wazzubrad

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  1. Guys, I need to figure see if I can figure out how to move 60,000 terrain points by lowering and rotating so that the house sits where it needs to and at the elevation it needs to. If you look at the snip below, I have imported the Terrain points using the "Import Terrain Data" and built my terrain which gave me the pretty mountain side below. But now need to learn how to move all of these Terrain points in unison so that the design that I created sits on the terrain at the correct elevation and orientation. Anyone willing to help me with this? The end goal would be to post a tutorial that could help people walk through these steps to end up with a accurate terrain model.

     

    You can access my plan file here; https://gofile.me/72852/aIIUa7Mz2

     

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  2. Kim, have you used the software QGIS? With QGIS, we can clip the unneeded liar data to only what’s needed. I’m still learning, but was able to use it to clip and then export CSV file that I then imported into Chief via the Terrain Import tool. YouTube has some videos which were helpful. If I can refine this process, I will post a tutorial on the method.

  3. Thank you Kim! That’s a great breakdown. I’m trying a couple different software tools, CloudCompare and QGIS, along with your method and help from Alaskan_Son, to see if I can get the USGS data imported into CC or QGIS and then exported into the correct coordinate format for chief to import. I’ve got it imported into chief, but it’s many more steps than I think it could be, partially due to the coordinate formatting. I’ll keep trying time allows.

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  4. I am struggling to get this pattern to vertically align. I have the horizontal aligned how I need it. You might be able to see in the pasted image below, that I need the blue arrow to slip up into the blue channels in the pattern, but so far haven't been able to get it to fit together correctly. Anyone able to tell what I doing wrong here?

     

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  5. Hey John, for Braced Wall/Shear I use a website called Braceline. Its very similar to the APA Shear Calc site or the Simpson Calc, but in my opinion is very easy to use. It's $40 per month, has a few YouTube videos to train you up. I think there is also a 30 day trial. For everything else (tall walls, etc), it goes to my Engineer.

  6. Guys, I am starting to find some of the limitations that I see discussed in the forums and am wondering if this is one of those. The current plan I am working on has various footing widths and depths specified by the engineer for the foundation walls. While trying to create a wall schedule that will show each wall based on footing width and depth and when I look at the available macro's under Object Properties for a macro I don't see anything specific to the footing depth. Anyone know if this property exists for a foundation wall?

     

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  7. On 1/19/2022 at 2:51 PM, robdyck said:

    Tip for newbies: If hatch patterns already exist in the camera view, then this also turns them into a dog's breakfast of different lines, which makes working with that cad detail a bit of a nuisance.

    The method Joe describes is generally how I draw details for complex projects that need to stay live.

    A couple of other tips:

    • back clip about 24" as a rule of thumb
    • create a white line border template to aid with cropping so all details remain the same size.
    • include a white line offset from the view to aid with text leader line snapping
    • turn off connections for both ends of text leader lines. 
    • Ensure the detail camera label is titled exactly how you'd like it to appear in layout, and use this automatic label for the layout box.. This will greatly improve drawing coordination.
    • Once layout boxes are positioned in layout, then all details can have their drawing number set in the project browser without opening each view.
    • Avoid redundant specifications (i.e.) there's no need to callout the spec of a steel beam in a detail if it is called out in the plan. Rather callout the connections, or install dimensions, etc.
    • You may be surprised how little cad work is necessary in a detail like this.
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    Rob, this detail is awesome and I have made this my next project to figure out and implement. I am having trouble getting the fills to show up. I have went through all of the settings that I can think of to make sure I have fills set correctly and I still can't get them to show. I turned Layers to All On and that didn't do it either.

     

    1) Any ideas on what I am missing on the fills?

    2) Did you manually label the 2x4 and 2x6, or is this a macro, or is this a label setting I am missing? Love that idea

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  8. On 6/8/2022 at 10:35 AM, rgardner said:

    To get them into a schedule you are going to have to add some custom Fields to your roof planes and then show them in your schedule:

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    You can add Global macros or custom ones.  Use a Object information macro pointed to the edge of a roof plane to see what can be added.  But globally you can get all of these:

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    Ryan, this is awesome and very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

  9. 5 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

     

    No not solely but you signature is causing a lot of confusion and it looks like you now have that fixed but this thread mentions nothing about X14 and I believe you are using an X14 new feature for your solution and not showing how you achieved it which is very confusing for anyone else reading through this thread and seeing the supposed correct answer.

    Wasn't aware this is solely an X14 feature.

  10. 11 minutes ago, VHampton said:

    Unfortunately the program doesn't make the shape with the number inside and the size. Someday perhaps. 

     

    For now, the way to show a Door number and the door size (width x height) is to use a custom "macro" in the door's label option. See below. 

     

    Then ....uncheck the "Use Callout" when the Door schedule is opened. Now the door number and size will appear, but not with the callout shape. 

     

    Without question it would be nice if they could figure out a way to show both. 

     

    This older thread shows the very same question: 

    (%schedule_number%)

     

    %automatic_label%

     

     

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    Vhampton, that did it. Thank you!

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