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    floors

    Alaskan_Son replied to winterdd's topic in General Q & A

    be careful using this method because it affects every instance of that material in the plan so it might fix your ceiling but screw up your walls somewhere. I would recommend creating a copy of the material in Plan Materials and rotate both the pattern and the texture for the new material. Are usually give it a new name that communicates its rotation properties such as. Pine T&G Pine T&G 45 Pine T&G -45 Pine T&G 90
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    Okay, I see. It looks like you're talking about the Concrete Cutouts for the doors. If you don't want to show them, open your doors, click on the Framing tab, and under where it says Add For Concrete Cutout, uncheck Show In Plan.
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    I think you're going to have to do a better job explaining your problem then because I don't understand what you're asking.
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    Check with @CharlesVolz
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    A few different options: Field Of View setting (turn it up) Clip Surfaces Within setting (turn it up) Perspective Crop Mode (use with caution as it will permanently affect that particular view, locking it to that specific perspective) Temporarily changing walls to be invisible and just backing the camera up Backing the camera up and just using the Delete Surface tool to temporarily remove unwanted obstructions Putting walls and other objects onto unique layers and temporarily turning those layers off (so you can back camera up)
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    Your walls are totally misaligned.
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    That line style is actually controlled by your Active Rich Text Defaults>Appearance>Border. You'll have to temporarily check Border to change the settings.
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    Manually. I usually just model those from scratch...ish. Place single panel, stack up as desired, insert panel with glass where I want it, and then convert that stacked configuration to Door Symbol.
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    You have to model manually and then add to the drawer item in the cabinet. If you don’t need to show in 3D and only need for cabinet plans though, I typically just create a CAD Detail From View of the cabinet from above and then adjust the CAD in that view to show what I want.
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    Sure it is. It's just not a valid macro for text boxes.
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    You need to use %room.schedule_number%
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    Try importing all 5 of these examples separately and tell me what your results are... Example 1.csv Example 2.txt Example 3.pts Example 4.dxf Example 5.dxf
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    You can actually simply use the Delete Surface tool to delete the glass surfaces before refreshing your view.
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    Sent you a PM
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    I’m away from my computer but I’m guessing that area is defined as a room but it shouldn’t be or should at least be changed to an Attic room.
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    This is one reason of many that I don’t use the default room label a lot of times and rather to use standard or rich text boxes instead. P.S. Just to be clear, you can totally leverage schedules and still use manually copied and pasted text boxes.
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    No. You can't. It requires a second 3D molding polyline with a rotated molding profile. It's all doable though.
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    Try turning off your Grid Snaps and see if that helps. Might also want to turn Object Snaps back on.
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    Ah, I must have missed that requirement. I personally think that looks kinda funny and run the kick plate from outside to outside but to each his own. For that, I would likely just turn off exterior casing, use a 3D molding polyline, and then block that to make it easier to position as a single object. The symbol method works too but is less flexible with regard to changing things later (changing molding profile, adding or removing lintel, etc.).
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    A lot of ways to do this kind of stuff, but I think for most situations is best to just keep it simple...
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    Check the Materials Wire and Lattice Bonus Library
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    You place them on the foundation layer completely independent of the walls above. No need for any invisible walls. Read up on using Material Definitions and the Components capabilities.
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    Not sure I agree. I believe the problem is related to images with transparent backgrounds and the way those image files are handled within certain PDF viewers/editors (the Preview app in this case). Chief's PDF generator preserves those transparencies while a lot of other PDF generators do not (at least not by default). It seems to be the handling of those images with transparent backgrounds in PDF files that is the problem and not the PDF itself. Just because you can use another PDF printer without having the same problem doesn't mean it's a Chief problem. You would have to use another printer that also preserves the transparency to prove your case.
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    It's in your wall tools. You just need to specify the Pour Number in it's Foundation tab to match the Pour Number for the slab in which you're using it.
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    This is a known issue when printing from the Preview app. Print from something else like Acrobat Reader or another PDF reader/editor.