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10’x10’ room with 9’ ceiling, you agree should be 460sq.ft. 

Material list for the entire floor ofwich there is only this one room, yields 16 sheets of 4’x8’ drywall = 512sq.ft. 

So where does the difference come from? 

(Also it still boggles the mind that a material list for the room only yields just the ceiling as a calculation for drywall on the room. Why?)

57 minutes ago, gelbuilding said:

The material list gives you all you need plus more.

Generate your material list and you have it all, without the need of any forumulas.

I’ve tried this with a 10’ x 10’ room and did not get accurate results. 

Have you tried this and compared with actually calculating materials manually?

I must be doing something wrong because I’ve never been able to get drywall calculated accurately with the materials list. 

Material list polyline stretched past the midpoint of the walls I want to include is the closest (but no cigar) method out of the box as far as I can tell. 

I double check this with room polylines for every room and closet that includes a label for which I have a crude macro in the form of:

“perimeter.round/12*9 + area.round” 

that formula returns square feet for 9 foot ceiling of which I have a similar formula for 8 and 10 foot ceilings. Only because I’m not smart enough to include the “ceiling height” calculation. 

I realize that the ruby gurus are probably laughing, and I don’t blame them but shouldn’t Chief have a more straight forward way to calculate drywall?  It’s probably the most basic metric upon which nearly all contractors use to quote on a job. 

Nice lighting and shadow reflection of tree on brick along with the tree's reflection in window.

I'm guessing PBR will be the main focus.

Is it 6:30 Coeur D'Alene time?

Another cause of random toolbar issues is the use of multiple monitors or if you use a laptop to run multiple monitors. 

I found that mixing different size monitors has an effect on overall toolbar stability. 

Priority seems to be:

1) number of processor cores

2) ssd card mandatory 

3) 16gigs minimum. 

4) video card compatibility trumps video card memory. 

Multiply those factors by as much money as you can afford in that order. 

6 minutes ago, robdyck said:

 

Legislation creates opportunity. Makes one appreciate every time the code gets a bit more complicated.

As a builder and land developer I don’t like this sentiment.  Canada is the champion in over legislation and an invasive environmental department. I always envied the general American sentiment of smaller government and less legislation. 

I think you have to think like a lawyer. 

That is, work with retainers, if you can. Otherwise a contract is only worth the paper it’s written on. 

Not bold enough to sign up for beta. Especially on a Mac. 

Yes, they announced the beta mid December, I believe. This is what I find strange since there’s been no other news or teasers. It’s not like other years. 

Hey All,

Usually betas are announced middle of January and new realseases, middle of February. But their are usually previews of the next release by now. 

Why so quiet on the Chief front?

Am I a little too anxious?

Seems strange. Anyone else find it odd?

Here’s the video for those interested. 

Great video, thanks for posting.  

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6045/chic-cottage-building-project-part-12-foundations.html

8 hours ago, SNestor said:

I did a video showing how to construct a "Gull Wing" roof automatically...no manual roofs.  I'm not expert...so, maybe someone will chime in and "critique"?  

Hope it helps...

 

 

You’re videos are really well made!

thanks!

21 hours ago, Electromen said:

I have a Mac Pro, purchased in 2017

3.5 GHz, 6 core, Xeon E5

16 GB mem

Dual AMD FirePro D500 3MB each

250GB SSD

 

If you want me to test you plan, let me know.

Greg

 

 

Have you ever used a MacBook Pro?

If so, how does the MacPro compare?

11 hours ago, builtright3 said:

Tough Crowd!

Grumpy old men still hung over after Christmas...lol 

Insert?

4 hours ago, rwdozier said:

Check out what it says here:

 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/offers/

 

For the lazy, if you click the link, Chief has plastered the page with this... "*Chief Architect X11 release scheduled for Q1 2019"

I personally get the feeling it's going to be a pretty big upgrade along with an interface overhaul to hopefully get away from the early 2000's cartoonish look we're sporting now.

