DzinEye

Probably not the ultimate solution you're looking for, but you could maneuver the model or plan within CA to show what you want to show, then take a screenshot to mark-up using whatever program your Wacom tablet will support

Nick,

Maybe you thought of this already, but I would suggest that you make and rename a copy of your plan after you build the phase one model, and use the renamed copy to do your phase 2.

13 hours ago, dskogg said:

I was thinking there might be another solution but i am not very good at photoshop type manipulation, i have gimp for photo software...

What about cutting the pano and rearranging the cut piece to one side or the other so the view you want would be where it needs to be?

Does this make sense?

 

I need some help showing how to do this..if anyone has some time.

 

 

If you have Gimp then you could edit your pano so there's a new seam location which will be correctly oriented to your model at 0 degrees.  

David,
It's not always optimal, but I've found that toggling sunlight off often helps with PBR quirks like this. 

3 hours ago, SNestor said:

 

Glass barn doors won't work...the track is above the door opening...and, if you make it 60" wide you will get two doors...one 30" door on each side.  Maybe I'm missing something...if so, let me know.

 

Yep... you're missing something...      Under 'options' you can constrain to a single door panel of any size just as with any other door.
Not quite sure why you mention it won't work because the 'track is above the door opening' ?... barn door track hardware is supposed to be above the door opening.  Usually there's just a small guide at the bottom.   Ahh wait... now I see what you're talking about... in the example photo the track is below the door top. 

You should be able to do it by first building a glass wall all the way across your opening, then placing your glass barn door into the glass wall.

Unless they're all full ht. brick there's probably a cap detail as well, which is easier with a pony wall def.

Per Matty, I was going to ask what other programs you have open.  I get this same thing happening once in a while, but it seems usually it's due to other programs, OR a combo of the other programs and Chief, (I can't say for sure) but it always goes away when I shut the other programs.

Eric the saint

You've got the main house roof down pretty well, low pitch hip roof with large overhangs.

Style-wise the shed roof deck cover roofs do not suit a truly 'Prairie Style' house if that's important to you.

If acceptable try flat roofs, or even consider raising the plate/roof on the bedroom/pool bath wing to 10' or so and carrying that roof over the deck area. You can frame a lower ceiling in the bedroom/pool bath rooms if preferable even though the plate is high.  
 

I didn't realize this went on for another page!  I just couldn't resist responding when I read Rene's post almost exactly mirroring my own thoughts.
Had to laugh at Chris Anderson's last post.   Maybe use the hand font in early design phases when providing materials just for the owner(s), esp. if using squiggle in the drawings.
For CD's go with a modern font.

On 11/11/2019 at 10:51 AM, Renerabbitt said:

I personally like to stay away from hand drawn looking fonts. I know their is an argument to be made in favor for. Great for small business, that homey feel, personal connection for clients and builders...but their is something so impressive looking about a plan-set drafted with a sans-serif font like Eurostile...I also find it easier to read...

You'd be hard pressed to find a top tier commercial architecture firm around here that uses any kind of hand lettering font. It's considered unprofessional. Very few people hand drafting anymore, why are we faking it...

How fun to run into this font debate!  Rene, for the same reasons you express here I made the jump away from hand style fonts many years ago.

Can't tell you how many debates on this topic I've had with associates and peers over the years.  

40 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

As to how it happens it would be great if once you find the items possibly you could recall loosing them at some point during the build possibly on a centering or reflecting operation ?  It seems to happen occasionally to inexperienced users in messy situations but if someone could put their finger on why it would be quite helpful to a lot of users if there was a way for Chief to prevent this type of thing.

I find this to be quite a fascinating problem!  As far as I know, I've never had anything get nearly that far out of the world, but I've definitely found a few things far enough away that I could no longer see my model when zoomed out to find them.   How these things happen is likely due to a number of different reasons. 

I think the easiest way to address it would be if Chief could provide some kind of 'world' size limitations set in preferences that users could set at some rational limitation.  I'd guess that 99.99% of users would be well suited by limitations of a kilometer or less.   This has been a preferences setting in Acad for as far back as I can remember.

If you're in a freezing climate or have a lot of trees around the house I would run run away from that recessed gutter detail.  Asking for problems.
 

8 hours ago, johnny said:

I'm trying to figure out what you mean, since if I reshape the polyline on the Z axis and run a material report on the object it calculates for the me the total (including Z)...?  You got me curious about this, but CA seems to calc that on my end.

 

You might mean that it doesn't automatically take that into consideration, but if you actually model the Z runs using the break tool it does work (thought also a bit of extra work).

Okay, sure yes, if you're actually going to model the wiring polylines in the Z direction as well, then it'll work.  I only did a quick glance at the link the OP provided and looked like a 2D drawing to me.  I can't imagine modeling every wire in 3D unless it's a small project, but have at it if it works for you.  I'd still add a healthy percentage of overage.

Maybe you realize this already, but If you do get the molding polyline method to work, just know that whatever result you get will be very rudimentary, because it won't include wiring lengths in the Z direction.

On 10/3/2019 at 1:32 PM, BillsburgChief said:

I use a lot of notes in my plans, usually created in Microsoft word.  Is there is way to save a word file to jpeg or maybe something else that wouldn't bog it sown so much?

Suggestion above is best, but if you cannot get the text to look or format the way you wish using the above Copy from MS paste to CA text box technique, you could do as you ask easily by using Windows Snipping Tool (name will be changing somewhat soon)... to take a screenshot of the text in MS and save the clip as a JPG.