tommy1

If you have gmail, just attach the plan file (.plan file). You can also zip the plan file and send it but be sure you have Chief closed when you zip it. You could post a zip file here on the forum too. If you would like to do an online meeting (for free), then call me (832-754-6160) or email me at my email shown in my signature below.

There are a couple of other things that could be happening too. Send me the plan or post it here.

To elaborate more on my earlier post, I was using drop box for years with Katy Fernandez and Louis. Personally I don't like it and think it's dangerous if you keep all your files there only like Katy did. Yes, I can think of a couple of times where drop box screwed up land lost many plan folders. Yes they were able to get most of them back but many were not the latest plan. Most of the time when Katy would share a folder with me to start the construction plan phase, I would copy that plan out of drop box to do my construction plans and then put it back in that folder when I'm done. I ALWAYS had all plans the I worked on backed up outside of drop box. Katy said that she too had backups but whenever drop box lost folders, Katy always had to come back to me to retrieve the plans. Thank G-- I had my own back ups. So as I mentioned, if your sharing job folders or plans with other people, BE SURE that only one person is working on the plan at one time. ALWAYS SAVE FILES AND FOLDERS OUTSIDE OF DROP BOX. I know many of you haven't needed to do this but I can tell you first hand that sh-- happens. I must say though that most of the time, we didn't have any problems because we always asked each if the other person was in the plan. Just a word of caution.

This is exactly why I would love for Chief to let us have the capability to place a break in the stairs so that we could change the width of the stairs wherever we want. This would be a huge benefit at times.

I personally don't ever use that tool if I don't have to. You would get much better results if you draw it manually.

Dropbox works fine as long as only one person is working the a specific plan at a time. If two people are in the same plan at the same time, one plan will show as "conflicted".

That's how I do it.

By default, the setting shown by others are there. You must have manually changed it at one time.

You also need to decide if it's going to have a thin stone veneer or a thick veneer which will probably require a brick ledge so to speak.

You do know that X10 is not out for release yet unless you're using the Beta version.

I use Leica but not in combination with Chief. Leica is a very good brand.

If you want to try doing a quickie pool for something simple like you show, a trick is to use a road poly line. Break it as you wish and shape it. Assign water to the road and whatever you want to the curb. Adjust the curb how you want. This can be done fast and easy.

As Lew says, a decent speed will vary for different people. I'm quite happy with mine running X9.

If you would be interest in a one on one online meeting (free of course), I will show you how to place anything like an outlet, fixture, etc. on anything you want. Just call me 832-754-6160 or email me at tblair55@sbcglobal.net. Happy Thanksgiving!

Started with 3-D Home Architect, then upgraded to Version 8 (base). There was a "base" version then. I think the "base" version got removed after 9.5 came out.

I draw my own details all the time, even details like that. I generally take one I already have and edit it for the specific situation. Any cad detail can be drawn. One of the engineers I mainly use doesn't draw anything...only marks-up so I draw everything. Often he'll send me a dwg he has for a specific situation for me to use which is great.

Exactly. Our builders and framers know exactly what they need to do to get past the city inspectors. If not, I would recommend getting another framer or builder because you'll probably have problems.

You can always try starting a new layout>size the layout to what you need> send a new plan view at the scale you want to that layout and see if that helps.

You might want to zip your plan and your layout together to a folder and have someone look at it.

Also check the size of you're layout page.

Place a point marker in the plan view. Open it and make the diameter of the point marker huge like 20' or so (in case your plan is way off) . click okay. Open the point marker again and using transform/replicate tool, move it to the absolute 0",0" location. click okay. Now see how far you are off from absolute 0",0".

If you did what I did then you basically suppressed and zeroed out everything. This means you need to do all trim, window sills, etc. manually. If you do the trim and sills using slabs or solids, then you'll see them in plan view (2d view). Molding poly lines won't really look right in plan view.

Designer1, don't know if this helps but here's something I did using X6. You'll need to add your trim separately but works and frames right. Open X6 plan file to see the settings I used. Glass window corner.plan

Graham, one more little tip concerning symbols. A little off topic but is related to symbols. It's often said that like plans, symbols are not backward compatible. Well in general that's true but then again not. Let's say I made a symbol or have a symbol in a current version and someone would like to have it but are using an earlier version of Chief. You can send them that symbol by simply saving that symbol as a 3D model (3D dwg) using an early version of Autocad when exporting. Now they can import that file into their earlier version of Chief and have it. They will need to assign materials though. Just food for thought.

Graham, this is really nothing new. I've been using this method since version 8 (or whenever the delete surface tool was available). I know that I have mentioned this in the original forum but not sure if it has been brought up since CA introduced this new version of the forum. BTW, you can edit any symbol...even symbols imported from the 3D Warehouse. I have.