BryceEngstrom

There really isn't much control over the line generation in that mode, and I do get lots of extraneous lines I'd rather not have. Sometimes you just have to try and clean it up in Photoshop or something.

Well, what'ya know. I hadn't even tried that. Nice catch, thanks. So, we'll call it a mini-bug.

I had trouble replicating this but now I figured out exactly how and when it happens. I start a list of numbered notes, close the text dbx, then re-open and continue on by hitting Enter at the end of the last line, and now it starts auto-numbering. Problem is, when you get past 9 the next number is zero. You can't edit it manually and you can't seem to turn the auto-numbering off. So, I end up having to copy/paste into standard text. I like the auto-number idea, but it isn't working right. I assume this is a bug but wondered if anyone else had run into this issue. Couldn't find it in a search.

Not really possible in Chief, unfortunately. You will have to make use of roof planes, or use invisible walls to create "spaces" and custom model the walls but they won't act as "walls" per se in Chief. This is one of the main shortcomings of Chief, although canted walls constitute a pretty small fraction of the built environment.

Currently, $110 an hour.

It's the Line Drawing thing that seems to get me more often. Takes way longer than just the water color. And god forbid you make the mistake of trying to rotate the camera once you are in Line Drawing. Then it has to cycle several times through each motion of the mouse swipe you mistakenly made. I'll have to try Escape I guess, but yeah, then it should just say to hit Escape not click on Cancel.

Yes, once in a great while, it does work but almost never. It's like pushing the button when you're a Jeopardy contestant.

Glad to see this issue appears to have been fixed in the latest update. Thanks Chief Dudes!

What is the point of the cancel button when it never responds no matter how many times you click it?

I've been running X4 thru X6 on this card with no problems. X1 is pretty old. Can't really expect it to perform that well on newer systems. You still running XP on this card?

That wasn't me being grumpy, that was just me trying to spare a newbie from the Wrath of D. Scott Hall. If you think that was me being grumpy, well.......

I can't seem to replicate your problem. Changing the Dimension To line in the wall definition dbx changes the exterior walls, but my interior walls still dimension to the stud and not the drywall. As is repeated ad-nauseum here, POST THE PLAN. Close Chief, zip the plan, and upload in your response.

Yes, that is well put as well.

I agree, I'd rather the label of the newly carved out room not display. And, if you are subdividing a room, it seems to me that it wouldn't be hard for Chief to not label the smaller of the divided spaces. It comes down to the difference between drafting in Chief and designing in Chief. Annoying breaks in concentration detract from the design flow of thought.

Kevin Mouquin seems to do amazing stuff using window treatments. That might be an option, you just really gotta mess with the origins of the symbol and offset settings. Haven't tried it myself. Maybe worth it if you are going to inherently have a lot of these in a design, likely not if it's just a couple of doors.

I don't have the problem either, and I do have the latest update. You probably want to send the plan to tech support.

True that. Thanks.

Yeah, but then I am stuck with one material for the floor and the edge. I want a conc. floor and a stone edge.

Yeah, I know. I thought there was a similar problem with Deck room edges, but that there was a way to do it. And, Chief won't build a foundation for a Porch room at all. So, I have to do a manual slab, and actually extend it past the Porch wall edge above because the phantom is still there fighting for that surface face. I have done that on the lower portion of these landscape stairs, but not on the upper one, and not on the larger Porch room connected to the house. Looks OK from a distance, but a PITA when you go to your elevations and it isn't lined up right. Ugh.

Nope, not in Exterior wall material either. Yeah, I get what you mean about the "phantom" slab, and that is what I want to change. You get it when you check Monolithic Slab in the Structure Tab. Ridiculous that we can't change this material on the fly. Shouldn't need to have to build a foundation to do it. Gonna send it in as a bug. Thanks Perry.

This one always drives me nuts. How do I change the Porch edge material? Won't spray can, not in the railing wall materials, not in the room materials, not in the foundation default materials. Ugh. Porch Edge.zip

Thanks Kirk, it is good to get confirmation on that. Going through Sketchup can be a real time killer because Sketchup does not seem to handle high face counts nearly as well as Chief does, so larger projects become incredibly tedious, often impossible, to get into Lumion effectively. I hope you guys can find a solution for this.

I still fail to see what, exactly, it is that Chief is supposedly missing as far as meeting current codes over other softwares. Does Revit automatically do your mechanical calculations and duct design and layout for you? No, I didn't think so. Currently in California they are starting to enforce this HVAC design in residential plans, but, unless you use a licensed mechanical engineer (most of which aren't even currently interested in delving into this aspect of mechanical design, and even if they were would charge $1500 for it), they only accept calculations from two very specific softwares. At least one of the two, Right-J combined with Right-Draw (both by Wrightsoft, look it up), will allow you to do this by drawing a floor plan of sorts, but the output is so rudimentary I fail to see how this can't just be done with Chief's CAD tools quite easily. I am attaching a recent output I paid a whopping $250 for. How is it that you can't do this (aside from the actual mechanical calculations that I assume you don't actually expect Chief to do for you) quite easily with the current tools?

Don't quite know what you mean above by importing each one. And, I don't think they map right. The scale of the texture is way off, which I think is shown by Kegles' example, and consistent with what I get. I don't get the scale problem, or the shadow problem, when going via Sketchup, so it seems something is fundamentally different about the Chief .dae export vs. the Sketchup one.