Alaskan_Son

Chief only imports from model space. It's paper space that looks like it never gets imported. It usually does though (at least the first page)...just as a CAD Block and only as a CAD Block (not placed in the plan). It's a sort of unique use that Chief has built in.

Why not use layers in model space?

It's really not all that uncommon, and (just like in Chief), I think it's typically bad practice. I only discovered this recently myself, but it seems paper space information is always imported as a CAD block like that. NOTE: It's only the first page of paper space information that gets imported. Oh, and by the way, Quick Tip... If you open CAD Block Management and click Okay without actually Inserting the "*Paper_Space" CAD block while Automatically Purge Unused CAD Blocks is checked, then you will lose it. You can always Undo to get it back, but I commonly make the mistake of hitting Okay instead of Insert so figured I'd throw that out there.

The reason I say to check your CAD Blocks is that the items you're "missing" were imported as a sort of disconnected CAD Block. It looks like those text notes were added in paper space (essentially AutoCAD's version of Layout) and as such they're not actually part of the drawing itself. You can however resize and reposition but you'll have some cleanup to do with the way text was formatted during the import.

I use the Tab key. Hit Tab while you're dragging and then enter location/distance/direction parameters.

Check your CAD Blocks

For question #2, it totally varies based on WHY I'm showing them a rendering. Do I want them to see and understand some construction detail? Is it a surface detail or the inner workings of something? Is it for general massing purposes? Do I want them to see the focus on the form or the finishes? For me it just totally depends. Don't have time to exapand on it, but here's something I posted elsewhere a while back to give you an idea of how I operate... I use all of them with the exception of Duotone and Painting. I'm not super good at describing artistic rational but I'll give it a go... Vector Views result in very sharp, clean lines, and can be used in color when you want to accent the details about the basic form and include a very general sense of color schemes but still remain a bit disconnected from reality. The "cartoon" like qualities help keep the model from feeling like the real thing and therefore allow a person to focus on whats important during the initial design phase. Glass House is good for seeing how the various design elements interact and correlate with each other. Technical Illustration is one of my favorites for accenting form without bringing color into the mix. A person could use vector views with colors turned off for this as well, but I find technical illustration much more realistic, much warmer, it brings better depth and just has a better overall feel in my opinion. Watercolor to me is like the opposite of technical illustration. I use it (usually with line drawing) to accent color while only giving a very general sense as to the details of the overall form. Used along with line drawing it seems to help a person more freely envision the deign without getting tied up in the details. Line Drawing is much like watercolor in that you can use it (especially early in the process) to make the design feel more like a rough idea...a sketch...which again, keeps people from getting too tied up in the little details yet it still allows for a relatively good way to accent the form. EDIT: PBR and Ray Trace I use just to either highlight actual material and lighting decisions, or (more commonly) just to give clients something kinda fun and exciting to look at. Which one I use just depends on the scene and on how much time I have. I prefer Ray Traces for a number of reasons, but for some scenes and projects PBR does well enough.

-File Size -Layout speed -Sortability -File Size -Sortability -Inability to preset the layout box cropping, scaling, positioning, etc.

No, I still mean CAD Details...the ones that live in the Project Browser.

Sorry, opened the plan up and had a quick look. Definitely not going to have enough time to delve into that this morning. Suffice it to say that there's A LOT going on in that little area and definitely nothing like what I had originally guessed. I will leave you with 2 little tips/ideas though... 1. When I run into a scenario that seems like it just won't work (a Chief limitation), I will commonly just stop fighting the program, pick an element that I want to leave automated, and then manually model/patch the other. I'm sure that's something you already know. 2. The roof plane below the floor will only screw the floor up if it's topmost point is higher than the bottom of the floor. So, one possible solution is to break that roof plane into 2 separate planes...one that is lower than the floor and a separate plane for the portion of roof that is not under the floor.

Yup. mos def. Been suggested quite a few times too.

I think this is really the main (and perhaps only) benefit of placing all into a single view whether that be: -Individual CAD Details with subsets of Details (Eave Details, Foundation Details, Wall Details, Trim Details, etc.) -Grouped by floor in a warehouse plan -Grouped by layer sets in a warehouse plan -Organized by page in a warehouse layout (should be much easier in X12) -Etc. Otherwise, I think the individual CAD Detail Method has only advantages.

Looks like what they sent you was Blocked PDF references. They need to send you the referenced PDF files too.

This is correct. We can however use custom macros to suppress labels in any given layer set AND we can also use the reference display in sneaky ways to change label display on an object by object basis.

Basically the same for me... I only use the North = Up on plot plans. For CD's its simply Front, Left, Back, and Right. I do however still include a North Arrow on the floor plans though sometimes to help keep a reminder of where the sun is going to be.

Into CAD Details You can create new using CAD>CAD Detail Management or by simply right clicking on the CAD Details folder in the Project Browser

Is your reference floor draw order set correctly? But yes, post the plan.

If you post the plan we can stop guessing. There a crap ton of variables. For example, I don't know if that circled area is a room ceiling, a cantilever underside, a manual ceiling, or something else. In addition, we can't see what your structure settings are, how the roof is snapped, what the roof settings are, etc. etc. My original guess was assuming that the area in question was being produced by the room below. It was just a quick guess based on the screenshot.

Another setting that can occasionally be helpful in similar situations is Use Soffit Surface For Ceiling. Depends on the specifics though.

For starters, uncheck Use Room Ceiling Finish. Think of it this way. There is only one ceiling finish layer. It grabs onto the first thing it finds and then anything above that won’t get a ceiling unless it provides its own ceiling finish.

David, the settings you're looking for are here...

Looks to me like you have color toggled off.

I didn’t even bother to inspect the geometry that closely. Did you actually model it? And was that muddle roof pitch direction actually the exact same as the other? If so, ya, that step wouldn’t be necessary. The pitch doesn’t have to match the direction of the material though for the extra step to be necessary, it just has to be different than the adjacent pitches. I guess doing roof plane “B” might have been the better example.

There are a lot of possible methods depending on the structural details of the room. Don’t forget about the Hole In Floor Platform tool though.

It’s just the fastest method that I’ve found to find that neutral pitch plane. There are other methods but they all require some extra steps. Just don’t think any of them are faster. That whole process can really be done inside a minute. For whatever it’s worth though, here’s one method that doesn’t require any primitives... 1. Drag out a roof plane whose baseline starts at a mid point along one of the 2 existing roof edges. 2. Lock Baseline and set the pitch to zero. 3. Drag the roof plane out so that it extends through the other existing roof plane on the opposite side. 4. Take an Orthographic Full Overview and change the View Direction>Top View. 5. Take a CAD Detail From View. 6. Steal the intersection point. 7. Paste hold position back into the plan view. 8. Adjust roof baseline to suit, etc, etc. There are a few other methods as well. Just not sure any of them are faster. If they are, it’s not by much.