Joe_Carrick

Please send this to CA as a bug report. It shouldn't make any difference which direction the Wall Detail is looking.

About 5 months ago I had a client contact me regarding a plan he had been working on for his own home. He actually has Chief Architect but wanted me to turn his design into a buildable set of plans. Within just a few days after contracting for the work I determined that the design would not work and in fact couldn't be built on his site. After some renegotiation of the contract I was able to come up with a much more acceptable solution. The client is very happy and will be an on-going relationship with this site and other's he's working on. Not all Architects and Designers are the same. Quality and Costs will vary - but in some cases you can get a better job along with a lower cost. It just depends on who you hire. Remember that a Real Estate Commission is usually 6% but can be as low as 4%. Your Architect today will in most cases be lower. Architects and Building Designers spend a lot of time getting your project right. Please understand that and don't think they are just doing the "drawings".

Better yet, "Post the Plan"

I do not find that to be true. Where are you seeing those values?

Yes, that's true. It's something I requested back in April and it would sure be nice to have them.

I would - if there were Defaults for Layout Box Labels - specify the label to use the %box_scale% macro as that Label and offset it in the "y" direction so it would be inside the Layout Box. That would provide a scale that would be correct regardless of what scale the view was sent to Layout.

I made this suggestion a while back https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/22289-defaults-for-layout-box-l CA has not responded.

I have been thinking about this and testing a little more. It seems it might be a case of: 1st F5 -> Refreshes current Floor 2nd F5 -> Refreshes 1st Reference Floor 3rd F5 -> Refreshes 2nd Reference Floor etc. I'm not sure that's the case but it seems like it.

It seems that using the F5 Key doesn't work unless you hit it twice in succession. I see this behavior when trying to refresh the display to force user macros to get updated. Can anyone verify this ?

This post should be in the CHATROOM FORUM

Obviously it doesn't - but maybe you could put a plug in for an enhancement. Yes, I know that we can make suggestions but I'm pretty positive that this suggestion has been made many times in the past.

I do the same as Ken. Sink Symbols will cut counter tops but not the underlying cabinets. You just have to think of them the same as you would a big gas cooktop.

This is way too restrictive. The Stair dbx should provide options to set the stringer sizes (both width and depth)

Exactly what Eric said. Then check No Room Definition on the Glass Shower Wall. This should be a lesson that "POSTING THE PLAN" will get an answer much quicker. The experts here will be able to examine the problem and find the solution. In this case it's because electrical objects are not showing up on "No Room Definition" walls in elevation views. IMO that's a BUG that should be reported and then fixed by CA.

Why not?

The Site Area Analysis Package is currently available for $75,00 The Wall Area Analysis Package is $100. Note that it only appears that Canadians have a need for the Wall Area Analysis.and I won't recoup my time/cost for any less.

Exactly correct. You can still display the elevation and even put the display on that view.

It could be done with 3 tables but this example shows 2 floors. The display is the 1st floor with the 2nd floor as a referenced display. Using referenced displays you can have as many floors as you like. Note that the "Wall Number" is based on the floor the wall is on. Only walls with the %wall_areas% in the Label and windows with %wall_opening_areas% in the label are reported.

Here's an example of my "Wall Area Analysis": The Wall Areas are derived from a macro in the Wall Labels The Window Areas are derived from a macro in the Window Labels The Table is self generated in a Text box and dynamically changes as walls and/or windows are resized. This example is done using an Imperial drawing but Metric works correctly as well.

I'm working on a Wall Area Analysis for Table 9.10.15.4 I have a couple of questions: Is there a corresponding table for Imperial or is it just a straight conversion rounded? If rounded, how many decimal places? What is "Column 1" used for? The way I'm approaching this is with Wall Labels and Window Labels. The Window Schedule must show each window separately so each window in a wall is counted in the total window area for that wall.

Chief actually has 4 left slash and 4 right slash arrows for dimensioning. They are 4 different line weights and you can set the arrow you want & its size in the Dimension Defaults. I like to use the middle (#3) weight right slash with a size of 2"-5" depending on the dwg scale.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Can you explain a little more - or maybe do a video of this?

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Here's my updated version. It allows for Referenced Floors to have polylines displayed and automatically names them according to their floor_number. It basically allows the same layer to be used for polylines on different floors. But only one polyline per floor can use a layer. IOW, each polyline on a floor must be on a different layer.

Select the dimension line instead of the extension line. You will get a diamond instead of a square at the end of the extension line and you should be able to snap that to the corner.