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I was thinking the same thing. Pretty dang amazing IMHO...

Thank you sir!

In the past several versions, when I opened a 2D elevation view by double clicking it in the layout and made a change, when I closed the 2D edited view, it was linked and asked if I wanted to save the view. I clicked yes and the view in the layout would update accordingly.  This has been the standard setup in Chief as far as I know for awhile now.  With X14, when I do this and close the view, it doesn't update.  I have to resend the view to the layout sheet. This is in all drawings I have done in X14. Must be a default setting somewhere that has been changed, but not finding it.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

Rgardner - yes, I do, but that was a good thought. Thanks.

Inserted a shower pan from the library, drew glass walls over it and added a glass door, all from the wall and door pull downs. Viewed it in camera mode and the pan shows but no glass walls or door.  Tried getting rid of the pan and leaving the walls, same.  Tried changing the glass material, same.  Any ideas why it won't display in 3D?   Thanks. 

Found a couple in the Outdoor Rooms and Gardens.  Didn't look there previously, it has a picture of a trellis with flowers as the group image....

Thanks.

Looking for exterior kitchen items for a roofed over porch/patio area. Doesn't seem to be anything in the library items. Anybody know of anything available?  Thanks.

2 hours ago, nVisionTEKBIM said:

I'm very interested in this! I switched to using HOVER to get most of my exterior measurements, which really saves me time, but so far there's been no high-tech affordable method for getting the interior done without manually measuring. I would be super interested in trying CANVAS if it could also do exteriors. HOVER has been nice since it gets roof slopes, overhangs, ect. I just use those measurements in combination with my interior measurements to draw as-builts. It'd be super cool to have CANVAS deliver me a 3D model of the as-built with just 30-90 minutes of walking around with a tablet.

 

 

Getting ready to send in some rooms on an as-built now that they've revised their pricing structure. From what I understand, it will be a flat 15 cents per square foot, rather than $39/scan + $5 per for stitching together. Will be 2 floors with connecting stairs. Should be interesting to see how well it fits. I took some overall manual dimensions to help Canvas dial it in. I was there about 1.5 hours between scanning rooms and doing some "backup" measurements just to be safe. We'll see...

Thanks for the info. I'll look into the other things you mention for Exteriors as well. Looking forward to the presentation today.

Just posted this on another thread as well - 

Very interested in Canvas and am looking forward to Dan Baumann's presentation on this today.  One question - how well does it work for exterior elevations? ...and, more particularly, how are those integrated with the interior scans that get stitched together to create a whole house model?  And of course, what does that add to the cost? 

Any one doing this (yet)?  

Very interested in Canvas and am looking forward to Dan Baumann's presentation on this today.  One question - how well does it work for exterior elevations? ...and, more particularly, how are those integrated with the interior scans that get stitched together to create a whole house model?  Any one doing this (yet)?

I was able to come up with something similar going off Eric's video. Thank you guys so much for the help. Didn't know about the painted door trick I'm going to have to keep that in mind. Thanks again.

Thanks Eric, I'll check it out.

Is there a way to create a custom entry door?  Client wants a DSA Briarcliff style door and I can't really find anything close in the doors available in the library or mfr. downloads.  

Is there a way to automatically generate 45 degree deck post corner braces up along the intersection with the roof support beam that is automatically generated with the post to beam selection?  Looked some in the forum and didn't find anything.  3 floors of decks to do. I can manually do the pline solids and copy everywhere, but thought there might be some pick in the DB's that will do it.

Thanks

Had a glitch yesterday and message came up suggesting not to save plan as it could be corrupted if so.  Didn't save and got out of Chief.  Fortunately, I had just recently saved. Started it back up and found the perspective full overview camera now shows the same as the ortho full overview camera.  Re-booted and it did the same thing.  Kept on working with it, as I'm under the gun to get something out. As a check, I opened another plan and the perspective overview seems to work, so it must be just this plan after that error message.  Any idea on a fix?  Couple things I'd like to show in the set with the higher res / detail.  Thanks.

Thanks all.  Mark - the good news is the the client's wife works at Lowes and knows the cab's and finish she wants, so I went through the library and set up a few to match.  Made life  a lot easier once I got that info.  

On 1/6/2020 at 12:53 PM, Stevenplane said:

What jurisdiction will this be done in?
My concern is the existing rough sawn lumber.  Depending on how strict codes enforcement is, they may require some sort of engineering letter, signing off on the grade of it.
Also, for clarification, what do they want the barn to be used for?
 

On 1/6/2020 at 1:45 PM, Ridge_Runner said:

Being a fellow Tennessean, I would like to meet the person who convinced so many in our area that barns are the way to go for a "cheap" new home with minimal work. I can't tell you how many barndominiums I have done over the last few years; pain in the butt and not really that much cheaper to build in the long run. With that said, it can be done but does require a lot of work because you are using apples and oranges to some degree.

 

From your pics, it appears the barn is not that old and the structure appears to be sound. If so, use the shell as mentioned above. I would probably recommend running any 2nd floor joists from the front to the back to stay away from the side eaves so you don't have to raise the roof to fit the joists in. That would also keep most point loads in the interior of the structure where you could make sure the foundation pads can be installed easily. Hard to give any suggestions (and that's all they are) without more info on the entire project proposed.

This is in Sevier County, they are pretty reasonable, not like some major cities I've worked with.  I assumed because I knew it, you all would too  :-)  but he wants to convert it to a residential structure. Barndominium is a pretty good way to put it.  Barn is about 10 years old and I've already let him know a structural engineer's evaluation will be a need on the front end. Mike, your thoughts on it not being much cheaper (if at all) were my first reaction when he contacted me. We'll see how it plays out. Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions.  

Thanks Kbird, that's what I was afraid of, but thought I'd ask. B plan is I'll just place one of each type and copy as needed. 

Yes, shortcut to default settings.  Had looked in there and it appears there would be several things to set via the library buttons.  I could do that, but was wanting to know if there is an overall setting to point to the mfr catalog to just fill all those selections in based on the catalog's content. 

Have a potential client who has purchased a property with an existing 30x30 barn. Some pics below.  There is an existing block footing, so a slab with appropriate vapor barrier can be poured inside. Going to need to frame out the stud bays and provide insulation/vapor barrier, etc. Has anybody done a plan for something like this and has some wisdom to share? Thanks

Have a client wanting to use Kraftmaid cabinets throughout and trying to figure out a simple way to make them the default for that drawing. Spent some time searching the forum but nothing seems to address this. I'm sure I missed it somewhere...  Thanks. 

Any idea if X12 will require more in the way of hardware (especially video) than what X11 needs?  Got stuck upgrading my PC last year to get 11 to run.  Hoping my current setup listed below will be adequate. I rolled the dice and paid for the upgrade. Here's hoping...

Yep, I go between my laptop screen and a 27-inch monitor. Undoubtedly that's when the dialog box shrunk enough to cause the scrollbar. Probably saved drawing that way and it stayed that way. Thanks. 

See my previous post...