TimSchrock

10 hours ago, solver said:

With X12 you can place this in the Label of the cabinet, and I'm sure there is better Ruby code to do it.

 

VTC30 %width.to_s.to_i%-%width.to_f > 42 ? '2' : '1'%B

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks! I’ll try that

11 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

Are you using X11 like your signature says or X12?

Whoops. No. Signature is out of date. Using X12. 

So, I can enter a macro "referenced.width" and I receive the correct width of the cabinet, but then I cannot figure how to get it to do the logic of *if referenced.width <= 42 then cablabel = "1B" else cablable = "2B""

Hey all,

I have an idea that I want to create a macro to help my cabinet code. For this specific cabinet (from my manufacturer), if the cabinet is 42" or less, the code is "VTC30 *width*-1B" and greater than 42", the code is "VTC30 *width*-2B".

First, I'm starting with the macro and trying to get the width of the referenced object, but I keep getting an evaluation error that there is an undefined local variable or method. I've tried "width", "referenced.width", "owner.width" and all the same thing. 

Can you point me to the right direction?

I cannot remember who I purchased this macro from several years ago to incrementally count numbers. It uses two macros "Start Callout Hash" and "Fill Callout Hash". 

I could place the macro "fill callout hash" in multiple places and the numbers would step up one at a time.

In any case, the macro no longer works in X11, and I'd like to get it working again. Anyone remember creating that macro? Can you help? Thanks.

Left you a voicemail. You can see my website www.designbuildsolutionsllc.com and my YouTube playlist all about Chief 

I was making a video for some of the new X11 features and in the middle of making a pattern from texture, X11 crashed on me. Anyone else notice crashing issues? 

You can see the video here and it crashes at 6:40: 

I've never seen this happen before until one specific project yesterday and again today.

I send an elevation or section to layout, and everything is in dashed lines as shown in the attached screen shots. The only thing I can do to change it is to update the view. And that's the only difference between the two screen shots. I send the section to layout, then click on the layout box and click the child tool "Update View"

I've rebooted my computer, restarted Chief, and I'm out of ideas. 

I'm trying to restore the "living area" label on first floor of this plan and I've tried what I thought I remembered of checking and unchecking the "show Living Area label" under the Plan Defaults dbx, but it's not reappearing. The label does show on the foundation level, but not first floor.

What am I missing?

1007 Sunset House 4 ft added- 6-23-17.plan.zip

The designer wanted to see a byzantine arch, and I knew I could model that. It's all possible within Chief 

1 hour ago, rlackore said:

Robot Arm!

Robot Arm.calibz

 

THANK YOU ROBERT!

1 hour ago, solver said:

Have you checked the 3D Warehouse?

 

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/

Thanks Eric. I forgot about that!

Hey all,

I'm modeling up a room that our local STEM foundation wants to create for kids to learn technology, and there are three items that I'd like to place in the room: a robot arm, a table top CNC cutout machine, and a 3D modeling printer. Does anyone have a library object like that which you could give me? I'm doing this as a donation to the community, so I can't pay anything for it.

Thanks.

Whoops, I posted something about this last week, and accidentally deleted it today. I thought I was deleting a comment I made later, but it deleted the whole post!

To paraphrase, I'm using the latest X9 build 19.2.0.39OSX for Mac and it's driving me crazy. Using 's' to skip object snaps and 'c' to move concentric and CMD+enter to create a new line of text all make my computer "ding" at me. Also, using CMD+enter creates 3 new lines of text, so I have to backspace twice to get ready to type on the next line.

@Dan_Park Is there any way for me to go back and reverse this update? I don't like it at all.

Well, the real-world application didn't have this case in the field. What I'd forgotten was that I still had a second floor in the model over this room where the existing conditions this room is only a 1-story section. This case is solved.

Got a strange one here. I go to change the ceiling height in one room, and the ceilings for the whole floor change. For this case, I can build a hole in the ceiling, but I know there are other cases where I cannot do that. What am I missing?

Hey y'all. I'm trying to figure how to model the circular stairs with solid "railing" wall, and my typical selection of "follow stairs" in a railing isn't working. 

Am I missing something with the railing wall? or is there another trick you can point me to? 

Odd. So, I just tried it again, and apparently I was drawing the muntin lines too far past the sash. Now it works!

On 9/13/2016 at 2:03 PM, Chopsaw said:

Tim, Sounds like you only missed one step, cad block your cad lines and then select the window and the tool should appear in your toolbar.  Search the Help file under Custom Muntins or watch CA training video # 10048

Not sure what step you're saying I missed. What you outline is exactly what I said I did, and there is no tool in the toolbar.

I've made a circle window by making it a fixed window, giving it a full arch and reflecting that arch vertically. Then I want a "plus" in the window of muntins, but standard lites don't do it, so I thought I'd try custom muntins. 

I drew the "plus", made them a cad block, and clicked on the window, but there's no option to load custom muntins. What's happening? 

Using X8 on a mac.

I just searched for this issue and found a thread from two years ago that had similar issues, but mine seems to be a little different.

I'm using X8 on an iMac, and it seems that no matter what orientation I place the North arrow, the plan view shows the shadows in the correct direction, but the camera view does not change shadow direction. See the side-by-side comparison of plan/camera views with the difference between the two pictures being the North direction.

Am I missing a setting or what? Never had this issue before. I did update the camera view after each North direction change.

Has anyone found a way to make the zoom and pan features move a little quicker when using a 3D connexion mouse?

Same here...reporting.

I do break walls on the railings all the time. If you leave the "exterior" on the same side then it will re-attach to the next section, but just flip the railings and they remain where they need to be.

I hope not! The mac is only a week old, and souped up.