country Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Is there a roof pitch indicator for elevation and cross-section views or do I have to manually make one all the time? I have spent a lot of time hunting for something and have given up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPDesign Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Make one and save to your user library for future use. change the number as needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
country Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 That is what I was afraid of. I am used to dragging a line along the slope with the indicator tool and having it give mre the pitch. When I am working on a few different con docs at the same time it helps to not have to remember which one has what pitch. It will be faster to draw 2 lines and input the numbers as opposed to bringing something from the library and adding numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I have made one left and one right for every pitch or when I did a new pitch I would draw the cad line I wanted put in my text and block it save it to a new lib call roof pitches then when ever I need that particular one just open lib select and paste doesn't take to long to make them of make them on the fly block them and add to the your lib under pitches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriseDesign Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 So Chief does not do automatic roof slope indicators? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
country Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Just in plan view it would seem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Just in plan view it would seem. Incorrect, it also shows pitch in elevation, turn on layer. At one time I did the "typical" pitch indicator. I now rely on auto label in elev. view. Not typical but guaranteed to be accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
country Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 I tried every type of wording I could imagine to try and find some info on this item. Even tried google and no joy... How are new users supposed to find help if the help function can't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
country Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 I turned on roof label in my cross-section /elevation and nothing showed up. Is there something else I should be using Scott? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I turned on roof label in my cross-section /elevation and nothing showed up. Is there something else I should be using Scott? See pic below, I know it is not what you want, it shows the pitch of the roof that is facing you, but this is what I am doing now until they give us the indicator that we are all familiar with. Here is my take, I have looked at many many plans done by architects and designers, and they do not always show the pitch on every section, so why should I? But anybody interested in a pitch can look at the elevations or the roof plan for an ACCURATE roof pitch that has no chance of being wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Scott I forgot about the label in elevation thanks, I always use it in my roof plans I will try it, I know around here the guys like to see the pitch like in the attached picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 ..... I know around here the guys like to see the pitch like in the attached picture I know, but it is not live and there is the potential for error... if live no error. My goal is to do no CAD work and no TEXT blocks if I can help it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I know, but it is not live and there is the potential for error... if live no error. My goal is to do no CAD work and no TEXT blocks if I can help it. I agree about errors I will do this on a couple plans and see the feed back I get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
country Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 How do you label your sections without text blocks? Sorry I am off topic but I had to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Sherry great ? because chief doesn't know what we are drawing in cad detail that is where I use my txt blocks also just like the picture above they are the same txt block Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 How do you label your sections without text blocks? Sorry I am off topic but I had to ask. I try to minimize text blocks. I am putting less and less text blocks on sections since this info is often shown elsewhere.... depends on what I need to emphasize. And if I use text blocks, they are usually "Perry's Macro Method"..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I think I need a big lesson on marco's if they save a lot of time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I keep most of my notes in the lib. I also store notes, I use all the time, in Ruby b/c if I need to change a note, just change the macro text and it changes everywhere on the plan, not just the one instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
country Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 So very much to learn and no time to learn it. 9 jobs on the go at once is 5 too many. 3 in Chief and 6 that were started in Vectorworks. I try to switch off days because it gets confusing. Off to the salt mines I go....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_on_Cape Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I try to minimize text blocks. I am putting less and less text blocks on sections since this info is often shown elsewhere.... depends on what I need to emphasize. And if I use text blocks, they are usually "Perry's Macro Method"..... Do you mean elevations? I put all of my text / notes on cross sections and my elevations I leave completely clean with no notes or elevation data etc. I always looked at it as the elevations were for visual representation and the cross sections were for construction. I also do a cross section of each different type of roof condition while quite a few others I notice will only do one or two general cross sections and put the rest of the info on the elevations. To each his own...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kMoquin Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Why have I just discovered the pitch label in section? Thanks DSH! (It shows in the convention I use. It is exactly what I was typing. I abandoned the two lines some time ago.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I've been experimenting with using a Symbol as a Roof Slope Indicator and having a Ruby Macro update the Label in the Elevation View. It kind of works but I'm still having a little difficulty with placement. It may be more trouble than it's worth but it should be easy for CA to program such an annotation object. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Scott I forgot about the label in elevation thanks, I always use it in my roof plans I will try it, I know around here the guys like to see the pitch like in the attached picture We do it the same way here Ray , had not thought to block and add to the library ..Duh ! perhaps you wouldn't mind exporting your Roof Pitch library and posting it so Sherry and I don't need to reinvent the wheel , thanks. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Here is one that I have I also have it in an arial font, glad to share PITCH LIB.calibz arial font pitch txt.calibz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 thanks Ray appreciate it. Mick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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