Joe_Carrick

I seem to do a lot of batts @ 16" o.c.

So I assume you are doing this on Plywood Siding.  Another reason to have the ability to specify size and spacing.

Try this macro for riser height:

inches =nR.floor

frac =( (nR-inches)*16).round.quo(16)

case

when frac == 1

result = "#{inches + 1}"

when frac == 0

result = "#{inches}"

else

result = "#{inches} #{frac}"

end

result

This macro for number of treads:

num_treads

This macro for length of run:

# Displays Stair Length (Total of Treads)

nL = num_treads * tread_depth

# Convert Decimal Values to Fractions

inches = nL.floor

frac =( (nL-inches)*16).round.quo(16)

case

when frac == 1

result = "#{inches + 1}"

when frac == 0

result = "#{inches}"

else

result = "#{inches} #{frac}"

end

#Display Results

'Length = '+result+'"'

and here's one for the total height of a run:

arr =(total_risers*riser_height).divmod(12)

inch_frac = ((arr[1]-arr[1].floor)*16).round.quo(16)

result = case

when inch_frac == 1.0

"#{arr[0]}'-#{arr[1].ceil}"+'"'

when inch_frac == 0.0

"#{arr[0]}'- #{arr[1].floor}"+'"'

else

"#{arr[0].floor}'-#{arr[1].floor} #{inch_frac}"+'"'

end

result

Kirk, since you asked.....

Something like the Corner Boards tool to apply the battens to the wall (3/4" x 2" at 12" oc is common but a set of defaults would be appropriate).  Spacing is really based on the size of the Boards, so if 1x8 boards are being used then the spacing would be 8".  If 1x12 boards are being used then the spacing would be 12".  The battens should stop at window casings and aprons as well as at door casings.

The advantage of such a tool would be that shadows would be cast by the battens depending on the sun angle rather than an arbitrary picture used as a texture where the shadows might be opposite of what the sun angle would dictate..

Are you using X5 or X6?

If X6, you can use the Wall Material Region tool which is aware of Cabinets, Windows, etc.

So I finally got it to work by copying Floor 2 from the original to the Plan that had the revised Floor 3 & 4.  Evidently there needs to be something above, not just a blank floor.  Floor Elevations are evidently dependent on the Floor above and it needs to have at least one existing room.

The other thing that I fouund was that if I used Edit_Area>Edit_Area_Visible that it crashed Chief.whereas Edit_Area>Edit_Area worked.

Scott,

It's my house - I essentially took the original Plan - copied it and made some modifications to flr #3 & #4.

Then I deleted everything on those floors of the original and tried to copy the modified floors back to the original.

I'm wondering if the extreme terrain is having an effect during the copy.  I don't know why that would be but it definitely creates a mess.

Yes, I created all four floors in each plan.

Plan 1 has Floor 1&2 finished & floors 3 & 4 blank.

Plan 2 has Floor 1,2,3 &4 finished.

When I copy Floor 3 or 4 from Plan 2 to the corresponding Floor of Plan 1 they don't go to the correct elevation.  I'm given a message that the old and new elevations are not the same. 

I have 2 Plans - same building.  I want to copy floors 3 & 4 from Plan #2 to Plan #1.

In both Plans, the Floor Elevations start at 0 and increment 10'.

When I copy from Plan 2 to Plan 1 Floor 3 should be at Elevation 20' and Floor 4 should be at Elevation 30'.  But they come over at Elevation 0 & 10'.  This is basically unusable.

Is there another way to merge Floors from 2 different Plan Files?  I really need to put Floors 1 & 2 of Plan 1 with Floors 3 & 4 of Plan 2.

Larry,  I totally agree with you.  An Edit Button to disable on an individual case basis.  I'm not sure how that would be programmed, but it would be nice if they could do it.

Alan,

There are 2 ways of avoiding this in the Door Schedule:

1.  Do not include the Hinge Side column.

2.  Uncheck Group Similar Objects.

I don't know why the Schedule doesn't consider Hinge Side as a difference.  That seems to be a bug that should be fixed.  Actually, anything that isn't the same in all columns shouldn't be considered as similar.

IAE, sometimes providing too much information to the contractor and sub-contractors can get you in trouble. 

