johnny

Its too bad we dont seem to have a pt-2-pt copy shortcut key we can assign....i can't see one anyways.

I've been trying to understand line scaling in Chief, and could swear someone once said there was a feature that let Chief scale widths of the lines when going to Layout so that it was relational to the scale/size print. I've searched for what this might be, but since I dont know what the correct term is I can't seem to find it. Then again, I may have altogether misunderstood - so I am not sure if what I read meant what I thought. Any help on this is appreciated.

100% agree

Are you saying you want the line weights displayed correctly but NOT other things like dimension text etc scaling? If thats what you are saying then hell yes I would like to do that as well.

that is genius. thank you!

You can zip the file - some may want to help you right in your file, but what you provided as an example is generic enough in my opinion to get help on.

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Michael is right on, and I think this is the same method that Chief used in this video, so this may be helpful. The important thing in my opinion is the fact in line drawings and vector views using this method shows correct. Typically these islands have no horizontal seams as the edges are 45 deg end miter cut.

I was thinking - should this be reported as a bug? Chief isn't working correctly, and when I spoke to a tech support guy there at corp. they sounded like there is no reason it doesn't work and he felt it must have been something on my end. Well, it appears this is a problem for everyone.

Very complete review comparison. I've personally not used 2020 but i've worked with cabinet designers who did - and i was thoroughly unimpressed. No question when it comes to cabinets and residential interior design Chief is off-the-charts great.

Another option would be to use a "half wall" but then set it to whatever height you want.

thx

Have you seen this?

So I wanted to write back and let everyone know i've opened files which were done in X8 - and specifically didn't have problems like I am experiencing, but now with X9 those same text boxes aren't working. Is this more a problem with x9 than it was in other releases?

Yep, that was i guess the issue - i needed to reboot Chief and then they showed up.

When you export and import layersets are there any quasi-extraneous rules that would effect doing this between x7 and x9? I try an export and then import and nothing shows up in the x9 file - tried 5 times.

I dont think it took the post rendering work you may think. Sure, its been that way in the past, and people still make adjustments after a render but I dont think its what seperates Chief's render engine and Vrays. Here is a video showing a model/render and you can see the render portion took a fraction of the overall time (towards end of video). The results he got were well beyond what Chief could do. Note: 52:51 in the video starts render.

Michael - I was looking and using another one of your threads on this footnote/schedule solution, and noticed you are using "01", "02" etc etc. Is there anyway to set that to "1" "2" etc? I downloaded the example from this site - https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/13620-note-schedule-tips/#comment-116218

So changing the text to Courier did work too - although I do like Micheal's idea as well. I have to say, the fact this doesn't work correctly is another notch in the WTH working in Chief. Truly nutty.

I agree - but id say in general we need better CONDOC management with notes and details.

Here is a layout file with that issue. text_problem.layout

No matter what I choose (rich text or standard) I can't get the text locations to align - even though using standard mode it should be in its own "cell". Visually in the Chief text box everything looks fine, but then on the plan its incorrect....or on the plan its correct but in the text screen its not. I can't have it both ways - a bit nuts. Anyone had issues like this? Super frustrating....

You're going to have a lot more luck getting an engineer to help you than architect for a DIY project like this. I don't know many architects that would do this sort of thing. You may want to indicate what state you are in since engineers are licensed per state.

This is what makes Chief unintuitive in my opinion. Add to this the fact Chief requires near perfection in the modeling of certain items to allow automation of their function...and the potential of problems multiply exponentially.

I think that is a great job in chief - one of the better I've seen. However, I still think the lighting on the other render is more realistic how it floods the space. I've just never seen something done in Chief that I thought could be a real picture. Here re are some Vray renders to compare.