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    Butt roof to Gable End Wall

    in General Q & A

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    19 hours ago, NewUserSargent said:

    I worked with a draftsmen to get the plans drawn up but it was a very painful and unpleasant process. He had great reviews but the more I look back at it all of the designs he did were very basic rectangular and square houses, nothing with more than 2-4 roof plans. I will work on blocking out all of my personal information on the plans and upload them. 
     

    but I worked with another draftsmen to get the plans fixed and that’s when he started building them on Chief Architect and let me know that the roof layout plan was incorrect and it wasn’t right 

     

    I know how to build a cricket in real life but not in this application, but after looking at your picture where you have one near the end of the gable soffit i will learn. 

    You should reach out to this guy for a more complex home style

     

    https://www.larrybelk.com/

     

    Electrical Meter Symbol

    in General Q & A

    Posted

    Now if I could just share the plan with the original post member without sharing all the internals, like details from you and Dan embedded, then that member would be set.

     

    Yes........it's a nice slow day and I was fishing for something to help out with.

    Electrical Meter Symbol

    in General Q & A

    Posted

    There are dials on the meters......

     

    It would be nice to see it the same in chief as in sketchup

     

    I don't do things in render to this level, but the OP probably wants more realism than the OBJ output.

     

    This is why I don't import 3D.  I can just import a static screen shot from SU and it works for me

    Electrical Meter Symbol

    in General Q & A

    Posted · Edited by para-CAD
    More info

    Yep....sketchup can do this, but exporting it to the correct format would be nice.  

    I tried OBJ and lost all the resolution.

     

     

     

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    SKETCHUP ABOVE

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    CHIEF IMPORTED OBJ FILE

     

     

     

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    Options to export from Sketchup

    Joining Roof Planes

    in Tips & Techniques

    Posted

    • Left click and release on the first roof plane that you choose. Make sure you're near the edge of the roof plane that you want to connect with another roof plane when you click. It will make a red square or grip and you'll know that it's the chosen edge.
    • Press and release the number two on your keyboard.
    • Move your mouse to the next roof plane and click on it closer to the edge that you want to join with the initial roof plane.
    • If you're building a shed roof, just drag the upper edge like a poly line until it bumps into the wall at the top of the roof plane.
    • As soon as you click on the second roof plane, the software should automatically connect the two roof planes.
    • If it does not then there are other things to look into.

     

    This is coming from memory and dictated through a microphone so there may be some confusion in there since I may miss something in proofreading.

    Pdf Printing

    in General Q & A

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    MBP M1max

    I print to PDF at 100% scale.  No issues.

     

    My layout is set at ARCH D (36x24)

    Everything is scaled already in layout.

     

    I have to remind print shops to print at 100% because sometimes their machines will print at 95%.

    I had a permit office guy call me out as if my plans were not drawn to scale........client had them reprinted correctly........no apologies.

     

    Now everyone is PDF only.

     

    I'll make a video if that helps