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Dimensioning works in cross-section and wall elevation cameras as well as you can use cad details from view. If automatic fails for some reason - use manual. Psolid glass block

I have been stuck in this hell for years. Insurance pays the bank fraction of the value. The insurance companies are crooks that cheat and lie to get out of paying large expenses [e.g. LibertyMutual] assisted by their attorneys [shysters], engineers [charlatans] and dirty judges that help these crooks. In the end the funds disbursed to the bank. As insured, you are better off using these funds to payoff the property, get rid of the original mortgage and get new loan. Crooked bank will also apply forced pace insurance doubling your mortgage payment when no valid structure left. The bank sends 3rd party to inspect WHEN the work completed @ each stage. The con docs are required, but not considered as a valid reimbursable expense. Normally, It is a GC named in the loan who can draw the funds. IF you are lucky bank allow homeowner issue a payment instead of disbursing to a GC. A lot of banks do not because they are worried about HO disbursing funds to himself. Saying all of that, outline the work you will be doing and the cost. Get HO and the builder to agree on the price. Consider reducing the price or at least be in line with low level prices, ask HO if she/he can pay it. Provide the documents and apply for mechanical lien. Expect to make NOTHING.

This roof can be build either fully automatically, manual or combo. I like automated, that way it could be regenerated at any time. == First look at the (6) file reveal you have dutch gable left and right elevation joined with gable roof over the garage. == The Plan should 0) Move Pdf to some other layer and hide that layer. Lock rooms. 1) Drop garage height temporary -20", build baseline polylines (2) will be generated because of two different heights, raise garage structure +20", fix baseline polyline height +20" 2) Next pull house baseline polyline where it is meeting with the garage back even with the other side. [Baseline polylines can easily be selected on the outside wall, outside layer] 3) Mark left and right sides as dutch gable set offset at 108" 4) Work your way around the house pulling and pushing polylines and setting the correct conditions. No more than 10 minutes total/

1) You can have more than one layout associated with a plan. 2) If only issue is with an address, it could be handled with the same layout, creating 6 different template pages each having different address. 2a) Other option is read address using a macro. Have 6 files address1.txt, address2.txt, etc. and the address.txt read by macro. Make a copy and rename for ex address3.txt into address.txt that is read by a macro prior to the opening of the layout. 2b) Other option my preference would be 3 plan files and one layout, store the address in a CAD detail and send it to the layout. Switch reference when needed. This will ensure that condocs are the same.

Is that V8 or X8?

Like this https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6127/gull-wing-roof.html

Softplan has BIM...

ChiefArchitect knows NOTHING about engineering. Even rudimentary deflection of the joist. I have a struCalc and would be awesome to have something similar built in, as a plan checker.... But no APIs for building it exists. Technically if knowing live loads and dead loads one can compute point loads. But then CA would have to know the difference between IBC 2016 and CA Codes, varies pines etc.

Sometimes it is pretty cool to see total sq of a group of objects, total # of porches, or group together roof planes, or do something with a group. Since not everyone is a software developer, have time to research Ruby... Here is a simple way to do this: We want to use array of arrays [or to be exact hashmap of hashmaps] to store the data that will be displayed later. I use a single global: $tree. The hashmap $tree["rooms"] will be storing rooms and whatever properties you feel are needed. == To aggregate Rooms for example == 1) First create a macro called labelRoom to be placed into room label [defaults->Floors and Rooms->Room Label] and lets name it labelRoom referenced ? obj = referenced : obj = owner if $tree.nil? $tree = Hash.new { |hash, key| hash[key] = {} } end #id="r" + obj.to_s.gsub('#<NVPublisher:0x000','').gsub('>','') <-- X10 id="r" + obj.object_id.to_s items = Hash.new() items['room_name']=obj.name items['floor_number']=obj.floor_number items['internal_area']=obj.internal_area $tree['rooms'][id]=items "" 2) Create enumeration macro Macro: showSqft result="" $tree["rooms"].keys.each do |key| result += "Room: " + $tree["rooms"][key]['room_name'] + "[" + $tree["rooms"][key]['floor_number'].to_s + "]" + " \t" + $tree["rooms"][key]["internal_area"].round(0).to_s + " sq ft\n" end result 3) Place this macro into a TextEdit Done ================================================================================ Other times you may want to aggregate nameless objects like roof planes, here is how you can do this. Macro: labelRoofPlane referenced ? obj = referenced : obj = owner if $tree.nil? $tree = Hash.new { |hash, key| hash[key] = {} } end #id="p" + obj.to_s.gsub('#<NVPublisher:0x000','').gsub('>','') <--X10 id="p" + obj.object_id.to_s items = Hash.new() items['roof_plane']=id items['pitch']=obj.automatic_label items['area']=obj.surface_area $tree['roofplanes'][id]=items s =obj.automatic_label s Macro showRoofArea result="" sqft=0 $tree["roofplanes"].keys.each_with_index do |key,index| s= index.to_s result += "Plane: " + s +"\t" + $tree["roofplanes"][key]['pitch'] + " \t" + $tree["roofplanes"][key]["area"].round(0).to_s + " sq ft\n" sqft +=$tree["roofplanes"][key]["area"].round(0) end result += "Total: " + sqft.to_s + "sq ft\n" result === Bug fixed in a room name macro (Big Thanks to Alaskan_Son)

