ladycoralie

Hello everyone and thanks for all your help. Mark3D helped me with it and was able to get my house facing in the right direction. I can now show the landscaper what I want. Cheers and thanks to all.

19 minutes ago, glennw said:

OK.

So what you are trying to do gets a little complicated for a newby - too complicated to describe.

Do you have Zoom?

Hi. I don't think I have got zoom. I'll go see if I can get it. I can look tomorrow if that's okay.

1 hour ago, glennw said:

The information that was on the .dwg is a whole lot of cad data.

ie, they are all (mostly - the driveways are a cad block) individual cad items.

I assume you want to leave the house where it is - which I would recommend - and move all the survey data.

You need to be able to group select all the survey data (block it if you want) so that you can move and rotate it.

I looks like you imported the .dwg all onto the one layer - Cad, Default.

I would not do that, I would import the data onto it's own layers - so that you can display only the information you need.

You will probably need to create some new layer sets to help do what you want.

Hi glennw. That sounds really complicated. It's going to take a while to process that and figure it out. I really don't think I can do it though. Thanks anyway. 

On 6/28/2021 at 2:19 PM, Mark3D said:

Here is chief file with cad in it to help with showing house position

 

Hi Mark3D,

I've tried putting the house on that DWG plan but I can't line it up with the driveway. It is supposed to be parallel to the driveway and in line with it from the western side. 

Here's the link to the plan. I can't find the handle to rotate it. 

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Are-_sUztG_A3zNiSItyhAs_NA6n?e=an0Die

Thanks so much glennw, John_Charles, jasonN, DavidJPotter, solver and Mark3D, for your advice and tips on where I put my terrain,sig and tutorials, how to show my plan, and what it looks like in a dwg. I don't know how my terrain ended up on the framing set.  

I'm working on the tutorials now. Thanks Mark3D for helping me out by putting the dwg on the plan for me. Giving it a go now. I'll update on my progress!

Cheers. 

Coralie

Thanks solver. I just fixed it. Things have changed a lot since I was here last.

1 hour ago, Mark3D said:

Are you using x7 or have forgot to update your signature in chief talk

Hi. Not sure what you mean. I can't see my signature in the post but my profile says x9?

I couldn't upload the file even in a zip. But here is the link. Does this work? https://1drv.ms/u/s!Are-_sUztG_A3zJ-jac6Md0Wf7Ig?e=rlJaZR

Hello.

This is a plan of my house and I can't work out how to create a sloping block. In fact, I can't even see the terrain on my plan view to even try. It shows up on my overall perspective view though. I know the house model isn't perfect as I couldn't get the roof planes to join, but it is pretty close.

I'm now trying to work on the landscaping side of things. I have landscapers coming in August to start moving earth around and build retaining walls and such, and I thought I would try to give them some pictures from my model on what I wanted. However, I can't get the terrain happening.

The house is elevated on poles and the block starts at the top in front of the house and slopes down about 15 metres I think to the end. There is a flat pad out the front for the driveway, and a flat pad underneath the house. I am attaching the dwg ( which I can't open) and I think this shows the contours on my plan. I can't upload my plan as it is too big. It is in my One Drive. Do I provide a link to that or is there some other way to upload it here? I'm sorry, I can't remember how all of this works very well.

If anyone would be able to put the contours into my plan I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

Lot 8.dwg

That looks good too Greg_NY61. I will give it a go.

Cheers

Coralie

17 hours ago, DavidJPotter said:

Like Eric said, or at least implied, if your settings are wrong, the resulting model is WRONG always. Chief is a bunch of settings and input boxes so when you allow out of agreement settings to be present you have constant trouble. Get yourself educated and informed as to actual settings in your existing spaces, room dialog boxes, Default Settings etc and then things will make more sense and the plan file will magically smooth out.

 

The FIRST thing I do when straightening out a .plan file is to check all Default Settings and then make sure all extant object's settings are in agreement with those properly set Default Settings because this is always what is missing with "problem plans".

 

DJP

Thanks David,

I will go around and check out all the default settings as you suggested.

Cheers

Coralie

On 07/05/2018 at 1:09 PM, solver said:

Consider cleaning up the existing roof. You have different pitches (37 and 40 degrees on the main roofs) and various other issues.

 

Here are 2 ideas. One covers the porch, one does not.

Thanks solver, I'm working on it and will let you know what happens.

I went around and checked the pitches and think I've got them right now.

Cheers

Coralie

Hi. I have a roof design that isn't quite working at the moment and I'm not sure how to proceed. I've drawn my gables over the main areas where I want them, I don't know whether to add more of them or not. I have a section through the middle and I don't really know what type of roof t put there. The main gable roof along the back won't join with the flatter section beside it. The height of the main living area is 5000 mm. The trusses and roof are protruding into the rooms beside it, but I dont really know what to do about this, Can anyone help with this design please?

Thanks.

Wongawallan_Road.plan

Thanks so much.

Voila!

42 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

If the baselines are spaced the same distance from center and are at the same height it should auto join at the ridge.

Hi, I went and deleted those roof planes and started again from scratch. Thanks solver and Chopsaw for all your help.

1 hour ago, Chopsaw said:

Your trusses will follow your roof planes so you will need to make sure the ridge is in the center of the room.

Yeah I see what you mean. Problem is that when I try to centre them I cannot join it to the other roof plane below it without losing the new centering. I'm also not really sure that that flat area is the best way to go for the roof. the main gables I have put in place, but I'm a bit stuck on how to design the rest of the roof.

13 minutes ago, solver said:

Every view has its own layer set. Go to whatever layer set you are using for the camera view -- usually Camera View Set, and turn on the display of the truss layer.

Thanks. I turned on the camnera view set and then went through and turned on every framing display apart from trusses and when I hit sill plate it turned up. Yay. Now I can see them, but they are uneven. I tried centering them, but that didn't work. Do you know how to even them up?

Hi this is what I have. I can see them when I turn the camera to framing set, but not in regular camera mode.

It comes up in active layer dispaly options near the library browser. Is that what you mean?

Hi I tried the All On layer set. As far as I can see all the framing is set to display. I'm not sure how to check what layer it is on. How do I do that? Thanks.

4 minutes ago, solver said:

Make sure the layer they are on is set to display in your camera view.

Do you mean in the tools-layer settings-display? I checked the framing- roof trusses options there. Or is there somewhere different? Plan is attached now.

Wongawallan_Road.plan

Sorry, the plan I uploaded locked up for some reason. Trying again.

Hi. I just tried to create some exposed trusses in the main living area by following along with the tutorial in Chief. However they aren't displaying in a 3D view. I don't really understand what was meant by changing the base plate in the tutorial. perhaps that is it. could someone please look at my plan and see where I'm going wrong?

Thanks.

4 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

Sounds like you are feeling better as well.  Hopefully the next question will be on a new topic.

LOL!