CUT SECTIONS HEIGHTS

[mtldesigns]

I've been doing design for almost 40 years (geez, didn't realize I was that old), back in the drafting board days, and even with AutoCAD and Chief cad, when height of a object won't fit on a paper, we do cuts with cut lines (40 yrs and don't know what these are called, I just did them..).  Can we do this in Chief on a section view?  Duval County Florida is requiring a full section of every wall at 3/4" scale.  Well, you try to get a 3 story house at that scale in the vertical with dims.  So I was thinking and wondering if we had this possibility?  The only way I can figure this out in Chief is to stack the same view and just shrink each one and stack... 

[JKEdmo]

26 minutes ago, mtldesigns said:

I've been doing design for almost 40 years (geez, didn't realize I was that old), back in the drafting board days, and even with AutoCAD and Chief cad, when height of a object won't fit on a paper, we do cuts with cut lines (40 yrs and don't know what these are called, I just did them..).  Can we do this in Chief on a section view?  Duval County Florida is requiring a full section of every wall at 3/4" scale.  Well, you try to get a 3 story house at that scale in the vertical with dims.  So I was thinking and wondering if we had this possibility?  The only way I can figure this out in Chief is to stack the same view and just shrink each one and stack... 

 

Michael,

 

My first thought is I might try to do this with Layout boxes on the wall section sheet, each a box partial section (slice) of the full wall section.  I've done this a number of time in Autocad (Viewports) and always works pretty well.

 

Jim

 

[mtldesigns]

3 minutes ago, JKEdmo said:

Layout boxes on the wall section sheet, each a box partial section (slice) of the full wall section.

Exactly what I did Jim, that's what I was say in my  OP "The only way I can figure this out in Chief is to stack the same view and just shrink each one and stack..."  Kind of a pain but was pretty easy.  I know AutoCAD Plant 3D has this option, and the dims stay true... just was throwing it out there.

 

Thanks, glad to see others are working on a Saturday night too.

[JKEdmo]

23 minutes ago, mtldesigns said:

Thanks, glad to see others are working on a Saturday night too.

Who said I was working?

[CharlesVolz]

18 minutes ago, JKEdmo said:

Who said I was working?

 

BTW, I do it like Jim.