HumbleChief

Thanks Yusuf. I had no idea there was a brightness setting for pictures. Very helpful.

This might be even easier - please don't tell Joe I'm using this one

For those following any Snagit tips, I can't upload to YouTube within Snagit because of a bug in Snagit 12. Can upload manually but not through Snagit - at least on my computer. Tech guys are working on it. PIA. I just got off the phone with tech support at Snagit and I had to install Microsoft's Frame.net version 4.5.2. latest version and it now works. Hope that might help someone

I'm curious, do other programs create elevations with color/shadows with more ease? Like the OP picture. Are they live? I always wondered why Chief doesn't have this as a feature and have never heard any noise or inclination to add shadows/color to elevations.

Been looking for something like this for years. I used Corel Draw for many years and the ease with which freehand shapes can be drawn is amazing. Nothing like that in Chief - or even close.

This is a great thread. Thanks to all for the tips. I think using Rauls' settings and Scott's/Wendy's method one can get some pretty great looking elevations with shadows. Not live but pretty good looking stuff.

Sorry for being so brief. I tried your settings and thought were great but I think the exercise or question on the table is how to get that same great look to scale. I'll check the OP and thanks for the tip.

Another method - https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/1835-x6-sending-elevation-to-layout-in-colour/

Nice job Scott, Looks like the knowledge base has a similar technique. http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01270/

..to scale?

Way to hang in there. That's not an easy task in Chief. Well done.

All true, and sad, they could actually be a pretty useful tool given a little more thought. Or as I think Scott suggested, make 'vent' an option in the window drop down dbx. then they would have the options of a window plus you could drag them from the foundation floor into the 1st floor without having the first floor plan messed up. Or just label windows/vents as vents then all should be OK? I wonder.

Ah, slow to catch up sometimes. I see that was probably the reason for dragging it up in the first place? Square footage is 1'4"(16") x 4" = 64/144 = .6667 or /.67 SF (not 14" x 4" = 56)

Adjusting vent offset shows no movement in 3D, only in plan view is what I discovered. I also discovered the vent area is not correct nor can you use the schedule area for the air movement calc needed in vent calcs. Where is that area of a 14 x 4 vent coming from? Uh...maybe try 1'4" x 4"?

Is it that easy? http://www.screencast.com/t/RQ8EsvodA2bU

Super helpful Richard, Scott. I couldn't get the vent to work in 3D up on the first floor framing. Fine on the foundation but not so much on the stucco finish above. Just place the vent in the first floor and position in elevation and it works fine DOH. I was trying to drag it up from the foundation like original vid. Too easy, and it shows as a vent in the schedule. http://www.screencast.com/t/20mhslgrfuBk

Nice video Richard. It seems like you know quite a bit about macros and have invested enough time in understanding Ruby and its different parameters. Do you think it would be a nice feature to have Chief include a label for p-line boxes that would allow a macro to be defined within that label, or do you think it's pretty much OK the way it is now? BTW what video software did you use? It look really good.

Watched the video 3 times and was wondering how you define the windows as 'vents'? The best I can do is define them as Louvered.

Brilliant Michael. I could have sworn I tried this before and even a tech guy said it couldn't be done. Here's a thrashabout version of the stairs. Far from ready for prime time but doable and I'll always remember this trick. Thanks Michael. http://www.screencast.com/t/YAkxYARp

Thank you as always Perry. I think I got it working in a little different fashion for my Layout Template. Really wish we could wrap text in the description box.

I've never used the Layout Revision Table (LRT) and only found very brief mention in the Chief videos with what seemed like a cursory look and a lot of assumptions but no real world use of the tool. Do you add an LRT to each changed page? Or on page '0'? How do you note your changes on the plan - bubbles? Numbers that reflect the number in the table? The city here likes to see bubbled changes with a Delta 1,2,3 etc. Is there a way to add Delta to the labels? Does anyone use the table with success? I could not find any information that is useful. Maybe a video in the Chief library?

Nice tease. Can't figure it out here. Will have to wait until tomorrow Aussie time. Sleep tight Glenn.

But not on interior stairs. Spent hours once trying to get this done and the only way is to stack landings.(Mick) I didn't try to build an interior deck but with conventional stair tools it won't work on interior stairs.

Bockey, Click on the floor number to get to the reference Layer info. Make sure you are referencing the correct floors, then that you are using the correct reference Layer. I have feeling that somehow the reference Layer got changed.