PitMan71

I have noticed in X17 that my .plans have multiple materials with the same name. Anybody else notice this? It's kinda irritating since the where the materials meet there is a line formed in plot views. I don't remember having these issues in X16.

More detail please, OR post your plan. You will need to compress it first.

I have more detail on my leader issue. This seems to only affect curved leaders. When you apply a curved leader on an object or not, if no nudge or move the annotation the once attached end of the leader to the annotation blasts into outer space. The arrow stays put. Very annoying since I use curved leaders all the time. AND I am using the diamond grips on the notes to create the leader. I establish the arrow as a line and then holding control key create the curve and place the arrow where I want it. So far this seems to only be happening on elevations and cross section views.

I haven't seen anything like that lately. I will keep an eye out.

Agreed. Just today I had elevation dimensions come up missing and had to redo.... Turned into a 20 minute distraction. Turns out I caused it and I didn't know. smh. Knowing that dimensions or notes were affected by what I did would have been a nice "tap on the shoulder".

Anyone seeing issues with leader arrows jumping into a blank space in elevation view? I noticed it mostly when you adjust the location of the text box. I have seen it randomly happen though. I have to delete the leader and add it again. Not sure what's causing this. I will try and find a picture showing what Im experiencing.

From Support. Hi Shane,Thank you for contacting Chief Architect Support.After some tinkering with the roof, it seems like there's an issue with boxed eaves on curved roofs in X17. I'll make sure this gets reported to our developers to take a look at.In the meantime, I believe the best workarounds would be to either unchecked Curved Roof in that roof plane, or patch the holes manually with 3d solids.NathanChief Architect Technical Support

I did exactly what you said and resigned to the fact that I would need to add. them manually. Thanks Rob.

I did submit a ticket to support on this to get them to weigh in.

You can create the look just by changing your roof structure to the thickness of the I joist. Leave the "Rafter Construction" as a rafter. Keep the subfacia at 5 1/2. Also, under options uncheck boxed eave. As others have said you will just need to provide a detail showing the actual components.

Add some windows. I think that will be your third string. I have four strings, Overall, ext corners, interior walls, then openings. .... Chief will get some of that close and then I have to finesse from there.I always have to add the 4th string Exterior on its own string.

This is a good point and one that I often forget. With a curved roof I rarely "trim" it until I have to. Maybe I just need to give things a little time.

Thanks for having a look.... Yes. I want that section of the roof to be curved.

All I am having a boxed soffit issue where the trim is being placed on the outside edge of the box and not where it's supposed to be. I have tried several things to try and resolve and nothing is working. Hoping someone has sHidden Oaks 34.plan.zipeen this issue before. Thanks for having a look. Shane

I don't present any renderings unless specifically requested and I prep them letting them know the colors are for illustration only. It's tedious to get caught up in the minutia of color when that isn't even what I do. Sometimes on a rendering I will just use the technical line drawing perspective and not use color at all..... Maybe continue doing the videos but do them black and white.

Make sure your invisible wall type is interior and has drywall.

I think you import any of those things from another drawing. It eliminates a step. Give it a go.

This forum thread may be helpful. Its for a DW but might help with this fridge situation too.

Thanks for that tip. it worked perfectly.

I think what's going to create somewhat of an issue here is that it will need two complete breaks. When I did that the stair appeared as desired, but it added a newel post midway up that right side that I could not remove. When I removed the post from that section it removed them everywhere.

Seems like I saw some pictures from the KBIS where Chief folks were doing some AI stuff. Not sure what it was tho. I guess we will know soon enough.

In real life if it's a hollow core door, trimming it like that might be a challenge. I rarely trim doors like that. Generally they leave them square at the top . once open you see sheetrock angle of the stairs behind it.... if that makes sense.

I don't have 10 or I would test for you.... I don't know for sure, but in my experience these things happen because of a graphics driver incompatibility. I would do some checking to make sure the GPU driver you are using works with the chief version you are using.

Or a layer set. Plan View is better tho.

This is a very good point and thanks for bringing it up. I don't show the wall or panel there and haven't for some time. It's definitely worth me looking into again.