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Thanks Eric.  Still trying to reproduce your roofs from the screenshot though.

Alan

Michael

I did read the section on walls in the manual but I guess I didn't research the "Build Foundation to Exterior.....".   All I was concentrating on was the Main layer to main layer.  I was under the impression that as long as the main layer for each wall was what I wanted to align then all would be good.

Thanks for pointing that out -- I'll go back and read up on that subject.

Alan

Eric

Wow you fixed my roof.  I had something like that but couldn't get the junction of the gable roof with the second floor wall (the one over the front of the garage) to play nice.

BTW how did you create the band that separates the first and second floors?

Thanks

Alan

I was trying to align the face of the sheathing with the face of the brick veneer on the foundation but no matter what I do it doesn't.  According to the manual the faces of the first item on the Main layers of each wall are supposed to align.  Also I have crazy elevations with gaps between the top of the foundation and the bottom of the some of the first floor walls was well between the first and second floors.

I thought I was not doing something right so I opened a test plan and with the sheathing the first item on the main layer of the first floor and the brick veneer the first item on the foundation layer they align perfectly as per the manual.  However using the same setting in my main plan they do not.

Could someone take a look at my plan and see what is going wrong and why those gaps.  Here are screenshots showing what I mean.

Thanks

Alan

DAVE.plan

I have a 6 year old nVidia GeForce GTX285 on my Mac Pro  (my Mac Pro is 8 years old) and have not had any issues.  I do notice that on complex plans any changes can take a while as the 3D has to render (even if I don't have a 3D view open).

Alan

I think he means in 2D with front, side and sections as needed to provide the detail to construct.

Alan

Something is not quite right here.  8' x  53' is 2.4385 x 16.1544 meters.  I would have thought the size would be to the ¼ or ½ meter -- no one would lay out a city block with those fractional sizes.

Just a thought.

Alan

Thanks

Alan

Eric

I somehow missed your comment (and Scotts) about putting that portion of the wall in the attic (I thought he moved the roof plane to the attic DUH).  I tried that and it worked like a treat.  Now I can go back and fix the dormers on my other plans.  What I was doing was to pull those side walls into the room so they looked okay in elevation -- print that elevation then pull them back to where they looked fine in plan and print that.  Now I know how to fix it, it'll save me a bunch of time.

Thanks guys

Alan

BTW is there a set of key presses to move something up or down a level?  I seem to remember Scott doing that to move those walls.

Eric

That was one of the first things I tried but I still got the effect in the third screenshot in my OP.  The walls don't play nice with each other.

Thanks

Alan

Scott

I watched your video about a dormer with a barrel roof (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-R4up3OjWc) and I saw that you had the walls as "Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom" and then moved the dormer roof up one level and the walls below the roof line disappeared.  Well I did that and indeed in 3D view the dormer side walls in fact do stop at the roof plane but in plan view they are still looking like my second screen shot (and your second floor plan).  I just need for that portion of the side wall that is below the roof plane to not show in plan.

Alan

I have never discovered a good way to show dormer walls in plan that display correctly in elevation or 3D.  I have to pull the side wall into the room so that the 3D view shows a full wall but the the plan view is incorrect.  So to work around this issue I broke the side wall at the point it connects with the attic walls and then made that part of the wall invisible.  Now with invisible Walls turned off the plan is cleaned up but in 3D view the wall shows a break.  Is there anyway to get around this?
Thanks

Alan

First screen shot is a 3D view and the side wall looks fine but in the second shot the wall is too far into the room and should stop at the joint with the attic wall.  In the third shot I have broken the wall and made part of it invisible but as you can see it doesn't look right in 3D view.

Put the new page, in a different layout layer, in a layout template, and you can have many paper sizes already in your layout to use any time without re-doing it. Just open and turn on and off whatever size you need

That is good to know as I had to create a new layout just for the site plan.  

BTW I found out that you can only change the size of a sheet in Page 0.

Alan

Just a hodge podge of stuff

Very nice indeed.

Alan

 

When we were in another region, we used an architect who used Archicad and we loved it. Now we're in a new region, and haven't been able to find an architect who uses Archicad who can design condo buildings that are 3 to 7 stories high. So we really want to find out if Chief Architect has most or all of the following features that we loved in Archicad:

 

A) Does it have "walkable" 3D meaning you can move the mouse to walk around the building and through the building and view the insides and outsides from every angle and elevation?

 

Can the architect email us a file via which we can do the 3D walk-through on our own computer even if we don't own the app. We often travel for work, so we normally can't go to the architect's office.

 

C) At any time in the process, approximately how much of the architect's time is needed to convert the 2D plans to 3D? Or a range of time? E.g. for a 5 story condo building, would it probably take 1-3 minutes of effort to convert to 3D or a half hour to an hour?

 

If it has most or all of the features, we will search to see if there are architects here who use it and do our kind of project. Thanks.

 

A.) Yes

B.) Yes .AVI file.

C.) Zero seconds -- as we draw in 2D the program automatically renders a 3D model.

That should answer your questions -- if not then I respectfully suggest you look elsewhere.

Alan

Okay thanks for that Joey.

Alan

I have a ARCH C Layout with a custom border for my client but I need to generate ones for 8x11 and 11x17.  How can I resize the existing border?
Thanks

Alan

English,

 

There are some great 3D climbers in the Bonus Catalogs...3D Plants...Climbers. 

They look good in raytrace, render and vector views

Thanks Glenn

Alan

We had the soup but didn't see nessie.  

Alan

My wife and I stayed at a country hotel in Inverness Scotland a few years ago and I recreated it in HD Pro 2016 from their web page photos and my recollection.  I need to revisit it in CA as I can now do polyline solids to create the intricate moldings around the windows in the tower.  Unfortunately I can't do the ivy.

Alan

BTW if you are ever in the area this is a great place to stay and eat.  http://www.lochnesscountryhousehotel.co.uk/home.aspx

Michael

That is correct.  Don't know how I did that but I put it back to Fractional Inches and that fixed it.

Thanks

Alan

I must have screwed up somewhere while I was setting the defaults for the plot lines (I set them to decimal feet) and now my window sizes are all in decimal feet and I have no idea how to set them back to inches.

Help someone.

Thanks

Alan

Oh -- now I see.  I didn't think to go and look at the component windows.

Thanks Michael 

Alan

You could manually add a roof plane and make it flat -- or a very low pitch then add brackets.

Alan

Michael

Thanks for looking at the plan.  Something weird is going on.  If you look at W14 even if I set the label to individual units it still shows a single unit with label W14 and if I change the label to show single units it still shows W14.  In the schedule it shows a a Triple 28 72 SH whichever way I set the label.  I would like to know how I can set the labelling so that it shows as a Triple 28 72 SH in the schedule.

Alan

Thanks Michael

Alan