Arrenbas Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I've been working on a new house project (for many years) using Version 7.09 of CA, marketed under the Better Homes and Gardens name. A week or two ago, I bought the latest CA Suite (for $99 from the CA website) hoping for newer features and a refreshed library. However, I've found that one feature my old version seems to do better than the new version, is draw elevations to scale. In Version 7.09, I can specify a scale for elevation images, just as with floorplans, and print to that set scale. In the new Suite version, an elevation appears to be treated like an image and loses its scale function. I'm preparing printouts for City review and I've actually had to create the same building in both versions of the software in order to be able to use each version for something that it does better than the other. But the apparent loss of the ability to create printed elevations to a set scale makes the newer version seem fundamentally flawed - unless I'm missing something...? Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Tony: you are referring to the HD product line this forum is mainly for the Chief Premier users while HD PRO users can find some benefit to following the Chieftalk forum the lessor HD products are too limited in their features to find much benefit check out the Hometalk forum which is dedicated to the HD products or contact CA's tech support for assistance the HD ver 7 products are based on Chief X1 Chief is now on Ver X6 Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrenbas Posted June 10, 2014 Author Share Posted June 10, 2014 Thanks - I didn't realize there are multiple forums. And while I mentioned Version 7.09, I also mentioned I had just bought a new version which (presumably?) is a dumbed down version of a newer CA platform. It just seems remarkable to me that the "2015 Suite" version is less capable than the version I bought c.9 years ago. But I'll go to the other forum.... Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey_martin Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I would have to guess that you are sending a camera view and not an elevation vector view...as best I can tell without seeing a screeenshot or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I saw this on HomeTalk , and thought the same as you, but he has HD Suite so doesn't have Vector view , so Print to PDF may be an option?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I would say it's user error, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Not sure 100% but only HD Arch. and HD Pro can do Vector view and Elevations , so he is stuck with Camera view only. Some titles deliberately block some of the 3d view too ,eg you cant see the whole foundation ...nothing below ground , unless that change in recent titles ? M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrenbas Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 Well it does have an orthogonal-style elevation view (with an elevation button) - but it treats it like a camera view, which doesn't allow for fixing a scale for printing. It surprised me because the lesser version of the software from 9 years ago included elevations with the scale function and scaled printing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwideziner Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 what do people expect from a hundred buck program?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 what do people expect from a hundred buck program?? Graeme: The same function it had 9 years ago ??? Tony: you should probably discuss with CA's tech support sorry, earlier I stated that HD ver 7 was based on Chief X1 actually, it was Chief ver 10 I think it was X2 (HD ver 9) where CA revamped all the cameras also, CA creates the newest version of Chief then when "stable" they slice and dice and create the various HD titles so maybe somewhere along the line the decided to change what was included ??? Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey_martin Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Check the tool again. The newer version may have the same option Chief has, in that, you can take the ELEVATION VIEW and then change the camera type from that view. You may need to set the DEFAULT camera view as VECTOR rather than STANDARD. I have attached a screen shot of what the tool looks like in Chief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrenbas Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Vector only seems to be an option in how you display library items (furniture. etc.) in the preview panel. Looks like I might be upgrading further.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KilgoreTrout Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 If I remember right, Suite only let's you create a picture of an elevation but you can't add any annotations or do much with it. You should take a look at Architectural (or even better Pro if it's in your budget). I think both of these versions will let you do scaled elevations with cad, dimensions, text, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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