dshall

Early to bed,  early to rise.....

symbol type....when you create a symbol you can choose: fixture, molding, etc.....

 

Rebooted and the problem seems to have subsided for now.

I thought that is what you were trying to do.  Yep,  never had that problem,  one of those funny gremlins that pop up once in a while that can be fixed with a few curse words and a reboot.

I purchased X6 Xmas and have been having a problem stepping the foundation for houses that are on sloped  lots ( some of you may have seen my earlier posts). I had some replies and I have been corresponding with Tech Support. It is how March and I'm no further ahead. As you can see by the attached sketch I can step the top of the wall but the bottom section is just a tangle of lines. Previously I was using X-2 and had no problem preforming this simple task.

Has anyone had this problem and how can I fix it.

 

Thanks for your time

 

RCarter

When I first saw this several months ago,  I thought it was you,  but I gave it a try and I had the same issue.  For some reason I did not follow up on it.  Here is a  pic of one I just did,  and I did not have the problem this time.  If you  post a dummied down version of the plan,  I will take a look.

....., but could not select anything other than the default option in the "type" dropdown list.  Then I tried to change wall type in the wall dbx. ......

No  problems here in making a symbol,  where is the "type" option,  your question is very unclear,  I bet the  problem is you,  explain again what you are trying to do and we will figure it out.

BTW, I just viewed CA's video on the spiral ducting and the prebuilt elbows ca has. Seems like that method could be used for the plumbing diagram. Just resize the pieces for the plumbing pipes.

Mike, do you want to explain why he must call it a garage? Hey Mike, can't you see Russia from Wasilla?

Scott - 

i'm pretty happy with things - x6 seems ti run great, but I'm still gonna go get a new box - I want a gang of cores so I can do renders in 5 minutes......

hows ur mac at renders?

Remember Mike, I am the Father of the crappy ray trace, 3 minutes and I'm done. Did 7 today in under 35 minutes and they look great for my purposes. For every exterior ray trace I manipulate the sun angle to maximize the look, 13.2 seconds per ray trace, hit the HJ quick key, badda bing, I'm ray tracing. Whilst that is working, a quick HB to take another shot, repeat previous instructions, stir, preheat oven to 350 and let them cook. Export the jpegs and send to client along with PDF of plans.

The only thing that hangs me up is the printing to PDF, must deactivate license on Mac so I can go to PC to print. Depending on the mood of my PC, that can be a 5 minute process or a 25 minute debacle. Did I say I hate my PC?

I just realized DSorenson is probably a one post wonder, when will I learn?

Larry, if DSorenson does not post his plan, that is good for me, instead of spending an hour on something I don't get paid for, I will work on something that pays me.

And you are correct, the terrains are still a bit inconsistent for my taste, but I can usually get them to work for me.

I hope you PC guys are experiencing this too,  but I just want to say that working on the MAC in X6 is getting quicker and quicker every day.  Not to say there aren't a few hiccups here and there,  but for the most part this program is working.  I hope you PC guys are seeing the same thing.

And for you folks out there who are having PERSISTENT issues,  it is probably not the program,  it is probably you or your hardware.

CA ain't perfect yet,  but I had a real good day  with very few issues coming up.  I just want you guys to understand that CA should probably be working for you......  for the most part CA works well ......  but not perfect.

Post the plan and I will do a vid.....  these things can be a bit tricky and are rarely consistent.

 in black and white view I did the cut to cad and ran strings of dimensions took 5 seconds.  It pick up all cad lines as expected.

in coloured view I did wall elevation,  blue dimensions are the auto cabinet dimensions,  took 0.0025 seconds.  The red dimensions are my string dimensions,  took 3.5 seconds.

Hopefully that answers your question.

As a side note,  I would never cut to cad,  to pick up the tops or bottom of doors,  I would simply  put in cad lines,  run a string and I would have the dimensions I wanted,  in my mind that is much much better and more controllable than cutting to cad.  My kitchens change all the time,  I want the elevations to be live.  But you probably already knew that.

I don't know what you are trying to do Mark.  If you are trying to figure out if you can do something once you have cut to cad,  describe to me what you would do if you could,  and i will do a quick  (quick is relative) video for you if it will help you with your decision.

I feel your pain, buddy, it's brutal around here. This is what I have been able to get by with lately, but who knows how long it will last.

I use ply on exterior face down over double and then an h-2.5 at interior side at stud to rim.  Pretty much the same idea.  

