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Trying to draw an as built. The roof is 7.5/ 12. I can not seem to create that window in the peak of the gable. "Dogear Arch" only gives me 45°. "Match Roof" only angles 1 side of window. What am I missing? The window is roughly 30" High and 8' long. Don't need to be exact as I am not doing anything with this area of the house but would like it to look right.

I think default is 1/100th mm

I'm away from my computer right now but this problem is way to common. Hallways with side halls, hallways with any type of angles, trianguler rooms, etc. Just thought, tho, that i can make that wall between stairs "no locate" and should fix it.

So how does this come up with the dimension in label it comes up with? I can see 7' x 8'9", 3'4" x 17'6", several different scenarios other then 0'5" x 5'7". I don't know how often I get a customer asking me about this and I can not come up with a good answer..... Quite honestly, showing my ignorance here, but I'm not sure I know what I would label it either.... I just would never come up with what chief comes up with. Les

I see there has been quite abit of discussion lately on here about terrains. Terrrains are very frustrating to me mainly because I usually don't need them as I live in a relativly flat area and most of my homes don't need anything for terrain. Howeve I occasionly run across a walk out basement or something that needs it and because I'm inexperianced, I waste a lot of time going nowhere. This is a really easy little project that I'm doing for free for our school. We are planning on building a pavilion and ball court and have just enough fall that we planning on stepping the different slabs and sloping the sidewalks. They asked me to do something to illustrate this and I have not got very far. I think it should be really easy. Does someone feel like helping me out quick? I'm posting the plan and I'll try to post the data I got from the excavation contractor for the existing elevation. There is a cad detail in "cad detail managment" that shows the elevations of concrete. I just imported the existing building as a 3d symbol. Basically from the blue dot to the red dot there should be 4.2' of fall. CCS2.zip

You probably did. I haven't played with making symbols much so one thing I have never messed with. I'll have to look into it. Thanks a lot though!

Worked great! Only thing is I put the end caps on the pews when I made the symbol so they strectched together with the pew and I have some pretty thick ones so really need to apply them afterword.

You are awsome, Michael! I would have never thought of making the pew a window...... I'll post a pic of it when I get a chance to do it. Thanks!

On that particular layout, I understand it added roughly $10,000 to the cost of the pews. Fortunately for me, cost is not so much an issue on this job.

I'm working on some conceptual drawings for a new church. Anyone have a suggestion on how to make or get a curved pew? The radius would be 17'. I'm sure I could make one but could I resize it and keep my radius? The attached pic is from a pew layout from another church but shows the basic concept I'm aiming for. As you can see, nearly every pew is a different size so would be really nice to just be able to resize instead of draw each individual one.

Just checking over it now. That is absolutely what the problem is.........

Ok, I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear. Yes, I am meaning too thin of a line. I appreciate all of your help. I had thought that this problem may have had more to do with my actual line weights but didn't want to believe it because I have never played with them. I don't know how they could have been changed from the OOB defaults. Michael, the file I attached here I had actually worked on since I tried to print Saturday. So here is how my file got to where it is now. Saturday, I emailed the file to print shop. Went to pick up and they were much to thin (light) In an effort to darken them, I stood there in the print shop and changed my scales from 1/100th mm-1/10th mm and refreshed each item in the layout to make sure they took. Tried printing again, no difference. Ran out of time......(had crawfish to boil ) Monday I opened the last PDF file that I had tried printing (the 1/10th file) and printed sections on 8x11 on my office printer. They were very heavy lines. I started playing with my layout scale, printed again. liked it better, customer was really wanting their prints, went to Office Depot and let them print them on there inkjet plotter and they turned out better. That may explain why the scale is different in the plan from the layout right now. I usually make sure they are the same. So, is there an easy way of changing all the line weights in the plan? Seems like a lot to go through and change each different wall style, cad sections, etc..... Like I said, I have no idea how they got changed in the first place.

Take a look. I don't think I have changed any settings other then the line weight scale and I took it back to the default (which did not work for me). I took to another shop this evening and they printed on an Inkjet fine. I do believe the KIP is a more precise printer but it showed no difference from 1/100 mm to 1/10 mm. Lance_Giesbrecht_3_1_17.zip

I don't typically have line weights toggled on when I draw. I took some pictures of the actual prints to try to show the difference. It's real strange. The layout cad lines (borders, etc) any line drawings that I sent to layout as images (title page, etc) and dimensions and text are dark like they should be. All cad lines from the plan (walls, section details, elevations, etc) are too light. I printed from the same pdf file on my office HP inkjet and they are extremely dark. I'm thinking it's something in how their printer is reading it....... Les

I'll check the color issue and make sure. I'm using pretty well stock wall defaults (haven't changed anything in plan view). 1/100 was very light. changed everything (plan view, section view, and layout) to 1/10 mm so should have been 10x darker right? No different....... funny thing is, I took 2 different plans to print. One of them printed darker then the other. Far as I can tell, same settings.

I print to PDF as well. I guess I'll take it in and play with it. Les

Ignorant question but is the default line weight scale in chief 1/100 mm? Have you changed yours? Mine seems to work fine on a typical HP inkjet printer but the local print shop has a KIP laser printer and it prints much too light. Was hoping someone could give me a good starting point to change my scale to without sitting there for an hour sending files to them and wasting paper trying to get it just right.... Les

Thanks, Glenn. That worked. I had hit the "reset toolbar" in the toolbar config tab and it didn't work but this did. Thanks again!

I go to Tools, Customize Toolbars, and I get a warning "Attempting to load an invalid toolbar: ID 2001". So when i get throught that and try to import default toolbar warning says "Error loading toolbar configuration". I'm going to send in a ticket but if someone knows a quick fix, I'd appreciate it.

What causes toolbars to randomly disappear? This evening working on X8 I exited out of program and when I opened it back up, they were gone. Can't find them. Installed X9, not there either. Any ideas?

Mine just started doing the same last couple days. Suspicious it's age. Wireless Logitech w/ nano receiver is what I have.....

Thinking about buying a surface pro. I can get a refurbished 3 off of ebay for reasonable price and see if I like it and could upgrade to a 4 later if I do. My thinking is I could sale it for little loss if I don't like it but would take a greater loss on a 4 if I don't like it. I would use it occasionally for chief but definitely not every day. My question is, would there be a definite advantage to buying a 4 over a 3? I know some have said a while ago that the stylus didn't work well with chief on the 3 and they expected that to change with the 4. Is that the way it still is? More then likely not an issue (probably wouldn't use the stylus anyway)

I usually create a wall that basically just shows the girts, insulation, and exterior metal. Then I draw the metal columns and beams as a polyline solid, block them, and place them wherever they go. Funny thing is these are usually built where a lot of detail isn't really needed to satisfy local building inspectors so you could add the interior framing and sheetrock to that wall you create and call it good, or if it needs to be more exact, just draw those walls seperately so you can properly draw them around the columns (assuming you will you will wood frame against the girts on the interior). Les

Wasn't it cool how 100 years ago they put that much detail into a industrial building like that? Today, it would be just a simple metal building thrown up.......... Looks like fun!