para-CAD

About two years ago on this forum, someone suggested using rich text and you can bold and underline the top line at say 8 inches. And then underneath you can add other information all based on macros so it reads the room if you make modifications. And then you can just copy and paste that text into each room and even have its own layer if that's something you want. So that's what I do now. There are tons of macros that already exist and probably some cool custom ones you could make to tweak this into exactly what you want it. There's even one that does the ceiling height rounded to the nearest foot so that it's not scaring people who don't understand the inch and an eighth part.

Looks dark and hidden back there. I’m from the Pacific Northwest, and the look we would do is 12 or 15 feet high timber where the tall new entry timber roof sheds down onto the two side roofs and projects out to give you a covered porch entry. I don’t wanna model in X11, but I’ll definitely share my thoughts. The house could stay at 4:12, but a dramatic entry like that would look better if it was 10:12 or 12:12 framed as a cathedral sloped ceiling. T&G pine soffit. no charge for just sharing ideas

Very nice! I have seen a de facto standard arise in some people's dimensioning where the outermost line is for overall. Then the next line closer to the building is for wall offsets. And then the third line is for the center of openings. So they use a three-line dimension system. I'm sure there's people that would use four lines, so even though automatic dimensions may not be needed, it would be nice if there were user set distances away from the house that you could snap these different types of dimensions to so that they look as good as the ones in your example images.

3D \ Camera View Options \ Denoise When you choose the PBR rendering technique, then you can have your Mac denoise the pixelated image.

It’s not automatic like the PBR that is done by the Nvidia graphics cards, so once you get your PBR focused and it ends up that pixelated view, you can go 3D \ Camera View Options and there is a function that says Denoise View . I created a shortcut key to it and then put that in my stream deck, so when I’m rendering and I get to that point, I just push one button and it clears the picture up quite nicely. Give me a few minutes to go track down that information for you.

I’m a solo business, so I’m just spectating on this because if collaboration and project management are ever to work together, they do need some fine tuning. Project management works excellent for a single user. It could also work if you had multiple people and each one worked only on one project each and once they were done, they could export the Caproj file back to the central server. it would take coordination so that there would be a signed out feature where everyone else would see that that file has been signed out by Smith, and once Smith returns it with its changes, then whoever was waiting on it would get some kind of pop-up toast message There would be no multiple people working on the same project in different pieces and there would be no leaving the file on SharePoint and just working on it live

MacBook Pros from the M4 line and newer can now do a manual denoise. I just found that out and it's pretty amazing.

macOS or Windows?

YouTube has all kinds of of good videos. Setting up a good efficient layout template is going to be beneficial if they are submitting for permit. Are they going to focus on ANSI D or ARCH D? Show them how to research the AHJ GIS portals for whatever area of the country they’re in.

Brother, I have been a fan of your fascination with technology since you were first on this site. I hope things continue to get better and faster from input from people like you and other tech whiz giants.

The rest of the users of chief architect are not going to invest in the time and training to figure out how to develop a RAM drive just to make the software faster. It’s a very complex app, and those coders in Idaho or wherever they might be remotely are going to figure this out like they always do, and things will get better.

I always try to confirm stairs and not just trust that the application is correct https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gny1fahk3za5j8itoy3mi/Stair_Cut_Calculator.html?rlkey=l3vmsjc3djt313tbnnhq93yna&st=w6734dr6&dl=0

I’m a solo designer and I’m not sure if when I would collaborate with someone, using project management, if I had a custom high-speed $$$ template that I had bought from someone, would that all get wrapped up in the .caproj file (zip) or not. I would hate to collaborate with someone, and inadvertently they would get a template that they should rightly purchase. from the original template builder. It would depend on how proprietary the information is and what it might do if it got shared around too much. I can’t really imagine a way around that issue when collaborating.

I'm typically not a good example of a safe use case because I've been using the public beta of Chief Architect X18 and the public beta of Mac OS Golden Gate, and everything is working fine.

6 seconds to load to the dashboard 6 seconds to have a layout opened from the Recent Files list. 1 second to double click a layout "view port" and have the referenced plan file open to the saved plan view. 7 seconds to update the core catalog files M4 Max MBP macOS 27 Golden Gate Public Beta

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/odr9hspgyukm500sv8bzo/issue_with_FOOTINGS.caproj?rlkey=jddp9fzkhybugrmcp8an829de&dl=0 The Dropbox link has the .caproj file. My issue is I like to draw a footing plan and this is the first time that I've had it have gaps along the outside of the footings on all four sides. I am curious as to what configuration I have changed to cause this to happen. I'm looking forward to having the experts review this plan and educate me. Thanks in advance.

My details are all in CAD details in my plan template and are then referenced to the layout. The only downside is that I use notes quite a bit, and you CAN'T block your CAD work with a schedule then to put it into your user library.

I was told something by a guy who is an expert at using chief. He says he has finally developed a workflow where he lets chief place the deck framing and then he “explodes” everything and manually puts it the way he wants.

This is coming straight from memory, so it may be incorrect, but I remember having to export to a .stl file and then import that into Chief back then.

This sounds like an excellent suggestion. Maybe Chief can make it so that individual rows and columns can have unique spacing.

Is it causing issues if you just drag it far enough away from the model so that it is not viewable when you send that saved plant view to layout?

For me, the engineers that I work with typically want the plan view and maybe an elevation or section if needed. I use saved plan views of each floor plan and foundation and export them to DWG individually. If you have a DWG viewer, it’s always nice to open your exported DWG to make sure that it’s not confusing or has things That might make it difficult for your engineer

This might be cool. The Project Information feature in the layout file is an independent project information tool as compared to the Project Information tool in the plan file. This opens up all kinds of interesting things beyond where I can even think they might be useful knowing that I could have layout-specific project information versus plan-specific project information and since we can create our own fields, this can be extremely powerful.

18 is great. Jump in.

I had a video on YouTube and once the tech guys at Chief saw it, I deleted it