(just my spider senses tingling, that is)

See this post....

Ok I’ll let the genie out of the bottle. 

We we all know what OP is referring to, and I think it’s a great idea.  There are recurrent issues, bugs, necessary work-arounds that we all navigate through on a regular basis, because the software isn’t perfect. I don’t expect it to be. 

However, all of the training videos from Chief show the perfect world where everything works out as planned. 

They rarely point out potential and common issues, because although the videos are meant to be instructional, Chief is always selling. 

I don’t blame them for that either. 

It would be nice to have some videos for common problems and workarounds but who has time for this?

So I think, as Scott mentioned, just post your plan with a short description of the problem and someone will answer in less than an hour. 

Looks like you’re not using the “join roof” tool and instead are just joining the roof planes in plan view. 

This is also why you are getting those “soffit/fascia” flying out into space elsewhere in your attached photo. 

Roofs also need walls to properly join under them. If walls are not aligned all the way down to your foundation you can get freakish results. 

Also try to use attic walls to fill up your gables, don’t just drag the walls that are on the floor below to fill up the space. Attic walls allow for frieze and shadow boards to behave properly. 

Chief just sits nicely between the ease of use of Sketchup and the productivity of Revit or Archicad. 

It’s never going to be more but that’s good enough for residential home building. 

I know that might sound like an apology but my praise for Chief is limited to the renewal of my SSA and the actual initial purchase of the program. Beyond that I won’t get on the Chief fanboy bandwagon because there’s a lot that needs to improve, and if I’m paying they better be listening.  

Regarding crown molding gaps, it's true that you can get some gaps which are easily fixable with a little silicone and paint.

I get it though, everyone wants to buy a house that is guaranteed, no-maintenance-and-no-defects-for-as-long-as-you-own-the-house-or-your-money-back, but that's not realistic.

To minimize this effect quite a bit I alway tell my sheetrock installer to NOT screw the edge of the sheets where they meet an exterior wall, just allow the tape to hold it (plaster joint). 

It ain't going to get up and walk away on you. This will allow the trusses to lift the sheetrock up and down as walls settle or roof trusses bow etc...

Either way this is far less an inconvenience than the problems that will arise if the attic is not vented and insulated properly.

As far as Chief roofs are concerned though, I wish that "raise off plate", feature in the roof dialogue box actually worked in relation to the pitch.  

That is I have to use a table of values for each pitch and corresponding height in order to determine how high I have to set this value.

Why can't I just set the "absolute height" for my soffit, or fascia or any other part of the eave?  Why have a value for the ridge height anyway?  Ridge height is a function of span and pitch.  Let me determine where my eave sits and the rest will follow.  Ridge height will be shown in elevations with the story pole dimensions.

I guess this should be in the suggestions section of the forum.

I never understood Chief’s insistence on rafter style roof systems.

Maybe it’s because I’m in the northeast, but aren’t the most common roof trusses, Howe style?

That is, a truss that cantilevers over the top plate and extends 16” to 24” inches past the exterior wall with a soffit that is parallel to the ground, to create the eave?  This way you also have a healthy heel for insulation and venting?

I feel Chief was designed to build roofs for log cabins in the desert. 

I always have have to take a cross section to measure how much I need to raise my roof so that the bottom chord/joist sits on top of my top plate of the exterior walls. 

I guess I’m venting...

3 hours ago, SNestor said:

 

Made a quick video showing how to accomplish using Pony Walls...hope it helps

 

 

 Nicely done video, guy.

Thanks!

I would bring my deck to come out and over the top of the lower wall and add a railing. 

Then you could just drain with a gutter and downspout. 

Membrane as if if you were building a flat roof. That way whatever you throw on top is just for decoration - tiles, trex, cedar planking, heck even a Persian rug!

Also, often overlooked and a real weak spot is how the waterproofing is done around the patio door. (If you get snow where you are, that is).