Drew-PRH

Good day, I'm not able to get these grout lines to be Horizontal - Camara View, Not Elevation View. It wants to do some offsetting. I've tried resizing the applied material to no avail - so I must be doing something wrong (UGH) Who might know how to remedy? I suspect it's easy, I'm just missing it. Thanks - Drew

Happy New Year Rich. Yes, I suppose with the vastly available architecture and design, everyone can have a flavor they can enjoy. It's nice, but not my first choice. It is unique. I was told the original builder/homeowner was from Europe and, from what I understand, imported much interior materials such as 1-1/2" thick black polished stone from Romania for some flooring, repurposed solid oak hand hewn floors from a salvaged barn somewhere for flooring also, and two bathtubs carved from stone which needed a crane to install, interior walls are all plaster, exterior stucco and stone. As well as an interesting AGA cast iron gas range with 4 oven doors. Different tastes for all I suppose.

I'll keep it easy and just make the living 15' ceiling with single story to the left and two story on the right.

Good day, I need to do a renovation on an existing home which I have the PDF prints of to place into Chief to draw. The home has varying interior ceiling heights. Most of the home has 10' ceilings. The living has 15' a ceiling - which is lower than the adjacent Master Bedroom wall it joins to. The question is: is it best to just make the living have a 15' ceiling, or do a second story with a shorter ceiling? Not sure which may be best? Thanks - Drew

Hey Jim, Well that was pretty quick and easy!! Yes, and Thank You. I was just missing that element of the equation. Good job - thanks again. - Drew

Good day, I am looking to make the deck board surface semi-transparent, to allow a slight visibility of the joist location below. This is a vector view with the material as Azek Sandy Birch (I know the color does not matter) Choosing a deck board, then 'Open object' and changing fill to anything renders no change. Is there a way to do this properly? Thank you - Drew

Of Course!!! That was the one thing I was missing in my searches - A NEW LAYER SET Worked Great!! Thanks again - Drew

Good day all, Is there a way to 'unlink' an item sent to Layout? I would like to unlink a 'to scale' deck framing image on layout page, and now add the surface material to it as an additional item sent to layout. When I add the surface material in Plan View, it automatically adds it to the deck framing on Layout. Even if I uncheck "Linked Saved Plan View". I would prefer to keep both 'to scale'. This happens to be done in X15. I suppose I could do as image and try to get to scale. Hmmmm Thanks for the help! - Drew

Yes to all the questions - I can go with that if I can not figure out something else. Thank you for taking the time. Have a great day! - Drew

Good day, I've created a privacy wall for a hot tub area using the railing tool. It is needed to have the wall off the ground, and a mid support post within the wall showing at the exposed area. Might there be a way to have the post to be coved both sides with the siding? I am currently not figuring that out. Thanks so much !! - Drew

Wonderful Mark - Thank you!! I was trying something similar, but not getting the proper result. Good job! Thanks Again!!

Good day folks! When I have the cabinets made for a specific project, I just specify my needs and they are done. Is the a way for CA to display or show this..... How can the bottom of an upper cabinet be moved up 1-1/4" into the cabinet? With the door fronts maintaining their specified height, not moving up with the cabinet bottom. This would in effect give the upper cabinet an area below to 'mount' a physical light bar with electrical plug. I know this may not work for every situation, however for this one, let's run with that. Yes LED tape could be applied to the underside of the cabinets. For this task, we are looking to 'mount' from the underside for electrical also as an all-in-one bar. Keeping in mind the cabinet door will give the look of going to the bottom of the upper. And when you open the cabinet door, you will then see the raised bottom and the horizontal molding piece covering the open gap to the underside. Thanks for you insight if this can be accomplished. I've not tried yet in 16. - Drew

Thanks Scott, Good job. I thought I changed that Y origin. Guess not. Thanks again - have a great day!!

