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Here's a thought -- could you have two layout boxes "stacked" on top of each other with duplicate views but different visibilities and render styles? View 1 with everything as glass house and View 2 with only the solid object on its own layer visible? Jim
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Ok, good to know. I posted to suggestions. Maybe this squeaky wheel will get the grease. Jim
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I think Rachel is looking for a default setting instead of manual adjustment. I don't think there is one, but could be wrong.
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Thanks Doug for looking into this. Jim
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I'm placing a steel I-beam column in plan. How come the plan graphic does not show as an I-beam? Round, C-Channel and U-Channels seem to show correctly in plan, but Steel-I show as a box? Thanks again, Jim
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Awww shucks! Thanks! this was new to me. Jim
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Quick question -- Does Chief allow you to assign / paint properties from a wall railing to a stair railing? I have a railing wall defined and would like to quick-apply to my stair railing without having to go into the stair properties and adjusting the railing specs. Kind of think no, but I thought I'd ask. Thanks once again, Jim
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I figured it out (pats self on back). I had "Lock Tread Depth" checked. This fixed the run length of the stair. So, I unchecked "Lock Tread Depth" and instead checked "Lock Number of Treads." This allowed me to adjust the curved stair drag points to some cad helper lines I drew. Jim
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Good afternoon, Laying out a curved stair. How can define the overall run of the stair to be exactly 90 degrees? As you can see, the stair below is close, but slightly off. I must be overlooking a setting or unclear on technique. Thanks again, Jim
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I have drawn up several houses based on Matterport files from my client. (Matterport was the only provided as-built info for a few reasons). I was initially excited about the tech. as it is very whiz-bang. But, after struggling with drawing dimensional discrepancies became less so. I then took a look at Matterport's accuracy claim out of curiousity and it is 1%. This is 6" over 50 feet. To me that's a lot and a lot less accurate than a laser distance finder. That said, I do appreciate Matterport as a possible substitute for site photos. Jim
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Thanks for everyone's 2 cents and advice on technique. Good stuff! I think I might propose a convert / explode cad box feature to Chief on suggestions. Maybe they'll consider it. Jim
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Neat. But, does this method only work in plan view? I don't think it's doable in a Cad detail (?) Jim
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Good morning, Does Chief allow you to convert / explode a Cad Box to a polyline? I'm doing detailing. I use a lot of Cad Boxes, but there are some times I'd like to turn the boxes into adjustable polylines. Using X15. Thanks again! Jim
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Missing Catalog Item - "The Selected Object Could not be Loaded"
JKEdmo replied to JKEdmo's topic in General Q & A
please "temper" your enthusiasm! ha ha -
Missing Catalog Item - "The Selected Object Could not be Loaded"
JKEdmo replied to JKEdmo's topic in General Q & A
Brett, I bet you're right. Makes perfect sense. Thanks, Jim -
Thanks Joe for quick reply. Worked perfectly. Jim
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Good morning, I've overridden an automatic roof label to add some multi-line text. The new text covers up the roof slope arrow. Any way to fix this? Thank you, Jim
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Works just fine for me. I'm using Firefox version 122.0 64 bit. Jim
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If you're looking for an email client alternate to Outlook, check out Mozilla Thunderbird. I'm very happy with it. Jim
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Kbird, Thank you for directing me to this article. It looks like just the ticket for me. I'll dive into it tomorrow. I was getting a lot of material texture not found error messages and I suspect it might have to do with the OneDrive pathing. So, I hope this will be the fix. In general, I am pretty happy with Windows 11. The big exception being the One Drive integration. Jim
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Robert, Yes, I have it checked. Jim
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Question towards Windows 11 PC Users: A lot of my Chief program paths are directed toward my OneDrive\Documents folder. The OneDrive folder is a special Microsoft folder used for syncing your PC to the cloud. I turned this off on my PC because I found it problematic, but I guess Chief is still trying to use it. I would like to repath the Chief program paths to my regular local Documents folder. Is this doable and how? Thanks again for your help. Jim
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Mark, not sure this is correct. I get the option shown below. I think at the time I decided not to add to library because it was unique to project and I did not want to clutter up my library. Thanks for the file management tips. I'll read through them. Jim
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Thanks DBC for quick input. Seems weird that you cannot get at a non-library symbol in order to re-use within a drawing. Do you think this feature would be a reasonable suggestion request? If so, I'll post. Good workaround. I'll try that. Jim