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Has anyone created an isometric gas plan layout in Chief. I am getting more and more comments from the cities to provide an isometric gas line plan and have not come up with a good way to create one. I think it is just silly that I have to do one in the first place because I would just be guessing on the line sizes anyway and I am sure that the plumber will do it his way anyhow. Still, I am not sure if I should just be doing a 3D of the house with a molding polyline. Just wondering if anyone else has any thoughts or is you guys have had to provide one.
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I too am dealing with the Lag on my Desktop. I am making small changes like editing text and I find the little circle spinning for up to 30 sec for it to make the edit at times. This has only happened just recently after the latest update and I am not sure what is going on as it is very frustrating. I am loosing valuable time sitting and watching this little circle and now having to come on here and see that others are having the same issue.
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1hr and still going... 'Caching directory'
cjanderson66 replied to dwelldesign's topic in General Q & A
@dwelldesign I too am dealing with the Lag on my Desktop. I am making small changes like editing text and I find the little circle spinning for up to 30 sec for it to make the edit at times. This has only happened just recently after the latest update and I am not sure what is going on as it is very frustrating. -
See it is the little things like this that help so much. I had no idea you could even reset the defaults under the edit menu.
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Ok, I knew that. And once I got my template back from my old drive, I opened it up and saved as my default. Thanks for helping with my brain fart @Chopsaw
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I know that I have seen this before but somehow I cannot seem to find it anywhere. I am trying to bind my logo to my titleblock so it shows up every time and does not have to go looking for it. I was at one of the Chief seminars and we had quickly gone over this and now I seem to have forgotten how. Just one of those things that if you don't do it enough, You call on help from other users. The main reason for asking is my hard drives have failed and I need to replace them and we all know that when that happens it can be days worth of time lost trying to reinstall all your programs and getting setup once again just the way you had it. Well that is my situation and it could not have come at a worse time as I am so darn busy. Thanks for any help.
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I am wondering if there is an easy way to change the height of a current 2nd floor level. During my initial measurement of an existing home, I thought the floor joists were 2X12's but in actuality they are 2X10's. Now after discovering this during the construction process I need to make a few corrections but without the correct floor height it is making it challenging. My question to you all is, is there and easy way to change the height of the second floor all at once without having to go into each room and change the floor level?
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Johnny & Michael, This is exactly what I was talking about. How do we do this in Chief or is it even possible?
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Well this has probably been posted before but I can't seen to find any information on it. I have several large general notes that I add to my plans but I can't seem to figure out a way that I can have them with several columns instead of just top to bottom. I would like to have someway to create a numbered notes that I could place on my sheet so it could be with several columns to fit in a space and numbered properly. Right not I am having to have several rich text and place them side by side. Does anybody have any idea of how to do this or is this something that was missed by Chief.
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Well that just sucks... Looks like I am going to have to do a section view and then block out all the framing that I don't want to show.
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I am trying to do some interior elevations and I have a room with a vaulted ceiling. When I do a wall elevation it is only giving me the lower half of the room and not including any of the vaulted portion. Am I doing something wrong or does Chief not acknowledge the upper portion for wall elevations?
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Did you do this with Chief or Blender Render?
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@mrscott I am just looking at your workstation specs... Are you in the goverment? That is some system with a dual Xeon cpu. If I may ask what did you pay for that and do you actually use all that power in Chief. I mean I can run Chief pretty well but I can only imagine.
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Thank you all for your help in answering my questions. I have finally made the change that AI was looking for and with some help from http://davidmichaeldesigns.com/ and his never ending list of videos on YouTube. This one for example was what I was trying to do in the beginning and knew I had seen it somewhere. Here is his video
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I've looked at the Stair DBX 100 times and I don't know how I missed that. Thanks again.
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Thanks Chopsaw, looks like I got the newels taken care of it is just a matter of making that wall go all the way to the ceiling and covering up the post and eliminating the rail from the post on back. Also the main topic is that the tailing is not showing up on my plan view. I have the stairs, rails and ramps layer on but somehow the railing on the plan does not show up.
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Thanks Gary, That solves one problem.
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I am sure this is an easy question but I am having a hard time figuring it out. As you can see from the screen image, I have a stair that continues up to a landing and at the landing it is showing my newels. I do not want the newels post showing at the top of the landing only at the bottom and the top of the stairs. Is there a way to do this? Also, I want the wall below the stairs to align with the wall above but I want it to be continuously solid to the floor above all the way to the post. I have tried breaking the wall in a section view but that does not seem to work. One other thing is that the railing is not showing up on the plan view and yes the railing is on in the plan view. What am I missing?
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The edge smoothing helps the look Perry but doesn't make it any slower since I think with all the crap I got in this files it is already slow to begin with. Thanks for the tip.
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Thanks Suzy. I am not sure I want to copy and paste my plan into a new plan as that would create so many problems. I would agree that I think since I use so many Kohler and Viking products that must be the reason for the major slow down and the high file size. :-(
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Thanks Suzy. I am not sure I want to copy and paste my plan into a new plan as that would create so many problems. I would agree that I think since I use so many Kohler and Viking products that must be the reason for the major slow down and the high file size. :-(
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Ryan, when you say it has changed significantly what are you referring to. I have found that in X9 my interior and exterior overview are not as clean lined as they were in X8. They appear to be much more stigmatized. I miss having my final view nd final view with shadows option, they made it so nice that I did not have to waste time in getting a decent Raytrace.
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I am finding that my plan files are becoming very large in size. The current project I am working on is 50mb in size. Is this common or are other users having smaller ones. Would love to know what size plan files you have and if I am just getting huge files because of all the notes that I have to put on my plans these days.
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Need great renderings for your project presentation or website?
cjanderson66 replied to dr0591's topic in Offering Services
Fantastic! Bravo! I need your attention to detail for my projects... just sent you an email. ;-) -
This has got to be the biggest point of contention for me is CAD details. I under the old AutoCAD used to create a detail and save it under either i.e. Fnd, Roof, Arch FlrFRam Library and import them via an XRef with an exact point of where I want it to be positioned. I have no idea what I am doing now and starting to get into bad habits with my details in Chief. What is the best way to create and save your details. I do all my details in 1-1/2" scale. Does everyone just save them each detail in the library and then place them into a Layout or do you create a plan for details and continue adding to it and then send the ones you want to a Layout. I just can't seem to find much info on here or in any Chief video that helps in this way. In addition, I have created a CAD detail border that I work within so when I insert it into my layout it fits within the 12 detail spaces that I have created on a detail sheet. The problem is when I insert it, it is oversized by a fraction all the way around the detail and not to the border. Suggestions please!!!! EAVE DETAIL.pdf
