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i WILL THANKS NEVER KNEW ANY IDEA HOW NOT TO SEPARATE FROM PLAN MODEL

Hi

I know enough of Chief to be dangerous that is all I can get a plan out

My biggest problem is creating foundation and beam column plans.

I work in Florida grew up in Buffalo  A house in Florida is like a basement in Buffalo We build with a monolithic foundation / block walls / bond or tie beam then trusses

My first question is I draw with nominal dimensions 8" block so in the wall dbx is 1/2" stucco 8" block (main layer) 1/2" drywall  Interior 1/2" drywall 4" stud (main Layer ) 1/2" drywall  

so the plan scales 8" ext /  4" int Do a lot of people draw with exact measurement and have to deal with fractions ect.?

The second problem when I got o draw the foundation plan and use chief it shows exterior outline but not my opening In Florida it is the foundation plan we do all our steel for slab  we

use dowel bars to go up thru to bond beam I have to show all the steel and openings we need to put vertical steel to roof by each opening

The way I accomplish this is by drawing floor plan I place all my doors and windows using  rough opening I then go to plan foot print it leaves me with all dimensions and opening but with out hatching in walls then cad to view where I detail

Problem is the wall turn to 9" it incorporates all my layers ( 1/2 stucco / 8" block / 1/2" drywall ) and leaves a clean look but 9" which is tricky to scale all the detail and steel. I need 8" for floor plans

I have to change each wall carefully by toking off the 1/2" ext the 1/2" int to get exactly what I need Does anyone have a better way

Second problem I have separated from model and any changes the customer wants  is a pain to change   

I am including a plan to show what I mean  Anyone that can teach me I would pay for their time 

Thanks

Adam

BRIAN FINAL 7 1.27-Layout.pdf

Thank for your input I will try again tommorror

 Every time I try to import pdf for plan use the graphics or lines seem to break up. Is there a setting I ma not aware of

Thanks in advance

Adam

Thanks 

I was trying to do a nice elevation with some tree ect. Found out hey do not show in layout. 

Tried taking elevation with landscape and convert to cad block did not work 

When I send perspective to layout on 24 x 36 thy come out al distorted

I thought in the older versions there was 2 d landscape I may be wrong  

Anybody have a way to add elevations

Thanks in advance

Thanks for your help. I changed the filter settings and fixed problem

Hi

I was working with library on 2nd moniter then I could not open core catalogs only user catalogs

ASny helpwould be appreciated

Adam

Does anyone have thier clients download program to view plans. Not sure how to do

Thanks

Adam