JJohnson

okay so I made a plan did every easy part then I started to make a deck I made it then I  made the front a gable wall then I automatically made a roof and it shows a gable roof but no wall between the both roof halfs and I tried many ways searched on youtube and everything and I don't know what to do please help me

Would not that be an attic wall ( fills in between roof halves on a gable end )

Are attic walls checked to display in 'Layer Display Options"?

Go to attic floor and check the wall to make sure it is not checked to be "invisable"

I draw existing walls without poche and I poche proposed walls.

What is cast iron baseboard ?

That looks so good !  Especially the shadow's soft edges.

I usually wait a while to upgrade but may not be able to now !

Yes please show settings . . . .

Thanks !

Brian,

 

Try this nifty command, I think it is exactly what you are looking for.

In plan view, 3D...Remove 3D.

 

It will delete any unsaved cameras and close (but not delete) any saved cameras. 

 

 

 

Love it   Thanks !!

If that were the case, you should get a warning.

Yep

Guess we need the plan to help instead of guess

I seam to have lost the ability to change and rebuild the overhang and pitch of my automatically generated roofs??  When I change the pitch and overhang settings the roof does not change to the settings just set.  Do I have something set wrong somewhere else that would override the settings?  Isn't this suppose to automatically redo the roof with the new settings?

Are roof planes and overhangs unlocked in 'Display Options" ?

They need to be unlocked to change.

Hi guys,  thanks for your support on this issue.  CA rarely listens to one voice,  but with all of your help,  I am sure they will now listen.

 

I live in SOCAL,  and we do a lot of Spanish and Mediterranean houses that sometimes have arches meeting in a corner with a wood column supporting the columns and I have had a difficult time modeling this.  

 

We can build this out of solids or psolids or maybe cabinets or soffits maybe or slabs, but I have been told the best way to model this would be to model as it is built, thus, I would like to build these arches out of walls.

 

So  with the new corner window option,  this is possible,  however in plan view,  the cad block for the windows is not right,  so I suggest we have corner door openings,   (thanks again for your support on this).

 

Maybe CA will read this and realize that again that did the job halfway and fix this for X9.

 

A special thanks to Joe Carrick for his  help with this.

That looks so much like SketchUp

Restart ? (CA first then computer if need to)

Use point to point dimension tool

Start where you want to, draw the line to any length but hit tab before you release the mouse button.

Enter the length you want in the Y position, click OK and you have it.

Otherwise the model must be exact.

Purchased a new machine this week and am now ready to start uploading software. I have only used my old PC to design using Chief but now have a laptop with a 17" screen that I can design on as well. I've looked through the video library for a video on how to change between the two platforms but can't find anything. Anyone got a link, or can give me a quick run down on how to do this?

You can have the program on two computers but may only use it on one at a time, unless you buy a second seat.

On the machine it is working on, go to Help menu and select "Deactivate License".

The program will then open on the other machine.

He attached the layout, not a printed copy of the plans.  Open that same layout and do a save as PDF through the print DBX and see what you get.  Even worse...have a whole set of plans printed up with those settings before you figure out whats going on. 

Yeah I see what you mean

You guys did inspire me to fool with the vent symbol.

Opened it and bounding box thickness from 8 to 4" which made the thing

look right in section.The look is good now.

Thanks

The one in library looks great in view but awful in section

Is there one somewhere that looks like the real thing, a nail on - no frame, ?

I would be willing to buy one.

Changing the margins is best.  If you try to print with the margins set like they were none of the title blocks would print. 

But they did print.  Otherwise how could he have posted his example.

YOU figured it out? I see.

He could have unchecked "See Drawing Sheet in View"

Which way is best ?

Thanks for this thread. I am in the middle of the same thing, and need direction too.

There are several places to adjust the stem; room, wall, default and DBXs ,that seem to overlap.

I finally zoomed in and changed the garage stem over and over until it was where I wanted it,

and then dragged footings to same level as main floor.

Most problems were where where there are common walls, between garage and house,

and between house and stoop,

Things seem to change on their own at times.

Interesting

Just found downloaded and placed in plan

Thanks !!

 

Jere, related to this, are you familiar with the new flat Velux solar tube? Very nice. The same workings but a flat glass exterior. I recently installed one at my house. It does cost a bit more but the aesthetic boost might be worth it to the client.

I prefer the flat look also. They put out (in?) an amazing amount of light.

Velux also has nice accessories like the light fixture that fits into the tube.

Jere there are some in there just can't find them know but I am attaching one that I found if this helps

Thank you too, appreciated

Search "Solar Tube" or download the "Energy Sources" bonus lib.

 

jon

Got it thanks !

Do we have one in core or bonus lib.s?

Velux preferred

You will need this

Look up ' A Pattern Language ' by Christopher Alexander.

"A wise old owl of a book, one to curl up with in an inglenook on a rainy day.... Alexander may be the closest thing home design has to a Zen master."--The New York Times

 

Ok, I'm starting to sneak up on understanding how chief works... Just barely!

What I'm seeing is that objects belong to a level, and the only way to display things from a different level is to use reference sets. Please let me know if this is correct. And if so, is there any exceptions to the rule?

What I'm getting at is this.. I do a lot of very complex homes where walls don't stack and posts and hold downs sometimes go to the foundation, and sometimes get headed off and new posts carry the loads down, etc. sometimes I will have a steel post that starts at the foundation and is continuous thru various floors all the way up to the roof framing.

What I absolutely NEED out of a drafting program is a way to see how posts and hold downs stack compared to each level of the house. When I frame a house I always start at the roof, drop in posts where I can for roof beams, then I go down a level and if a post is over an open area I head it off with a beam and add new lower posts, if it's in a wall I consider the post continuous and go down to the next level, etc until I get to the foundation.

So, all that being said, what are my options in chief?

So far what I'm coming up with is using the 0 level for grids and use it as my ref set so I can show the same grids on each level to help make sure nothing is out of wack. If I was drawing in 2d I could put the posts on the ref set also and handle continuous vs discontinuous with different post layers. But I don't think that will work because the posts need to interact. So there's my issue. What do you guys think, and how do you handle posts that go across multiple levels?

In 2014, I constructed a five level hillside house. There were lots of stacking posts that

called for 60" MSTs connecting floor to floor, plus window and door openings to align.

I took wall elevations showing framing, and stacked then in layout view to figure it out.

Not sure where my final drawing is now, but this one shows how it was working.

Every Adobe Reader has the ability to take a snapshot of the pdf.

 

Click on the camera icon, and then right click on the screen after it takes a "snap shot". 

 

Then you can paste an image file into your drawing rather than the over-sized pdf file.

 

Thanks for that tip, so much faster than taking screenshot, opening and editing in Paintshop, savins

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