BenPalmer

Per my post, there are no other levels. The attic level has no walls on it. So there is nothing to align or misalign with. Reference display shows blank since there are no walls on the other floors. This is a single level house. No foundation yet. No upper floor. Only the attic floor. see my previous post for more information.

Definitely a bug here. I don't think I've ever seen this message before and today opened a plan and got that message, and, as a bonus, all the text is wrapped and messed up as well. For text: only thing I can think of is I worked on it on my laptop on a different screen size last time. Once I open it up and refresh, the text goes back to normal, but still get the wall alignment message each time. All I have is an attic floor. I completely deleted the attic floor, and saved and reopened Chief, and still get that message even though there are only walls on the main floor. No foundation plan yet. The attic is recreated, but since there is no roof yet, no walls are there. I even turned on 'all on' layer to verify. Nothing there. Something going on. Can still work on the plan, but it is a nuisance. Don't get that message on the previous drafts I have saved. Just the latest one. Weird.

As mentioned, exporting the layout will not be 1:1 scale like exporting the plan. There is not a way to export the entire file from chief and it show up in paper space and layout space to AutoCAD. I've requested this feature in the past, but not sure how possible it is. Exporting the layout will be to the scale you sent it. They will have to resize it when they receive it. One of my guys is proficient in AutoCAD so if a layout is needed, then I will have him scale it to 1:1 before sending it on. However, exporting the plan file is preferable since the scale is correct. No one has ever had a problem working off that file because they have there own title block info that they use. DXF or DWG should come in no problem. I've found when ever there is a problem with the exported DWG file, that often times the DXF will come in cleaner. Hope that helps.

I like PDF-XChange Editor http://www.tracker-software.com

Yes, but then, I need to add a larger profile for the sill. Basically I have set up my profile plan with the apron suppressed, and a larger profile for the sill so it shows as other images previously posted. It was more of a comment for the OP so he knew the options. You're post should help clarify that even more. Thanks for bringing that up.

Nice tip Dave.

Yeah, as mentioned, this can easily be done with the window or door casing, lintels and sills. However, I would like the sills to work like lintels. We don't use aprons around my parts and it doesn't make it easy to look like your pic without changing the profile of the sill. However, I have my profile plan set to have it that way so makes it easy to work with.

Used it for the same thing as well.

Printing dialogue is taking longer to come up. I hit print icon, then there is a delay waiting for it to do anything.

Below I've linked a thread with in an in depth explanation of the problem I and others are having with transparency including good explanations as to why the problems exist in third party and not Chief's pdf from the Park brothers. If no transparency in the plans, then any pdf printer works. Sounds like DC and some other pdf printers are working on more recent drivers that have fixed the problems, which is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5189-pdf-anomaly/

Agreed. However, if you have 'transparencies' in the chief file (such as shadows on elevations), Adobe's printer, in fact all pdf printers i've tried, will pixelate those area and Chief's printer does not (discussed in a previous thread). I use Chiefs printer when I have transparencies (which is all the time now since I use shadows for all my projects), then I use Adobe to 'optimize' the PDF file and it brings it down to normal size.

Marc, the file is attached to the first post in this thread.

Yep, this is an old file. I have Chief 9.5 installed on my computer, and it won't open it. Gives me the message below. You will need to find someone that has an older version saved on there computer. Maybe tech support can open??? Good luck.

This topic sounded familiar, so did a quick search and found this: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/7546-google-drive-and-the-red-x/

Another article confirming everything Perry said: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-driver-364-47-pulled,31370.html

Is this an Ariel/Chief conflict? Seems like those that are having the most trouble are those who use Ariel??? Are non-Ariel font users having issues as well?

Thanks Perry!

It's helpful to make the change Michael mentioned in the profile plan as well to ensure it is set that way for future projects.

Had the same problem yesterday. Crashed one of my systems. To fix it, i pulled the video card out. Rebooted using Intel Video Driver. Uninstalled Nvidia driver. put video card back in. Installed driver, and all is good now. Nice scare though. I'm definitely not updating the other computers until the next release. Didn't think to mention it here. Thanks for doing that, and I'm adding my second to it.

One thought, but might not be related: if it is an old plan, and you use Chief's default Blueprint font, then they made the font bigger with the release of X7 which means it's bigger in X8 as well. This will cause the issue. If this is the case, either deal with it and change the formatting and it will work going forward, or change to a different default font, or install the old font (pre X7). I do both: install old font so older plans aren't effected, and have changed my default font so that new plans aren't effected if they decide to change it again. This change was a big annoyance and discussed in a previous thread. On another note: I did a couple undos the other day and saw that formatting change which was strange because it wasn't there before the undo. Did redo, then undo again and it went back. Couldn't explain it. Just some thoughts, hopefully they help someone on this thread or someone else reading this thread. If I find the old thread on this, I'll link to it in an edit of my post.

If I have a connected/closed multi sided polyline of varying angles in CAMERA view the parallel tool only works to the bottom of the shape, and not the sides or top. It works as expected in floor plan, but not in a CAMERA. An example of this is drawing some cad that I want to parallel to the roof. Anyone else seeing this? If i disconnect the line from the closed polyline, then it will parallel to that line, but not when it is closed.

It shows up in both new and old plans. But migration issues are becoming more and more of an issue. I have a huge database of plans that I rely on all the way back to version '97 (or whatever it was called, 5 or 6?), and I do not want to redraw them when I bring a plan forward that I will modify for a client because of the extra time involved. I can typically get a pretty clean plan through importing attributes, etc. and I'm on my way. Foundations have the most difficult migration issues, especially with slab on grade and when mixed with a basement. Chief just isn't optimized for that type of construction. Chief also doesn't like me using old plans, they always want me to start over whenever any issue comes up and they always blame it on that, which may be justified, but just like any software you use for a long time, that will always be part of the process, so they need to fix issues that come up in relation to migration.

Dermot, thanks for your reply, and apologize for my curt response. I opened the plan I sent to tech support, and many of the offending spots are fixed. However, with just a few seconds of playing with it, I quickly had the problem again, so not sure how thorough the team was in investigating the issue. The picture in the other post is the same problem I outlined in my report. Perhaps I didn't detail it well enough. I will resend the same plan showing the problem and how to recreate it and several other plans demonstrating the problem in as many ways as I am seeing it in hopes to get it fixed in all situations instead of just some of them. I can live with it for now, but I have to draw in cad lines to clean it up, and it is causing 3D artifacts that I can cleanup in layout, but not in presentation views I provide to the client without using 3rd party image alteration software to clean it up which is time consuming. Definitely need a fix on this ASAP. Hope we don't have to wait as long as we did between Beta and Final release. I think I'll go crazy. Thanks again for your attention to this. It is appreciated.

My bug didn't get fixed. So disappointing: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/7859-naming-wall-types/?p=71842

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/7836-3d-connexion/?p=69930