DianeP

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  1. 14 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

    I would ask Tech. Support , but it might be a Permissions Issue with Windows if you are User of the Laptop but not the Owner of it ( ie it's a Work Laptop) as your Name is not in the Folder List above ...it just says Owner instead, so Windows may not be letting you (Chief) to write Files to the Documents Folder or Chief Data Folder etc. 

     

    Can you Manually save a Chief or other Files into the Archive folder? no error messages?

     

    M.

    Mick, I done a few saves once I found the issue and they show up in the archive folder fine. Here a picture. 

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  2. 9 minutes ago, DG1949 said:

    Hi Diane, Just to rule out some weird filing situation, have you selected the "Archives Folder" path and followed the "Show in Folder" option? If there is some discrepancy, that would show it up. 

     Yep, followed the path and it went to the same data with only 2 files.  I double checked other x15 work and it is doing the same.  

  3. I found this one, but when I imported it it didn't have everything I was using in CA on my old computer. Is there anyway with in CA that I can find the location of the .calibz user file being used... perhaps in preferences or somewhere else?  I think I may have imported it from somewhere else.  

  4. I have migrated to a new computer and copied my x12 .calibz file to the new computer, I thought, but I find several symbols missing. I think I copied the wrong user file,  I still have access to the old computer.  Is there a place on Chief Architect where I can find the user .calibz file that the old computer is using?

  5. I must have accidentally turned something off.  There is normally a red x that will appear when I am trying to align two walls on my floor plan.  It would appear when I would grab one wall and drag it towards the other wall.  Can anyone tell me how to turn it back on again?  The picture shows a red x that I drew in to show what it used to look like.  Thanks!!!

     

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  6. This is what I ended up doing. 

    1. I drew foundation for whole house as crawl space and built the floor framing.

    2. selected the areas that were existing carport and shop and made those areas "floor suppled by room above, retain floor framing. also made them monolithic.

    3. selected original part of house and made its floor "supplied by foundation room below". 

    4. Rebuilt foundation as stem wall with the option "slab at top of wall" selected.  

     

    This seemed to  work well enough for my purposes. 

     

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  7. Can anyone give me a hint on how they would go about using CA functions to build a raised floor over an exiting carport.  The carport slab is 24 inches below the F.F.E of the house.  There is an enclosed shop at the other end of the carport (all of this is under the same roof). Its slab is 20" lower than the F.F.E.  The owner is wanting to build a raised crawlspace over the carport slab that will bring it up to the house level.  he is going to change this area to a master bedroom suite.  Thanks!

  8. 5 minutes ago, DianeP said:

    Hmmm, created a new wall type by copying existing and renaming it interior wall 6" , then I created a new normal wall layer and named it normal wall stair.   Turned off normal wall stair and have the stringer showing blocking the view.  Tried to turn it off on the stringers, but it is already off.

     

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     I turned off the trim against wall on the stairs.  May be able to proceed from here.

     

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  9. 20 minutes ago, DianeP said:

    Seems like a good idea.  And I could keep the wall style pretty much the same, just copy  and change the layer name.

    Hmmm, created a new wall type by copying existing and renaming it interior wall 6" , then I created a new normal wall layer and named it normal wall stair.   Turned off normal wall stair and have the stringer showing blocking the view.  Tried to turn it off on the stringers, but it is already off.

     

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  10. 28 minutes ago, rgardner said:

    Lots of options. My technique would probably be:

     

    1.) Select all of those walls and use CTRL+X to temporarily cut them out.

    2.) Take a Cad detail from view

    3.) Go back to live view and do CTRL+ALT+V to paste in place the walls back.

    4.) Return to the Cad Detail you made.

    5.) Delete all of the superfluous cad work except the stairs you want to see behind the wall.

    6.) Marquis select the stair lines and change to a dashed line style and use CTRL+C to copy them all

    7.) Return to the Live view and use CTRL+ALT+V to paste them in place so they now show as dashed lines as if you were "seeing through" the walls that are there.

    Ryan, Thanks for this.  Only problem I am having is the CTRL+X of the walls.  I select them with the shift key so that I get all 3 levels, but they won't cut so that I can paste them later.  They can be deleted and that gives me a view to send to CAD detail, but the detail is deleted when I do CTRL+Z to undo everything.  With CA being such an awesome software, seems like this should be so much easier.

  11. 37 minutes ago, DavidJPotter said:

    Take a look in the Simpson Door - Thermal French for a door style close to what you want that can be modified and the Coplay Garage Door - Modern Door for close to what you want, all in X12.

     

    DJP

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    David is there a way to get it so I can edit the manufacture's door?  I haven't been able to before but thought I would check to see if you found a way.

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  12. 30 minutes ago, DavidJPotter said:

    Take a look in the Simpson Door - Thermal French for a door style close to what you want that can be modified and the Coplay Garage Door - Modern Door for close to what you want, all in X12.

     

    DJP

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    Thank you so much.  I would prefer to keep working in x12 on this project until I build a bit more trust in x13.

  13. 11 hours ago, glennw said:

    You can get pretty close using the door dbx.

     

     

     

     

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    Looks wonderful.  looks like I need to move over to X13.  I have it but have noticed it crashing and my work not being saved, so I move back to x12.