Chrisb222

Been going back and forth with tech, had to show them screenshots of their own plan not scaling correctly in X18. Just got this response: Hello Chris,I was finally able to replicate the issue, thank you for your patience. I've gone ahead and bumped this up to our developers, as I can find any reason or otherwise solution for the weird behavior of the Line scaling. Thanks for your understanding, and apologies for the inconvenience. Hopefully we can get a solution to this shortly. This is what I sent them: This reply has a screenshot attached of your GrandView GV2 project that I downloaded. The screenshot is a snippet of the floor plan view on Sheet 4 of the layout, after I rescaled it to 1/32" with Use Layout Line Scaling unchecked. You can see the line weights did not scale like they should, and as they always did in every previous version. Interestingly, it doesn't matter if Use Layout Line Scaling is checked or unchecked, the line weights react the same to down-scaling. You should be able to replicate that yourself, unless it's something in my copy of CA, or something to do with my using MacOS. GrandView project: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/samples.html

@PitMan71in my testing I didn't notice dashes, I was having a problem with line weights. I often send floor plan concepts on a file sized for 8.5x11 and happened to open one of my old files in X18 the other day, that's when I noticed the line weights weren't scaling. This is an X17 layout file with a 1/4" scale drawing scaled to 1/10", opened in X17 and then X18, changing nothing, just opening the file: X17: X18: When I was experimenting with it this weekend, the same thing happened when I tried an older plan I downloaded from Chief Architect, their Grandview project. I sent tech support a copy of that file showing the problem. My ticket is still "in progress"

Yeah I believe that would do it. In my testing only a fresh X18 file would scale correctly. I wouldn't think so, since a fresh X18 factory template will scale correctly but a legacy file won't, without changing any settings. I'll report here when tech answers me, status is "In Progress."

You're right the dash style for doorways can't be controlled. But it looks like you're having the same problem I'm having, where scaling a layout view doesn't scale the line weights and dashes like it always did. In my testing, a new X18 plan created from the stock template will scale correctly, but not a legacy file brought into X18. I have a ticket in regarding this issue, waiting for a reply from tech support. As a side note, your plan and layout are using different line weight scales in their respective Drawing Sheet Setup dialogs. It doesn't affect the dashes over the doorways, but it does affect other lines in the layout view.

Do you mean dashed lines? How do your line weights look? Are these legacy files brought into X18?

The spaces look large enough with the exception of the toilet area, unless there is no door between it and the maneuvering area. Are there shower walls, or is this an open wet room? If open, you might shave a little off the space between the shower and the vanity but it's not too oversized as is. Be aware your measurements don't account for wall thicknesses, so 12' overall exterior to exterior would not allow the sizes you have for the divided spaces, if there are walls. Not a big deal, just something to keep in mind. Otherwise I think it should be fine. Sorry for you and your daughter, best of luck.

Turning the railing label layer on and off made no difference for me, super buttery smooth either way.

Foundation Plan: Basement Plan: Basement Plumbing Plan (1/2" scale dimension text): Same! Nah, once the SPVs and LSs are set up it's mostly auto... unless there's a very unusual situation, which I hardly ever run in to. The type of walkouts in my example are super common for me. I'll agree with you here. I try to not include anything on the foundation plan those guys don't need to see.

I've never experienced any restrictions or difficulties keeping the floor levels as intended. Foundation Plan View has its own layer set, dimensions, CAD, text, wall types, etc. Same with Basement Plan View. Once it's set up, it's automatic. Stepped foundations and frost walls are super easy to adjust using wall breaks and dimension moves. Having more than two levels of pony walls would be helpful, but again that's never been a major hurdle. Any gain by putting the basement on Floor 1 would be more than offset from the issues caused by moving Absolute Zero to the basement ... what a nightmare. Hard pass for me.

Same. I never saw the advantage to basement on floor 1 unless it's a holdover workaround from before the advances we've had the past several years. I have all dedicated saved plan views, layer sets, dimensions, text, CAD... basically everything for foundation plan, basement plan, and basement plumbing plan. Everything slots in automatically.

Why not? Just cut the walls and place the extension segments needed for the trim, that you don't want to see, on the Walls, Invisible layer, and turn it off. Or create a custom layer just for them if you want more control.

You're seeing brick because that's the outermost exterior layer of your wall definition. Copy the wall type, give it a new name and change that outer layer to Concrete. In order to maintain your wall thickness and keep everything aligned, simply change the thickness of the outer layer to the same as the total of all the exterior layers (5 7/16) and delete the other layers (see images). That's the "Air Gap" layer in your brick wall settings.

In X18, dishwashers no longer are inserted into a cabinet. They are placed standalone and automatically adopt the countertop of the adjacent cabinet. Just like IRL.

Gene, I often manually edit attic walls if they aren't behaving how I want. In your case I was able to edit the attic wall into one wall with the correct shape to accept the window (I also changed the wall type to Siding-4 since I assume you won't want ICF attic walls). I went at your file with abandon so it's a bit of a mess but I attached it if you want to see what I did: CB Bob Landgraf Barndo.plan.zip In my opinion this need will probably force you to manually model either the post or the beam (or both) in that spot. Getting that to auto generate wouldn't be worth my time, if this were my project.

Hi Shane. Yeah I've seen that a lot on auto generated roof trim. Not sure why it happens, but something I do that often works is just selecting the errant trim, grabbing one of the end handles and moving it slightly then letting go. In your case, doing this forced both sides to generate. Selecting that trim edge is tricky sometimes but look for it on the Roofs, Trim layer. Might have to do that more than once as you work on the model. It's a Chief Thang!™