johnny

Thanks for sharing your file - its always interesting to see how others coordinate their drawings. I agree, there should be a keynote tool in Chief. It makes no sense there isn't one, since the app obviously has the functionally right now. Personally, I do a hybrid keynote plan where i try to be clear enough inside the plan to communicate important callouts - but the use keynotes/footnotes for more specifics. When i've done full keynote plans i typically hear from field guys its a bit too much for them to go back and forth between plan/notes.

Yeah, that may be the best workaround but lots of issues as Michael points out. Every other BIM app i know has a true instancing feature for 2d and 3d - which is really helpful.

Yeah, no such luck - there is NOTHING like this in Chief. You can create a symbol but that symbol becomes a singular object and you can't edit sub-parts. Also, there is no dynamic instancing of symbols - you'd have to replace each instance manually. Completely and utterly sucks.

Chief cad blocks are very limited - like the most limited i've seen in an app like this. There are many items that cannot be blocked, and there is a scale problem like you mention. I hope they fix this in coming Chief versions.

So everyone knows Chief has acknowledged this is a bug, but the reality is the fix will most likely be part of X10.

Exactly^^^^ i have no idea what this even is.

The way I would do it is make a new wall type that includes the total thickness of the finish layer, and then make strips of material regions that "cut" finish layer, but make sure your material region contains a thinner layer of the same material....with the delta difference being the relief you want. The material regions won't wrap around the corner but you can align them so the cut will occur at the edge. Make sense?

You know the watercolor rendering type is one of the coolest in Chief - something i've used to change my process from drawing concepts by hand - BUT, in Chief its the most buggy style by far. I was looking at other bug submittals i made with this render type nearly a year ago thats still an issue today - specifically, windows sometimes don't show opaque even though the setting is checked. Chief - please fix this render style so it works properly!!!!

Thanks guys for checking on this. I'll go ahead and report.

Thanks. I'll check updating the v-card. So I was curious if anyone else had this issue to determine if its actually just me, or Chief...?

After the last patch I cannot get the watercolor settings with line overlay (extend line/squiggle) to work correctly at all going to PDF. I made a very exaggerated example to show what it looks like in Chief vs what is printed. Its so frustrating when releases that are suppose to help end up bringing their own new bugs. I assume it was the last patch, but it may have been the one before. A couple months ago it was working fine for me.

Thanks Chop (as well as Scott) for helping out. Very appreciative of your guys' time.

What i know they didn't fix is the annoying window transparency issue in elevations....

wow that is awesome Scott.

i;d love to

That did it. Crazy, but thank you.

Rob, what is the material on the wall?

What is odd, for me at least, is I dont get consistent results. Sometimes whole wall sections are filled, and other times they aren't. Sometimes I get cut walls that are filled and others times not.

That is a good idea - thanks. One area i have an issue is some walls are "filled" and others aren't. Any ideas on why that is the case? When I say filled I mean its almost like the sections are picking up the color and giving walls in the same plane line as the section a fill.

Where do you uncheck the XOR?

Here you go... LG_brian_townhouse5.zip

Im having a hard time getting my ref sets t work correctly. Please see vid - thank you for consideration. (just fyi i am working from home today since I sprained my ankle - so im being quite and i have background noises)

That is a nice example. Can I ask if you are using normal sections or back-clipped sections? Your line-work in the section appears to be back-clipped but the fact you see building in the background suggests its a normal section. I can't get my normal sections to be this clean. I get better results with back-clipped but then I lose the building in the background - or, if I extend out the backclipped section I end up with too much overlapping of structural elements.

Yeah, I like that approach too - but in some ways I find making a cross section with poche fills can be almost more challenging - and then I end up with an odd mix graphically. It would be nice if Chief had an option just to product a more simplified section that had poche fills.

Are you exporting to a CAD view or keeping it all live?