Joe_Carrick

Johnny, Your explanation is pretty vague, so it's almost impossible to know what problems you encountered and what you couldn't get modeled adequately. Perhaps if you could be specific we could help. I know that I use some techniques for details that make it possible for me to create a lot of a detail in a CAD window that is dimensionally accurate without actually drawing any lines at all. Of course, I did at one time use Chief's CAD tools to create some CAD Blocks which I have in my Detail Template. Those things make all the difference since my details are put together in 2D almost exactly as the 3D model is put together in 3D. Using Chief, there's almost nothing that I need to do in CAD for Plan, Elevation & Section Views.

I would never have all those dimensions.in my plan. Even if I had done those interior dimensions (auto I assume) I would have deleted any that were extraneous. Most of the time there are only a few interior dims needed where an exterior dimension can't identify a wall location. Less is More (better) - especially when it can reduce clutter.

Curt, What Perry said plus: 1. Walk out Basements 2. Slabs vs Framed Crawl Space on sloping sites - often occurs with partial 'Walk out Basements. 3. Window Wells (Doors and/or Windows in Walls below grade) Complicated if it's the Foundation vs a Floor above the Foundation.

Floor 0 should only be used for the "Foundation". If there's a Basement it should be Floor 1.

Christina, Currently it's not possible with the dbx. I posted a suggestion for that and for different door and drawer faces. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/3848-cabinet-hardware-options/ https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/3849-cabinet-front-face-item-options/ Reinforcing those suggestions to CA would be a good idea. In the meantime, your only option is to specify "none" in the dbx and manually place the desired pulls.

I'm with Scott & Perry. I use very little CAD, even for details. I do/did use it for Layout Templates and of course for Text Objects. For me, Chief's CAD Tools work fine. In fact I don't even remember how the older stuff worked and I don't care. I can accomplish anything I want with Chief's CAD Tools and the only thing I really need is for CA to get Multi-line Labels & Ruby attributes for everything, Stairs, Railings, 3D editing improvements, and the 5000 other things on their list fixed by XX.

For horizontal elements I use Molding Polylines. You can either Transform/Replicate vertically or put multiple moldings on a single polyline and specify different vertical and/or horizontal offsets. For Vertical Elements I use primitive solids and either Transform Replicate or a Distribution Path.

Mark, Instead of using walls, just use a pSolid. Deleting the pSolid will not cause the molding polyline to move.

Better yet, why not use one of the glass materials in the Library?

Mike,try this: case when is_double_door == "true" result = "2-D"+(width/2).round.to_s else result = "D"+width.round.to_s end result "if" doesn't work within a "case". The proper syntax is "when" Of course for a 36" single door the above results in D36, not D30. Likewise a pair of doors totalling 36" would result in 2-D18 not 2-D16. To get the exact result you indicate would require using divmod(12) as per a previous exercise. like this: case when is_double_door == "true" w = (width/2).round.divmod(12) result = "2-D"+"#{w[0]}#{w[1].round}" else w = width.round.divmod(12) result = "D"+"#{w[0]}#{w[1].round}" end result

case If is_double_door == "true" result = "2-D"+(width/2).to_s else result = "D"+width.to_s end result

David, I agree - but I am not sure that they have the time and I am also not sure the people writing the help are fully aware of all the nuances. There is a lot of subtle (and in some cases irrelevant/non functional detail) in this Tool. Doing this is a learning experience for me as I find what is available in the various dialogs and where those things effect the symbol and where they don't. It will in the long run be the basis for suggesting improvements.

In looking at Chief's Help for the Symbol Creation Dialog I find that it has a lot of information but many things are skipped over with little or no detail. The Symbol Category [Cabinet Door/Drawer, Door, Electrical, Fixture(Exterior), Fixture(Interior), etc....] effects the Layer(s) of the Symbol but also what Options and Special Behaviors are available for the Symbol. In addition - while most Chief Symbols have the origin at x/y/z of Center/Back/Bottom - some Categories have a different origin location. I am putting together a comprehensive document explaining all the differences (sort of a Super Help) which I think will be of use to many. I will post that document when I've got it finished but I think maybe it would be a good subject for another workshop. I also have a couple of tricks with the Primitive Solids that I forgot to demo at the last workshop which might be useful.

I posted a suggestion some time ago to provide the ability to "explode" a symbol to it's constituent faces. That would allow unwanted faces to be deleted as well as allowing faces to be moved, modified or extruded into new shapes. The more people post this in the suggestions forum the more likely it would get done.

The key is the length of the arc segments vs the width of the pattern/texture.

After looking more closely I seem to find it on all Wall Types. Evidently it's the Last line of the Wall Assembly - the Interior Surface. Sometimes it's not obvious in the Wall Type dbx because you might have to scroll down to see it it there are more layers than will fit in the window.

Set the angle of the North arrow to the proper direction from the Plan. I'm not sure about what DJP said relative to rotating Site Items. I would assume that you have your Property Lines, and Terrain Features correctly drawn relative to the building already.

Maybe that only occurs in metric plans.....

You need to place a North Arrow (CAD Line) in the Plan

OK, I figured it out. Simonas had the Defaults for Resize About set to "Inner Surface". It needs to be "Outside Main Layer"

Perry, I understand and I've been able to fix any of mine that had that problem. What I don't understand and is really the problem with Simonas' Wall Types is the fact that the Last Layer is "Blank". ie: it has no material, no thickness, etc. OTOH, maybe it's something to do with the metric dimensions vs english. The Wall Type Definitions seem to be different in some way that I can't resolve. Maybe one of the other Metric users can figure it out.

Yes, it would be better if "Rough Opening Sides" was labeled "Add for Rough Opening - each Side". The value is added to the Door Width, not the Door + Jambs

Simonas, I don't know how you did this, but the last Layer in your wall is blank. In addition, the 2nd Layer should not be in the Main Section. I have no idea how to fix this other than to start over with a NEW Default Template. You should send this Plan to Support and see if they can figure out what's wrong. It shouldn't have been possible to get this kind of Wall Type Definition.

Simonas, The Rough Opening Sides should be 10 mm more than the Jamb Width. So set the RO to 55 mm Sides & Top and the rebuild the Wall Framing.

Simonas, Please show the Wall Type Dialogs for those two walls. I'm positive that the Main Layer is what controls this. It's always been that way and I just tried it in X7 and it is the way it works.