HumbleChief

WOW - now even the plan I posted here is building properly with a single slab. Sheesh...I just feel so small sometimes when working with Chief.

I thought I sent this into tech but can't find a record for the submission so I went to re-submit to see what can be done. I opened the problem plan and re-built the slab to show the tech guys the double slab and lo and behold it built a single slab just like it should. Can't find a single thing wrong with the plan. SIGH...

Never did get it fixed. I ended up using masks on the sections to hide the double slabs. Sent the plan in to tech and haven't heard back - not sure I will but if I find anything I'll post progress. I had also previously marked this thread solved but it turns out that there's no way to auto build a mono slab 'without' "...both Floor Supplied by the Foundation Room Below AND Monolithic Slab Foundation checked for the main floor level." This plan finds a way to build 2 slabs and I haven't figured out why but have moved on as described above by masking the 2 slabs in section views.

Right now is a GREAT time to report this stuff to tech support over and over again because X9 is in Beta and one of things every new release tries to include is speed increases and bug fixes. Strange thing is I'm not experiencing any of those slow downs. I have other issues like slow to a crawl PDF's but there doesn't seem to be a fix.

Hey, good work.

+1

Try the 'floor' section, but don't try and understand any logic to the system.

Clarke, Very hard to read those specs but I noticed a Quadro Video Card. Not the best choice for Chief. Expensive and not designed for Chief. Chief works best with a 'gaming card' like the new 1080's not a CAD card like the Quadros. Just noticed there are dual Quadro cards spec'd. Not a good investment for Chief. ...and they look like older weaker technology. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=NVIDIA%C2%AE+Quadro%C2%AE+K420&N=-1&isNodeId=1 You want new and fast for Chief. More money but worth the investment. Something like these cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709%20601205646%20601202919%20601203927%20601203901%20601194948

Easy enough as Michael suggests but it would be nice to have a 'print' check box to have items print - or not.

That's what is so weird Perry. My template plan floor defaults are set to 0" 0" 0" and this plan is set to 0" -4" -4" I cannot reset those numbers and still have auto rebuild foundations 'on' in any place I can find, floor defaults etc. It's just behaving badly.

Hey Gene, this is about all I know on the subject.

Good to know Gene. Do you build them manually on floor 1 with slab with footing tool?

I think I did but I don't really get much new info from those workshops and I think my question should/could be much simpler than the examples in the workshop. Do you use mono slabs? Do you draw them manually on floor 1? Or auto on floor 0?

Curious as to what others are doing out there. I've always drawn them auto on floor 0 but might rethink my approach. Thanks

If you manually draw in a slab with footings. Couldn't get it to work any other way. Do you use mono slabs a lot Gene? Almost every plan here has one and have not had problems for quite some time building the slab on floor 0 but know others who manually draw each slab with footings and place that on floor 1.

If I turn off auto rebuild foundations the problem is solvable but not with auto rebuild turned on.

Could be Gene. I've always built the foundation as a monoslab on level 0 but maybe I should not do so? And why should that be a problem? Really curious. I see your point Gene. It's just that I've always done it that way and maybe it's time to stop? Just delete floor 0 and define the mono slab from floor 1? That sure looks more relevant to what a mono slab is. Wow that could change my world a bit. Ahhhh but then I don't get a foundation plan...

and again...

I'm trying to get my template plan set up correctly but keep running into the problem Glenn suggests is the culprit but that problem seems to be set by default by Chief. Does anyone get a different result? Or is there another place to set the floor definition defaults? Thanks

Could be Joe - maybe we'll never know. If so could he/she just drop the roof plane?

Posting the plan will help but is it possible you drew your roofs then changed the ceiling/floor heights? Try deleting the roof planes and re-drawing them and see if they then land at the proper height at your exterior wall.

Took me a bit to find the settings. I changed the floor defaults but that didn't change anything so I worked on a single room until the floor appeared correctly, then matched properties for the rest of the rooms. I swear I didn't change anything but user error is always suspect when I'm at the wheel. I know the dbx numbers are all over the place but can't say how they got there because it started out OK, then not so much.

Thanks Chop. I changed that wall setting but nothing changed that I could see. Did it change the floor finish showing when you changed that setting? Seems much more likely that the floor settings were amiss as Glenn suggested, which did indeed fix the issue..

Thank you very much Glenn!! I wrestled with it a bit, changed the defaults with no change then found a setting that worked in one room, with your help, then matched properties for all the other rooms and success. Thanks again. To answer your questions, I have simply no idea how the structure dbx works and guess I never will. I just do not understand the paradigm nor the dialog boxes, nor the chosen verbiage, nor the silly little picture of the various structure members. Just don't understand. After 15 years, just do not understand. When I first built the model the floors showed fine, no problems whatsoever. Then bam, the floor finish is gone as if I went in and changed the settings you mentioned. I did not change the settings but they got changed and I'm the only one who will ever really know that. All that doesn't diminish my appreciation for your help. Thank you again very much for taking the time to assist.

Thank you again - Turned off "Walls, Foundation" no change.