JJohnson

51 minutes ago, SNestor said:

 

I just think it's all in the execution...I doubt there is any issue with the software.  

 

I drew a rafter tail is section...made the polyline match the roof pitch.  Drew the tail design.  Then, copied and rotated it so it was "level"...no longer at an 8/12 pitch.  Saved the tail design as a molding into the library.  I then selected this tail in the roof DBX and changed a few setting so that the fascia was plumb and attached a gutter.  
  

That's it!

2 hours ago, SNestor said:

 

I think the problem is in the way you drew the rafter tail molding profile.  See the attached pics.  

I modified the front edge of your "rafter tail" design...made it vertical and aligned the top and bottom edges so they finished in the same plane...applied it to your roof...reframed.  All looks good.  

 

  

But that gives us an angled facia, which would not easily receive rain gutters.

My first try I made the profile at the slope of the roof, and it showed up as half size.  Then

I rotated the drawing to horizontal to get what you see in my plan.

Whatever is going on, your try did overcome the gap situation, which I believe to be

related to sub facia empty space, and my not wanting sub facia, but you may not omit sub facia, just change it to 1/16".

Looking forward to hearing from CA.

Thank You !

J

7 minutes ago, SNestor said:

 

Just Create a new Annotation Set and Layerset...it's that simple.  Layersets control what is displayed...Annotation Sets control the color, size, font, of all text objects.  

Yes.  Create another layer set and call it Sketch Set, adjust layers to suit.

10 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

 

It only seems to come into play if you have a fascia board and if necessary you could compensate by using the profile extension setting.

 

Sorry it is the sub fascia that is causing the issue and yes that might be worth submitting to see what sort of comment you might get.

I did send it in, so we will see.

I try to show framing the way we do it here in CA (my area anyway) and we do not use sub facia anywhere.

Just 2x eves and gable end "barge" rafters with shadow boards to cover roof sheathing edge (covered by rain gutter on eves)

1 hour ago, solver said:

 

Plan on left done just now, right side done when rafter tails were first added to Chief.

 

Except for the profile, settings look to be the same. Tried several profiles today and all show the gap.

Interesting, think I will send the plan in to Chief.

11 hours ago, SNestor said:

 

I did a video on rafter tails sometime ago...maybe it’ll get you started. 

 

Very good, thank you.  Trying to get this down, but my new rafter tails do not seen to want to go all the way to the backs of my eve facia.

What am I missing ?

Park Tree Lane.plan for Chief Forum.plan

Well, lets not go overboard 

Link to article in Fine Home Building Mag

Stepping through an outward opening door onto

a dropped landing may be somewhat dangerous,

but more so than say stepping into and out of a 

bathtub ? 

Finally something definitive, from Marin County CA.

The entire document

Code clarification ?

1 hour ago, Greg_NY61 said:

R311.1 Means of egress.

Dwellings shall be provided with a
means of egress in accordance with this section. The means
of egress shall provide a continuous and unobstructed path of
vertical and horizontal egress travel from all portions of the
dwelling to the required egress door without requiring travel
through a garage. The required egress door shall open directly
into a public way or to a yard or court that opens to a public
way.

R311.2

Egress door. Not less than one egress door shall be
provided for each dwelling unit. The egress door shall be
side-hinged, and shall provide a clear width of not less than
32 inches (813 mm) were measured between the face of the
door and the stop, with the door open 90 degrees (1.57 rad).
The clear height of the door opening shall be not less than 78
inches (1981 mm) in height measured from the top of the
threshold to the bottom of the stop. Other doors shall not be
required to comply with these minimum dimensions. Egress
doors shall be readily openable from inside the dwelling without
the use of a key or special knowledge or effort.

Anything on landing heights ???

17 hours ago, CharlesVolz said:

Why "other than a door into a garage?"?

 

Agree. But I prefer that a door does not swing out over a floor or landing with more than the 1 1/2" drop floor-to-floor (regardless of threshold). It is not safe otherwise and should become a future change/clarification in the IRC.

I am mistaken about "other than a door into a garage".

