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Woops forgot about the 2nd and 3rd floors, give me a minute

here it is with a slab floor. Study the settings

Labri House Design fixed.plan

Ron

You had some nice hand, I remember back in the day, when I went to computers, people hated those generic looking computer drawings, now they love them. I actually lost a few clients but told them to get with it or use someone else. Eventually they all came back. I used to shadow the elevations by hand vs. the bland lines.

You will also need the title 24 energy calc's for permit.

Glen, Genius, you are the man.

 All these programs do is make the work a little easier

 

Michael:

 

yep, that is the goal....

 

Lew

A little easier? How about a lot easier. Any of you that remember what hand drawing was will understand.

Your using a 3d molding symbol in vector view , they look like that, but not in render view.

To bad ,I just gave my hp 430 away to whoever wanted to pick it up.

Today I put an SSD drive in my computer, took about a couple of hours and WOW!! It is very fast, faster then I have ever seen. You guys gota try this one, if you want more speed. I got a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO. very easy process, anyone can do it, they give you all the software needed.

I one happy GUY NOW. My wife better watch out.

I just watched the video demo of the Disto D5. Then I wiped the drool from my keyboard.

I know, that happened to me, so I purchased  it. With the black on white screen and the color camera ,I can actually read the numbers on the screen without a problem.  In the past, some of the other models were very hard to read correctly, of course I'm old and eyesight is questionable. No more mistakes with this one

Glen, you are the master of figuring things out, I know I appreciate what you do here. I also learn something everyday. Chief should pay you to be here.

Disto for me. The camera alone makes it worth the price. You can zoom to see exactly what you are measuring to. I use it all the time to see exact position for property lines outside on a sunny day, with most other devices, you can't see the little red dot.

http://www.appraiserslaser.com/laser-distance-meters/disto-distance-meters.html

I don't want Chief to develop more cad tools, I want Chief to concentrate on making the 3d model better and faster for everyone.

Scott has a really nice video on his YouTube channel (dshall)

We've found an example of some of things that next versions of Chief must have..... The needed tools come from Revit MEP. The program has a demo file showing 3D duct work and light cover boxes etc...... MEP by the way stands for Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing......most all the tools offered in MEP are not available to us as Chief users...... many of these things are now required to meet the 2012 Codes......if your not doing the drafting/design someone has to provide this in area's that the require the information for permits under the 2012 and above code....... this is not going to go away! 

 

Andy, we as design / builders and try and use the material list.... if you only note the items on a schedule they want show up in the material list. Same thing goes for drip-dege on roofs if it's not there in the drawing it for sure want show-up on the material list as well as other required items. We probably will move programs if things that we need are not offered.

 

Blessings,

Kevin

Hvac and Electrical load drawings are just not required here in good old So. Cal. for Residential and never has. We are working under the 2013 CBC, CRC codes. Commercial --yes.  We are the meca of code country here, codes and codes everywhere. but none of that. Anyway, if they were, I'd have an experienced Hvac or Mechanical Engineer do it.

Perry, I'm curious, what is a Curb Box and Curb Height you mentioned.  In our area those terms are used by the water company for street shut offs.

Here it is

While your in the neighborhood, go see St. Andrews, Take a pic and just say , you played it.

Scott, No ,I haven't golfed in 5 years now , all my friends left town. I not sure I can even do it anymore.

Scott, you gone for 2 weeks?

I got Joe coming to see me tomorrow, we will talk about you.

still not there, you must close the plan before you send it.

I got that from you a long time ago, then Chief chimed in and said the lower the number the harder Chief has to work.

If you use a grid snaps, set it to 1/4" and not any lower. Do you really want 1/32" dimension's in your plan, not me. A very low setting will tax Chief b/c of the extra decimal points needed to figure everything out within the program.

Curb height is controlled by the top of curb box, put it wherever you want, it looks a little high to me. Change the wall type to get block

If you are using grid snaps, set them to like 1/4". That I find works good b/c since a typ. wall is 3.5", it will snap with better alignment. Any smaller

will tax you computer(extra decimals) and Chief, and some big jobs could overload the system.

Curt

I also start all my plans with a test , I will draw a standard box, then setup whatever roof in going to use and set all the roof defaults, Then set all the other defaults, delete it, and start laying out my floor.

I like working the roof out first.