Good day I did not locate in the library a toe kick heater. To make things easier - I think it was anyway - I copied a 'Rectangular Ceiling Cassette'. In doing so, I changed some of the properties so the alignment would be more representative of a toe kick heater. It looks pretty close for a visual concept in Camera View. However.....In the Plan View (included) it shows the heater protruding into the room, not really under the cabinet. And in the Camera View, it appears correct. (view Included) I've also included the toe kick file to view the settings. So if someone may have a better understanding here - that would be awesome! Thanks - Drew Toe Kick Heater.calibz

I have not tried that option.... Thank you -

Yes I did first try the window option as noted. And did get close to the particular look. However when changing to any colored glass option it became a solid and not transparent. The second option does sound a bit time consuming as you mentioned. Thanks for the feedback! - Drew

Well Good Day! I've got 12" Earthen Walls. Windows and placement no problem. We would also like to have inserted into the wall from interior to exterior something like -> two glass bottles with the necks cut off and placed cut to cut. Or one end of the bottle on the Interior and one end of the bottle on the Exterior. Imagine two colored wine bottles fitted together. I tried making a 3D solid in glass, however it was not transparent allowing light to go through. What options might there be to accomplish this task, having glass on both interior and exterior?? The included image is a bit overkill, however the same idea. Thank you! - Drew

Thanks Glenn, That worked out great! Good job! - Drew

Good day, I drew in 3D Solid a custom corner board, replicating the EZ Trim EZ31 - extruded Aluminum Outside Corner. I can manually place the corner 'on top' of the corner - kinda - however by this method it will not pull back the siding material on either side (which I figured). See the image included which shows the siding material needs to be pulled back slightly from the corners for the aluminum outside reveal to show. For the material - within the - Open Object / Layers. The Default Layer is "Corner Boards". The Drawing Group is "24 - Corner Board/Quoin". I've also tried place the default corner board, and then try 'Replace Molding'. However that would not pull up my material in this manner. So I suspect I don't have one of the properties correct. Might someone know how to remedy this to use this new created material. Thank you!! - Drew

Thanks Jason, I tried a couple more different options including yours. And I may post back later if I come up with a desired result. I believe the one I am looking for is my line# DW20, as it does not include the words 'accessory' or '3D Solid' in the description. Thanks again. - Drew

Thank you Eric, That make perfect sense. I was still running into the situation of having it populate into the Material List under Decks instead of anywhere else. Might there be a way to designate this for a deck purpose? Thank you

Good day all, I'm not sure if this is accomplishable, and maybe I'm just wanting to see how accurate Chief is to a manual deck take-off. I know a manual take-off is not difficult, I've done it may times. I think this question may be for my own information as to the limits and or doables of Chief. I've created a few 3D Solids and make them sized appropriately for deck framing applications. Such as Beams, Posts and Joists. With that, I've changed the material to Pressure Treated Lumber showing the color and incised marks. Might there be a way to - for this question let's use the phrase 'open object' loosely, as it may not be the correct phrase or choice of words. And then somehow, in the Components category on the left, (or somewhere) insert description, size, ETC, and any other pertaining information to THEN be displayed/or have info pulled into the Material List. Not sure if this is feasible with the direction I've taken, or if I need to 'Make a Duplicate' of something else existing that pulls into the Material List, and alter the information to display alterations. Then in the end, display in the Deck ID# as seen in the jpg. I have done a search, however that has been uneventful. Again - thanks so much in advance for your assistance. Have a great day! - Drew

Good job! I neglected to 'keep the search simple' with too many words. Thank you - have a great day!!

Good day, I've searched the forum prior to post and can not locate conversation regarding a - Surface Mount Kitchen Counter Receptacle. The Pop-Up type - see image. In October of 2023 an electrical code had been changed. Now on islands you need to have a Surface Mount Kitchen Counter Receptacle, instead of one mounted to the side of a base cabinet. At the moment, it does not matter if some can still install a receptacle into the side of a base cabinet, I am curious as to if there are Surface Mount Kitchen Counter Receptacle? As I can not locate in the library. Thanks so Much!!

Thanks again - got it.