RSFike Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago We have had several plans drawn in Chief Architect by an outside contractor, while we are learning about this software. So far, all the plans 24x36 are to large to email. This is never an issue in AutoCAD and just wondering if this is typical or something we are doing wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwdozier Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago I use 24x36 PDFs out of Chief Architect exclusively and have never had an issue. You mentioned that the PDF was too large to email, what is the PDF file size? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proformacon Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago Check what DPI you’re printing at. Also, if you have a pdf site plan inside your layout or any pdfs you’ve dragged into it they can sometimes add a lot to the size of the prints. I have had plans that hit 100mb which is difficult to email but my email is connected to my iCloud so I can email any size and Apple auto cloud stores it for the client to download on their end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSFike Posted 16 hours ago Author Share Posted 16 hours ago We have been sending all our details like trim, foundation, framing ect...to them as PDF and they have incorporated these into the plans. Is there away around this. I think i remember the option of having our CAD drawings of the details to be added to the Chief file. Does this help the size. Thanks to both of you for your response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proformacon Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago 7 minutes ago, RSFike said: We have been sending all our details like trim, foundation, framing ect...to them as PDF and they have incorporated these into the plans. Is there away around this. I think i remember the option of having our CAD drawings of the details to be added to the Chief file. Does this help the size. Thanks to both of you for your response. If you have details in a DWG you can drag those into any chief plan file or chief layout file and resize them as needed. Doing this rather than dragging in a pdf with greatly decrease the plan pdf size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago Many email servers have a 25MB limit for attached files. To email files that are larger you have a couple of options: You can upload your files to Google Drive or Dropbox and then email a download link You can compress the files to a zipped folder. A new format is a 7z file which in my experience has more compression than a ZIP file. There will be limited benefit for a PDF with many embedded images. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSFike Posted 15 hours ago Author Share Posted 15 hours ago I will look into these. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago 1 hour ago, RSFike said: We have been sending all our details like trim, foundation, framing ect...to them as PDF and they have incorporated these into the plans. Is there away around this. I think i remember the option of having our CAD drawings of the details to be added to the Chief file. Does this help the size. I suspect that is the issue. I do 24x36 all the time with CA details, and only time I have issues is if there are like 10 RTRT images 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago Also, experiment with printing @ 144 DPI. For me, this provides acceptable print quality and saves lots of MB over time! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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