angelaleigh

I have an existing design in Chief X14 that I would like basement drawings completed for to fulfill a request by a customer on a stock plan order. I will complete the rest of the construction set. 

The original foundation is a piling/elevated ground floor with drive under garage, and the customer has requested converting to an Nadura 8" basement system with two sides below grade and two are above with garage and window walls. 

The timeline is about 3 weeks to complete. I have a few of these types of projects if you are interested in further work.

Thank you,

Angela Kamer

Intertwine House Plans

angela@intertwinehouseplans.com

810-434-3923

Casa Azul.zip

I have used the Backup Entire Plan feature and the person I sent it to says they are unable to edit the .plan file upon opening. What are we doing wrong? 

I could help you out if you are still looking! 810-434-3923

Thanks Eric, those look great.

What I need is assistance marking up construction sets for discrepancies and errors. 

I am looking for assistance marking up/redlining construction sets for errors and discrepancies, to be sold as stock plans. 

I have attached a plan I am looking to get marked up ASAP, and there would be more in the future.

Please let me know your rates and process- I would like to work together to create an efficient system for us both!

The Maple Takeoff Set NFC.pdf

The_Maple.zip

I have had a few openings in my job flow and would like to pick up and turn over as many projects as possible over the next 1-4 weeks. Small or large.

Please send me your additions, remodels, redlines, 3D render work, or I can finish out your construction sets, do full house designs, etc.

I have 8 years experience in custom residential design and am currently working in X9.

I am interested in picking up extra volume and can take plenty of work off your hands! Just sent you an email with details and work examples.

Happy to help and can work quickly if you are still needing additional hands on this one.

Previous versions did not walk through the walls, and you could fish eye the view as much as possible. Correct- "Restrict Floor Camera to Room" does not work. 

How do I get my camera to stay inside a room and not move through walls? 

I find my tracker in X8 to be tracking any file that is open at the same rate, regardless of whether I am using it or not. 

I thought these were supposed to be tracked separately, or that this would have been addressed by now? Doesn't this make Time Tracker useless, even for exports?

Thanks for the responses. It seems like the D1 and D2 labeling is definitely the best way to go and actually effective.

I like to separate my door/window schedules by floor, but Chief starts the numbering system back to D01 when I do this. 

To clarify, if I do one big schedule for the whole house with all floors showing, my numbers might read from D01-D42

When I separate by floor, Floor 1 starts with D01-D17, and instead of Floor 2 picking up at D18-D42 (or even just some variation of numbers instead of repeats), it starts over again at D01. Thus repeating Door #'s. 

Any way around this? 

Thanks. 

My other idea is just to import the DWG for the manufacturers and paste CAD blocks.

Is it possible to easily get 2D symbols for doors and windows to add and annotate in my schedules? And if so, I would need them for manufacturer catalogs also.

The attachment shows what I am going for.

Agreed to an extent- I am working with a company that is in the process of building their own SIP panel fabrication plant, in which case it would be most efficient to be able to panelize right from the designs we create in Chief (or find the most simple straightforward way for us to learn a system for the machinery).

I know there has been discussion around this topic, but has anyone of late figured out a good workaround to do SIP panel layouts?

My have been playing around with using studs and treating them as the actual panel breaks, utilizing automatic framing. I set the stud width so narrow that they appear as a thin line in sections= 1/16" @ 48" O.C. It still needs quite a bit of manual work.

Maybe there is a way to use wall segments that have pre-configured widths? Sort of like using a fence panel with a set width. That would be another approach. I can also manually do a CAD grid but I'm hoping someone has another innovation until Chief adds this important function.

Thanks. 

Is this something we need to keep writing into Chief about to include on the next version? If so what is the best way to get their attention?!

(attached is a quick example of a wall panel drawing...arbitrarily labeled)

I know that you can set a nudge snap distance (usually 1"), but is there a way to do an overall placement snap allowance?

For instance, my walls and windows often get placed in crazy decimal numbers. Say I place an interior wall and click on it and the distance from another wall is 9.32525262'. Then I have to type in 9', and move onto the next wall.

Can I just get my objects to be placed right on the inch or perfect fraction of an inch? That way when I do nudge or use fractions with automatic dimensions to the 1/4", I know I already have true dimensions without having to click every single wall to specify.

Hm. In the past I have been able to have multiple schedules (showing on each floor) and it hasn't been a problem). Looks like this changed. I like to list all floors at once for estimating.

When I generate my door and window schedules, I am now showing 2 labels on the door i.e. 'W01' twice, one next to the other...

How do I get rid of this? 

This works on normal text for me, but not Rich Text. When I select multiple rich text boxes I am unable to change them. Using X5 btw.

I would like to modify multiple Rich Text boxes and change all of their font sizes.. it does not work to switch the Rich Text default settings, and if I highlight multiple boxes at once and try to change them, it also does not work (grayed out). 

Thoughts? Thanks!