Joe_Carrick

I thought I would try to use the foundation wall's concrete volume, length and width to calculate the thickness. Unfortunately it didn't work. My 18" thick footing calculated to be only 12" thick - which means that CA miscalculates the volume. Evidently a case of inaccurate data reported in one of the attributes. In this case the volume was only 2/3 of what it should have been.

Only the footing width is available - for which Chief uses the name "thickness" of foundation wall. The actual thickness of the footing isn't available for labeling.

Make the column using the cabinet tool. You just have to define the front of the cabinet and check the back and sides to match front. FWIW, I generally do not use PSolids except to create a Symbol. With X11 you can actually select your PSolids and Moldings and convert them to a Symbol - which if you specify it's a Cabinet will then allow electrical outlets to be attached.

Most of the time I use Wall Elevations but for those cases where there's a cathedral ceiling I use a "Section/Elevation View" and add a "Mask" for the things I don't want to see. The "Mask" is just a solid filled rectangular Polyline with a Hole. Inside the Hole is everything I want to see. The hole can be edited to fit the floor, wall & ceiling surfaces.

Bob, You need to crop the pic so that you don't have any white space? It also helps if you only have a square pic. That way the scaling doesn't need to be different for each direction.

You have 2 different Window Schedules that both include the Labels for that floor. This has always been a problem. Just find the extra schedule and delete it.

If you simply put a Text Box in a Room with the %room.name% macro in it (or whatever other text you want) then you can word wrap simply by changing the width of the text box. The text can also be multi-line and formatted as you like. You will probably want to "suppress" the actual Room Label. Another nice feature of using a Text Box is that you can put it outside the Room and connect with an Arrow. The macro will display the data.

FWIW, if the Note Schedule is placed in a "CAD Detail Window" it works correctly. The problem seems to be that at least some Wall Details are reversed "x" direction (ie: x reads right to left instead of left to right)

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.