Joe_Carrick

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My father was born in Fort Wayne in 1906 - 3rd generation Irish American - as his grandfather came to America during the great potato famine in Ireland. Dad passed away about 20 years ago. His father was the blacksmith and buggy maker in Fort Wayne and dad told some great stories about my grandfather (Joseph Patrick Carrick) and his shop. Evidently he had an anvil mounted on a two foot dimaeter log about 2' tall. Grand-dad would put both forearms under the ends of the anvil each morning and carry it out to the middle of the square in front of his barn. I don't know exactly what it weighed but someplace around 350 lbs is what my dad said. I always picture it as being very similar to the famous painting "The Village Blacksmith".

Fixed! Thank you Scott

It can be done in Chief. But it takes a bit of finesse to specify different layers for walls that need to be "turned off", different Wall Types for some of the cutaway details, drawing custom framing that's shortened, etc. Some of the cut-aways could be simply handled with the Delete Surface tool. The new X6 Wall Region and Floor Region Tools can also be handy to accomplish some of these effects. If you have the Layers, Wall Types, Materials, etc all set up ahead of time it wouldn't be too difficult. The real question is: Is it worth the effort? The notation would probably need to be done in another program such as Photoshop.

Mercedes Tailights, I see! Worth a lot more, it must be.

There's a Tool in Windows called "Snipping Tool" located in the Accessories Folder. It's about as good as it gets. It's very easy to use and even porvides some markup and annotation capability.

Yep, and while they're at it they should address the rest of the things that I mentioned in the thread with the "Pocket Door Symbols".

Call Tech Support.

Ron, You do know that you can reorder the Doors and Windows. You just move the lines in the Schedules up or down and it will renumber. X6 enhancement.

Where is Wendy? "Shadow Boards" were a big hot button for her. I can only assume that it's commonly used in New England since that's where Wendy's from. Basically, as used by Chief Architect the term refers to a piece of trim used on the Fascia which covers the edged of the roof sheathing and supports the shingles as they extend beyond the roof edge. Generally, this is a piece of 1x2 or 1x3 wood - but it can be whatever size you specify. It could even be a piece of 3D Molding (Egg & Dart, etc) BTW, due to the fact that it can slow down render view manipulation, I don't recommend using 3D Moldings for this - or for that matter for much of anything else.

You might also check that Door dbx, Material Tab and see what the name of the Glass is. I beleve it must specifically be "Door Glass" in order for it to follow the dictates of that Checkbox. The material you select will be irrellevant, but the name in the dbx is (I think) important. Confirmed..... I tried one of my Pocket Sliding Doors and assigned a Glass Material to a Panel of the Door Symbol. It always shows as opaque regardless of the setting of that Checkbox.

Larry, What about this setting in the Camera Defaults? I think that it's probably applied to the Door when placed.

Larry, I'm not sure I understand the problem at all. There should be an opening indicator for the French Door - at least that's what I would expect unless you specifically ask for it to be suppressed. It wouldn't have anything to do with if the glass was opaque or not.

Sometimes using a 2D Molding and assigning a material that imitates the 3D will work. It's a lot faster than 3D Moldings.

Scott, If you have any clients with a large SUV or Pickup Truck ------ Give them a 9'-10' Garage Door. You'll be a hero.

Once you've created it in your Layout Template - or have stored it in your library - you never have to make it again. IOW, it's not automatic until you make it yourself.

With X6 you can define multiple keys yourself. So if you can actually devise a system that makes sense to you - go for it. I tend to forget the hot keys almost immediately unless I practice using them.

Framing Defaults

I have an older Plan that has a material designation that's not in my Library. I would like to find where this material is called for so I can assign something else and purge the old material from the Plan. How do I find where it's called for? Please tell me it's possible without going thru every possible object.

If it's listed as X6 and not X5 then probably not. There should be X5 content downloads available for most things. Some of the Libraries are specific to X6.

You need download/save the zip file and then extract the zip and open/load the .calibz file itself.

I tried activating X5 at home and it wanted to use an emergency password. Activating X6 went as expected - login to account, deactivate X6 - activate as normal. Chief does need to add all current licenses to the Web-Site. I have x3, X4, X5 & X6 using software locks. Prior versions 9.5, 10 & X1 I have dongles for.

Ron, It would to me make sense for CA to have all of our licensed versions available for deactivation. OTOH, there would be no way for X5 to tell you to do it because that code isn't built into X5. But if you had a way to get to the "deactivate" web page then it should be available. I have X5 & X6 activated on my office system right now. I'll be home in an hour and check to see if X5's available for deactivation.

Ron, I've hit the nail (finger nail) on the head more than once.......you'd think I would learn not to do that

BTW, There are Shaker Style Panel Doors (1 & 2 Panels) which can have the Panels assigned any material - including Glass. In addition, there are Raise Panel Doors (2,4 & 6 Panels). All of the Doors have 3 versions - Closed, 18" Open & 26" Open. ps: If you download the Library it would be nice if you'd boost my reputation.