2wheeltodd

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  1. In New York State you are only required to have a (1) hour fire rated wall between a two family (duplex). This is possible with a single stud wall with specific drywall at each side. Different areas have different requirements, but it's pretty economical here.

     

    You can reference R302.3 in the 2015 IRC and UL Design U305. This meets the code here in Upstate NY.

  2.   Sec. 110-26 of the National Electrical Code (NEC): 1) at least a 3-ft clearance in front of all electrical equipment; 2) a 30 in.-wide working space in front of equipment operating at 600V or less; and 3) minimum headroom clearance of 6 ft or the height of the equipment, whichever is greater.

  3. 5 hours ago, calgaryhomes said:

    Anybody else having this issue with X10?

     

    I created this plan in X9 and all the freize boards worked good, but when I open it in X10 the boards either won't show up or are all disconnected.

    This seems especially true on the curved roofs.  I asked tech support, but they haven't provided a workable answer.  

    Any thoughts here?

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    Very nice work I have to say.

  4. On 7/15/2017 at 0:31 PM, DRAWZILLA said:

    select the mulled unit and hit the tab key to go to the next item, the window. Then change it

    Such a great tip, this is going to save so many steps and so much time.

     

     

  5. On 3/19/2017 at 6:57 PM, johnny said:

    Something that helped me with Chief and roofs with the auto-features is realizing the connections of all objects (walls/other roof planes) needs to be PERFECT.  I can't stress PERFECT enough.  Having an issue 99.99999% of the time means something isn't connecting where it needs to.

    This I find to be true as well. Eave heights, baselines, overhangs need to be set correctly. Sometimes just re-joining roof planes corrects errant anomalies, other times there will be a variation with some dimension that needs to be adjusted in the dbx. 

  6. Drainage is THE issue with an inverted gable. The saddle method is not great, if you can I would suggest glenw's method. More control there.

    If you do have a saddle be sure to leave yourself some eave to have a large scupper and downspout.

     

    It is possible to do a lot of the roof automatically but you will almost certainly have to manually edit some of the planes.

     

     

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, Rashid_Garuba said:

    I am am degreed Architectural Engineer but here is my view....

     

    In college I took a course called "Technology and The Human Conscience" which basically covered the state of man after the Machines take over.  We know what technology has done to many a field lately.. Even truck drivers better beware next 10 years. In almost all decimated fields, the view before is "can't happen here" until it's too late. I think in Architecture the only aspect that machines/software cannot replace (I better watch my mouth!) is aesthetics.. Anything else, especially safety-related areas CAN be coded to significantly reduce the number of Humans OR the skill-level of those humans involved. This is why design still cannot be off-shored. Ultimately if an industry is inefficient (Taxi Industry-Uber, Law industry-Legalzoom, Hotels-AirBnB), it represents opportunity for the tech guys that won't care if a few Architects are a casualty... Any Architect Chief hires is technically committing treason as the name "Chief Architect" suggests something insidious.

     

    So Johnny, fully agree with you BUT the better Software gets, the less we will be needed which puts pressure on fees, thereby improving the standard of living (perceived or real) of the masses. If guys build from napkins and their end-user doesn't care, then you likely won't want such an end-user.. He/she is suited to the non-licensed/degreed "plan drawer"... 

    Architecture, engineering, and code compliance will be a software exercise in the future I predict. The art in Architecture will be left to the algorithms sure  to come just as the "driverless car" is sure to come. The very software being used in this forum is the stepping stone to those ends sadly.

  8. There is a 30 second method if there is no room above.

    Use the room divider tool or invisible wall to outline the ceiling transition. Select the inner "invisible room" and change the ceiling height in the dbx to a foot higher. Super quick & moldings are no problem.

     

    The soffit method is equally qood and will give you fewer plan issues but takes a little longer.

     

    -Todd

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