Chrisb222

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  1. Do you mean why is a 48"x36" window using a "4030" label? If that's your question, it's not "off." 4030 represents the size in feet and inches - 4'0" x 3'0" - and is standard nomenclature in the industry for ordering windows. Your schedule is correct... that is, if you want a rough opening that is 1" total larger than the window size.
  2. To elaborate, settings in the Pattern panel only affect vector views and hand-drawn lines. So placing a "grid, offset" instruction there has no effect on the raster (realistic) views.
  3. The 3D image is using what you see in the Texture panel's Texture Source area: the image file isn't a grid arrangement, it's one single rectangle. You'll need an image of the tile in a grid arrangement for the 3D to look right. There are no settings in the Texture panel to create a grid pattern, since it simply uses a static picture file which it can't modify.
  4. It's not because the material regions are connected, it's because material patterns and textures use the same offset settings, meaning the same location reference, for every instance. If you need to control the pattern and texture locations separately for different areas, you'll need to copy the material for the different areas and adjust the offsets.
  5. When you paste, use Paste Hold Position (Edit > Paste > Paste Hold Position) while places the object at the same X, Y position.
  6. You can do the same thing in 2D using an orthographic full overview camera, set to Top View with cross section slider set midway to the doors so the door swings show. And poche the walls: But it's not a Plan View, so doesn't show dimensions and annotations.
  7. Open the Room specification and check Build Foundation Below:
  8. Shane is right, it appears to be caused by the open below room. Not sure what's going on but the easiest way I found to fix the brick was create a 0.1" width "room" next the the exterior wall, and turn off the room label:
  9. Defaults = project based Preferences = application based
  10. Works for me. Since you say you've checked your settings, you must be missing something. Are you using a layer set that shows framing members? Did you rebuild framing after changing any settings? You would get a quick accurate answer if you posted the plan file, instead of guesses. Out of the box X17, with proper framing and display settings:
  11. If they are simply blocked solids, they're probably still getting their line style info from the 3D Solids layer. Try changing it there. Or you could make them a symbol then the layer settings are more straightforward.
  12. One method is to edit your screen material to have a white color in the Pattern panel, which is used in elevation (vector) views. Open the door object and access the Materials panel, then edit the screen material's Material Color to White in its Pattern panel: Your color editor may look different:
  13. Draw a railing manually, place in position and check "Follow Stairs." Adjust as needed:
  14. If you make the short wall under the roof the same wall type, brick 6 LBTL parapet, and get rid of the insulation air gap layer in that wall definition, it fills in:
  15. Ah. Yeah I would like to have control over that line style. I would prefer to always see a solid line there, not the dash. No way to change the automatic line style behavior. Separate control of the CL text would be nice too.
  16. Yes, uncheck Mark as Centerline: The size is controlled by the text size of the dimension text. So yes it can be changed but all other dimension text will also change.
  17. That would be the Fill Window Building Only tool, which zooms the view to the entire building, regardless of where you were focused. In the OOB template, it's on the right-side toolbar, shown here: Or, it could be something to do with layer settings but that's difficult to diagnose without having the plan file.
  18. Just to clarify, I find that typically, a LEFT CABINET DOOR has the knob on the right, and the hinge on the left. Walk-through doors, however are as you describe. They're typically labeled opposite of cabinet doors, which I always thought was strange and confusing. At least that's how it is in my world, and in Chief's nomenclature.
  19. Not that I know of. I use a CAD cross box to indicate the columns. Which is a pain. On a side note, I noticed your window dimensions have the extension line covering the callout. I use the same callout and the extension line covering it like that bugs me. Maybe you already have a method to clean that up too, or maybe you don't mind it like it is, but here's a quick easy way to fix that if you want (unsolicited tip incoming): Bring all the windows in front of their extension markers using View Draw Order Edit Tools in the edit toolbar. Select all windows using Marquee-select objects by type, then use the draw order tools: Before: After: /unsolicited_tip
  20. Yes. You definitely should start using SPVs, check out the training videos: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2421/saved-plan-views.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2433/developing-saved-plan-views.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10199/productivity-tips-saved-plan-views.html
  21. Ah. Excuse me for not experimenting before replying, I didn't check to see if there was indeed different functionality now. I couldn't recreate the old functionality you're trying to achieve in X17 either. It seems this might be a bug, otherwise why would Setup Temporary have a "Centers" button for wall locate?
  22. Temporary dimensions now use settings in the current Dimension Default, under the Setup Temporary panel:
  23. Just to add to what others have said, you have a couple of tools in the object toolbar to edit schedule numbering... You can change the window's position in the schedule using these up and down arrows, with the window selected: Also, if after adding the schedule you happen to delete a window, it may cause a gap in the numbering. There's a tool to renumber the schedule and eliminate numbering gaps: