AdamEdgar

oh yeah i think even just adding a wall hatch to the standard frame wall will do the job...this allows us to alter existing window specs and locations to suit the cladding spacings. The only caveat is that normally when working with an "air gap" its always length +1...so our windows would be out by 10mm (because that is the first air gap size from whichever side we start), however, we can deal with that no problem. There is another problem though....the hatching doesnt appear to have any kind of predictable start finish location...i need it to centre along a wall.

I wonder...what if i created a"party wall" so to speak on the outside and used the "Wall Hatching" tool for the outside wall?

oh yeah i didnt think about doing it in elevations directly...im so used to Cheif working out elevations from plan view, that didnt even occur to me. One caveat however would be that we are using the dimensions generated in the floor plan view in order to align our intended window and door openings...so it would be helpful from a design perspective to do this first on the floor plan. I suppose it would be beneficial if i outlined my workflow on this: 1. We draw the overall trailer external wall frame dimensioned to length and width (in the example shown its 11m by 3m) 2. Add in the manufacturers existing window and door locations and sizes from their dxf file 3. We then add our wall cladding into the drawing 4. Finally, we adjust the manufacturers door and windows locations and specs so that all vertical edges align with the air gaps in our cladding (we recenter and resize to suit our cladding) That is why i thought this would be done in plan view? Is there a way we can add a wall break on the corners so that the hatching doesnt automatically wrap around the corners? What if i created a kind of "ghost wall" on the outside on the existing with "no locate" switched on?

hi guys, in the following drawing, i am wanting to setup my hatching on the external wall cladding so it represents my colourbond cladding panels (which are 300mm wide incl a 10mm gap between each panel) you will notice in the second close up image below that chief is wrapping the hatching around the corners. I dont want it to do this because it is not symmetrical I am not sure if my cladding manufacturer can change the 290mm + 10mm air gap = 300mm panel widths so i need some workarounds so that i can show a vertical corner flashing that would resolve this. I realise that i could draw it manually with cad lines + replicate (at 300mm intervals)...just wondering if there is a faster and repeatable way of doing this as we do a lot of this kind of drawing work and our traliers are not all the same lengths or widths, however the wall cladding stays the same dimensions. Our aim tis to be able to quickly work out what size our vertical corners need to be and provide those drawings to our sheet metal fabricator so he can make up the corner panels. In addition to the corner panels, we also would be using the hatch pattern in Chief to work out our window locations and sizes so that they fit nicely within the factory panel joins. The Second image below shows what we wish to avoid in the future - note the cutouts around the windows and doors...this is a real pain to have to make up during the building process and we want to avoid that in the future by have the windows and doors align with the 10mm gaps between panels. Melaluca 11m.plan

Hi guys, ive tried going into default settings>dimensions>... but i cant seem to get Chief to Auto dimension only the rough openings for windows and doors...it keeps autodimensioning centres.

URL for Lysaght Dominion Cladding https://lysaght.com/profiles/dominion im using dominion 285 (ours is actually 290mm cover + 10mm gap = 300mm wide panels) The panels are 25mm cross section thickness We also use 15mm x 100mm steel battens underneath the exterior cladding (image 1 and 2) The wall cladding when installed is shown in image 3 Please note that vertical corners are not 300mm in width...they vary depending on the length of the Tiny Home Trailer (8.0m, 8.4m, 9m & 11m) For a 9m trailer, the vertical corners have a width for each side of the corner of 170mm + 10mm gap = 180mm Im trying to decide on the best way to represent these in default wall settings in Chief Also, i dont know if its possible to get Chief to automatically wrap the corners for us because there are some restrictions on the panel dimensions... the fabricators who make the vertical corner panels cannot have side widths less than about 80mm for each side of the vertical corners? (Turbocad section view of vertical corners for one of the trailers is below...with a little text mistake)

Desktop PC's seem to me to be increasingly replaced with laptops and mobile tablets...lots of designers are doing this and have been for some time. Look at the reason why snapdragon started enterring into the laptop market via HP, Lenovo, Apple...these are not small companies or unknown platforms. If macbooks are running ARM BECAUSE it is more efficent for battery life +performance (because we know that mobile devices have no option but to compromise between time between charges and performace. I think software developers need to recognise the market and adjust their philosophy and therefore programming accordingly. This isnt earbashing for the sake of it, its earbashing developers who may have their heads in the sand on architecture thats now been out for at least 6 years on some big name platforms. The world is in a big transition into more energy efficient technologies...computing is not immune to that fundamental change. ARM is claimed to be more energy efficent. For me, i need a system that is mobile and efficient but capable. The thing is, its significant i think that Vectorworks runs natively on ARM since 2022 (thats 2 years ago).

ah this might be a workaround? Autodesk, like Chief doesnt support ARM but it can run via a virtualisation or emulator...(such as VMware)

Vectorworks, a competitor to Chief Architect is ARM compatible...see below

even macbooks use this architecture in some models

Im a little annoyed to be honest.

oooh...i think i found the problem...Snapdragon processors arent supported Thing is, HP, Asus, Lenovo...these laptop manufacturers have been running these processors since 2018...thats 6 years! Snapdragon isnt a bad processor...this is a gaming laptop...it should run Chief architect...so obviously its a software engineering issue in that Chiefs programmers havent got up to speed yet....even after 6 years!

Hi guys, I purchased this laptop thinking it would run chief architect, however, as soon as i open any 3d camera, its almost non functional but i cant seem to figure out why? Take a look at the resource usage in image its practically using nothing compared with what the system has available and yet, in the screen on lhs, once i open a 3d camera of any kind, i cannot do anything at all...there is zero functionality...all i can do on the windows machine is go into task manager, select Chief Architect > "end task" Task Manager System resource monitor with 3d camera open Tas What i do get is the following error when i run Chief Architect system specs Chief online help

hi guys, i need to apply a wainscot in chief I want to copy the material i have from a photo taken of a house we are planning on purchasing as we want to see what it would look like inside the house if we painted the lower section of the wall keeping the existing finish in place or, perhaps removed it altogether and went back to normal wall sheet. 1. My understanding is that in the chief, the easiest way to do this is to use a kitchen cabinets...is that the best method or is there a better way for this application? 2. Whatever the suggestion, i would like some pointers on the method for achieving the look below.