Chopsaw

Yes it seems there was an issue importing the Terrain Perimeter and I had to close the lot line and recreate it but it looks like you were able to include all all the elevation data correctly. Also moved it to the Terrain Perimeter layer so it won't get lost and set the Subfloor height to 454 m which looks pretty close at the front of the house but now you have some work to regrade and build a basement. Tamborine_House_Chopped.plan

Yes leave the house alone and move the terrain. Especially important if the client decides on exactly where they want the house located and then says " how about if we rotate it 18 deg to the West "

Humm.... yes that could be an issue. Maybe the delete surfaces tool could be useful. Or post the plan file and someone will find and answer.

Any luck with my second suggestion ?

I think I remember that as an old bug that was fixed. What version are you running ? You may be able to fix it by creating a back clip for your elevation camera or selecting the windows that are a problem and hide the label for that camera view.

Actually I just gave it another try and the backsplash seems to behave differently from a wall material region and you seem to be able to assign a blank linestyle to the layer and the border will disappear in elevation view. However when sent to layout this either gets corrupted or does not work so I am not sure what is going on. Maybe one of the cabinet guys has experienced this before and knows another solution.

You could remove the lines in layout with the Edit Layout Lines tool but it might be easier to just remove the auto backsplash from the adjoining cabinets and extend the manual one over to replace it if the materials are the same.

Well if that is the location you have chosen and the house is rectangular you will likely need to make some terrain adjustments for your final landscaping levels and also make some stepped footings and or a stepped basement level. To adjust the level that the house sits at you need to go back to the Subfloor Height above Terrain and add 3 or 4 m. So that your basement is a little higher than where you now have the first floor. To move the Terrain just turn off all the imported DWG layers that you will not use in your plan and copy and paste the Terrain Perimeter and all the elevation data into the new plan. And move the Terrain Perimeter from the BD_LOTS layer to the Terrain Perimeter layer so you will know where to find it later.

That looks great. Yes you can now design a house on that terrain if you trust that it is accurate enough to do so. Or if this is for the design you have been working on place that terrain into the existing file. Clean it all up and just transfer the layers that you need into the new plan and maybe rename the layers so they make sense to you and can be remembered.

Not so sure it ever worked properly but it seems something is really messed up now. Tech submission ?

Trial and Error maybe ? In this situation where there is nothing much to confirm with it would be handy to know. Any DWG experts out there ? Also why don't the scale and legend import ?

It might even be possible that all 20 of the E-PT-.... layers contain elevation data. Hard to say for sure. Do you have a DWG viewer or PDF copy of the survey? There is a legend that may help you out a bit.

It looks like all the terrain contours must have been cad blocked together and may not even contain elevation data. You could unblock them and convert to elevation lines and assign your own elevations, but they are not really even labeled from what I can see so unless you know the site very well it would be difficult to be sure and get it right. I would get in touch with the surveyor and ask if he can unblock the contour lines and maybe it will import with the data or you could ignore the contour lines and enter all of the elevation points and let chief generate the contours but you again would have to know what the surveyors codes mean or it could turn into a mess in a hurry.

Yes both of the Screen Captures above were from 600 dpi. PDF's zoomed in to 1200% but you can still see a distinct difference at normal magnification. I gave tech support a call but they did not have and immediate answer but promised to look into the situation for me so we will all know the answer.

Reduce the bounding box size of the column to the diameter of the round part and you should be good.

Ok I choose Adobe PDF and then go to Advanced Options > "Open System Print Dialog..." > Adobe PDF > Preferences but then I cant seem to find where you choose image or PDF. Is this the same as you see? Where do I go from here ?

Thanks Perry, I did not know that. Where is the setting for Adobe vector PDF's ? I just printed a layout and the Default Adobe setup gave me a 5.2 MB file where Chief's is 11 MB but there is a definite difference. Can you guess which is which ?

So you would like the pitch to run the long direction and the framing to run the short direction ? Looks like Eric solved it again. Your Signature could use an update Larry.

JJ is correct I believe but the one thing I would add is that the "Chief Architect Save as PDF" printer is unique in that it produces a vector PDF that any component that can be recorded as a straight line is done that way producing a PDF that is a combination of vector and raster. I am not sure others are capable of functioning that way but have not done exhaustive testing on this.

Double click on your dimension and in the Dimension Line Specification DBX under the Primary Format tab, deselect "Use Default Formatting" and set the Format Units to feet ( ' ) and the Accuracy to 0 decimal places. Or set that as the default for your Annoset.

I have had some issues with the "Chief Architect Print as PDF" as it does not flatten and can create issues with images and transparency when printing which I am not sure have been resolved. If you have issues submitting your drawings again please let us know if they provide any more information as to why they need to be flattened and how they suggest it needs to be done. Please look your drawings over carefully as the Microsoft Print to PDF usually does not do as good a job as Chief... There will be more and more departments requesting digital submissions in the future so it would be good for CA to get this issue sorted out if it is going to be an issue for all of us eventually.

What version of Chief are you using and what Print Driver ?

When in doubt select the roof plane and when you think you have it highlighted check to be sure it is correct in the status bar at the bottom left of your screen and if your mouse is maybe not double clicking correctly select the Open Object tool for the DBX.

The only other things I could think of would be if the default material was set to something you could not see. Take a look in Plan Defaults > Materials > Terrain/Property Line. Or maybe your video card is not quite up to the task.... Switch from Standard Render to Vector View and see if that makes a difference. Make sure you are not using a saved camera and open a new one and let chief do the setup. If the terrain is perfectly upside down it will be transparent in Standard view but you will at least see perimeter lines in Vector View.

The dialogue box will look and function much differently in X10 as that is a X5 video. You should be able to to all the same and more though. Make sure it is the roof plane you have selected.