Chopsaw

Hi Rob, I did a video a while back and a bunch of us discussed and refined the technique. I think the conclusion was a 3D box was the most appropriate tool because of some of it's special properties and how it interacts with a roof plane. I will see if I can find the thread for you. I think California claims responsibility for this technique of the " California Overbuild "

Another thing that may be helpful is to set your "Snap Grid" to 1000 mm in General Plan Defaults. If you can be more specific as to where and when you need this there may be other suggestions.

That definitely won't be done with the roof tool. Have a play with Ceiling Planes and or Polyline Solids. The math will get complicated though when you skew the baseline of a ceiling plane.

No but I will. Still working on a solution with everyone's advice and getting closer. I think I am hitting some limits with Adobe though. Preliminary analysis is that the auto recognition with Adobe Reader and Acrobat seems to have a limit of 5 commas and will not accept 6 in a website link. Also even an applied link in Acrobat Pro seems to have a character limit of somewhere around 250 but have not counted exactly yet.

Then what's the problem with the jumbled looking text? No, but neither is your idea of inserting a "hot link". At least not that I'm aware of. Are you saying that you're somehow using Chief to produce a PDF that contains a clickable link? No as far as I am aware chief itself is not capable of transferring a hotlink to PDF however Adobe will recognize any properly formatted text in a PDF as long as it is all in one line and provide the clickable link. There is something you won't find in the manual. I will give that a try but was originally thinking that the standard text that I don't normally use would help me out by providing the link in plan for my reference but now I see that may have lead me away from a workable solution. Thanks.

No not actually. I did not realize I was asking such a corker of a question. I found 5 "Follow This Link" in your PDF however Adobe Reader only recognizes those as text. The engineer I am preparing this for may well have Bluebeam but at this point I am not in a position to ask. I have a link that is 10 times longer than I am normally dealing with and want to disclose the full string but have it as a hot link and I guess this is just the perfect storm because I have a very limited space to put it into as this is not my original work. I was experimenting with some of Michaels suggestions and found that Adobe will not recognize a broken text string for a link but frustratingly it will recognize corrupt segments of it. After about 4 hours I got it to work but that sort of thing really takes a toll when you expect it should take less than a minute.

Firstly Chief is my favorite software for such things and I have a link that is about 250 characters long that I would like to hot link since not many people are willing to copy or even paste a link like that when the technology exists to click a hotlink but I have a limited sized space to place it that would make any sense for the application.

Yea Thanks. That is the technical issue it seems but my issue is that I have a 4.5MB PDF from a Civil Engineer that I need to put a few notes on and if I send it back at 600dpi (which still does not work but is trending the right way) then the file ends up being 127MB recreated in chief. That is a recipe for someone like that to have a good laugh and ignore my work all together not to mention Chief's reputation. I will try going higher and then dumb it back down with another utility but this is 20 year old technology that should not be an issue for Chief.

Does anyone know of a font that chief can microprint without destroying when printed to PDF? Arial @ .25 mm Plan View: Arial @ .25 mm PDF View: Not Acceptable !

Ok that is what I suspected you were describing but like Joe I am unable to produce those results with your posted file even with the all on layerset.

Humm... It seems to be functioning fine for me. I assume you saved the file in the state that you were having the issue. Sometime I get a roof plane rather than a room but nothing that covers the entire structure. Could you post a screen shot perhaps ?

I don't think it zipped properly. Give it another try and make sure the file is not open when you zip or upload. I got an Early Termination Warning and the file is almost empty. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00971/message-file-being-read-is-terminated-early.html?utm_source=Chief+Architect+Premier+23+x64&utm_medium=software&utm_campaign=Resource%3A+faq&utm_content=Error+ID%3A+272004602

Yes that is a good habit to get into so then you can just turn on the room labels to be sure everything is connected.

The exterior room (as Glenn was suggesting) when selected will look like this but it is often difficult to select.

I assume you have SSA if you just upgraded so you can access it through your account on the website. Or post your plan file here on the forum and one of the experts may be able to help.

That is pretty irregular. If you don't get an answer here please make sure tech support is made aware of the details. The plan file may help as I was unable to reproduce the situation.

Sounds to me more like you have something overlaid on the entire building. Select it and see what it is.

Yes you can put a doorway into a railing wall but it is a little tricky to have a railing wall end with a doorway but it can be done.

There is a tool for that.

Hole in floor on foundation level of true monoslab.

You can cut a hole through a true monoslab on the foundation level but the program complains a bit if it is at the very edge.

Having difficulties working with the mono slab but have not tried it before. Completely workable if you replace that with a p-solid though.

Yikes... I guess you need a hole in the floor then or perhaps shape the room around the opening.

Usually you would edit the building terrain hole to make that work but it depends on how you crated the concrete walkway ? P.S. Those stairs would become a bit dangerous with such a hole.