, I am happy with just a general aluminum frame profile for Chief Architect for now. I just use the timber frame windows in CA with a thinner profile to mimic the aluminum frame. I do the same for aluminum sliding doors as well.

 

I was just checking to see if there were any in the manufacturers catalog at present. It would sure be nice if there were some to use but I can improvise until then.

Bit of a WIP 

Dowell Windows.calibz

Do you have any particular Manufacturer that youre after?

you have to click on the transform/replicate object dialogue.

Alternatively you could designate the CAD insertion point where youve placed the point marker on the CAD block then use the Parallel/Perpendicular tool then the point to point move tool using the insertion point as the snapping point

This one is derived from the Australian Standards for Off-street parking facilities

Untitled 1.calibz

18 hours ago, gelbuilding said:

Thanks Mark

 

Yes using notes and creating custom categories for the individual room. Works good now.

 

I did another bathroom and when i added the glass shower wall i lost the numbers of the note marker in this room, I changed the room to match the room for the Lables and still dont appear, any suggestions?

Both rooms are Ensuite 3.

If you still wanted to keep it room specific you could change the glass wall to have no room definition with this instance

Alternatively use fixtures with the attributes assigned which opens up the room location attribute and a little more flexibility

a simple one but a real time saver opening indicators for all window/door types

https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/ another one which you can generate different maps from too

Does anyone know which 3d export formats work best out of Chief and into Archicad or Revit? Textures dont necessarily need to go with it but some sort of ID structure would need to be maintained so textures could by applied correctly by others. 

On 6/28/2020 at 1:29 PM, Chiefer said:

They are all nice renderings but this one... wow, nicely done

1 hour ago, Kiwideziner said:

 The biggest down side is you loose contact with the plan checkers and they become keyboard warriors, and wont talk on the phone. 

We've had that problem irrespective of the submission type, in person you only get to deal with a duty planner not the assessing one and you never get direct contact info so they are almost like ghosts with a extremely slow turn around.

10 hours ago, robdyck said:

And you're just gonna leave us hanging with that teaser?!    Would you be able to post a screenshot example?

sure, nothing spectacular but you get the idea

13 hours ago, robdyck said:

 

You can do that, you just gotta think out of the box.

Use more than one elevation type sent to layout. Copy you layer set for the elevation view and turn off the railing. Crop the layout boxes as desired and add CAD break lines in layout. Drawing Order tools to place the cropped view on top.

Nice solution, I do something similar to control line weights to give a perception of depth

does it lock up if you drag and drop the dwg file into the drawing space?

6 hours ago, SNestor said:

But...has the "revamped" tool really making anything more difficult in Chief...or, is it just different and we all have to get used to it?

I absolutely hated it at first, took awhile to manually add the original tool back in but I never seem to use it.

may or may not be of any use as they're based off metric sizing but Ive added these to my library along the way from a free dwg resource site, theres an assortment of bolts, coach screws etc 

Bolts.calibz

20 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

A.  Sometimes there’s is a very good and logical reason a program set a certain hotkey like they did, and I don’t always know what that reason is or that a good reason exists until it’s already done it’s damage.

B.  It makes communication with tech support, documentation, and other users far more effective since we’re more likely to be on the same page.  Troubleshooting, teaching, learning, and just picking up on random tips are all just a lot easier when we’re speaking the same language.

C.  Sometimes a hotkey is assigned to a tool that is accessible in no other way, and I don’t want to find that out the hard way.  This is sort of related to reason A I guess.

amen to that, I only recently reset the defaults for hotkeys after picking up some tips in a video by Rene with shortcuts editing CAD (ie. holding F for fillet or C for concentric resize)that no longer worked as the defaults intended.

46 minutes ago, misterwiley said:

I have a PS4 controller and haven’t been able to get it to work yet. Haven’t been able to find and documentation from Chief yet either on how we are supposed to set this up or troubleshoot it.

Ive gotten it to work before using an app "ds4windows"

1 hour ago, Dermot said:

 

 Or, try using the "Input Line" tool or the "Input Arc" tool to specify a line or arc.  Or, just draw a line and then open up the specification dialog and type in the info you want.  

you can use this in conjunction with the CAD point tool to specify the start point if there is a snap point available and you don't know its X,Y coordinates

55 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

You can also simply take an Orthographic Overview>View Direction>Top View, use Delete Surface as necessary>CAD Detail From View>Cut/Paste Hold Position>trace.

I did think about this way as another solution which adds value to be able to use the imported model correctly oriented if required. I also thought you control the height of the plan view camera but that may be a throwback to revit many a year ago.

I just figured rotating the symbol was the easiest as youre in the dialogue to import anyway, plus adjusting the cut plane is simple by moving the camera in plan view.

you could import into chief as a symbol, rotate the model on the x-axis in the symbol spec. dialogue so you can cut a section through it which gives you a plan view then cad detail from view.

nice find Mick

Brick1.pat

Not quite an easy solution and never used personally but you could try hatchkit, or it is possible to manipulate patterns in notepad albeit more complicated. Both covered off in the thread below.

It would be nice to control the height and width of the pattern as you can with the Grid patterns though

each category expands which has all the items as per X11 to filter

3 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

No I don't believe there is a default for that.  However you can click and drag out any size you need.

I appreciate that and hitting tab makes a pretty quick process, just thought I'ld question it