On 8/3/2019 at 3:09 PM, Alaskan_Son said:

Just read through that other discussion you posted and there seems to be a pretty clear consensus that it’s fine.  Not sure I’ve seen any disagreement.  

Exactly

8 hours ago, dshall said:

 

I think the plan check comment is a max. 1" step down (difference between f.f. and landing). .....  I think the 1-1/2" is from top of threshold which might be 1/2" higher than f.f. . ......

 

What is the difference between 3.1 and 3.2?  If I have 10 exterior doors,  are some required and some not required?  Now I am getting in the weeds.

 

Sometimes I feel  I need a law degree to interpret the code book.

 

 

I know what you mean.  3.1 refers clearly to a required "egress door", and 3.2 refers to all other exterior doors.

I may ask the building officials for clarification.  There seems to be differing opinions on this matter.

On 8/3/2019 at 5:02 PM, mborean said:

Bizerkley did ban the flags at the direction of the Mayor.  I was a firefighter in the peninsula at the time and my brother/sister firefighters in Bizerkley were beside themselves.  We just lost 343 brothers in the towers for heaven's sake.  Banning natural gas is short sighted and just plain silly.  Us Californians who don't live on the coastal areas and who have no representation in state government seriously want to split the stat in two.

Fire fighters are indeed heroic men and women, and they saved countless buildings and lives here in Sonoma and Napa Counties

during the firestorms in Oct. 2017

But Berkeley did not ban flags at the direction of their Mayor, so far as I am able to ascertain.

This is what I have learned by searching and reading online

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fireban/

Or, read below.

Origins:   Fire trucks in Berkeley were stripped of their American flags by order of the fire chief, but the order was temporary and was prompted by a specific safety concern.

After the events of September 11, firefighters at all seven of Berkeley’s fire stations placed flags on the backs and sides of their engines to show solidarity with the missing firefighters and police officers in New York. Because a run on the supply of flags made smaller sizes difficult to obtain, firefighters used the flagpole-sized 4-by-6-foot flags the department had on hand to adorn their trucks.

On September 20, in anticipation of a Stop the War rally at University of California at Berkeley’s Sproul Hall Plaza (described as “the spot where countless protests have degenerated into burn-and-pillage free-for-alls, where rally-goers loot Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue stores, upturn vehicles and set fires”) Fire Chief Reginald Garcia ordered that flags be removed from fire trucks for the day in order to avoid making them the target of violence by anti-war demonstrators: 

Officials said they were trying to avoid a repeat of violence that occurred during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, when demonstrators hurled rocks and bottles at city firetrucks sporting American flags. This week, the flag atop the Berkeley post office was burned in an anonymous act of protest, they said.

(Garcia said that it was his command staff who issued the order without his knowledge after a meeting he did not attend, but that he “certainly didn’t rescind the order.”)

The concern was that the presence of large flags on fire trucks during the Stop the War rally might create situations under which firefighters were diverted from their primary duties: 

“Based on past experience, these flags may be inflammatory to people and provoke them to take the flag or whatever else,” said Berkeley Assistant Fire Chief David Orth. “I don’t want a firefighter defending a flag in lieu of fighting a fire or rescuing somebody.”

As things turned out, the department’s fears were unrealized:

The department’s concerns appeared to have been for naught. Not one fight broke out among the 2,500 or so anti-war protesters who converged on Sproul Plaza for yesterday’s noontime rally. In fact, the greatest tension came from a counterdemonstration’s chants of “U.S.A! U.S.A!” that drowned out those speaking at the rally

Origins:   Fire trucks in Berkeley were stripped of their American flags by order of the fire chief, but the order was temporary and was prompted by a specific safety concern.

May an exterior door that swings out, that is not the designated egress door, have a landing

dropped more that 1 1/2" , other than a door into a garage ?

I would like to be able to have more of a drop down at an outward swinging 

stacking door set..

Has anyone needed to have this clarified, and if so what was the result ?

This is a link to one discussion I came across.

