StephenGreene

i made a carousel once, just for fun. or at least started one. never did get around to adding horses. kinda neat to see it spin around in camera view.

On 11/20/2020 at 9:07 AM, Michael_Gia said:

Archicad. 

seriously considering it.

17 hours ago, Rich_Winsor said:

 

 

I too like to 'dress the scene' with a combination

of both 2D images and 3D objects. Here is a 100%

Chief image I have been playing with recently. All

of the items in the 'debris field' were created in

this manner. In this case the main point of adding

the debris was to disguise the transition between

the terrain and the backdrop. 

 

BTW, bonus points are available if you can spot

the dragonfly in the scene.

very nice! your dragonfly appears to be a Four-spotted Pennant.

On 3/21/2020 at 4:05 PM, robdyck said:

Waste lumber is not dependent on the measurements of the building but rather on the skill of those doing the building. Believe it or not, I framed many 2000 to 4000 sq ft houses with only a single 6 yard dumpster of scrap. In large custom homes, there is a place to use almost every cutoff of either lumber or sheet goods. 

In simple tract homes, optimization of dimensions becomes more important.

Same here. Me and my crew often would frame a house and the scraps would barely fill a couple of wheelbarrows, while the crew next door would have enough scrap to fill a roll-off dumpster. And I've seen drywall hangers and bricklayers that were just as bad (or good).

yes, thanks to all!

5 hours ago, SNestor said:

I gave it a shot...but I agree with comments above.  Start from scratch...this roof is a disaster.  Here's my plan file if you want to see what I did...Designer100 - Plan Fix Roof 01.zip
@Designer100 Newel - I didn't see your design comments above so this may not work for you. 

 

Also...there are a lot of little things wrong with the plan also.  Walls that don't align....etc.  I also fixed the tray ceiling.  

That looks better than I ever thought it could, but I think I'd eliminate that weird floating half-gable and just hip that to match the original roof.

post the plan and someone will help you.

8 minutes ago, Michael_Gia said:

A MacBook that you have an external monitor connected to and often take it on the road?

 

If that’s the case then I’m special. 

No, I do not use an external monitor.

I operate a Mac and have yet to encounter this problem. 

On 4/7/2020 at 6:58 PM, Michael_Gia said:

Unless you’re framing your own home, I don’t see the savings benefit of not going with manufactured roof trusses. 
 

Allowing a carpenter to build rafters on site for a decently sized home is costing you money in time wasted, mistakes, and questionable on site structural guess work. 
 

I don’t get it. This is why I don’t see why a program like Chief, which is so well suited to sending plans off to a Truss manufacturer, isn’t more geared to prefab roof trusses instead of onsite rafters. 

As someone who has framed hundreds of homes in the last 35 years, I've probably used trusses on less than 15-20 of those. The primary reason being most were complicated, multi-pitch, cut-up, hip roofs with rooms of varying heights. Yes, I know even those type houses *can* be trussed, but if I were putting it together, I'd charge 5X versus what i would for stick-framing. Most all of the truss homes we've done had rooms with long, clear spans or cathedrals where stick-framing. just wasn't a viable alternative.

1 hour ago, BuilderCT said:

Good evening, 

I am in the process of designing a barn and am having trouble with a couple items. 

• The two main roof planes are showing up at different ridge heights.  Not sure if this is a roof issue or a wall height issue causing the problem.  On the second floor I was trying to have the finished floor in the Apartment area be one step (Two risers) lower than the Office area floor.  
• Also, there seem to be some issues with walls and rake/fascia details in the back of the barn near the Lean-To area.  I cannot figure out why the perspective full overview of this area shows areas where the siding is not present and am having trouble aligning the the fascia trim to stop at the bottom of the roof valley.  Instead the fascia runs past the valley toward the Lean-To. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!  I’m using Chief Architect Pro 2020.

 

Jarrett

Waterside_Barn_Plans_Concept.plan

the baseline on one of your roof planes is about 18" away from the wall. to match the other plane it needs to be moved in to the wall. the issue above your lean-to is an attic wall. pull the shed roof back to meet the wall and it will disappear. also, the second floor wall on the front is misaligned with the wall on the bottom.

On 1/15/2020 at 10:58 AM, ChiefUserBigRob said:

Totally agree. I have a shotgun house right now that will not fit on 24x36 at 1/4"=1'-0".

i get these fairly often. I either rotate the plan so as front door is facing right or print them to E-size paper.

11 minutes ago, handyman25 said:

Hi I am trying to build a stair case going down to the basement but the head clearance is to low do to the basement ceiling . Is there any advice you can give me to slope or angle the stair ceiling to allow proper head clearance?

would be best to post a plan. otherwise, it's just conjecture.

i'm not trying to pick on anyone as i'm sure it's just a regional thing, but where i'm from, everyone generally considers a footing to be the bottom part of a foundation and a footer to be a block of text at the bottom of a document.

17 hours ago, Hammer7 said:

Hello,

 

I created a new plan from an existing foundation and then made lots of little changes along the way.  I deleted some auto generated attic walls and tried to build the roofs and I have a really unusual shape to the roof.  Can anyone explain how that program would have generated something so unusual?  

CONTI_10_IRIS_12_30.19.plan

Like KBird said...the program is doing just what you "told" it to do. I have no idea what you wanted the roof to look like, but I drew up one version and cleaned a LOT of other things in the plan.

CONTI_10_IRIS_12:31:19.plan

All i want for Christmas is some stairs that work right. The end.

1 minute ago, Chopsaw said:

 

Nice Work Stephen.  There is more than just one thing wrong there.  Why a connected exterior wall cannot maintain the room definition defies explanation.  Unless someone has a reasonable explanation for this behavior it should likely be sent in to tech support for analysis.

thanks, Chop. i replaced it with a porch beam and it worked fine. no idea why it wouldn't work with a room divider.

there is a room divider that is causing your problems. remove it and the odd circle wall disappears.

my 2017 macbook pro is doing fine. never an issue. but i haven't upgraded to Catalina either.

14 hours ago, DavidJPotter said:

Steven Green, here is what I found

DJP

Thanks, David. I tried to duplicate the odd behavior in one of my own plans but was unsuccessful. However, i did discover that eliminating the outermost exterior wall layer on Bob's plan solved the problem. 

I was just looking at Bob's plan and noticed the brick does not conform to the top of the windows or doors on the Logia. I've drawn plenty of arched windows and doors but I don't think i've ever seen this. Anybody have an explanation?

3.5" solid aluminum walls dragged down with windows.

I have a MacBook Pro and it works fine.

I agree Kbird, but this is an as-built that i'm recreating with changes to the main roof line. This version is just one of many and the only one with the valleys as such.

Thanks for the tips. I'll try notching the corner as suggested.

Plan attached.

HA5.0.plan

Besides using solids, does anyone know the secret to getting both bird boxes to build in a situation like this?