GeneDavis

Are your walkout walls done as pony walls, framed wall up, concrete stemwall down? Because if that is what you have, you cannot do the view you want.

Thanks. I popped those three control dropdowns onto my CAD detail config, and it's interesting. Since I had commanded for CAD Detail from a view that had a forced layerset via the annoset spec (meaning a specified layerset rather than the passive "using active layerset") I could only FORCE the CAD detail config the way I wanted by FIRST commanding the layerset, then the dimension default, and finally, the annoset. Trying annoset first did not work. I had been snapping back to my framing layerset because of the hard annoset for framing that specified the framing layerset.

I figured I could do that, but how does one set an annoset to a CAD detail that sticks? Chief keeps popping back to the annoset that came from the view I was in when I chose to create a CAD detail. Chief seems to ignore this in their training video. All I want to do and cannot, readily, is have dimensions, arrows, and text be drawn in at whatever scale I have chosen for my detail. I can edit the anno that I create (which comes in at the 1/4" scale size) to what I want, but I want the creation of such anno in my detail to be what I want.

How have you set up Anno Sets and Layer Sets for a.} drawing CAD in a CAD detail window, and b.) annotating (i.e. dimensioning, text, arrows, markers, whatever). My near-OOB setup has the Anno Sets tool in the bar, but is not displaying which anno set is in play, nor is the layer set tool even there. The problem I have is that when initiating a new CAD detail, that detail inherits the layerset and anno set from the plan window one was in when one selected CAD Details, and I don't see a way to change it when in the CAD detail. My CAD details are usually at one of the scales larger than 1/4", and whether I am going with 1/2", 3/4", 1" or maybe even 1-1/2" = 1.-0", I cannot really establish it until I view the density of the info in a detail sent to layout. So I start with 3/4", usually. I can readily annotate a CAD detail, but I then have to edit the anno down from the king sized 1/4" scale anno. What am I missing?

Yessir. Updated however annoyingly. A Windows restart seems to have fixed it, but I have had to do this multiple times in past few weeks.

It is an intermittent thing, but the toolbar is now stuck there and won't go away, which makes using Chief almost impossible. Yes, I believe I have chosen the correct settings. See the screencaps.

I don't have any, but I'll bet some of you do. I have an ulterior motive. I want to see how some might look, as I am in a relatively small town, but one that has dealerships for Rolls Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborgini, of course Porsche, and private collection garages here are sized for up to 40 cars, with living space for the caretaker/mechanic. Doing the space is easy, outfitting it with doors, decor, and surfaces isn't too hard, but populating spaces with gas-and-oil stuff (as The Pickers of cable-TV fame call it), is going to require more creativity. Then there are the cars, but the 3D Warehouse and other sites have cars, in all their huge-poly-count beauty.

All these remarks, and thanks again for all of them, have me wanting to change from CB to something else, but as someone who began in high school doing ink-on-linen mods to old, old drawings, I am partial to the hand-lettered look. The guys I do work for really don't care what I use as long as they can read it. So, for the fonts I have here on my PC running Windows 10, I looked things over and am going with Graphite STD. Clear no squiggles, not as "hand" as the others, and looks good for numbers, which is the most important thing, IMHO. Attached is a quick study I did for comparison.

Worthy comments. Thanks. As can be seen in the screencaps, Chief Blueprint is quite compact when going lower-case, which I like in plans. Compact seems good to me. The other font shown there is My Hand 2, a free one, which for its lower-case just has shorter capital lettering. It might be a nice alternative for someone using caps with lowercase. You can see from the highlighted text lines that Chief Blueprint needs a deeper text box even if doing all uppercase, because its lowercase letters include font descenders for letters like j and y. My Hand 2 will stack more compactly.

For me it's become Chief Blueprint, and while I used to use all caps, it got looking a little loud and blitzkriegish to me, so I've gone to ordinary capitalization, first word in a phrase or sentence, and all caps for things like model numbers.

Ah, the workaround I need. Thanks. Not just the schedule but the room plans also and elevations, so as to show the callout numbers.

Bathrooms on floors 0 and 1, kitchen on floor 1. I did a room-only schedule for the kitchen and don't want to lose it by generating an all-floors schedule for the bath cabs. I know I can go bath by bath and generate a room-only sched for each, but I want to combine them as they will all be on the same layout page. And no, I have not tried it yet. Maybe it's as simple as clicking OK.

NUMBERING should be a part of this, too! If I specify a glass door, hinged or slider, whatever, to be included in the window schedule, I want it numbered D01, not W12. This requires linkage between schedules, schedules that may not be generated yet, but I have confidence that the wizards of Coeur D'Alene can do it. Even numbering them GD01, GD02, . . . would work and be better than giving them a W number ID.

Thanks! I screencap'd a pic from Home Depot site and made one that works nicely, relearning how to snip for good tiling, then went back to resize a copy of the large that's in the OOB set.

And if I could edit the texture to my needs, I would do it, but I don't know how to do this edit. This, in X11.

I'm watching training vids, going through everything I can find. Am I missing something?

Grain wants to parallel a face's longer side?

Why would one need to know header height above finished floor. Finished floor height typically changes from room to room as finishes change, and if finish is carpet, things get fuzzy .

You draw everything at 1:1. It's easy and fast. Depending on the detail and the annotation to be there to communicate things, you'll decide the scale for display on layout, and that scale will determine the annoset to use. Superzoom details might need 1-1/2"=1'-0", most might use 3/4", but whatever, you'll always DRAW at 1:1, and annotate at the appropriate scale.

YouTube videos! Lots of them.

Thanks! Got it.

Hey, thanks all! I am liking that lighter approach that Chris and Michael have shown, but am stumped as to how to get the pattern lines lightened in color from black. Roofs and siding are far too busy to use black in these black and white renders for my goal in elevation views. I am able to change the color of the pattern lines to whatever I want but when I turn color off I am getting black. What is the secret here? Does Chief have a tutorial about how to change all this style stuff when going to elevation views in layout?

Thanks. Do you change sun angle for each elevation to get the shadow effects you want, i.e., change north to south so a building's north elevation gets sun? Do you bother clipping the tree images somehow so as to get 2D trees behind the building so foliage appears above the roof? Edit: Send those trees to the back drawing group! Duh. How do you get your foundation to be lines only and no color? Have you just done the walls in white, or is there a setting for my concrete gray walls to go white in elevations.

I searched here but couldn't find. What techniques or settings make these pop?

But if you check that option, you retain the framing even if you don't delete the room. I guess I'm asking why would you want to keep all planking, framing, posts, and piers and have no deck "room."