OK, I see that I can turn them off in Preferences.  But there should be a way to make it work without being so annoying.

I'm finding that in many cases I get those blasted indicators that I have unconnected walls.  This can happen when walls are too close together or when one wall is superimposed on another and the ends are too close together.

How, you ask can 2 walls be superimposed?  Simple, just make one of them No Room Definition and move together.  Maybe that's not something most users would do, but there are cases where it can be very effective.

Maybe the gurus at CA can figure out a way to avoid these annoying indicators or let us turn them off. 

Make sure you get at least 2GB Ram on the GeForce - preferably 3GB.

Works for me, it does.  Maybe you need to exit your Browser and restart it.

-or- try using the force

Mark,

Rebooting, you might try.  OTOH, the only time I've had this problem was when my Cloud was backing up the file - or it somehow got locked.  Reboot should clear the lock if that's what it is.

Appreciate that,  but how do we get there?  Thanks.

See post #3 in this thread

-or to be more detailed, select the Chieftalk Forum and then Click on "Legacy Chieftalk"

Watching you, I am

Mark if you look above the Q&A area there is a legency area to access what you are asking for

Raymond,

See post #2 in this thread.  Try it yourself

Since they redirected the url, there's no way.  Even the link "Legacy Chieftalk" simply redirects back to this forum. :rolleyes:

ROFLMAO _ CGU

It shouldn't be too difficult to do in Chief.  It would probably take less time than searching 3D warehouse.

Mirrored, I'm not.

So essentially, by mirroring the door it caused it to be considered opposite hand even thou CA doesn't allow yo to change the hand.

I ran into a similar problem with Sliding Glass Doors.  I wanted to change one from the inside face of the wall to the outside face.  But when I picked that edit bar icon it simply changed the slide side but didn't move the door to the opposite side of the wall.  I guess it did what it was indicating but for some reason it just centers on the wall.

My advice is to never use box scale because it won't be right for check plots or fit to paper.

Doug,

Why would you say that we should never use box_scale?

If I send to Layout, I'm sending to a specific sheet size at a specific scale.  The box_scale macro reflect that exactly and I don't print the Layout at a different sheet size.  If I want to print to a different sheet size then I'll send to a layout that's set to that sheet size.

Check prints I send directly from the Plan so the scale macro is fine for that - but I personally am not worried about the scale of chec prints.  At that point I'm just using them for markup anyway.

Perhaps you don't prefer to use box_scale but IMO it's not good to advise users to never use it.

Hi Joe,

I hadn't seen the %box_scale% macro before; I do like that it shows the true scale and that the text size is always appropriate for the layout..

 

I still prefer to do the label as a text macro within the plan or elevation because I can have a two line title with %view.name% with 3/16" underscored lettering, and the scale below with 1/8" letterling

 

macro.JPG

 

The downside of this is that it is not totally automatic (although I can copy and paste from floor to floor), and the macro text must be sized for differently scaled layout views.

Bill,  I generally use a Text Block in the Plan that is sent to Layout for the View Title.  I just draw a line under it.  Sometimes I do it in the Layout instead.  I have a couple of CAD Blocks in my Library that I use for this - make it pretty easy to add anyplace I need them. 

It would be really nice if we had RT Labels that could contain more info on multiple lines - something that we've been asking for but CA hasn't done it yet.  It would also be nice if we had a macro for Layout View Name in addition to Layout Box Scale.

One thing that may speed it up is to hide the "Selection Pane" and make sure the "Preview Pane" is displayed in Render Mode, not Vector Mode.  Displaying the Library Items in Vector Mode seems to take more time.  Hardware is key anyway.

%scale% works for me; it saves me from making mistakes in labeling the scale on the plan, elevation, or layout manually.  It is a little disconcerting to see a really odd scale on the screen in plan and layout.  I would prefer to see simply %scale%; or some indication that a macro is at work here.

 

I put %view.name% and %scale% in the lower central area of each plan, elevation, and section.

Bill,

Try replacing %scale% with %box_scale% on your Layout Views.  I think you'll find it's quite nice.  If you want, I have a custom macro %my_box_scale% that further formats it to something like this:

Scale: 1/4" = 1'-0"

and I never see the strange 15/64"=1' in my Layouts.