tommy1

Alan, you'll find that it differs depending on the text style you use. It's rather annoying. Use different text styles and see what I mean. Some are horrible.

Jim is right about the solid. I was wrong. When I looked back into a plan I did years ago, I used a roof to get the look. I was wrong and forgot. Sorry.

I have mine set to undo 10 times. Generally that's good enough for me.

You could use a terrain tool as Jim suggests. Same idea, different approach.

I do not think this is possible.

Sure it is. I've done it before when I absolutely had to show a slope.

Suppose the garage is "L" shaped?

If the area is "L" shaped, I would definitely use a solid from an elevation. Slope it in the elevation, shape it in plan view.

The exterior molding polyline was actually broken, or had a bug when X6 first came out. There is a thread by me about this earlier. It has now been fixed and was is posted on one of the update notes. The problem was that when you placed an exterior molding polyline, it was placing way too many breaks everywhere. Yes it was workable but a hassle. Glad they fixed it.

Tommy - I am not wasting my time here, I am trying to make a good decision before I spend 7k on 3 licenses - Raul

I was responding to your comment "If CA was a $200 software I might understand". That is a ridiculous statement. Look at consumer products and see what you get for $200.00.

This is probably the #1 reason why I have not purchased Chief, but Archicad and Revit do a MUCH better job of sheet management and updating. If CA was a $200 software I might understand, but when you pay $2500 per seat I would expect a lot more, especially with sheets and layouts

I would think you're wasting your time here. It sounds like you're better off spending your money on the other programs. I personally don't have any problems with CA and its layouts, file management or updating BUT, I know what I'm doing with the program.

Keep in mind that if you sent a plan view or an elevation to a cad detail first (to clean up or whatever), then sent it to the layout that if you change the live elevation or plan view, it does not update the cad detail with that plan view or elevation.

Like Tommy said. The only thing I have to add is that to create a molding polyline quickly, select the exterior room and Make Room Molding Polyline.

I did say that but in other words at the end of my post. It will be found on the edit toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

You have to save your file using "File / Backup entire plan" to get all the materials in the plan in the file you send him.

When you do this, Chief will put it all in a folder. Zip the entire folder and email it. Be sure they unzip it before opening the plan from with in that folder.

Maybe something was running in the background that was using memory?

Try importing it to a cad detail first. Then send it to plan view.

Place a polyline around the house in plan view and convert it to molding (not 3D molding). Assign the molding profile and set the height. You can also (or) click real close to the exterior of the house to get an exterior molding polyline that you will see in the edit toolbar. 

Tommy,

 

I sent you an email.

 

Hopefully this won't impact the decision......

I got your email Keith. I see when you requested to join was when I had a sister and mother pass away with-in 3 months from each other and one of the times I had to cancel the meeting. My mind was not quite right and I was P.O.A. for my mother and had a lot to do. I apologize for not sending you a link. Hopefully I will remember this time. I placed a star next to your email to help me remember.

I would love to join the Tommy Club, but both times I tried I was unsuccessful. My guess is that down in Texan/Cowboy areas they do not take kindly to we Redskins..... Might be wrong.

Keith, you have to send me an email to my email address below if you want to join a meeting. I have a "reminder" email that I send to people a few days prior to the meeting. If I send reminders to a person and they don't reply 3 to 4 times, then I remove them from the list which means you won't be sent a link to join the meeting unless you're interested again and email me. If I don't receive an email in at least 1 hr. prior to the meeting, then you probably won't be sent a link. If you are still interested, then please email me.

Right click on one of your libraries and you'll see the option to export your library. Export it as a .calibz file so that textures go with it. Watch where you're exporting it to.

It also looks like you're storing your plan in Chief's Directory. In general, that's a bad idea (IMO).

What I see is a hand drawn sketch of surveyors information. There is going to be inaccuracy with the hand done drawing. Since the survey has numerical information I would import the survey image, scale, rotate and trace. Even if the actual ordinate information of your cad lines is not perfect you are working in the spirit of what is required to define the site plan. Yours is an architectural drawing not a legal survey.

 

Even when I get CAD from my surveyor the house lines are always different from my field measure. I trust my field measure.

I agree on every word you say and would do it this way myself.

Place your plan files in a single job folder for that job and you wouldn't have this problem.

We do remodels and we have 2 to 3 people working on the same plan. We play different roles in the plan. I do the as-built, as in I field measure the job and produce an existing plan. Katy or her sister do the remodel plan. It comes back to me for a layout to the builder for bidding. It comes back to me again for construction drawings. Depending on the Engineer, sometimes I make dwgs of the plans, elevations, sections, etc., and will send them to the Engineer if the Engineer is supplying their own plans and details. We can not be working in the same plan at the same time so we have to communicate with each other when we are working in a plan. It's not a problem because we are used to it. Katy likes to use drop box.

I think I answered you question in this thread.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2539-where-are-the-flood-lights/

It sounds like you need to change the cad block for what you see in plan view. I have a house to measure but as a quick reference, go to cad block management and insert the cad block in plan view, unblock it, edit it how you want, re-block it, assign that cad block to the symbol.

Well, as a last resort, you can always turn on framing in plan view, select the framing and then change it. I showed this at one of our last user group meeting for doing exposed ceiling framing for a specific situation. I changed the framing size, lowered the framing and changed the framing materials for the framing of a ceiling plane.