I have CT on 4 devices. I never log out. If I am gone for several hours and come back to it, I must log back in. Fortunately I have apple and they have " keychain". Which remembers the password, so it is hitting "return" key for me.

Yep, did not have this issue before.

Sorry about that problem, it was my code so I missed it. The update is nearly through testing so with luck we won't see this anymore.

Appreciate the honesty.

 Hey Develospec,  I like your plumbing diagram.  Really like the way you used the colors.  Trying to show a 1/4" per fall seems like a lot of work to go thru.....  but I get it.....  you want it.  But I have to say for the last 40 years I have been in the business,  somehow the plumbers have figured out this stuff without me telling them how to do it.

It's so funny now as to the level of detail that is expected/required/needed for a set of house plans.  My favorite analogy is the framer that needs a detail to show him the required penetration of a 16d toenail and the required edge distance.

I recently did a job,  had to go back to the plan checker 3 times to work out that the 4' long 42" hi railing wall at some stairs (you know,  2x4 @ 16 oc with drywall each side) ,  that was secured at each end to a wall,  met the 20#/l.f. horizontal load requirements.  Is that nutty?  Can you imagine how much it cost the client to pay me,  the engineer,  the plan checker,  the permit runner,  the print shop to prove to this nitwit that a 42" hi wall that is 48" long that is nailed at each end to a wall,  will not fall over if someone leans against it.  Common sense people,  let's use some common sense.  At least I did not have to detail the 16d nailing connections.......  heck,  why am I complaining?

I can't believe the terrain would have an effect.  To test this you could delete the terrain.

I think your house would be a nightmare to edit and copy area to a different plan,  so many things going on with the spaces within your house.

I have no scientific evidence to support this but I would venture to guess that for every week (40 hours) of production drawing with Anno sets (properly set up in your base file) you can save at least 4 hours.

Actually Alan,  I did do a controlled scientifice evaluation of the value of anno sets and you are almost correct,  I found they save 4.3 hours/40 hours of work  (minus the time I spend on this site learning new tricks).

Yes, I created all four floors in each plan.

Plan 1 has Floor 1&2 finished & floors 3 & 4 blank.

Plan 2 has Floor 1,2,3 &4 finished.

 

When I copy Floor 3 or 4 from Plan 2 to the corresponding Floor of Plan 1 they don't go to the correct elevation.  I'm given a message that the old and new elevations are not the same. 

I think you said you were copying floor 3 of existing to floor 3 of new.  Have not checked out,  but maybe you have to somehow predefined floor 1 and 2 elevations for the new floor 3 to come in a correct location.  No matter,   I would assume it is a simple matter of adjust the elevations in the floor dvx.

This is working for me.  Have you created all four floors in each plan so that each floor has the proper place to copy to?

I think that is the step that you are missing JC.

d dot,

 

Try chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com for the new one and chieftalk.com for the old one. 

Don't you use favourites or shortcuts or whatever mr mac calls them. 

Back at office,  accessed  new site  by  typing in CHIEFTALK.COM,  and on the home computer,  I typed in CHIEFTALK.COM and that one went to old forum.  (done in safari)

Just another example of the inconsistencies in my computer world.........  and I ain't even go to the WOOD FLOOR OVER CONCRETE GARAGE issues......  I spent so much time on that,  and I still can't quite figure it out.

If I am using Google chrome,  I go to old web site on office mac.

On PC both IE and Google Chrome take me to old web site using chief talk.com

On PC both IE and Google Chrome take me to new web site using chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com  ( as Glenn stated)

So it is only on office mac using safari that chief talk.com goes to new site.  So on the mac at office I do not know how to get to old site.

I am on home computer,  using safari,  new window in safari,  type in CHIEFTALK,  takes me straight to the old forum,  from there I can get to new forum.  So if I am on home computer,   I open a new browser window,  how do I go straight to new forum?  When I get to the office in AM I will see how that works on Safari,  I am assuming if I type in CHIEFTALK in new browser window using Safari on office mac,  it will take me to new forum and not the old forum.

Two computers doing two differdent things,  what's new?  I got on my iphone today and if I go to contacts to look up a number,  I no longer get the keyboard to type in name......  I have to scroll down to find contact.......  I think I am cursed.....  

Yep,   not working for me either.

Sorry about that.  It was a mistake on our end.

 

It should be working correctly now.

Appreciate that,  but how do we get there?  Thanks.