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Set brick drop to zero
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Make sure you are using the chief pdf printer. Printing to Adobe has caused me issues in the past
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Mystery wall framing generated from...nothing?
Gr8trim4u replied to ChiefTesoroTX's topic in General Q & A
Wall schedule placed in a Cad detail. May help on this. -
You can bring the cad file back into chief as a dxf or dwg. It will show pretty much as it will in autocad
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How Do You Accurately Design Concrete Foundations for Sloped Lots?
Gr8trim4u replied to MartinCole's topic in General Q & A
You really need to understand the angle of repose and what you are dealing with regarding the geo tech aspect. If you are learning I would encourage finding a geo tech company. Most building codes provide perscriptive design for sloped lots. Without the above information it would be tough to model a correct footings. Point loads and load distribution. Is also a consideration. -
Turn off your rails. Draw a rail click follow stairs. I think x14 has that. Slept a bit since then.
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Learn to manually build roofs. I only use the auto roof to get me about 80 percent of the way on the simpler roof systems. I have been using chief for a while and always built manually because I understood it better. Be surprised how complex one can get doing it manually
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Take a look at bc calc. It has a wall designer section. My go to for getting thr structural elements. I have an enginner review prior to submissions.
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Something like the schedule look up tool would be nice
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I find the construction lines helpful in defining load paths. The reviewers seem to appreciate them also. The engineers have a better point of references also. Clients can use them as a way to let me know where to look.
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Layouts can have default sets. Kinda think of them as SPV for the layout. I have 7 different builder inwork for. Clicking on the default set. Brings in the information for each one. Mainly the title blocks and cover sheets. You can do the same with the layouts. Put you 11x 17 borders and tile blocks in a default set. Create a custom layer set that works with that default set. It os about managong the layers. You have to change the sheeet print sizes. Other than that it is a mouse click to change doc sizes and information locations. Make it you layout template.
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Chief crashes when updating 2D elevation views
Gr8trim4u replied to Designers_Ink's topic in General Q & A
I had this issue on my system. Few weeks back. I rolled to windows 10 from 11 and it seemed to resolve.. i have no rhyme or reason why. -
I juat performed as as build survey. The home had 4x8 hardi panels with a 1/8 quirk between the panels this worked great for that.
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How to fix wall length Or lock the wall dimentions
Gr8trim4u replied to hamedDesighn's topic in General Q & A
How about putting them on there own layer and locking tje layer. Maybe a reference layer.