joey_martin

Short answer...no

Long answer....there will be some others answer this with some macro help for you.

Go to the tool bar and under CAD look down for the PLAN FOOTPRINT tool and it will insert the footprint directly in for you.

I'm gonna be honest here, and it's an unpopular opinion but....

If this is a builder that brings plenty of work into my office, I am not getting into a pissing match over a spec set of plans and how many times it gets built. I am going to sit down and have a very, very, honest conversation with him/her about making sure when a homeowner walks into his office, I am the next call. I have even "spec'ed" the design fees on spec homes until it sells in order to secure more work coming into my office that I don't have to chase. My billings have increased 4 years in a row now after being flat for a few years, and I honestly think it's because I stopped sweating stuff like this. 

I make it very clear that the street goes both ways. When homeowners come into my office to have a home designed and built, there are a select few builders that get an early look at the plans and a copy of the materials list to help them get a jump start on pricing, because they do the same for me. About half my work is homeowners coming without a builder so I have plenty of leads for them, as long as I get plenty of leads back. 

Do what feels right for you and the relationship you have with that builder.

Isn't X14 already in your locker? Just put it on your other computer. The install isn't tied to a license number until you tie it to one.

Paying extra money to save a :20 second click in order to have the software at 2 different locations was not, in my opinion, a good use of funds. I have had Chief on multiple computers for almost 20 years without ever even considering buying a second license. 

Prepare for pain and jump in. No easy answer here. 

Are you using those for a cabinet maker? When I provide interior elevations I use standard dimensioning a builder would use. 

You can edit those lines in layout. Don't get hung up on them. When using a vector camera lines will pop up from time to time. Sometimes they don't carry over to the layout page, sometimes they do, but either way, they can edited during final cleanup. 

7 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

What's an Azek post skirt?

I think he is trying to make one of these...

The pieces are in the AZEK library but you have to assemble them and make a symbol to use them. The base he is calling a skirt.

@Argy67 here is one I keep in my library...

AZEK Deck Post w_Cap & Base.calibz

Once you break them you lose control. Big, big issue for some of my cross sections.

@blueriver and @ShaneK I am using a 5 year old off the shelf HP with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 750Ti, which does NOT run the real time raytracing, but does everything else very well. I only say all this because I would expect to have multiple issues with my system and I don't so I think your issues are not related to Chief alone, but something on your end that is causing the problem. I always have auto framing, foundations, and roofs on while I am working on an inital design, and I don't have slow downs at all.

And @ShaneK where have you been hiding!? Haven't seen you around for a bit.

Color, plot line, zero "cleanup"

B/W, plot line, zero "cleanup"

Rev-A-Shelf catalog has these shelfs.

Go to the foundation level to make the change to the stem wall, or even better open the default setting and make sure the foundation is set to that height and you won't have to worry about it any longer.

If you have a room above the room you are changing the height of, Chief will adjust the entire floor. For instance you can't raise the ceiling height of a living room if there are rooms above it, especially if the rooms are separated by an interior wall. 

Does that sound like your situation?

The wrap around porch makes things difficult.

11 hours ago, DRAWCO said:

i TRIED ALL OF THESE BUT NO LUCK SO i JUST ADDED LARGE DOTS.

My next guess is that you are using the wrong camera, or you have patterns turned off on the vector view camera you are using. Without a screen shot or something more we can't help you. This is 100% a user issue though because that fill is set for stucco by default. It's there.

Set the distance between the windows to 0. It is set at 2" by default. Look in the window dbx...

1 hour ago, DRAWCO said:

I tried that but it did not work.

You probably just need to adjust the color and scale to get the "sand" fill to show up.

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Why can't you edit them? Did you import them onto a locked layer? Too many questions.

CAD Details?

CAD Plans?

CAD Elevations?

What are you trying to do? I bring CAD details in all the time and adapt them to what I need and then save to the library. No reason you can't do the same.

@WendyatArtformis up in that area. Portsmouth N.H. I believe.

I had a plan yesterday that I opened from X13 and had this situation. If the return in auto created as a full return, turn it off and redo it, if you did the return manually you will need to delete it and redo it. It's a bug from earlier plans.

Is that plan brought forward? Meaning was it started in something prior to X14?

Elevation camera view, watercolor effect with line overlay. Very simple to achieve...