Lee66cj5
-
Posts
9 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Posts posted by Lee66cj5
-
-
I have a general question about how everyone does master plans in CA. I have approximately 85 house plans that I am converting from AutoCAD to CA. Each plan has and average of 6 different front elevations and 6-12 standard options. I want to use CA to incorporate all of these options into a master plan for the house. I did this 2 ways in AutoCAD, either making blocks of the standard and optional parts that are on different layers and turning on/off as needed or pulling a partial off to the side with the changes. Which way works best in CA, or is there a more efficient way? I also need the master plan to create flyers of all the options for marketing so It would be best to have the options in one file.
I am just starting on the conversions so I want to make the right setup now rather than figuring out half way through there is a better way.
Thanks for your help!
Lee
-
Thank you! this fixed the problems.
-
I have a stair with open treads on one side for the first 5 1/2 treads then a solid wall hiding the rest of the treads. Under the stairs I have a partial laundry room that has a 2x6 wall instead of the 2x4 wall that encloses the rest of the stair. I have 2 issues getting the stair to function correctly. the first issue is the 2x6 wall should be cut by the stair and the wall above the stair should become a 2x4 wall (we us a diagonal top plate at the bottom of the stringer height and build 2x4s above). The second issue is if I add a partial height wall below the stair then the side wall cuts below the stringer and makes an open tread stair above which I do not want. Does anyone have any ideas to fix these two issues?
Thanks,
Lee
-
Thank you Solver and Kbird1! The problem was my wall definition for the foundation walls. When I moved the air gap and CMU to the main layer as Solver suggested then everything worked as expected.
Thanks again!
Lee
-
Thanks for the info. I didn't realize I had done that. I changed all the exterior walls on the first floor to not be knee walls but it didn't change the problem. Here is the revised plan.
-
Thanks ,
Here is the plan for this house. I have isolated it to being an issue with the roof planes over these walls. If I erase the roof planes the foundation walls behave normally..
I appreciate your help.
Lee
-
-
I'm new to Chief Architect and have a problem with only certain foundation wallsls extending to the top of first floor framing in a slab house with 24" stem walls. the walls don't correspond to a specific room above, but in several rooms. I'm sure it's a setting somewhere, but I don't know where to look. the walls are shown in the picture below.I have had the program for about a week and I have to convert my standard house plans from AutoCAD.
Thanks,
Lee
Master plans
in General Q & A
Posted
I was afraid that was going to be the answer. That is a lot of maintenance to do once the drawings are finished.