Building Code Forum - Exterior Door Swing 0 Landings

Attached is a pdf of the relevant pages from the 2016 CRC Code

Page 110, 111 CRC.pdf

14 hours ago, Rich_Winsor said:

 

 Even a blind pig finds an occasional acorn.

 

Berkeley was also the first town to ban the

Fire Dept. from having U.S. flags on their

fire engines. 

 

Don't believe that ban has been universally 

adopted.

If you check that story out, like google it, you will learn that

it was not the town, but fire department officials and it had to 

do with keeping a low profile for the department when they

needed to standby at an antiwar rally.

Yours Truly, "Blind Pig" Johnson

7 hours ago, Greg_NY61 said:

Soon CA will ban toilet paper... Nothing surprises me what's coming out of CA no wonder people run from there.

Berkeley was the first town to ban smoking in restaurants.

Now the ban is most everywhere.

10 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

Almost instantaneous on my system as well. 

Under one second for me too.

See specifications below

On 4/22/2019 at 1:29 PM, K80Guy said:

Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong spot but does anyone have any insight into spiral stairs.  I'm working on a project that I want to put a set of spiral stairs leading from the main floor deck to the lower level walk-out.  Customer doesn't want traditional stairs due to their size and they don't want to ruin the look.  I've looked through tutorials but mostly talks about using the 3D spiral set in the catalog.

 

Thanks for the help or information.

There are dozens here...........

3D Warehouse Collection of Spiral Staircases

Some are pretty clunky, but you might find the style you 

want as a reference for someone  to build on.

Check Chief's web site for product comparisons.

Product Comparisons

Looks like Pro 2020 can PBR, but not raytrace

On 6/18/2019 at 9:18 AM, Renerabbitt said:

here's a staircase detail i drew up;

staircase detail.calibz

Good job.  I think it may be more clear on headroom if

the clearance included what we used to call the tangent

Tweaked version, 

Also, not sure 7' required at landing.

Anyway, thank you for sharing the detail.

28 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

specifically for takeoffs and electrical.

I have my auto interior dims set on a layer called takeoffs and a very light grey dimension string. when I select on an architectural component to adjust its location CA uses the color I've set to highlight the dimension strings that can control that architectural feature. It's a very efficient way of doing as-builts for me.

I have auto interiors in my electrical set to find electrical fixtures...works well for me.

Notice the light grey dims that are not active when selecting a wall to be moved...when I'm done, I turn off the takeoffs layer:

Nice.  Things to try.  

Thanks

17 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

it still works for all rooms, i have auto interior dimensions in my toolbars and it works as it always did

Why would you want it to ?  Every room gets about 6 strings....

I prefer room by room.  

51 minutes ago, Christhebuilder said:

I don't have the option for auto interior dimensions available in the dimension drop down menu. Am I missing a setting that makes its available? Auto exterior is there, NKAB is there, Just not auto interior. What am I missing? 

It has been changed to a room only option.  When you select a room, you will 

see auto int dim in the edit menu.

All rooms at same time was too much.

1 hour ago, dshall said:

 

Nope,  he wanted the decking.  I started with the dex-o-tex.

 

BTW,  This is in the middle of La Jolla but just so happens to have a bit of natural canyon behind it so it needs to be 1-hour.  The house two doors down recently had a huge deck put on and they used Trex decking.  Why can they use Trex and I can't?  I do not know.

 

I am really getting burned out with the land mines I am always seeming to step in.

 

Recently went to submit a project,  a new unit on a lot with an existing house (zoned for the extra unit),  and the submittal was rejected because I did not have a landscape and irrigation plan.  I have never had that happen unless it was for a CDP.....  which I thought would be needed.....  but nope,  for some unknown reason,  the owner says we will not need one,  he even checked with the city.  

 

Oh well,  if it was too easy,  the owners would do this themselves and I would not have a job .

Scott,  check the Cal Fire website, State Fire Marshall's Building Materials Listing Program to see

if a product is approved by them.

Here

State Fire Marshall Building Materials Listing Program

I am using IPE and have the approval from SFM

2053-0100.PDF