GeneDavis

I need to reverse a job for which all is done including the layout (construction documents.) Reversing the plan is straightforward. All on, edit all areas, reverse. Done. Save as original name, REVERSED. Or something. But what is best done in getting the new layout all done right? I know, for example, that all the doors are reversed and the schedules need to be regenerated. What do you do?

Thanks. Had not even tried it with the framing overview. All is well. For doing similar with Sketchup, I use Sketchfab.

Is this possible?

Try editing the truss envelope.

It's a Mascord plan and they use AutoCad. Watch out using their work, as they are protective of their copyright.

More savvy folks than I might be able to auto-build this, but I would do it manually.

Anybody had a problem with the file Mark attached? I cannot unzip, and the preview shows nothing in it but a single .jpg file.

Interestingly, base cabs do not behave that way, only corners.

Did you frame the wall?

Use roof tool, place and trim two small roof planes, define pitch to be whatever, but there needs to be some.

I've tried the reset and no luck. I'm dead in the water and need to contact technical support. Edit: fiddled some more and got them back. This all began with me opening up a plan file, got a message saying the file cannot open and is corrupted, try opening one from the backup archives, which I did, and in doing so got no toolbars.

Zero. Nada. What happened? How can I get back to just what out-of-box has for tools?

I dipped my toe in this when I first saw the video about it by Dan Baumann of ChiefExperts. Another member here (ACAD_user?) showed it in a thread I started about CAD details. Here is the link to Dan's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdMimpRWck&t=197s With a little practice using a mouse with wheel or similar device, one can go anywhere one wants in a model. Into and out of rooms, all around outside, under the terrain to view the foundation, inside the kichen cabinets, simply anywhere. And it is all under the user's control. Up the stairs, along the galleries, look down from second floor into family room, it is simply limitless. The free version give one up to five annotated views, and the first level up that costs $ gives one up to I think 30 views. An annotated view is a camera you set and assign text to, such as, "Kitchen view showing sink centered under window," or "guest bedroom, queen sized bed shown with two 36" wide nightstands." While the user can freely move the camera anywhere in the model space, the annotated view feature fixes the camera at locations you assign, so you can control what is seen that is linked to your annotation. Isn't this as good or better than whatever other 3D viewer we have for Chief?

Here is a new thread for users to chime in and describe their methods for creating, storing, and retrieving CAD details. And please, Scott Hall, tell us which of your YouTube videos address this. I like your technique of having a single plan file in which you keep all details, organizing the details using floors zero, 1, 2, 3 way up as high as needed. Is that what you still do? Does that file have a CAD detail for every CAD detail shown on the floors? How do you address scaling?

Mark, thanks for the remarks. My con docs are a little different in that some are for a couple builders (and me) that do not buy branded cabinets. We've integrated cabinet building into our program and use eCabinets software for aiding the building and all the buying. Cabs come to the jobsites as a batch of ready-to-assemble parts, and the accessories such as pullouts, susans, and more all come in their manufacturer cartons. We use a lot of Rev-A-Shelf and Hafele stuff. Thus the drawings, the 1/2" scale plans and elevation views, are an important guide for the placement of the accessory parts. I still think that if Chief can give us the susan option for corner cabs, and show the susan in planview and a code in the callout, that Chief should do the same for a trashbin-slide base.

A susan is an accessory product installed in a cabinet, much like a trashbin slide. We get a susan to show in planview and the cab callout includes it. Why not the same treatment for the trashbin slide? What is different? While it is nice that people have done the work of modeling trashbin slides in 3D and they can be placed inside cabinets, it seems a little gimmicky to me. My plans all show closed cabinets on the con docs. And if we must have 3D trashbin slides, then what about breadboxes, nesting drawers, spiceracks, vertical dividers, and all the other types of inside-the-box accessories?

Take us through that process of symbol editing, Eric. I need to learn it.

Here ya go, done using SU. column.plan

Here is a screened porch with a hinged door in one wall. I moved the wall-side edge of the door to where it would be if the post adjacent it was a 4x4 (3.5" square) and the post tight against the wall sheathing layer. I get the look I want on the latch side of the door, but Chief shows a line on the hinge side where the half-post is. Door by me, from my library.

Here are screencaps from a test model. I did a rectangular set of walls using out-of-box "siding 6" and out-of-box deck railing wall at 3.5" thick. The walls of the deck are specified as post to beam, newels 3.5" square, boxes unchecked so there is a halfpost at wall. I tried using the edit-wall-intersection tool to see if it moved the halfpost position. As can be seen, there is no effect on the position of the halfpost newel. I drew a cross box the size of a half-newel for reference and placed it where seen. Chief sticks the half-newel to the outside of the wall. That placement, to outside of wall, is fine and matches what we do when building, for interior walls. Outside, though, we prefer to build posts and newels to the sheathing layer, and cut siding finish to the post surface.

An And that's what I did, Perry. Thanks. A hidden gem of knowledge from a pro. The railing wall gives me both the top beam and the mid- and shoe rails I want, plus being a wall, it can contain the door I need. My plan views and elevations look as I want, and I get doors shown properly with hardware and swing indicators. They appear on the door schedule. I'm in business.

Further work shows editing the wall intersection has no effect on the post. You can place either a half-post or no post at a wall intersection, and it sticks to the outer layer. I cannot get what I want without a workaround.

What's it mean to edit the intersection of the walls and move the end handle from the main layer, where it was, to the sheathing layer, where the edit stuck?

Every time you learn something from the HELP files, a training video, or a trainer, do it yourself in a test model. And when doing it, if it involves specification dialogs, examine all the alternates in those dialogs and how they affect things.

I'm experimenting with X8, doing a post and beam screened porch room. I've a 3-1/2" railing wall, set to have a full post (not half post) at its end where it abuts a siding wall. Am I missing something? Is there no way to do this? The setting for the post at this junction seems to permit either "no half post at wall" or "square half post." In the image shown here, I drew three boxes to show where I want posts. The one at the wall junction abuts the sheathing layer, not the main framing layer, which is the way we build. I edited the wall junction to be at the sheathing layer. Checking either one of the half post boxes does not seem to affect my wall post at the junction. Having edited the wall juncton has no effect on the post location. All I get is a half-post butted to the framing layer.