HumbleChief

Really curious about the new Win 10. Probably won't be an early adopter but want to see how it performs.

If you want separate materials for different surfaces, you need to define separate materials, otherwise every surface with that material will be affected by the material change. There's a lot of requests to be able to paint one wall at a time but there's nothing like that in Chief yet, so you either need to break the wall where needed and apply a different material or apply a material region to just the area you want to change.

Grab the corner, hold down the 'F' key, drag to shape.

By far the easiest method - used it many times.

There are those who would suggest you try and get Chief to behave in the way you are asking but there are others who would just take the floor plan and add CAD boxes and perhaps p-line solids to get the floor plan to look right and move on. Chief has imposed enough pain on me in the last many years so I generally fall in to the later camp, so I'm afraid I can't be much help.

What do you want the plan to look like? I see a few random CAD boxes but not sure what you are trying to re-create? Can you not place those CAD boxes, fill them perhaps, in a manner that will look OK in plan view?

Never knew that.

I've built houses for people who basically gave up under the pressure of an architect/designer who had to impose their design ideas upon the client. It was one of the saddest experiences I had as a builder. We would say, "Are you sure you want that there?" They would shrug their shoulders and say, "No, but the Architect said so." Vowed I would never be a part of that type of relationship.

I thought it was getting as good as politics - but that's a bit subjective.

True. The entire darn thing is subjective. Every part of design is subjective. Every color. Every shape. Every style. If I, as a designer claim it's ugly, then what? It's automatically and absolutely ugly because I as a designer proclaim it as such? If it doesn't fit my exact picture of what 'good design' is (which never has, and never will be defined) then it's bad design? But wait I have a license to design (I don't, thank god) therefore when I say it's ugly, it's ugly. Look, the design rules are right here in this book. If you break them, I won't be a part of this design any longer. I say break them all if it gets the client what they want. How about Frank Geary? Simply the ugliest, most atrocious architecture I have ever seen. Subjective. Did he have his clients sign off so someone wouldn't get mad at him and his designs later? Did he worry about some rules written by those who were afraid to break them? Lighten up. I think the real 'danger' of bad design is in our minds not in the real world. If I had a client who didn't like what I gave them, after giving them what they want, they might bad mouth me to their friends but that's just the way I want it - I don't want to work for a psycho or the friends of a psycho.

I can't post here either

Every print shop I encounter these days prints from many formats, the most popular, by far, is PDF. I tend to have a lot of allegiance to my vendors but not if they don't/can't/won't print from a PDF file then I will find a vendor that will.

I would use a symbol only if you are finished with your final design and plan to make no changes and there was no other way to get the job done. Here's a video illustrating (I hope) what Bill is referring to which is the method I would use as well.

Well done Shane

Well done Blake, it really is about what works for each one of us.

Maybe, but if that's true how are you going to run from the bath to the fridge for a beer?

Greg, If you would like, do a full perspective overview and use the All On Layer. Still shows up here using that zipped file.

I used to be a landscape contractor and did a job for an engineer. He wanted his irrigation valves set up in his garage off the cold water feed from his hot water. Can't remember why and of course it's the stupidest idea I had ever come across for many reasons. I told him the downsides, adding another possible leakage vector being the biggest of course, and recommended we put them outside but he wanted them mounted inside the garage. I put them where he wanted and he was another happy customer. I know, I know, all the legal reasons I shouldn't have and should have not done something to protect myself from another imaginary problem but that was 20 years ago, have no idea what became of the job or house but got him what we wanted without making him feel stupid. Just installed it the way he wanted. Of course I wouldn't install anything that violated code (and heck maybe this did but it was many years before I knew what a code was) but placing a door where a customer wants it? No brainer. Left hinge or right.

There seems to be some inference that there's an actual problem getting the client what they want and one should protect themselves from this imaginary problem with a paper trail or maybe even keep your name off a design that the client really wants. We are all different but if I have a client that I work for and I give them what they want, they recommend me to the next client, who recommends me to the next. Don't get me wrong, I ALWAYS advise, and just now moved a powder room door from the kitchen/dining room to the hall way (the new designer on board put the door facing the kitchen/dining room) and I don't anticipate an argument about the door location. If the client does indeed want the door facing the kitchen, they get the door facing the kitchen, and my reputation grows just that little bit stronger because I was able to overlook what I wanted and got what the client wanted. It's an art really listening to the client and I am fortunate to not have any formal training and am able to produce designs that clients love, because I ignore the rules, listen to them carefully and get them what they want. I think it's a winning formula and never lost any work that I know of because I pleased the client.

Nice job Rob. Way to think outside the box and create work for yourself.

I've seen it a couple times in the past but never in X7. I found a few stray attic walls when I opened the plan view with the All On Set. Deleted those and all is OK now. Weird.

I was picturing having dinner with that powder room right there and thinking about 'taste' just struck me the wrong way.

Not sure there would be any genuine 'liability' for bad design and just think, if the house gets sold you can do like a design build client I told this situation to has done more than once and change the powder room location for the new owner. Win. Win.

Last year, 250 work days, 400 projects, that's 1.6 a day. Impressive, and impossible for me to come even close.

I opened the section and found a couple walls that looked out of place. Then did an overview (all on Layer Set) and saw this. Let's say this is one of those, "guess how I did this" threads. I, of course have no idea. Here's the plan. WILD WALLS.zip