cjanderson66
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This is my first attempt at creating a contemporary home for a client in the Los Altos area with Chief Architect. It was much easier that I anticipated although it is a fairly simple design. I started this last night at about 7 pm and finished the design by noon today so I put about 6 hrs into the project and I have a complete design with a 3D rendering that I can show my client. This is the benefit of the software when it comes to Designing a home for a client, I only wish it would fill in the blanks when it comes to the working drawings. Would love all your feedback. Chris
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I hear ya on that Joe and automatic annotation to read our minds so we could produce plans faster and make more money and have more time off to enjoy life again. I can't complain that I am super busy but I do enjoy playing a bit more golf and fish. So when you say a window symbol, I am assuming that you are taking from a Pella, marvin or Andersen library and inserting it into the plan. I have not actually tried it yet, but I am getting there
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I see where you are going with this Joe. But let's say you have a 5 window boy window and you don't want 5 casement window you only want the 2 outside ones to be operable, this does not give you the option. I know that most of my clients will be dealing with the contractor and that the window bid will be going out to Pella or to Andersen but I am just Anal I guess. There are a lot of querks that I like and really don't like about CA and I am trying to work around them in different ways coming from an ACAD user. Sections is really a big one for me since I had be drawing everything in AutoCAD as I did by hand for many years and when a contractor used to say to me that my plans were off I could just prove him wrong but I guess it just takes practice and getting better at the program and making it right. I guess it is just the learning curve frustration.
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Just to update... You can modify a Bow window but only from the plan view and not from the elevation view. Also a bow window will only allow you to change one window and it will make the rest of the windows the same without the possiblity of making other windows fixed or operable
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Ok, I finally figured it out with all of your help but it seems to work just fine with a box window and a bay window but there is no option for changing anything with a bow window. Has anyone else created a bow window and tried using the tab key to change the window configuration.
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Joseph, I can't thank you enough for your quick response. I knew it was something as simple as that. Thanks for you help.
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Alright I need a bit of help. I have a bathroom that I have created for a client and put a glass wall in the shower but some how the glass wall is picking up the material surface of the rest of the bathroom. I have check everything, opened up the wall itself (shows tempered glass in the materials) and can't figure out why it is changing the material of what is in the bath. The wall is even separated just to see if that would work but it still continues to change the material of the glass wall.
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Yeah not sure what you guys are doing but when I select the Bay window it only gives me a dialog box that modifies the overall window and not the actual window sizes even when I hit the tab key. The tab key does absolutely nothing in regards to a pre-fab bay, bow and box window. I have found that the only way to do this is manually create a bay window with a pass through in the wall and then make my own. A little more time to create but without all the headache. Why even have a tab button that creates these window if they are not modifiable.
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Can somebody please tell me how to change the height of Bay, Bow and Box windows? I can figure out how to change the finish floor height but no where does it give me the opportunity to change the actual window height. Whatever window I decide to use it always make the windows a consistent height of 36". There has got to be a simple answer for this one. When I click on the window the only edit I can do it the bay window size itself and not the individual windows. Now, don't judge my rendering of my house as it is existing and I am remodeling it for a client. Thanks
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Is anyone else having a problem with CA crashing while zooming in and out as they are using a mouse wheel. From the beginning of time my system crashes in the middle of either zooming in or zooming out only in CA. Just wondering if I should get a new mouse or if this is a common occurrence.
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I have been having the same issue for some time now. I have noticed that when I zoom in and out with my mouse wheel it seems to happen more than not.
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i would stick with the good fonts like graphite std or handstyl fonts and don't waste your time on those. I'm sure your busy and you have better things to do than make your own fonts.
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Same problem here. I guess when X7 Beta was being tested this did not come up as an issue. It is frustrating as most of the time I have to delete and resend to layout and when you have 39 different layout sets it becomes a time consuming issue.
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I never really like the blueprint version. I have changed all my default to a font call Handdf Double or Grafite Std. Much better look to my drawings from being an old school drafter like I am. Now if someone could just help me figure out how to change the library symbol of of an outlet jack to look more like the ones I have been using in AutoCAD for years I'd be a happy camper.
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Well I feel like a knucklehead too, I could not for the life of me figure out why the page numbers where not showing up. If you have a template and it had all the info on it the page numbers should show up atuomatically. For the life of me, it just bugged me until once again members like D. Scott Hall ;-) answered the question I needed to know. This is my first real try at completing a set of construction documents with CA and getting used to the layouts now is my next big hurdle. Thanks guys.
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Updated X6 and lost all my toolbars and won't let me import them either. Talking about loosing wasted time when I am busy as hell. very Frustrating but hopefully I can say "I love you too, Kirk" with all the love that is going on in this feed. Here is the error message that I got when I tried to restore my toolbars. C:\p4sync\dev\Releases\16\chief\source\Toolbar\ToolbarEventHandler.cpp(207): Error #272032496 "Error loading toolbar configuration: "Default Configuration.toolbar"" 8/18/2014 9:27:17 PM Build: 16.4.0.81x64
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I am having a problem with my system crashing. Ever since I have upgraded to X6 the program crashes my system numerous times. I have tried closing all additional programs and running only CA-X6 and it still crashes. It does seem to be during the same instances of either during a 3d overview or scrolling in and out with my cursor. Obviously there is a problem with X-6 if I am not the only one having an issues as well.
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I am having a problem with my system crashing. Ever since I have upgraded to X6 the program crashes my system numerous times. I have tried closing all additional programs and running only CA-X6 and it still crashes. It does seem to be during the same instances of either during a 3d overview or scrolling in and out with my cursor. Has anyone else had this happen to them as well? I can say that I don't think that it is my computer, I have a fast up to date computer.
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Thanks to all who have replied this has been a great help. I have been a die hard AutoCAD Designer for years and want to get away from it for the most part so this is a learning curve and I am still trying to make some Denero in the process. Changing the material class helped bigtime as well as putting the light behind the camera. OP out
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Hopefully this is a better view of the settings. Thanks
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Here are my Raytrace settings. I will try and turn off the cast shadows and see if that works. Thanks for all the responses
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These are my settings. I don't have a problem with overheating or dust as I am very meticulous and clean my machine all the time. I have seen better renderings by Wendy who says that she runs the Raytrace and it only takes her a max of 2.5 min. Also why is is so hard to create a custom railing. In this staircase I had to create to lower stairs just so one can extend outside the wall. Then when I to create a railing it messed everything up and I just had to make my own. The railing issues is a big deal to me that I think CA needs to fix and get right.
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I seem to have been having an issue with X6 crashing my system. It seems to be only happening while I am running a Raytrace but on other occasions just opening an item an modifying it. Has anyone else had any issues with X6 crashing?
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Kirk, I too am having this issue along the Raytrace taking too long. I understand that to reduce the time I can save just the area that I want to Raytrace and delete everything else but doesn't that negate the point. I am doing a simple kitchen Raytrace no Photo mapping and after 10 passes or 10 min. it still has not completed the Raytrace.
