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Change your railing from Balusters to Panels. Insert the panel from the Library.

The survey seems lacking in critical questions. 1. I am a solo office and work residential 99%. Therefore Chief can satisfy most of my needs 2. If I was to look for work right now in an architects office, I would need Revit as my primary tool. Full stop. 3. Is Chief a good introduction to drafting and something useful to get HS students interested in the profession, probably a big yes. 4. If your goal to be more of a Trade School environment, Revit.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10276/bathroom-floor-plans-dimensions.html?playlist=152

Try turning off the sun.

What does this show?

this layer?

When I send to layout, I send as an image. Are you sending live views?

Do you want to show a wall type for ZipR? Or are you trying to show the tape lines? For a ZipR panel, it would be just a matter of adding an appropriately sized layer to your wall assembly. For the tape lines, dear gawd, why? Just tell the contractor to read the damn instructions.

Thanks. I guess I need to add the suggestions for being able to break the baseline and extend it for these conditions.

Is there a way to make this suck less? This is a condition where the baseline lives at the wall line that is beyond this wall. Where we have a wall stagger but the roof plane goes over both, Is there a way to get the plate to automatically build correctly? Ignore the red dashed lines, they are for some measurement references. Help me Mr. Wizard...

Don't forget the science

Before you make this investment, have you worn a headset? I have tried a few that a friend demoed to me. His company was working on AR products. Not everyone can wear a headset without freaking out. I liked it and had fun but others at the party had to take it off in a few seconds.

You have some roof pitches at 10 and some at 12. That roof on the second floor bedroom would have 10 on one side of the gable and 12 on the other as it is currently. I think you need to make some decisions and this roof is pretty straight forward. You can join a 10 to a 12 at the hip but it is messy at the eave. What do you want to do?

Vertical closure clips. https://mrpsupports.com/products/product:vertical-closure-clips/ I did not use them on this project since I did not want to see the small tabs over the stone. I did this one with some Boral boards painted and then screwed to the posts which allow for a small gap for drainage.

The paver stand off system I used on my last project had an additional bracket for the end of the run to hold a rip of the stone vertical. I will search this detail up.

I started drafting without computers so a page of information was a big time commitment (at least 8 hours of drafting per page was a good number for hand drawings on average). Now, with a quick change of layer display I can kick out a framing specific plan for dimensioning. This is where the transition to computer aided drafting can be utilized to enhance the communication in a cost/time effective manner. If the information is critical at the framing stage, not showing wall finishes makes sense. Framers want to frame and if your framer is calling out measurements in 1/16's there is going to be some salty language following. If the information will become critical at the finish stage, giving clear dimensions from finish surfaces is what is needed. The thing I try to keep in mind is that a 2x4 wall with 2 layers of 5/8" wallboard with a skim coat of finish on top could be +/- as much as a 1/2" depending on the series of events that occured to get it to that stage. Therefore, if I need a finished clear dimension, that needs to be explicitly stated on the construction documents and planned for.

The industry standard in dimensioning plans is to surface of studs/ framing members since it is in the framing stage where the layout of walls occurs. If you are then laying out finish items (stair railings) you would then be dimensioning to finished surfaces. To be honest, you are asking about things that are not in the DIY realm. To grab a quote from The Big Lebowski "you are entering a world of pain". Construction documents are no place to attempt to save money unless you have the proper experience.

Book #1 https://www.amazon.com/Building-Construction-Illustrated-Francis-Ching/dp/1118458346 Book #2 https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Practice-Architectural-Working-Drawings/dp/1118880528

It looks like someone got there before you. Or maybe it was after you?

I have killed this term from my vocabulary. The article being balanced is a bit of a stretch. A person of color tells her truth and calls out this outdated term for what it is (racist and lacking awareness) and then an interior designer from the south (who is also a person of color) appears to be preserving her client base by keeping this outdated term alive. Architecture has typically been a field populated with progressive thinking. I do not see a down side to moving the nomenclature to Primary Bed/Bath. I do see a down side to the preservation of the term "Master". P.S. I also am no longer using the term "Parlor" or "Drawing Room". Terms evolve.

Chief Architect products are not your best option for creating complex shapes like that. You are better off using a NURBS modeling program and then importing that as a symbol into CA. It looks like those would be hyperbolic paraboloid shapes. You could do more simple barrel vault shapes but not curves in multiple directions without boolean operations that are not going to easy to get a consistent look for these shapes.

I work solo. Even though I do have two licenses, but, I can only work on one at a time due to the time space continuum and this mortal coil. Therefore, if I am organized, I can close out the program before changing computers and starting it back up. I am considering moving my user library to DropBox. Is this possible? Is this too dangerous? I am hopeful that this would enable me to keep my user library current with any new symbols I drop in during a project on computer A so when I go to computer B, it will update on startup with the new file.