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Everything posted by Chrisb222
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I think you'll want the additional RAM in Option B. Or upgrade Option A to 16GB for $200. Rendering speed won't be a problem with either choice, I use a Studio / M1 Max and it flies. But it has 32GB unified memory, so that may be a factor...
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Open the Room Specification > Structure > Ceiling Finish and delete all layers: Do you have the layer Framing, Floor Joists set to display in your Standard camera view?
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Framing Components Protruding Through Roof
Chrisb222 replied to mattivester's topic in General Q & A
You can raise the roof without affecting the wall heights. -
Then the poor framer has to think!
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It's doing that because your Dimension Default is set to Distance Rounding. Change the Primary Format to "Grid Rounding" and the problem goes away. And I would absolutely urge you to change your dimension defaults. Most of your user dim defaults beginning with an * are set to use Distance Rounding, which has the potential to introduce dimension errors in your dimension string. (You also should check "Use Greatest Common Divisor" instead of "Use Closest Fraction.) From Help:
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Did you link to the right plan?? I'm not seeing anything like your screenshot above. And no need to back up the entire plan. Just save, close Chief, zip and send.
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IDK when I set the smallest fraction to 1/16 and type in a 2/3 dimension it automatically displays 5/8. Maybe post a plan showing the behavior.
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Why not add a second ref display. Or a third?
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I've done it before using an invisible railing to close off the slip.
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I do not see doors in your ref display. That leads me to believe you have the Door layer turned off in the ref display layer set. However, pocket door pockets will still display even with the Door layer off. Change the Door layer to gray with dashed line.
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X15 is very stable for me but I'm still on Monterey. Do you have the latest X15 build? I think I remember that early versions were somewhat unstable.
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Can't get edited 2D CAD block to work with symbol
Chrisb222 replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
Edits are applied when you close the edited CAD window and hit Save. Did you do that? -
I use triangle markers, but I have one for every pitch already in all four saved elevation cameras in my template plan. Grab the correct one, slide it into place. Maybe a tad bit easier than pulling from the library?
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Just guessing here since OP hasn't returned, but probably not easily:
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Yes, and you're right, it's fairly simple. This took about 15 minutes: What exactly are you struggling with? Posting the plan would allow someone to work it out.
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Reversing "Zoom" direction on the mouse scroll wheel?
Chrisb222 replied to Chrisb222's topic in General Q & A
Thank you!! -
Lol true. I eliminate as many 1/2" as I can by switching the marker to the other wall side, but sometimes it looks like it might be confusing to the framer. That plan also looks like whole numbers dictated where the dim marker goes...
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I'm using Chief on my PC laptop remotely this weekend. 99.9% of my work is done on my office Mac. The most annoying difference is that the Zoom operates in the opposite scroll wheel direction. It's maddening, and I'm looking for a way to reverse the scroll wheel on the PC. I checked the hardware settings in the control panel, but no luck. Win 10 home.
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Thanks. You're very persistent lol. I have dups and triplets of all kinds of stuff. It used to bug me and I'd go through now and then and clean up my plan materials, but eh.... no one's offered to pay me to do that, so who really cares??
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Got spooked about the blue by a bad print job
Chrisb222 replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
So... are we talking about the "Color" toggle in the layout toolbar? Or the "Print to Color" checkbox in the print DBX? Or the "Color Off is" Preferences setting?? Because these all do different things, with differ outcomes, making it difficult to discuss the OP intelligently just using the word "color." When saving a PDF from Chief's print command, "Print to Color" in the print DBX ignores the "Color" toggle on the layout toolbar, but it obeys the B&W/Grayscale setting in Preferences. So regardless of whether you are displaying in color or not, you can choose to print to PDF in color or B&W ... or Grayscale, depending on your prefs setting. -
Huh. I've never seen it, but I'm on a different OS I picked up on that. Where are all the 16ths??
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Worked for me. I snapped a new dim marker to the corner, selected the common wall, clicked on the 4'3-1/2" number, hit 48" and got 4' and 6'...?
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Got spooked about the blue by a bad print job
Chrisb222 replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
This is correct, on the Mac. -
Got spooked about the blue by a bad print job
Chrisb222 replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
No color in this file. -
Got spooked about the blue by a bad print job
Chrisb222 replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
I don't use the OOB blues but I use a lot of blue, lighter than the OOB blues, and they come out exactly as expected. I did review the OOB blues and those would print fine on my plotter. One reason I really like making my own prints. Something went wrong somewhere between your system and the print supplier's output. What do the PDFs look like? Post one and I'll print it on my plotter and post a pic of the output.