Alaskan_Son

No disagreement on the usefulness of the Tudor Arch, but just FYI, you can get a perfectly crisp peak using the Shape tab. To do so, just use a single Top Inside Corner and not both...

Plenty of Chief users here who use Revit and/or Archicad. Maybe try posting over in the seeking services section and see if somebody is willing to do some occasional conversions for you.

I’m all over the board on this type of thing. Complete creative control, basic cracker box, no frills, on a flat lot? Possibly before lunch. Complex sloped lot, a super particular client, and a lot of little custom details? Very easy to spend a full week or more. 32 hours sounds completely reasonable to me though for what you roughly described.

Pretty sure he's showing a view from SolidBuilder.

It's worse than you think too. Read the post again..

I suspect he (possibly mistakenly) made a special exception because of how heated the conversation had become. Chief normally does not respond that way and I really don't think they should either. It's not fair to the hundreds if not thousands of other issues waiting in the queue that many people find far more important than this one.

I've personally sent in literally hundreds of unique requests and bug reports and aside from instances where Chief needs some additional information or clarification, I basically never hear from them again on the subject and only know they've been working on it when I see it in an update or new release. I don't think this is unreasonable either. I don't expect them to keep everyone updated. I sure as $#!+ wouldn't.

The OP was using a CMU wall. For whatever reason, Chief won't cut beam pockets into Concrete materials (probably a bug). You can however change your Concrete material definition to something other than the Concrete material type (Masonry for example).

There are actually several ways to do this. Chopsaw mentioned one of them. The best method depends on exactly what you're doing and which objects(s) you're wanting to reference. There can be much quicker methods depending on exactly what you're doing, but here's one that will work for multiple scenarios... 1. Draw a line that starts and stops on span you're trying to reference. You may want to use the interior to interior of your walls or you may want to reference framing on the exterior or you may want to reference siding on the exterior. I'm going to be referencing siding in this example though... 2. Group select the windows, click on the Align/Distribute Along Line tool and then select the reference line... 3. In the Align To Line Dialog, select Space Evenly and Distribute Between Endpoints... 4. Click okay and then delete your temporary line...

Do all you guys realize that that beam pockets are (or at least can be) fully automatic? All I did was draw 4 foundation walls and place a beam... If you need the plan view to look a specific way and/or you don't want the beam pocket extending fully through the wall, my thoughts are that if you're going to go through all the trouble of placing custom symbols or placing wall breaks and manipulating wall types anyway, you could just as easily place a quick polyline solid and plain old polyline CAD mask. Very quick and easy to copy and paste too.

I tend to think this is what he accidentally did already because I’ve never been able to get a polyline to trim a framing member like that.

What does it show? Just a guess, but I suspect you toggled Show All Layers on. Click on the little Setting icon down in the lower left hand corner of your Active Layer Display Options window and make sure Show All Layers is unchecked.

Not sure. Somewhere between about 96 and 100 though I think.

I only have a moment before I have to get to work here so I'll have to make this brief... Chief gives us Window Symbols but those symbols always mount TO the wall (i.e. they hang on the wall. They are not inserted into the wall. If you want to use a window symbol you have to Open Symbol (not Open Object) and adjust the Y Position Origin Offset. I personally prefer to use a normal Fixture Symbol set to Inserts Into Wall. You use the Depth setting under the Inserts Into Wall option instead of a Y offset. Because the fixture symbol is actually inserted into the wall, the CAD Block moves with it, and you have the added benefit of a fully customizable Wall Cutout Polyline.

Here I have imported a high resolution picture into Layout: 72 DPI .pdf file printed from Layout ----> 36 KB: 4,000 DPI .pdf printed from Layout ----> 1,894 KB: Here I have exported a PDF directly from the camera view: 72 DPI .pdf file exported from camera view ----> 170 KB: 4,000 DPI .pdf file exported from camera view ----> 392 KB: Here I have exported a Picture directly from the camera view at only 72 pixels per inch but I increased the image size to 8,000 pixels wide: 72 DPI picture file exported from camera view ----> 1,509 KB: When you print to pdf from layout, your max dpi output is going to hit a ceiling at the max dpi of any pictures or pdf files you have in your layout. When you export a pdf or picture file from your camera view, I believe your max dpi output is limited by your current screen resolution. If you export a picture at a larger size, you essentially get a higher resolution image when the image is printed at a smaller size because all those pixels are crammed down into a smaller area. Bottom line is that the output quality, resolution, and file size is going to be directly related to image quality you are giving Chief to work with in the first place. If you give Chief a 1"x1" screen or picture with 72 total pixels and then tell it to generate a 4,000 dpi pdf its not going to change the image quality at all. If on the other hand though you give Chief a 1"x1" screen or picture with 4,000 total pixels and then tell it to generate a 72 dpi pdf, you're going to get a drastically pixelated image since you'll no longer have all 4,000 pixels to work with.

Ya...Like for an Epi pen that you will need every year for the rest of your life.

Just to help clarify...The Auto Stairwell tool is a good tool and can be used to help speed up the process, but it just places walls for you and automatically defines the Room as Open Below. Again, it’s still places walls/railings and defines a room so it’s not doing anything you can’t manually do yourself. It looks like maybe you’re just missing a wall as Eric alluded to.

I do the same as Chris. Here’s a quick video I made on the subject a little while back...

No. Only way is to use a different object type in place of the material regions or to fill the corner in with a different object type.

It would help if you could describe very specifically HOW the schedules are to be different. There are other ways of handling this using a single schedule.

Here’s what I do... ...oh, never mind then.

By the way, that little zero area room can be any number of shapes and can be hard to fish down because not only can it be connected to any number of surrounding rooms but it can also get its name from any one of the connected rooms. This is where your particular problem room is being generating and its simply getting its name from the adjacent bedroom in the corner... That one isn't the only problem your in your plan though. You have another one over on the left side, it just has the room label suppressed. Plus you have a 3rd one that is being considered part of another room.Try moving the indicated wall down, select the resulting room, and notice how its shaped...

Your problem areas are right where I showed. You have little tiny rooms generating between those walls. There are a few potential solutions but I would suggest in particular that you read up on the Furred Wall setting.

Just a guess without the plan, but I'm thinking you probably have a room defined right here....