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Maybe I missed it..  but I looked through this forum and Chiefs Knowledge base on how to display an exterior staircase from the second floor plan.  Do I have to create a "open below room" with invisible walls???? 

Thanks in advance

Hi Chiefer's

Not on here a lot.. try to figure things out on my own.  I do come here when stumped though.. because I know there is a lot of knowledge to be shared.  And I am sorry that I don't come on here enough to share the things I've learned as well.  2019 resolution.. :-)  You might get tired of my face though..  

I have a house that is long in the north-south direction.  That's how I modeled it, for many reasons, and it just made sense at the time.  I put this model on a horizontal layout, rotated all the labels... (PITA, but that's what I did), so the drawing is easy to read.  The one thing I can not get rotated is the detail CALLOUTS.  I played with the setting, tried rotating with the grips, "rotated with plan (whatever that means), but cannot get the text to rotate.  (See attached). Any ideas, besides leaving blank, and putting in a separate line of text?

Thanks in advance

That's exactly what I did.. placed a rendered view on layout sheet, with a CYA note for home owner to verify.

I knew you all had ideas..  :-)    A picture is worth a thousand words, and that's what I will do.  

And if you have Joanna's number, pass it on, the misses would love to call her.  YES, there is ship lap in this house and now the one I live in....  

This is not a CHIEF question at all, and sorry for using this forum in advance, but many experts on here.  Client wants a German Smear facade on her brick.. the modeling part is easy, but how in the world would I communicate this on a drawing?  The 2D pattern is brick.  Would this just be a note to smear the brick with a mortar compound afterwards for the German affect?  Attached is screen grab of model exterior.

I SENT TO LAYOUT WITH FILL CHECKED.

Will do...  glad it wasn't just me.  :-)  How are you tagging your message to Chief?  I will do the same.

Never mind.. I think I figured it out.  Kinda dumb on the steps, but oh well.  After you have the view on the layout sheet, open the view again via double clicking.  Then close that view and say "NO" to updating.  At least that worked, don't know if that's the right way or not...

I am trying to figure out how to get the ghost beams and rafters to turn off, past a "Clip To Sides" view.  In the actual view, you do not see the framing, but as soon as I put on a layout sheet, the framing appears, well past the clipping window.  Any idea on how to turn this off, with out actually tuning off the layers?  

thanks in advance.

I love that feeling too Rod, of when the house is ready to move in and the client is so happy.  Its like our creation has come to life.  Love the house warming parties too, get to pass out cards.  :-)  That blows Perry!  

A curiosity question for all you Chief professionals.  How many of you enter Chiefs contest on Facebook or haven't you?  When I first got into Chief (back on X6 I believe), I entered because I thought what a way to get my name out there, and be judged by my peers.  But I found out its more of a Facebook popularity contest.  NOTHING against the participants and winners (I was one myself), nor for Chief to have.  I saw some beautiful-talented work.  And as a winner, I did get great clients and a builder whom I've designed 6 homes for (they saw the postings).  But think about it, most of the votes are tallied by friends and families.  THAT BEING SAID, Please keep the current contest method, because it is cool to show our peeps, but does Chief ever have a more defined contest, with a couple of our fellow peers and CA being the actual judges?  I love that my mom likes my designs, but I want Eric, Chops, and many of you pros to like my designs or give good constructive advise too.    Just thinking out loud here...  

Ted 

Pretty much what Chop said, I add a 3-way from the library at each floor, with a poly line and a note...   

I'm already done with the updated sheet size..  easy! 

so basically on page 0, redo the temp-plate to an Arch E size, adjust paper size, etc..... ?  not bring in a Arch E existing layout?  Genius!

Thanks Chop...  I was thinking I had to delete the D and insert an E...  this  makes sense, the layout is not a block as it would be in a dwg file.

I need to change an existing drawing (layout) from an arch D to an arch E size (builder request).  Is there anyway to do this without starting over?  The existing template is arch D, and I do have an Arch E. I was hoping for an easy swap out, but I am stumped.

Thank you in advance.

textures and bump map files came through..  all good.

Always amazed by your work Rene..  thank you.

Have you tried a ceiling plane at zero pitch?  That's the only thing I could think of when I had this situation 

hmm... never thought of the molding suggestion... that's why I came here.   Thanks Eric and Chop.

Hey Chiefers...

Its been a while since I've been on here, hope you all have been just as busy as I have.  Haven't had any real issues that I couldn't figure out myself until now.  Really not an issue, but...

I have a house, going to be gorgeous BTW, that will have two trims color packages.  Brown and white.  The gutters come in as white per the default.  And since you can't change individually per the roof plane dbx, I've had to paint.  I don't like to do that, but it works. The thing is, usually it changes all the gutters to brown, and I have to go back and "repaint" the one I want to keep white, white.  Fine and dandy, until I modify something else (usually not related) and they all go to white or they all go to brown, just to repeat the above process.  Any ideas on how to not have to keep repainting?  The trips to Home Depot, to buy more paint, is killing my time.  :-) 

To answer your question brushmark (my fellow Michigander).. its not just you.  You fill find many comments on this, including mine from the past.  It is what it is..

This is a quickie..  actually faster to ask you all than search the archives for an interpretation.  I am maxing C drive..  all of X9 is on this drive.  When I loaded X10 I put all the data on the D drive.  If I delete X9 all together, this should not mess with anything, right?  I have X9 on my other pc... so if I need to load on that version.. not an issue.  This big monster gaming system, has doodle squat when it comes to C storage.  

as promised, the end result.  Thank you Eric, Chop and Scott....  took a little time, but was not hard at all.

I have a lot of these "retaining" walls, so I tried the molding line and that worked great too.. 

Even though this is def. time consuming, in the end this will look sharp!

Thanks Eric.. Thanks Chop...

Got it..  see the end result.. now to do this around the whole house.