BryceEngstrom

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?

Also, textures seemed to map fine but in Lumion you need to import each material before it will be seen by the renderer.

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.

In general, too much information can lead to an unnecessarily complex and processor-gobbling terrain.  I tend to only do 2 or even 5 foot contours and sometimes just trace over rather than importing to keep the line segments fewer, and just let Chief do the interpolation between them.  You can tweak those to get Chief's interpolation closer to the actual survey CAD.  I have tired direct importing many times, and more often than not have to revert back because it just bogs the computer down too much.

I've had the same issues.  Never got a complete explanation from Chief about it.  They just say it seems to open fine in Sketchup so they think the problem is with Lumion.

You seem not to have the issue with the casing, but I agree that the ticks at the ends of the wall openings just isn't clean and should be improved.  I assume these ticks extend to the outer layers of the wall definition.  I sent it in as a bug.  Walls, Main Layer Only , should show just that and nothing else.  This goes back to at least X4 I realize now too.

Bug report it is!  Thanks.

I was thinking this was new in X6, but it appears X5 is the same way.  Most of my consultants (SE's, EE's, ME's, etc.) want just the main wall layer as a CAD background to use in their drawings.

But, even with only Walls, Normal and Walls, Main Layer Only displayed, I still get these little bits of lines at doors and windows.  The line at the opening in the wall shouldn't be extending to the outside layer of the wall, and the others appear to have something to do with the door and/or window casing.

Any way to have just the Wall, Main Layer showing without these without the tediousness if cleaning it up in CAD myself?  Consultants whine about this, and it would be nice to have a cleaner export for them.

I have never had an issue with code compliance that I can attribute to software.

Ditto.

I think Wendy's just been very, very busy with actual work.

There are some things I like about the old way, but some I like about the new way.  What you can do is drag any tab outside the main window to make its own separate window or "instance" of Chief, which can then be minimized or re-sized.

I am still having trouble with the PB & LB opening up very small in the top left hand corner of my primary monitor (Chief on my secondary monitor).

I was hoping this might be fixed in the latest update - but still no change.

Just about to load the latest update, but I have been having this same issue.  And, sometimes, randomly, it's like my entire library just disappears.  The first tier folders are there but that's it.  Restart Chief and it's fixed but weird.

Check your dimensions defaults, locate objects tab and make sure they are set to locate what you want them to.

Quite a few already available at the Sketchup 3D warehouse-

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?backendClass=entity&q=stupa

Excellent, thanks Glenn.  I had a sneaky suspicion I had run across that before, but couldn't find it again.

In the mean time, I deleted the door schedule from this current project.  Thanks for the heads up.

Yeah, this is quite bad.  I sent in another report on it.  You're right, the schedules are downright dangerous as they currently work.

I never include the Hinge Side column, and agree that less is more most of the time in these kinds of schedules.  It is almost never that clients decide that much about what doors they want ahead of time. The problem is that the "L" and "R" show up as part of the Size column which we apparently have zero control over.

Thanks for the tip Alan, I am also seeing issues like that, or the opposite where doors ought to be grouped and aren't.  I can't figure what the difference is in them, other than, possibly, having done the copy/reflect on them too.  Note in this screen capture of the plan I have the garage doors issue with showing a left and a right swinging door with the same callout.  This is a serious problem that I will add to my bug report.

And, these doors ought to be different because one is in a 2x4 wall and one is in a 2x6 wall, so they would have different jamb widths too.

I actually do a pretty mean Yoda voice too.  It's actually only a bit different than Grover's.  It's my go to voice when I want to embarrass my wife at a party or something.

Ironically, I was just at the tech museum in San Jose to see the Star Wars exhibit.  Yoda watches over me while I work now.

I guess I'll just send it in as a bug then.  Just a bummer when you are trying to use tools to your advantage time-wise but end up having to place them and dimension them manually on the other side even though you just want them exactly the same as the opposite side.  Works for so many other things, but not, apparently this one.

In the attached plan you will find two identical garage doors.  If you just place them or copy them randomly, they stay identical as far as the schedule,  but, if I place the first one, and then copy/reflect one to the other side, I end up with two different doors in my schedule where there is, apparently, an L and an R.  But the swing option is greyed out in the dbx.

I don't want two different doors in my schedule.  

What gives with this?

I know I can work around it.  Just wondered what I might be missing here.

Garage Door Swing.zip

You can do the gutters on any particular roof plane with a regular molding polyline and uncheck the guttter in the roof plane dbx.  There may be better solutions.

It would be nice if we could just put breaks in a roof plane and then have a "No Gutter on Selected Edge", the way we do with molding polylines and railings on landings.

Interesting,  I tried that and it did not work for me.

I had trouble too and called.  For me, I had to click on the Upgrade button above the product key (which apparently was for X5, but that is confusing in the Digital Locker) and then click Yes it gives you and updated Activation Key, which worked fine.

Yeah, don't get me started on that. I encounter the you can't delete that file because some unnamed other application has it open on an almost daily basis. Often I know why, but occasionally it is like a where's waldo hunt to figure out.

 

Every other OS does this right. That and the whole temporary files not getting deleted. If they are temporary they should go away, at the very least on a reboot. Every other operating system deletes them after at the very least a few days.

Yeah, that drives me nuts too.  I think this also is often the issue of considering the file being "used" as being previewed in Windows Explorer.  Yes, I know some other application is using it!  It's YOU idiot!

The old file wasn't "open" per se, as in a PDF viewer.  But just having the file showing in a file folder in a Windows Explorer window seems to be considered "open" as far as an overwrite goes.  The preview pane in Windows Explorer, I suppose, constitutes that file being "open", but that is rather counter-intuitive.