Chopsaw

Yes I think it would be possible but depending on how far along you are with the plan it might be easier to do a manual Story Pole. Otherwise you would have to raise everything the distance between the existing top of footing and sub floor. I have not gone through this whole process so you could run into complications. Maybe someone with more experience will comment.

Scott, Check with Tech Support to be sure but I believe you can have X8 installed on two machines under one licence as long as you transfer the Licence activation between machines. So if you were running batches overnight this might work for you with a remote access app.

Alex, Some of those lines are almost impossible to figure out so if you are in a rush to get a set of drawings printed, then you will need to learn how to use this tool . Just as Matty says.

I had not even considered including the North arrow direction into the formula. That just adds another level of complexity to the whole thing. If you think you could figure it out I would be very grateful as others would be as well I am sure. This part of Chief just seems to be a little lacking when working with complex surveys, and to be able to keep the labels live eliminates the possibility of error as I have found in so many registered surveys I have already worked with.

Hi Michael, I have been looking into macro's and finally got back to this one with the Room divider label. This has multiple applications and possibilities but when you said "very simple macro" were you referring to a "Quadrant Bearing" macro label? I know chief already has this programmed but we have no way to access that so we can use it our own way, or not? I was able to get this far with a simple macro to convert inches to decimal feet "#{(length/12).round(2)}'" but the other is a whole different situation that does not fit my definition of "simple". I can do it on my calculator but not sure I could write the formula in Ruby. I also like that these can be Referenced or Owner. Great for sticky situations like I always seem to get into.

Larry, Still not sure why this is not working for you? Are we doing the same thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lecdlg3WdY

Larry, Sorry to not mention that the key is to set in Preferences>Appearance>Display>Color Off is: Grayscale. I have always used this and forgot about it. Then your plan settings should print fine. Remember that grey is a color.

Scott, I think you were just going a little too fast and missed your turnoff and meant to say use the "Adjust Material Definition" tool. Change the color for Lines: under the General tab.

Yes, Sorry I forgot about that part. Just open the wall or walls you would like to change and go to the Materials tab and select the Exterior Wall Surface or whatever and then select material > Plan Materials and chose original material if Default has been auto selected and then make a copy, give it a name and edit as required same as before but just one wall.

Mike are your elevations done in standard view or Vector View because what you just did should work perfectly fine for Vector View. If you want that same colour to show in Standard view select "Blend with Texture" on the texture tab.

I think this is a job for Yusuf but depending on what you are after it might be quite possible with Chief.

You will unfortunately have to turn off the auto stair rails and manually add straight railings. Go to Railings Specifications and under the Rail Style tab enter Follow Stairs and select Panels then go to Newels/Balusters tab and enter your cable rail in the Panels section.

Transparent and detailed fills are often the culprit but would have to try it out on several different systems to be sure. Is there any relation to file size? I have had 5 and 6 MB files act like they were approaching 100 MB. Chopsaw

Barry, I would be interested to know a little more about your situation as I have had similar issues in the past and feel that more investigation is needed into issues like this. Have you talked to tech yet and what version are you running? It may be simple or it may not.

Larry, You did attend the Workshop: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10651-the-jpcgraeme-floor-level-workshop-wednesday-aug24-at-400-pm-pst/?hl=workshop And watch the video : Maybe there are some new ideas?

I did not expect it to work perfectly as there are a lot of custom settings you can tweak for Raytracing but I did get rid of that awful purple mess. Right click on your Library User Catalog and that will bring up the "Define Material" Dialogue (The Tea Party). Go to the Texture tab and give it a name but don't spell it wrong like I did. Browse to where you have that .JPG file that you posted. Set it to "Stretch to Fit" and anything else you would like to play with in Properties and you are all set to put that in your Library when you say OK. And you can also do a quick Ray Trace test right in the DBX.

Hi Mark, Give this a try, it seems to work fine for me. If your original .jpg is more that 96 dpi you could make your own library material with higher resolution. Marbel For Mark.calibz

Larry, That has nothing to do with the floor. It just fixes the wall that was sticking up in Perspective Floor Overview when you were recording your video. I was working with your plan file when Glenn posted and I am sure he is correct about the floor but I tried several different ways to fix it but still can't seem to find a happy place for the floor. Sure it displays ok but the numbers in the DBX are all over the place and make no sense to me. Maybe Scott and Glenn could host a Workshop with a model like yours to fix and demonstrate with.

The answer to the easy question is that your exterior Alcove wall is set to "Balloon Through Ceiling Above"

I know it is impossible to take a plan file backwards, but do you not keep a copy for testing and research ?

No, un check to prevent wacky and it works. Sorry I did not see your edit, looks like all is ok now.

That works for me Shane. Is it only with the left mouse button depressed?

This type of problem should be posted in General Q&A and you should get some good help there. Just delete and re post. There have also been some recent posts on this subject if you do a search. Welcome to the Forum.

Scott, I was working with this in a related problem and discovered that this functionality was lost with X8 and I had to go back to X7 to do my work and then import into X8. I was trying to make a transparent image in an elevation view and found that in X8 it only works in plan view. However I did not realize that this was a lost functionality in 3D views until now, and have not reported that to tech support. If you have a moment please go back to X7 and see if it works the way you remember and I think you will be pleasantly surprised. No need to even remove backdrop. But then we must be sure this is restored for X9

These two posts seem eerily similar : https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/11563-very-weird-ray-trace/?hl=%2Bray+%2Btrace Since you have the JPEG you may be able to recreate and define the material within chief to fix the problem.