Room Definition

[petesteck]

How do you define rooms without an invisible wall? My dining, kitchen, living are all one space but with different ceilings. I used invisible walls but it screws up base boards and bleeds through soffits. I would attach a screen shot but do not know how to do that either...

[lbuttery]

How do you define rooms without an invisible wall


You can't ....

Lew

[WendyWelton]

You have to use invisible walls. If you're then having problems with baseboards, turn them all off (by making 0" high) and create manually with a Molding Polyline. You'll have to adjust it manually when you change room sizes, but that's faster than banging your head against the wall, giving yourself a concussion and having to go to the hospital!

[sherpa_jones]

Try drawing a railing and switching it to invisible. Works in X2, not sure about your version. Hey, what version are you using anyway? Sometimes it matters.

[Allen42acj]

Hello Pete.
I know this one..
On the invisible wall, check invisible beam..

There are good tutorials here and one to post a picture here..
http://www.lfcompany.com/chief_tutorials.php

[dshall]

Hello Pete.
I know this one..
On the invisible wall, check invisible beam..

There are good tutorials here and one to post a picture here..
http://www.lfcompany.com/chief_tutorials.php

Allen, what is the difference between an invisible beam and an invisible wall. Do they behave differently? Is there another scenario where you would use an invisible beam. I thought CA is discouraging the use of the invisible beam. I have never used it, can you tell me how you use it? Thanks.

[Allen42acj]

Scott
That's left over from 3D home Architect days.
I had not used them in a long time.
Tried it this morning and the baseboard did not get effected, not sure is ceiling edge molding will.

[poelcat]

I wish Chief would implament this the way Archicad does. In Archicad you simply draw a closed polyline and define it as an area. That way there is no possable conflicts in the structure and you can color these areas without a white space between.

[Rhodes Drafting]

You have to use invisible walls. If you're then having problems with baseboards, turn them all off (by making 0" high) and create manually with a Molding Polyline. You'll have to adjust it manually when you change room sizes, but that's faster than banging your head against the wall, giving yourself a concussion and having to go to the hospital!

Why should we have to go throught the trouble of manually fixing the baseboard. It's been a glitch forever. Chief should just fix it. Frustrating.

[alexsl]

What is frustrating how something INVISIBLE can be such a visible pain...

And a pain it is, sometimes!

[dshall]

What is frustrating how something INVISIBLE can be such a visible pain...

And a pain it is, sometimes!

Can you give us an example of this problem. I am not sure I have experienced this, maybe I have.

[Rhodes Drafting]

[alexsl]

Scott,

You don’t recall any problems with invisible walls cutting into base molding?

Lucky…

[Rhodes Drafting]

See attached...

[Allen Brown]

You could fill it in with a polyline solid. Yes, another work-around.