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10-23-2011, 11:52 AM #31Registered User Promoted
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Gary,
You holding out on me?
Please share this valuable info.
There are some excellent ideas being presented on here with regards to exporting to layout and adding CAD blocks, as well as custom polylines...etc.
This raises an entirely different issue.
Ease of revisions.
My Builders are notorious for approving a marketing plan only to e-mail me a day later w/ revisions. I dont not want to have to revise the floor plan, and then go back and revise added CAD blocks, layouts...etc.
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10-23-2011, 11:55 AM #32Registered User Promoted
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10-23-2011, 01:01 PM #33
For those not quite following what "orthographic top view" means, or how you get there:
Floor overview form the Ortho menu
Then from the 3D menu - View Direction - Top
Then from the Rendering Techniques button - Standard
And if you want to get really fancy - put some shadows on it using Final View with Shadows.
Yes, you have to add your own text. Send that image to a layout, and add your text.Wendy Lee Welton
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10-23-2011, 01:08 PM #34
And doors that you set to show as open in 3D will show as open.
Now this isn't to say I don't also wish we had something sexy that could be done quicker, with the room labels, to scale, etc. I agree with that wish. I'm just posting these so those who can't tell what the advanced users are talking about can get up to speed.
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10-23-2011, 01:09 PM #35
And hmmmm - not sure why my cabinets and furniture aren't shadowing...
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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10-23-2011, 01:17 PM #36
Doors can be shown open (but you still can not see a frame) and you can cheat, somewhat, and increase window frame depth; you can simulate a door somewhat by using a polyline w/fill slightly wider than the wall . Other than that I didn't say they are identical-- But pretty close. Your not going to win them all.
Wendy beat me to the trigger.Last edited by gteacher; 10-23-2011 at 01:23 PM.
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10-23-2011, 01:46 PM #37Wendy 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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10-23-2011, 03:50 PM #38Gary Doski
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10-23-2011, 04:54 PM #39Registered User Promoted
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10-23-2011, 05:04 PM #40D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
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10-23-2011, 07:11 PM #41Registered User Promoted
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Check out this prior thread (post #7) where Charles was able to do a remarkable floorplan all in Chief.
http://chieftalk.com/showthread.php?...render+overlayLen Dalton
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10-23-2011, 07:23 PM #42
I had forgotten about that one. Good idea to send them both to layout.
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10-23-2011, 09:00 PM #43Registered User Promoted
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I know I prattled on about cad boxes earlier but I cant help but believe that Erics view is totally cad based. Big thick lumpy lines, a bit of texture which Chief is totally capable of providing via the countless custom fills. Room polylines in back with the solid colour and custom fills in front with transparency checked if you want a floor. Erics dont have a floor. This has to be the way surely, and dont call me shirley.
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10-23-2011, 11:24 PM #44
Surely:
All symbols appear to be standard 2D SP symbols - including the cars. I found most of them without too much effort. They were painted with either a solid color or texture (pattern image) and I believe put on different layers to get the right color outline. The kitchen counter-tops look like they were drawn with the counter top tool -- maybe not. Don't know how the color gradations were done. This is definitely just standard stuff in SP.
AND ---- I STILL believe Chief's Ortho's look better.Gerry
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10-23-2011, 11:52 PM #45Registered User Promoted
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Last edited by Grantbd; 10-24-2011 at 12:19 AM.
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