VinnieVicon Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Chief X6. Hi my name is Vinnie and I'm designing a garage that will be attached to an existing house; I want to show the garage framing in 3D and at the same show the rest of the house in 3D but without showing the framing. I know X6 has that cool individual framing tool now, I tried that but when I go to the 3D framing view, the rest of the house disappears and it sometimes shows the 3D framing but the siding of the existing house is not showing. I know it can be done I'm just not sure how. Please help. Vinnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 One way would be to save out a file to only work on the garage. Delete the rest of the house and build your framing. Grab all of that framing and make a block which you import into your main file. As long as that block is on a distinct layer you can show or hide as you wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 you can also specify framing in the new walls, and no-framing in the existing walls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Create 2 wall types - one for the garage and one for the house - no need for a framing layer in the house walls. Change the wall layers (all layers except the framing layer) of the garage wall type to the material Insulation Air Gap. It will look normal in plan view. In a 3D view you will only see the framing layer for the garage walls. It is then easy to restore the garage wall layers back to normal when you want a complete view. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark3D Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 You can tell chief to generate framing for selected walls and roofs it a new feature of x6 just select the wall and in its tool bar you will see generate framing and only the selected object will be framed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Mark, That doesn't help when you want to show a 3D view with some walls displaying the framing layer only and some walls displaying all their wall layers, including the linings. A further refinement on the method I outlined is to create 2 wall types for the garage. One type using the Insulation Air Gap material for the linings and one normal wall type. You can then just swap the wall types around as needed for the different views. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixPhlash Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Like this? Problem is, I did this back in 2006, and I forgot how I did it. I'll look for the instructions that I used when I did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixPhlash Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 OK, found it. Tommy Blair gave this to us back in 2006. No guarantees it works with X6, but won't hurt to give it a go. Good Luck. SHOWING FRAMING ADDITION.doc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixPhlash Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 This was tough to do back in the day. That's when you could do 3d in the earlier versions of Adobe Acrobat. Maw Addition Framing.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieVicon Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 Thank you all for your help I'm going to these solutions now. Vinnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Vinnie, You will have difficulty following the instructions in the document that George posted. There have been changes to the program since than, especially in regard to the Layer Display Options dbx. There are no longer separate columns for display of 2D and 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen_Brown Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Hi Vinnie, I did a video back in 2010 on how to do it here: http://chiefarchitecttraining.blogspot.com/2010/10/showing-new-addition-framing-on.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieVicon Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 Hi Guys, I tried the method that George described in his (Showing Framing Addition) but I didn't have much luck. I'm running X6 now that's probably the reason why. Vinnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieVicon Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 Vinnie, You will have difficulty following the instructions in the document that George posted. There have been changes to the program since than, especially in regard to the Layer Display Options dbx. There are no longer separate columns for display of 2D and 3D. Thanks Glen you are correct, I'm going to take a look at Allen's instructions. Vinnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixPhlash Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 That's why I said no guarantees for use in X-6. Too bad, it worked really well in it's day, eight years ago - seems like it would be easier now, are we going backwards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 That's also why I told you how to do it with an alternate wall definition using invisible wall layers. Really easy and flexible that way - just change the wall definitions as needed - takes 2 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieVicon Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 That's why I said no guarantees for use in X-6. Too bad, it worked really well in it's day, eight years ago - seems like it would be easier now, are we going backwards? Thanks George, the program has changed, I appreciate the help though. Vinnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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