johnny

Psolids and other objects that have options to relative or absolute elevation settings.

More than one way to skin a cat (odd expression). There are several ways to mitigate placing a notch in a stringer - Simpson strong tie etc to reinforce the notched section. It will require a letter from an engineer most likely for you to do something like that. You might even get away with sistering dimensional lumber to fix- but depends what your conditions are. ...but as Michael and Alan said its just notching the stringer is a bad idea.

If you want the more detailed version you can simply copy and past on top of the wall section and extend or retract the area you need to fit. However, if you are printing that section 1/2" scale or below its probably not worth it.

You may be seeking Chief to "frame" that detail, but there is no way I know to frame it correctly in Chief unless you manually place framing members. A pony wall method would only give you a different wall thickness in that area, when in fact that framing is typically added once the wall is framed. Personally, id use a material region. I love that tool, and it breaks the siding layer of the main wall.

Is there a way to set my default plan so that certain things are absolute?

Interesting. Yes, it shows the Psolid @ 121 3/4" - which seems correct. This led me to see that there is a floor elevation ref, and changing to absolute works. However, that makes little sense since my floor is set to 2x10 joists etc etc...so that number is just all together wrong. Got it working though.

Ill add the fact I realize I can move the line using the Y value, but why doesn't that value match the the poly solid value for "z"???? This makes no sense to me.

I've seen scott use normal lines in section to get the Z height of the line. However, all it lists is the X/Y in any of the data options. I thought perhaps Y was the actual "Z" but that doesn't seem to be the case since I placed a poly solid next to the line at the exact same Y value and it comes up short. Is there some other value I should be using? In Vectorworks everything drawn with "Z" value actually simply lists the "Z" value, so I am stumped how Chief is displaying the values.

^^^^this. its crazy since it would probably take all of 2 min. to fix for them.

What is on the other side of the glass? Lake, forest, city, suburbia, territorial big sky? Each one of those exteriors demands a different glass setting. If its water/lake then your glass starts too far up the wall, if its forest its too narrow, if its city or suburbia you may be ok depending on surrounding home locations, if its territorial then you want to capture the horizontal view with the sky (so high is good).

lol...

I guess I don't understand the aversion to labeling this as a bug. Is Chief acting as the programmers intended? Great workaround by Glenn but I'd say it's a workaround for a bug that needs to be fixed.

I really think this is a bug....

Interesting that even if you place a material region over that wall section the problem remains.

Isn't this a bug? The visual dosn't match the model info - as those gaps are not showing on the isolated wall segments. Its a connection issue...Chief's #1 problem.

Ah... i see

To correct I: 1. Made sure all the property walls were "no locate" (yard walls). 2. Turned off "full gable wall" from the wall with the fireplace. Worked. Here is a vid.

I'd agree with you if Annosets weren't king...but since they are I find I have to use those primarily for other purposes unless I want to have a million different sets. My problem is that I work with several draftsman and so I try and keep the files as basic as possible. perhaps I am not dong something right then...since the wouldn't I then have to have a duplicate annoset for each dimension setting I wanted?

Thanks everyone - I guess in plot plan view the size of those markers exploded. I use point-2-point often...im not a fan of having to go back and forth on settings inside my dimension tools on what I want to dimension, and to what point. I can't leave everything on and changing that setting all the time is more effort than pt-2-pt i've found.

Can someone help me locate the settings that govern the tail length for dimensions? I've tried everything in the areas I would imagine...

Thank you for this...very helpful.

Just click this button...it turns on and off line weights. FYI I've changes my line weights down all to 3 when I start a new file, and then use special 20, and 40 respectively for "profile lines". Chief's default line weights are odd. At some point I plan to fix my template files...

I think there are even more bugs than this in CA for solid operations. I still cannot simply block solids and set their elevation with stability. I'm hoping CA is working on some new solid modeling operations for X9....

Like any of the dimensions you can manually enter a whole number...after all, if it isn't a whole number then it's actually the wrong value for your plan.

There is no question Chief can produce renderings as good as, if not better, than the examples you post above. However, in my experience Chief has the greatest learning curve if your projects aren't very simple homes.