jbaehmer

Ok...so I thought I had done this before, but don't remember how or honestly if I even did do it.

I have a roof plane with a 16" overhang.  I want to draw a truss and have it stop at the wall and not draw the tail of the truss.  I still want the roof to have an overhang....just the truss to stop at the wall.  attached a view of what I am trying to achieve.

Place it in the Plan view you send to layout....not in the layout itself.

I have been searching and don't know if I am just missing it....but I am looking to get the total volume of a house.  I know I can go and get each individual room, but it would be nice to have a total somewhere and not add up each room total that has 4 or 6 decimal spaces.  I tried looking at schedules, but I don't see an option for "Room Volume".  Any suggestions?

I use Ariel a lot.  Ariel Narrow in a number of placed.  I don't block the text, but it will open just fine on my computer, but when we open the file on my associate's computer it re-formats as being discussed.  I have taken the font file and installed it on their computer and it still persists.

Hello.  You may get a better response in the "seeking services" forum.

However, if you are interested, I live in Tacoma, WA and would be willing to do work remotely.  Please shoot me an email or give me a call and we can discuss the particulars.  Info in signature below.

Hello.  If you guys want, we can get together online and talk about issues and other things if you would like.  Shoot me an email or call if interested.

Hello.  I work out of the Tacoma, WA area.   I have done several projects in Oregon and still do.  If you are ok with remote work, I would love to help you.  Please let me know.  Info below in signature.

I think you just don't have a clear understanding of how to set up your annotation sets. 

Agreed.

pull the ridge end back as shown in the left picture.  The as in the middle picture, break the roof plane in a couple spots.   Then join the roof edges as shown in the right picture.

Sorry...explaining in text isn't one of my strengths.  Hope the pictures work or if someone else can explain it better.  I need to get something to be able to do short videos.  I think I can explain things better that way.

Hope it helps.

  I am assuming you are talking about that small triangular hole at the peak.   I say, just hip it right there and you are good.  it is attached.

rc hip.plan

I have been using Dropbox storage for a few years, both Vectorworks and Chief job and client files seem to be fine and I have never seen any file corruption. Other people I know use one drive with the same consistency.

Same here...been using Onedrive for years without an issue.

Dan,

 

That's not nice.

 

I'm sure that a lot of users have those items checked since those are the OOB defaults for Rich Text.  It also answers the question of why 6" Rich Text appears to be 9" tall, etc.  When I uncheck those my 6" Rich Text becomes 6".

 

I'm going to need to make a lot of changes to my Plans to eliminate those settings - but I will have to increase the size of all Rich Text by about 50% - or just live with text that's smaller than I want. 

 

IAE, the performance hit in Layout is not something I want to live with, so I will just have to bite the bullet and do a lot of editing of Templates and Current Plans unless CA can come up with a tool to convert all Rich Text in a Plan to "uncheck" those and edit the specified size.

I will need to do this also as my templates also.  Not fun.  At least though we know and it can be fixed.  Wonder why it was checked as an OOB setting?  Even though it is bitter sweet...thanks Dan for finding that out.

I don't get this behavior either....Dermot had mentioned that he had seen a similar issue when.  Can either of you post the plan so we can see how the annosets are setup?  It could be in there.

I use OneDrive and I have all my CA files synced with my Work PC, Home PC, Laptop and a Mac at church.  I sometimes don't know where I need to work from, so with all of them synced, I have my files all the time at any of those locations.  I have CA installed on each computer and just deactivate/activate the license via the website.

I haven't attempted CA on a cloud, but I am with Lew on this...I don't think it would be a good idea.

Perry beat me to it.....

Yes...export the anno/layer sets you want and import into current plans and your template.

Hi all,

When I send  a plan to layout, then use text arrows to point things out, the arrows drawn on the layout sheet shift around whenever the main plan window is resized or sometimes just if it's opened or closed, and sometimes even when you open or close another window on a different page?      It's freaking annoying when on a deadline, and just a huge time waste anytime.

 

Does anyone know what causes this and how to stop it from happening?  

 

Barry

I will echo what everyone else has mentioned and say to do it in plan view.  My layouts do not have any text/arrows on them.  They are all Viewports from plans.

Here is a zip of two seperate DWGs.  One has the exploded text and the other he did without exploding the text.

**I am in a rush to get out of the office to head to the UGM, so I haven't opened them yet to see what they look like.

1478 Palmer.zip

This is a common experience that I have.  I asked my engineer to send me over a customer that we have done with one versions with exploded text and another version that the text isn't exploded.   I will attach them when I receive them and will bring to UGM also.   

With the layout open, go to the default settings DBX and select dimensions.  In the Saved Dim Default DBX, copy the default and rename it to a name you prefer.  Highlight the new default and select edit.  Change the primary format to "mm" and change other settings that you feel are needed.

Once that is done, verify it works and then save the layout as your template.   My personal suggestion...99.999% of my text and dimensions that I want to show are on the .plan file, not the .layout file.  The same process can be done in the .plan file to make it so metric is the default.

Nice, still waiting for my invite to 10

Perry - my invite didn't come either....I just googled it and found the download link and installed.  I think if you haven't rec'd an invite then something happened.

Same here.  Put them in CAD Details

For me I have one single layout done in 11x17.  All plan views are sent to 1/8" scale to the layout.  If I need a full size set of plans, I will tell CA to print at 100% at 22x34 paper.  Everything will automatically come out printed at 1/4" scale.  I have the "scale" macro on plan and elevation labels so it will auto changes from 1/8" to 1/4" depending on the size paper it gets printed on. 

With how I have it setup, I can print an 11x17 set and a 22x34 set back to back in less than a minute, without having to change anything on the layout like viewport locations, annosets, layersets...nothing.  If my client wants 24x36, I still give the 22x34 and the page just has an inch border around it.  Haven't had complaints about that, so I feel it works.

It is rare for me to have 12x18 requested, but I am thinking of adding that as I have been asked twice in the past 6 months.

If I get requests for larger than that, I just take the extra time to change it up....but I have only had to go larger than 24x36 once.  Not worth it to me to try and add something like that to my template layout if I only get asked once a decade.  

zowie123 - I live in Tacoma, so if you want some help, let me know.  GO HAWKS!

I export the Anno/Layer Sets out to my desktop and then import them into my template plan.

Great minds think alike!  

Jared,

 

Let's say you have made a pretty large change in your Anno Sets, for whatever reason, do you then save that plan to your template? And wouldn't you have to strip/delete everything from that plan file to start your new plan? Or are your plan/layout templates pretty well set and you don't anticipate changing much in the way of Anno Sets etc.?

Joe's way works.  For me, I would make the change to my annosets, I would export them and import into my template file.

Scott,

 

See post #12 in this thread.  Creating a new Template is just the SAM to the Template Folder.  If you do that, you have all the advantage of both.  You have just made your SAM Plan a Template.  You can even set that File as your "Default" for new Plans.

 

IOW, there is no difference other than where the Plan is saved and the fact that Chief normally selects a Plan from the "Templates" Folder and has a specific Plan File set as the "Default Template".

This is exactly how I do it.  It is the best of both worlds.  You have a "Template" that has all the current settings and use the SAM of that "template" when a new project comes up.  Then you don't have to take time to delete everything out of the prior file.  The template as everything there ready to go with view ports in layout and all current settings.  So the Template method as Joe said is the SAM method.