Alaskan_Son

It might be know to a small number of people. I do recall having seen it before, but I also hardly...if ever...send orthographic 3D cameras to layout and as such it's not something I've personally had to contend with. The real question isn't whether its a "known" issue or not but whether or not Chief has been made aware of it and how many people have reported it. If only one person is reporting the problem, then its likely going to take a back seat to 100 other issues being reported by 2 people...and those are going to take a back seat to the 20 other issues being reported by 3 people, etc.

The whole key to Kevin's issue is the "Isometric" part. To create a true isometric view, he needs to be using an orthogaphic camera. Try sending one of those orthographic views to layout and then try moving, resizing, reshaping, and updating those views. I think you'll pretty quickly see the problem.

If you report it then it certainly will be.

Another couple potential methods: Send To Layout using Current Screen As Image Use Perspective Cameras with a 10 degree Field of View (the smallest it will go).

There you go, that's what we needed. Use Craftsman style grids and set Lites Across to 3 and Lites Vertical to 2.

It's not quite as straight forward in previous version but definitely still doable using Text Macro Management.

Definitely need some clarification on this one. Probably best to post an image of what you're talking about.

Many ways, here's an easy one though... %area.to_sq_m.sq_m% ...Converts the square feet to square meters and then displays that numerical value as rounded square meters with notation (as long as you have Use Default Formatting checked). You could also use... %area.to_sq_m.round(2)%m²

Can you expand a bit on this?

You’ve already drawn the lines, just convert to 3D molding lines. Not ideal I know, but probably better then changing the size of your window and ending up with muntins that don’t reach the frame.

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.