WhistlerBuilder
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I have been trying to import terrain data from a dwg. I can get the terrain perimeter to work but the topo lines will not convert to polylines even though they have shared endings. I attached both the original dwg, and the topo layers isolated as their own file. This has been very frustrating as I have followed all the steps in the online knowledge base but the lines will never convert to polylines when imported. Any suggestions? Topo Layers isolated.dwg 18046D_ACAD 2010_TOPO IMPERIAL.dwg -
Just a little fun for today. Check out the pic and have a laugh.
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From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
8-plex -
From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
Multi-Family Apartments -
From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
Duplex -
From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
Multi-Family + Commercial -
From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
Duplex -
From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
Multi-Family + Commercial -
From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
Multi-Family + Commercial -
From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
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From the album: Projects by Innovation Building Group
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Hi Chiefers, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make the railings on decks attach to the fascia instead of have posts sitting on the decking. I live and work in mountain country / temperate rain forest and we have major issues with water up here. The standard chief design with the posts sitting on the deck surface wont work for some of the sealed decks I do, and I have also run into an issue where the edge of a deck terminates in a tight door to window junction. This means that for my deck location to be accurate in the plans it would be really helpful if I could have a fascia mounted railing to plan where that railing meets the exterior wall in order to avoid an adjacent window. I have attached two images showing the two configurations I am talking about. Any help would be appreciated! Cheers,
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Landscape Error - Terrain Elevation Problem
WhistlerBuilder replied to WhistlerBuilder's topic in General Q & A
I am using two breaks where maybe 1 will do. But I found it was not giving a sharp enough transition to represent how the terrain would change elevation in a rip-rap rock stack terrain wall. Chief has no option for this, or none that I know of. The closest thing is terrain retaining wall, and I find those are horrible to work with and always get messed up unless its attached to a foundation wall. Retaining walls also do not have an option to show them as a rock stack wall. I guess I will try more configurations of the terrain breaks to see what works. -
Hi all, I am having a problem with Chief giving me the error where the terrain elevations are generated ignoring the terrain breaks and retaining walls. It gives the error "The terrain interpolator is ignoring terrain breaks and retaining walls due to complexity of the calculation." I am running into this problem often when I am trying to do complex landscape or site elevation plans. The plan I attached that is throwing the problem is a rather large building with some accurate site grading requirements. I could be missing something simple and just not know it. Anyone who has lots of experience doing accurate landscaping your input would be very welcome. The building is removed because the whole plan vastly exceeds the size limit for the forums. The terrain only version is still throwing the error so I think the error is in my Terrain break configuration. Something I am doing is triggering the errors and I would love to know what it is so I can change my design and avoid this in the future. Thank you in advance, Cheers! Landscape_Error.plan
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Show floor materials in plan view?
WhistlerBuilder replied to WhistlerBuilder's topic in General Q & A
Old Plans done in Vectorworks. -
Hello helpful forum people, I am looking to produce a plan set for marketing purposes. The realtors selling one of my current projects are asking for the plans to show the flooring materials in each room. I am unsure how to do this in Chief. Can chief even do this? I have done it with other software, but can't seem to figure out the chief method. I really do not want to manually do this in Photoshop. Any hints or tips welcome. Cheers,
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Material Regions on elevations dissapearing
WhistlerBuilder replied to WhistlerBuilder's topic in General Q & A
Well its not snapping at all. This is pretty stupid. -
Material Regions on elevations dissapearing
WhistlerBuilder replied to WhistlerBuilder's topic in General Q & A
How then do you move it from the middle of the building back to the siding face it was originally drawn on? I found out it was moving it into the building by drawing a different material region that extended outside the building perimeter so that the material region would show up in a 3D view. For some reason the software keeps moving the material region into the center of the building. It is doing this on multiple drawings/plans. -
When I add a material region to front and rear elevations they show up in the location I draw them on. When I draw a material region on a side elevation, after converting the shape to "Material Region" it moves the block from the face of the drawing to the middle of the building for some reason. Since I am trying to apply a material region to the siding and not the middle of the building this is a big problem. Not only does the material region shape dissapear, but I can no longer select it as its been moved into the building. This is incredibly frustrating! Any tips on how to fix this?
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Selecting the Terrain Perimeter instead of the terrain area and unchecking flatten pad fixes many of the problems! Thank you so much Johnny!!!!
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I feel like you guys are using a different version of chief than me. I use elevation regions and I did what Dermot said as well and I got completely different results!
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I fixed the front mostly using terrain breaks. But now look at what Chief did to the sides and back. Massive random pits and hills. It does this kind of nonsense to me all the time and makes accurate grading plans impossible with this software.
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That does nothing for me. All the errors are still there. In fact it made a lot of them worse. What else did you do?
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I am having a problem in multiple drawings with chief completely ignoring the "Flat Interior" command for Terrain Area's. The software always draws elevation lines within the area that is supposed to be flat. It as if this command does absolutely nothing. This is incredibly frustrating when trying to do accurate site plans. So far the only work around I have found, which does not work all that well, is to load the area with tons of point elevations. These seem to be the only thing that effects the elevation calculations in chief. The elevation line or spline function generates the incorrect elevations within areas and spawns even more errors by creating random dips or bumps all over the place. Does anyone have any solutions for this? I have attached a current duplex plan I am working on. I am trying to keep the front area flat, with the terrain rising along the sides of the building and continuing to rise up behind the building. As you can see chief has generated these ridiculous slopes on the front of the building in a "terrain area" that has the "flat interior" assigned. On one side I loaded it with a number of points to adjust some errors, but it still generates problems. On the other side you can see chief has generated errors and there is no solution applied. Suggestions welcome! Cedars_Phase_2_v4.plan
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Mystery Blurry square when exporting to pdf
WhistlerBuilder replied to WhistlerBuilder's topic in General Q & A
Thank you for the heads up. I will test ahead of time in office with 11x17's. Cheers,