I noticed that now we have new Ruby macro Context: "Material List Line Item"... So presumably Chief Architect is implementing SoftList functionality. You could provide drywall cost estimation like $2/sq ft or 5% extra. But no subassemblies like this https://www.usg.com/content/usgcom/en/resource-center/tools/sheetrockestimator.html with CA template and preloaded default formulas Still SoftList estimating is imho inferior to PlanSwift. BT

SoftPlan is not as flexible, missing large libraries like ChiefArchitect has. It appears to be on 2 year release cycle. [vs 1 CA + quarterly patches, i think CA support is a lot stronger ] They are both capable programs. Softplan strength: Softlist - material estimating Allows for different models turn on/off feature BIM ChiefArchitect Strength every place else True 3D, you can turn on or off layers, switch annoset, plan views Very powerful cameras, glass/* house model. The glass house and slicer let you examine every aspect of the house to see if there are any issues. Massive catalogs, DAE export that work with VR. X10 Was greatly enhanced with PlanViews, improvements in 3D renderings, Stairs, Material List. The layout is much more powerful, but require efforts to set up. The Material list was improved where you can see exactly where this material, studs, beams were used. Ruby Macro language. I actually was shocked that in CA I can move elevation lines vs mess with 100s of elevation markers like Softplan.

I thought someone previously posted McMansion template. It is really good. It creates disproportional masses, puts different windows styles on the front of the house, makes sure that there are NO clear lines of symmetry, help select different elements from different architectures, ensures at least 4 or more different siding types, and sets massive columns to support 1x6 ridge beam.

No reason to do any of that, you will waste a lot more time. Take a CAD page, generate PDF. Import PDF directly into a layout template page [e.g. page 0]. Now, spend 20 minutes tops... tracing over CAD existing lines and rectangles with line and rectangle tool and add fields as needed, adjusting line thickness to match background template. Most, even very complicated templates rarely take more than 10 minutes to clone. Adobe PDF software will show you the exact font and size. Cloning existing layout template takes very little time at all. I use CA to reproduce California/UT mansions from RedFin. When I started, the original default templates s*cked [I wanted to test production of nice quality con docs], found decent PDF, cloned it. BT I am not an architect and this is my hobby.

It is probably this https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-69955

You could try https://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/ or "drop box" service to sync files between computers... Software will detect shared plan changes and update local copies... But two people can not edit "shared" plan file at the same time. I do not know how you guys work, I would: (1) make a copy of the shared plan (2) change / update this copy plan (3) when ready open shared "plan file" and update it or copy your changes. Software will update every user.

Create two schedulers for windows one for each floor, uncheck Include objects for all floors, thus limit one sched to floor 1 other to floor 3. Now you can place both hiding true floor #. Floor 1 Floor2 Sched 1 Sched3

IMHO .. Backclipped is the most useful camera section is CA.

I would reiterate what Kbird is saying... Just say No. You literally having 1/2 of the roof diverting all water using this tiny little gutter. This is the design that always damages the window and the door below. My jurisdiction would not even allow such changes.

Thank you

Any suggestions or symbol that I can use. The standard chief symbol is by-sided. What I would like to achieve

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VPN is just a tunnel [encrypted], it is no different from a normal network. >However, when I VPN from my home laptop to my work computer, Chief freezes on the start up screen. >We work all of our chief files from a server at the office. - And this means what exactly? Are you trying to use Remote Desktop to run Chief Architect? If so .... did you do these ... https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2009/04/17/terminal-services-and-graphically-intensive-applications/

Plan Views are very confusing creatures. Very powerful at first glance, and very dangerous at the second. Issue: At first glance Plan views appears to let you specify Annotation Set, LayerSet, CAD layer, and active defaults (Dimension Def, RichText, Callouts, Markers, arrows). How awesome is that, right? WRONG! If you change just about ANYTHING in the plan view object options, Layerset, CAD Layer, OR ANY OF THE DEFAULTS You will notice that the name of a AnnoSet will be changed to "Using Active Defaults". Now IF you have a Roof Plan View open using "Roof Anno Set", and You made a change to the "Roof Plan View" object.. Your plan view now may be using using active defaults and an roof object you are drawing could be using will be on Foundation Anno Set. The Best Practice for Plan Views: (1) use dedicated anno sets, [e.g. roof, foundation, ...] (2) never make changes to the plan view object other than specify ANNOset (3) make changes to anno set and only anno set let it drive dedicated layerset [roofSets, foundationSet, etc] and the defaults. The AnnoSets are the kings. Never send to a layout something that is using "Active Defaults". > Every time I send another plan layer set to layout, all layout pages change to display only the most recently sent plan layer set. I am at my wit's end, any help would be so appreciated. Rely on annosets not the plan views. When sending to a layout check annoset and the layerset. Plan Views are something that allow a designer to have more than one screen open of the same plan.