joey_martin

If whomever is sending you the CAD file can turn off all the layers except the main outer layer of the walls, then the CAD to WALLS tool works really quickly. Even if you have just the wall layers, and can shift select the outer layer it works. The outer layer of the CAD file will be the MAIN LAYER of your Chief walls.

I think you will find a vast difference in what "productivity" means to some of us. If a builder hands me a 1600sqft home on full basement or crawl, and he has done the leg work with his homeowners, I will have him a "builders set" of plans in 20 hours TOPS! Sample "builders set".....https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13283257/Samples/Kaylee%20Layout_11x17-PLAN%20SET.pdf If I am doing custom or semi-custom, then I don't track time as closely, because to me the productivity comes in a happy client, even if it takes me a month. For the custom jobs, my models are as accurate as I can get them...I would say 98% accurate as to the way the home is built. All framing, fixtures, trims and moldings, ceiling treatments, etc. All live sections and details, nothing is pulled from a canned detail library. This project is probably around 70 hours from sketch book to this PDF plan set. https://www.dropbox.com/s/83lzkad9n9zki4w/Plan%20Set%206_8_16_PROOF%20SET.pdf?dl=0 Is 70 hours good? I don't know, but the client was very pleased and their builder was ecstatic at not having to guess at details. I rarely, if ever any longer create CAD details. 99.9% of my details are sections that I then add text and patterns to. May take a little longer, but with my accurate models, I know I am detailing the exact item. I leave them all live so that changes get updated. I have not used CAD from View since probably v10 or maybe X1. Anno sets are a huge time saver for me. A good set of anno sets and layer sets will save some hours.

Can you send a PDF of the plan(s) to be modeled for review and proposal purposes? joeymdp@gmail.com

Use a pony wall, and wall types to have the insulation show. The profile of the insulation at the slab must be done manually once you create a detail with a camera section.

I have not seen that size either. Best bet is to use a 30" w/ 3" decorative fillers on each side. Be careful not to use the pull-out fillers though...they dont have sides and don't work well next to an upper microwave.

If you look in the library there is a folder called DETAIL COMPONENTS in the CAD Detail folder. There are individual block and brick in there that can be stacked to create details.

Words to live by! Besides, here in Indiana, there are only a handful of structural engineers that are even willing to work with residential. Everything needing to be engineered around here (some beams, i-joists, trusses) goes through the lumber yards and they send them off to a supplier.

Or highlight the actual text and paste into the answer.... and hit the quote button.

I copy the link from the toolbar and paste it in the answer. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10458-attaching-a-previous-post/

I would also price 84" doors. If you put all headers at 84" you have more options for exterior overhangs and frieze options, as well as decorative lintel pieces, and the interior would leave room above the openings for the option to tray down ceilings or use various built up moldings.

Opening this week for a quick turn around job. Link to work sample..... https://www.dropbox.com/s/83lzkad9n9zki4w/Plan%20Set%206_8_16_PROOF%20SET.pdf?dl=0

This is the watercolor w/ line overlay technique. Good for presentations.

Then the problem must be on the import end. I have never experienced this issue. Make sure the import is into model space and not paper space?

If you are exporting from plan view, then the site plan HAS to be 1 to 1. You cant have a 1/4" plan while in plan view.

I haven't looked at the plan, but you need to open the room spec box and turn off the ceiling for that room, then create the manual ceiling planes to the desired specs.

Yes. And fill the basement framed walls (if you choose to fill them) with the WALL FILL tool rather than in the wall type setup, so that the fill can be controlled by a layer as well, separate from the fill of the retaining/stem walls.

Another reason...and the most important to me for keeping those basement wall as 2, is the ability to control the walls for construction docs. I want the ability to control the line type and color of that framed portion so that I can show it on both the basement floor plan, and the foundation plan with the appropriate line.

Somewhere in your template, you have set basement/crawl rooms to be monoslabs, or as you said, its an old template and somehow the info was changed. Remember, Chief reads rooms first. If you have the "foundation room" set as a monoslab, Chief will override the default until it's changed to match. I had a couple odd occurrences with my template when moving to X8 as well. Made a new template and no more problems. In my opinion, Chief was doing exactly as expected based on the settings.

Go to the FOUNDATION LEVEL and select the "room". You will see that somewhere along the line, maybe this is a SAVE AS from another project....anyway, if you select the room from the foundation level, you will see that it is still set to monoslab. Uncheck those and turn auto back on and there you go.

If you change the defaults after the plan is started you have to set the rebuild(s) to auto the get the new defaults to take over.

Rebuild the foundation. Set the foundation to AUTO and leave it there.

I created a ROOF LABEL TEXT STYLE so that I could better control the size of the text.

The switch is a switch. In the library under electrical you can select a 3-way switch. You don't have to use the switches from the tool bar. The light is also from the library. Everything is fine in 3D. Only the secondary connection is a line w/ arrow. Just like on the floor below the primary connection from the switch is a connection, then a line w/ arrow to signify the connection to the floor above.

Try using floor material regions rather than just polylines and see if that gives you the desired result.

It's simply a 3-Way switch from the library connected to a light from the library. The line with the arrow is simply that, a line with an arrow placed on the ELECTRICAL, CONNECTIONS layer, and a note. Nothing more than that.