Michael_Gia

Sometimes the wall will rejoin. Copy the wall definition and give it another name so that the program won’t re-join it. That is, use the break wall tool to divide your wall up in plan view. Then click on one part of the wall and go to the wall definition. Copy it and give it a different name. Then it will stay disconnected and you can change the material to what you want.

Check out Rabbit Design's videos on Youtube. Especially the tips on "decals".

If it’s for exterior, then I would check out Twinmotion. Not sure if it’s still free however.

I’ve always just loved the look of vectorworks. really nice work!

There’s quite a few sites that have downloads for all kinds of street markings in cad format. Just import those into Chief?

Your fascia top heights should match if you want a clean roof plane join. If you drag your soffit in plan view by stretching the soffit edge instead of moving the roof plane then you'll change your fascia top height. Move the planes so they line up where you want in plan view first and then join the roof valleys. This way you won't be changing the fascia top height.

...next few months?

2 weeks and you already got a chimney cap and vent? Bravo. I'd send the plan or a modified plan keeping the problem area and deleting everything else. Somebody on here will provide the proper way to handle these issues and not simply a quick and dirty work around.

Unfortunately you are wrong sir. Scott Hall did a video about this a while ago. He exhausted all possibilities, and along with colourful language, he demonstrated that the horizontal aspect fails when you move the object you’re pointing to. You're demonstration only works if you are only moving the text box. (great video by the way, but please kill the music)

I'm able to dimension to all lines in your test.pln, even the terrain lines, so I'm not sure what you're having a problem with?

I really just wish that first part of the line could be locked at a horizontal angle regardless of how I move the text or the item I’m pointing to.

When you click on a line is it being highlighted as a polyline? If not then you probably just have a raster image, I'm guessing. Your conversion app might not really be producing vectors from the pdf source.

I think the real question is where your carpenters are placing the sill plate. This determines where your floor is built, which provides the ledge for your brick veneer, air space etc… My brick veneer usually overhangs past the foundation by at least 5/8”. But, of course this means you have to be careful that you dimension to the right layer if you want your exterior dimension of your foundation to agree with the floors above. (If you want to get picky)

Have you tried a scaled model in Lego?

Here’s the video. Skip to 17:43. Snappable extension lines and rotatable dimension values. Nice to see but they sure are bringing this stuff out one bread crumb at a time. https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/recordingView?webinarKey=6504698007979730955&registrantEmail=michaelgia%40me.com

Everyone taking about crickets and water issues etc. but nobody is mentioning that there needs to be a beam under that short wall to carry the brick. I get these conditions a lot in the homes I build. I’m actually thankful for these finishing anomalies in Chief because they are usually a red flag for something not built or designed right. You need a beam resting on your garage facade wall and span towards the back of the garage so the brick layer can build a short knee wall out of cement block to accommodate the brick veneer above the roof line. Of course as everyone mentions, waterproofing is delicate there but doable.

The room below on floor 1 is defined with an invisible wall in line with the railing wall above on floor 2. The room next to the railing room on floor 2 is designated as "open below" to get the cathedral ceiling. Build your floor and ceiling framing to the specs that reflect your construction. Open the Dialoge Box for the Room on floor 1 and delete the ceiling finish in the structure tab. This will expose those floor joists above.

I think he means Gothic-arch Barn. Same shape as Chief's Gothic arch window. Create Barrel Roof is your search query.

All very noble of you and you also provided OP with the right solution to his problem as you often do and I appreciate that as much as anyone. I just wish you guys in that upper clique on this forum would stop defending and do a little whining yourselves sometimes. Always coming to the defence of Chief isn’t scoring you any brownie points with them and it just keeps them from potentially working on our grievances. This of course is my perception all within the four walls of my brain so I might be imagining things... like someone in Chief is actually following along and taking notes, but that’s how I see it. This particular problem is huge and glaring. They should be ashamed to call the program chief Architect. Where’s the architect part, I’m asking myself sometimes? Chief Decorator, maybe?

Step 1) Let me generate a cross section so I can dimension and accurately locate an item on a different plane from the floor plan. Step 2) Let me generate another static 2D view of that newly generated cross section so I can now locate that item. Step 3) Let me copy a cad line or point from that newly generated static 2D view of that prior generated cross section view and paste it back into the 1st generated cross section view of that plan. Step 4) let me measure the distance of those 2 static points I copied to see where those 3d items were drawn that I was trying locate in the first place in that cross section. Step 5). All is normal and fine in Chief world. As long as we’re all alright with all of that then I guess I’m the crazy one.

This issue of not being able to snap a dimension line in a cross section or elevation view is sickening at this late stage of Chief’s development. An architectural drafting program that can’t locate stuff? “Oh, but let’s develop some more new useless pretty-picture-stuff. We can sell more subscriptions that way. Screw our existing customers. Sounds good boss.” Overheard at a Chief developers meeting, possibly.

In the Project Browser of the X12 Residential Template Plan.

You built your framing and then you moved that window over a smidgen, hence the framing poking through. rebuild the framing like Joey said above.

The image below is what I would prefer. Because that space between the top of the footing and the floor structure is actually buried in the floor structure and not obvious to everyone. Why not make it obvious? Right now you have to go back and forth to set your stemwall or do arithmetic before hand. I think the litmus test of any DBX is, "if the user has to do even the simplest arithmetic then the DBX has failed". I know seasoned Chiefers can snicker at newbies, but remember when you were in that position?

I think the only confusing item is the behaviour of the stemwall value. The fact that depending on which order you enter values in the “Relative Heights” section of the Dbx you get different results. Other than that, the newly introduced highlighting of the graphic when you hover your mouse over the input boxes pretty much demystifies the whole process. Still feels clunky though.