Joe_Carrick

Don't use so many elevation lines.  If none of the elevation lines intersect the elevation region edge Chief will smooth out the terrain.

I would at a minimum delete elevation lines 5,6,7 & 8 and modify the triangular elevation region so it's a trapazoid (cut off a bit of the top point.

14 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

While my hourly rate is $20,000

I need to re-evaluate my hourly rate. 

Doug,

Personally, I would

• separate the Door Schedule into one for each floor and title them accordingly.
• eliminate the "Floor" column
• maybe eliminate the "Room" column ---- or at least make sure each room had a unique name so there was no confusion.

IAE, I don't convert schedules to text.

3 hours ago, para-CAD said:

I bought an area tool from Joe, way long ago, and I couldn't get it to work.  

Support was absent so that is not a route I will try again.

What tool did you buy from me?  I always try to support those who purchase my macro packages.  If something wasn't working for you I was not aware of that.

2 hours ago, ACVNarch said:

I saw that there was discussion about this back in 2018 and that Joe_Carrick had developed something, but I imagine that much has changed in the last 5 years...

Actually, my system still works.  I've made a few changes for X15 but I haven't seen any problems.

It handles all the required code adjustments:

• Stories
• Story Height Adjustment
• Eave Ridge Adjustment
• Wall DL Adjustment
• Wall Ht Adjustment
• Exposure Adjustment
• RC Adjustment
• etc

It provides a Schedule showing both the required and provided panel lengths for Seismic and Wind Loads

It labels both the:

• Braced Wall
• Braced Panels for each Braced Wall.

The price for this package is $100 which can be paid via Zelle or Paypal to chriscoll@dslextreme.com

22 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Maybe I should just get them close and over ride the dims for the plans? Has to be a way!

Try drawing the walls in the opposite direction.  

Also check the wall definition to see what layer is the main layer and what layer is the dimension to.

1. Draw lines each 5' long.
2. Draw the walls on those lines.

That should work.

46 minutes ago, Canuck said:

Time over at Design Build on Youtube made a video about this a few weeks ago. I hadn't thought about doing this way until he put it out there. I think it's a darn good idea. Kitchen and bath callouts are increasing. Great way to not clutter a plan.

I had been doing it with manual drafting back in the 70's, then also with CalComp & AutoCAD LT - both as simple CAD Blocks.  

It would be great if Chief implements it as a smart Callout for the Auto Interior Elevations.

I've suggested a different callout for interior elevations.

Just move the special sized rafter down the thickness of the roof plane.  You can put them on another layer and use different materials.

You should be able to draw a single rafter and change its size & vertical position.

29 minutes ago, SusanC said:

Thank you Chris, Gene, Mick, and Rich.  I knew I was missing something easy - setting 2 doors to the left and 2 doors to the right got me exactly what I needed.  Appreciate all of your help!

Susan    

It also works for bi-folds & pocket doors.  For pocket doors just make sure the wall is thick enough to provide the pocket width. 

It's really great for multifold nana (or similar) glass walls.

I'm perplexed that the option is not available for Barn Doors.

I have a Walls Label Macro Package.  It displays the wall Label differently depending on the View Type:

• Floor Plans - Wall ID plus direction of exposure (quadrant bearing)
• Elevations and Sections - Wall Type Layers similar to what you show

Ideally this is placed in the Default Label for each Wall (Exterior, Interior, Half, Railing, etc.

Not using a standard Garage Door.  You could create a Symbol and insert it in a Doorway, but that's the only way I can think of at this time.  It's similar to the approach I used for a Roll-up Garage Door. 

You would probably need a 2D Block showing it in the closed position for Plan Views.

2 hours ago, JKEdmo said:

It's a carryover from hand drafting.

I was hand drafting long before you were born.  Never did I see anyone use that way to indicate a hinged door.

There's a big advantage to the existing plan display.  It shows any potential conflicts with other doors, cabinet drawers & drawers, etc.

Why would anyone want the straight line representation?  It's definitely not graphic standards.

This is probably a result of the "Z" Stretch Plane or "Z" origin being at the wrong location in the Hardware Symbol.

OTOH, it might be a bug in the calculation using the door height to stretch the vertical pieces.

You should contact support for this.

I need to have a different submittal for the Planning Department than for the Building Permit.  This essentially will require different Layersets for the views sent to Layout because the Planning Department doesn't want to see all the annotation which the Building Permit requires.

  It appears the easiest way to accomplish this is to have a separate Layout.

Is that how you would do it?

9 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Let me clarify,  I am suggesting that they give us a y offset in the edit menu within a cabinet face item.

I can understand that idea - but you would have to do that for each drawer.  I was thinking more of a global solution without needing to burrow down 3 dialogs.

1 hour ago, Renerabbitt said:

They just built a system for modifying handles in place, adding a Z modifier might be really simple to implement and I would like it personally.

It would be nice to have - but as I stated, it would require that the handle symbol could know the geometry of each drawer front.  It doesn't appear to me there's any link within the model to make that happen.  I could be wrong but I don't think so.

15 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

This, to be able to handle those rare cases like what you show in your image, in which the top drawerfront is a slab and those below it are 5-piece stile and rail with recessed panel.  You want the pull at zero for the flush slabs and at minus whatever for your paneled drawerfronts.

Unfortunately, for that to happen the Symbol would need to be able to know what the drawer face is.  I don't think that could be done.

It's relatively easy for users - as Larry did in this case - to provide separate symbols. 

CA's programming resources would be better spent on other features.

You need to modify the 3D origin of the Symbol.  That can be done only if you copy the Symbol to your user Library.

Is there a set of materials for "System Pavers"?  There's a variety of shapes, colors and arrangements of the shapes.

Style Palette(s) - extremely quick once set up.

1 hour ago, NeptuneKandB said:

Thank you for the help! 

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