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  1. #16
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    Okay, well, while I'm on a roll, you can use a similar technique with the sand fill pattern to "gray out" parts of an elevation if you want the new area to be emphasized. This creates sort of an interesting stipple line style. Adjusting the lineweight of the fill and/or spacing will let you adjust the density of "gray".
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    I like that one too. That would be a fast way to differentiate an addition among other things. I will add the grey out box to my collection. Are you keeping any more good ones from us Richard?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChiefCanada.com
    Are you keeping any more good ones from us Richard?
    I don't know. Which ones don't you have?
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    I don't know what else you have. Feel free to post some more.
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    Hidden foudation

    Richard
    Thanks for the great tip on changing my foundation to hidden lines.
    Now maybe I can start using the sheet layouts instead of sending my drawings to Autocad.
    That was a big issue for me that I could not get around.

    Rob and Louis taught me alot at the training seminar in Kitchener last year and informed me of this great site. It sure has given me more light as to what CA can do.

    Louis, yes I realize how quick this is now. I have only been using CA to get the model and elevations and then sending it to Autocad where I have an incredibly fast way of doing my working drawings, but know that keeping it in CA could even be faster and allow for easier changes.

    Thank You all for all you help with this and all the other tips I have viewed.

    Brian Clairmont

    P.S. hopefully the next training seminar will complete my transition over from Autocad to CA.

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    hopefully the next training seminar will complete my transition over from Autocad to CA.
    That is the goal Brian! Many of your Astuff tricks can be applied in CA. I have now made a custom icon pointing to the angle hatch poly that lives in my library for a one click application of the hidden line. I also have an icon for a "whiteout" box (among other things).
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    Bump..
    Worth bring back..
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    Thanks for the bump, Allen C.

    I hadn't heard this one before, and I think I like it!
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  10. #25
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    RICHARD!!!!!!!!!!

    That greying out thing almost got by me - but I absolutely love it. I knew about the foundation wall trick, and my poor little brain never thought to apply the same theory elsewhere. Fabulous. Thank you a gazillion times.
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    I wrote code in 1984 to make my Sinclair 100 - so I used to be a programmer! So I can say with authority how easy it is to program Chief features! ;-)

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    YOUDAMAN Richard,

    This is the tip I have been wishing for

    WOW,
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    I bumped it for the new people,seems like the old timers missed things too ..
    .........

    Allen Colburn Jr.
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  13. #28
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    You callin' me old? I represent that!

    btw - love your signature tag
    Wendy Lee Welton
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    I wrote code in 1984 to make my Sinclair 100 - so I used to be a programmer! So I can say with authority how easy it is to program Chief features! ;-)

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    I think we should have a "best unintended but brilliantly sneakily fabulous tip" contest - and CA should give the winner a T-shirt. Heck, maybe I'll make the T-Shirt. Um - in my spare time. Never mind. Maybe a virtual T-shirt...
    Wendy Lee Welton
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    603-431-9559

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    I wrote code in 1984 to make my Sinclair 100 - so I used to be a programmer! So I can say with authority how easy it is to program Chief features! ;-)

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    Wendy
    I would never lie and say you are old ..
    Are there going to be tip categories?
    Plan tips,render tips,symbol tips..

    Best ramp building tip?
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    Allen Colburn Jr.
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    Residential Design Drafting/Framer

    Drafter for:
    http://www.artformhomeplans.com/

    Chief Architect X4






 

 

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