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How are others doing the below grade foundation wall at a basement walkout?  In my area the frost depth is 60".  A lot of times to keep the plans clean and readable, I do a  foundation plan and a separate lower level plan.  On the lower level floor plan, I show the walkout wall as a normal framed wall with other areas into the hill shown with an ICF wall.  On the foundation plan, I have set up to show the ICF walls with no interior or exterior framed walls.  I still need to show the portion of 60" deep ICF foundation and footing that is below grade at the walkout wall.  What are my options to show this below grade foundation wall at the walkout area?  Maybe just draw with cad lines?  I tried using the pony wall option as shown in Chief knowledge base which looks good in 3D, but doesn't show the foundation wall the way I want in plan view (shows a framed wall).  I have setup a layer called "below grade foundation walls" to put this wall on.

What is the process to set this up?  Not sure where to set the path for the library to look for the user catalog file on dropbox.

Can anyone give some advice to how to properly manage my symbol library when running the program on 2 separate computers.  Want to have the same current library available on both machines.  How to keep the library up to date with the newest symbols added, etc.  If I add a new symbol on one machine, how can it be updated on the other one and visa versa.  Maybe a shared file for the library on something like Dropbox?  

Ok, I will give this a try.  Thank you for your help!

What did you do to get the roof to rebuild?  I'm wanting to recreate.

Because it seams to be part of the attic wall, I can delete it and it goes away but then I am left with no attic wall.

Anyone know what is causing this???  I have attached the file as well as a couple of pics.  Looks like it is an attic wall with framing that penetrates the roof above it for some reason.  Also having the same problem on the back of house. 

Bergman__11_16.17__KH.plan

Does anyone know how to get rid of this garbage under this manually drawn box bay window.  I followed the tutorial in the chief architect knowledge base but they didn't address the exterior.  I also tried using the automatic box bay but couldn't figure out how to have 2 windows vs. just one.

Does anyone know if it is possible to show frieze boards when there is no soffit?  They show up but once I uncheck the soffit box, they go away.

I have not spent much time playing with the materials list function of Chief.  Playing around a little today.  What I am wanting to know is how much sf there is for the ceiling and walls of the room.  When I right click in the room, I am hitting "calculate materials for room".  I am getting calculations for the floor, ceiling and trim but no walls.  How do I get it to show how much Sheetrock is on the walls?  Am I missing something in settings or something?  It seams pretty straight forward that it should calculate all the materials for the room including walls.  For learning, I am just doing a simple square room with no windows and doors.

6 hours ago, joey_martin said:

You re right...thinking of something else. 

 

Select the trim piece and this tool pops up, use it to delete the offending piece of trim.

Tried this and it continued to rebuild itself, even if I open another roof plane on the house, change nothing and click ok to close the roof window.  Thank you for you recommendation

7 hours ago, solver said:

 

Don't think this is an option.

 

Give this a try.

 

Unlock the Roof Trim layer. Select and copy the molding p-lines you want to keep. Delete the frieze from this roof plane.

 

Paste Hold Position to put the molding p-lines back.

 

 

A little bit of a bother, but this seamed to work and keep it from rebuilding.  Thank you

1 hour ago, joey_martin said:

Once you select that trim, convert it to a basic molding pline rather than a frieze (roof trim) and select the box for no trim on this line. Then select the roof plane and remove the frieze for that roof plane so that it won't keep generating.

Thanks for your response Joey, where do I find the command to convert the roof trim molding to a basic pline?  

9 hours ago, DavidJPotter said:

 The settings that control "Freeze Trim" can be found in the Build Roof Dialog. If you do not want any Freeze trims then do not set any to be built in the Build Roof Dialog. Such trims are also on their own layer and can be turned on or of visually in Display Options.

 

DJP

This software is predicated upon settings, dialog boxes and input boxes. Usually it is just taking the time to look and find where such settings are and what they do. It is time well spent.

Thanks for your response David.  I am just wanting to get rid of the one piece of trim on the house wall and keep the other pieces of frieze trim.  

I am planning to finally make the move from windows pc to mac sometime later this fall.  I am tired of all the problems with pc, viruses, windows 10 and Microsoft.  Seams like you have to be a computer tech to use now days.  Can any of you mac users out there give me feedback on your imac system, what you have, memory, graphics card, etc. and how Chief Architect is running speed wise on your system, any other thoughts?  I'm looking at the 27" imac and others specs yet to be determined. 

I don't want this frieze trim on the house wall.  Anyone know how to keep this frieze molding from automatically rebuilding?  I keep deleting manually it but it keeps showing up.  I've tried deleting it, unchecking the "frieze molding on selected edge", I have auto rebuild roofs off in the roof dialog setup, auto rebuild roofs is off in defaults.  What am I missing?

Here is what it is suppose to look like.  Yes, the problem is the black bars and the smaller elevation images that appear in the layout box.

For any remodel or addition project I work on, I first do an existing conditions plan file model.  I save the plan file as "project name-existing conditions".  I then send a floor plan and 4 exterior elevations to a layout file.  I save the layout file as "project name-preliminary plan set".  Once satisfied with the existing model, I save one last time and "save as" the plan file to "project name-remodel".  I model the addition on to the original building.  I then go to my layout file, copy the 4 existing exterior elevations, paste them in place to a new page in the layout file, (I do this so the alignment will be the same when looking at the plan pages, if I resend the elevation files from the plan file, I need to manually align them again on the page), then I re-link (using the re-link file button on the bottom middle of the screen) the 4 individual elevations to the new plan file called "project name-remodel".  For some reason this time I got this screen shot in one of my newly linked elevation layout boxes, others seamed to work fine.  I have also gotten some crashes as well when re-linking.  

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Did existing conditions plan file, sent exterior elevations to layout from existing conditions plan file, copied 4 elevations to new layout page, re-linked each elevation to my new plan file for remodel project, got this.   ????  Which there were not so many bugs with this program and it was quicker.

Refresh button does nothing that I can see.  I am wanting to see the line extensions as they show in the layout file in my final pdf.

Any idea why I loose the line extensions around the perimeter of drawing on the watercolor style when printing to pdf from layout.  The extensions show on the layout but go away on the final pdf.  I have tried different pdf dpi settings and they still do not show up.  You would think that the same view from the layout file would get printed.  I have attached a screen shot of my layout screen view and the pdf file after printing to pdf in 144 dpi quality.  Notice the lack of line extensions around the roof.  Seams like the line extensions are on the interior of the drawings like around windows, etc., but lacking around the extreme perimeter.

Is there a way to "clean up" or "purge" a drawing file and to speed up or maximize drawing times and memory?  The drawing I am working on now is getting big and very sluggish.

Can anyone tell me how to connect or group together individual cad segments like lines and arches?  I am trying to convert them into a sidewalk but can not connect them into a polyline first so I get the option to convert into a sidewalk.

Sent this into technical support and will update as I get information back.

Here's a copy of their response.

Hello Dan,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I am able to reproduce the behavior that you are seeing with this file and have forwarded the information to our Development team of software engineers for their further evaluation. If we can provide any additional information in this ticket, I will respond here as it is made available.