Ringos

This is a living room. No existing moulding.

Is there a reason to not use rich text and use text instead? I figure the answer is depends on the situation. But what is the best practice for text that makes it the most useful in CAD details, plan, layout, etc?

I see there are some cad details in the chief library. I wonder if anyone has found a great group of details, the typical ones? It seems silly that everyone has to draw the same details, many times copying from another when a lot of the details are the same for everyone. I was looking for a detail on foundation attachment to existing structure. But found very little. A good library of cad details would be fantastic.

What if you need the moulding to go up a slope?

SOLUTION CA Support helped me with this. To show art in elevation views. Use standard view instead of vector view. Standard view might be a little dark but you can brighten up the scene using technique options. 1. Open the elevation. 2. Go to 3D> Rendering techniques> Standard view. 3. To brighten the scene go to technique options 3D> Rendering techniques> technique options. 4. Use a backdrop image to get great skys, use ambient lighting to get light in the scene, even put some hand drawn lines on it.

That is a camera view, right? I was looking for an interior elevation view and how to get the art to show.

In interior design elevation view, it would be nice to have a picture on the wall display. The photo frames in the library show in the elevation but not the picture in the frame. They display nice in ray trace. Anyone have good technique for this?

Solution: If you want to show both the window size (3050) and the schedule number on your plan view and/or layout... 1. Create a cad detail of your window schedule. 2. Go to the project browser and find CAD details under the name of the plan you are working on. 3. Right click and add new cad detail. 4. Go to tools>schedules and select the window schedule. It should show up in the CAD detail. 5. Customize the view of that like you want. 6. This is a great video for that. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1544/door-window-cabinet-schedules.html?playlist=87 7. Click on the schedule, then open the properties for that schedule. 8. Go to the Label section on the left, then at the top on the right area, select either Both Callout and Label or Label. If that does not work, open the properties for each window you want to show both. Click label and check that width/height is checked. Add a check mark on type if you want it to show the type (DH) of window. If you want both the size and call out to show on the window rather that call out check on the window properties and uncheck callout on the CAD detail. See screenshots below.

Love it. Nice clear help. Thank you.

Teatime. Do you save the layout the same way with a save as? Once you start saving layouts it also saves a plan with it. So, do you still save the plan or just rely on the plan saved in layout?

Teatime. So use the save as to back up the file but continue on with the same plan file and same layout file? Just spinning off backup in case needed?

referenced files fixed CA is working on the window problem. They say it is not acting right. They are happy to help.

Solution: When you have multiple referenced files and they are all of one plan and you want one referenced file instead. Find the most recent which should have all the changes. 1. Go into layout >tools> referenced plan files. 2. Double click one of the older referenced files. 3. A window will pop up allowing you to pick the new file to reference instead of that. 4. Click the most recent which should have all the changes. 5. CA changes all those links to the new file you just clicked. 6. Do that for each of the older referenced files until you only see the new file as linked.

Ive been going through my entire layout. Right clicking on a viewport and clicking on "relink layout box." Clicking open plan, and choosing the most recent plan. Then it usually finds the same view in the new plan and saying ok. That is a lot of relinking just to back up a file.

I go into layout >tools> referenced plan files. There are four plans referenced. If I choose the latest and then click on one of my layouts from a previous link up it did not change. It seems like there should be a relink all layout boxes and then it let you choose what plan you want to relink them to.

How do you keep your links updated in layout when you are saving as in plan view? Every major change, in plan view, I save as and rename the plan. Each time I save as and renumber it, the links in layout stay linked back to the original plan I linked from. I build my layout as I go. So, now my layout has multiple referenced files. How do you keep your links updated in layout when you are "saving as" in plan view. This causes problems because the layout views do not have the latest changes.

How do I open up the schedule? I have it in CAD detail.

The question is, how do I get the window type 3050DH and the schedule number to both show in layout?

When I go to tools>layout> reference plan files I see multiple plans. Periodically as I am drawing, I "save as" for a backup. Apparently each time I do that CA keeps referencing the previous files. I don't know whether I should or can delete the old ones or should they stay? When I back up entire layout, it includes each of the referenced files. So, I would like to get it down to one which is the current save. Is there some info on this anywhere or a best practices for how to keep just one referenced file?

In window specification>label I have checked Height/Width Display: Width/Height and Additional Text: Include Schedule Number and Include type. This would seem like I would get 3050DH for width, height, and type and the schedule number. Yet, I only get the schedule number showing on the window. I do not see a schedule number in Active Layer Display options that might be off.

Why is CA pressure treated lumber orange color? Any way to get it greenish like it is in real life?

I have several projects where the properties are surrounded by forests. Not uniform trees but wild. How can I get a realistic looking forest surrounding the property on all sides without it looking too uniform and not taxing the rendering process too much?

On the foundation layer, I drew the deck on a sloped terrain using a retaining wall because I could not figure out how to put a stone face on a slab. It seems you should just be able to go into materials and add a stone material to a face. Regardless, Then I drew a slab with stone material for the deck. However, I cannot get a railing to set on the deck. They are either too high or too low. It seems like there should be an elevation setting. I need to understand what is going on.

I made a slab on a sloping back yard. Now I would like to have stone covering the wall/side of the slab.

I am drawing this house in Costa Rica in Chief. How would you draw this patio on a slope with cascading pools? I thought it would be important to show the foundation or retaining walls. So, I drew first with a slab, but that did not show the footers nor could I put stone on the outside of it and tile on the top. Then I tried foundation but could not figure out how to get the concrete patio to set right and the top was wood wall. Then I tried retaining wall, but I can’t get the concrete floor to show up on that because it is not a room What is your suggestion?