JonathanK

Edit>Preferences>General>Project Management. Uncheck "Use Chief Architect Project Management".

Thanks, @Renerabbitt. Yeah, we're aware of those settings. I think we'll have to play with it and get things dialed in a little more.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. We're looking to bill per hour for our services. The thought was to use time tracker in Chief. But after messing around with it for a little bit, it just feels like it's missing options. I would like a custom toolbar or something that shows what my total time is on the entire project. Just something to quick reference. It also feels clunky with the amount of entries per day there are. It seems like there could be functionality there to merge times or something like that. Even the sorting date and things like that are clunky. I suppose it just comes down to like what @para-CAD brought out and just export it to Excel and do my cleanup work there. I was just curious what others have done/ are doing.

Can you use AI to generate a southern yellow pine flooring texture, and just create a new texture for your models?

More just curious than anything...is anyone using the Time Tracker native to Chief? If so, do you have any tips and tricks on it? It feels woefully inadequate, but it's nice having it run automatically in the background so that our multiple designers can work on a project and not have to worry about logging time to a specific project. How do you guys log time to a project?

Chief handles pole structures way better than it used to. There is less fudging and a little more automation. You could essentially build a wall type that would do what all you want, or you could build the posts individually with the footings, and your wall type could be just the wall girts and steel. Likewise with the concrete slab. You could just have CA make it's OOB slab, or if you wanted to show the level of detail you're talking about you could use solids with expansion foam and the whole nine. I wouldn't be afraid to tackle it, I guess. But I always enjoy a good challenge

You should be able to open an X4 file with X17. There's probably going to be some conversion glitches and stuff, but you should still be able to open and work on the plan.

In X17 dishwashers are placed as a standalone item, not in cabinets like they used to be. When you sandwich them between two cabinets, it automatically places a countertop over the top of the DW.

I would build my "ramp" out of a solid. Pull a cross section through there, make it 4" thick like it would be if it was concrete, and draw it at the proper slope. That should allow you to break it in those two areas and make them flat or sloped or whatever. Although, I'm not positive if that was available on X12 or not. But that shouldn't matter. Your flat spot is going to be at the same elevation as the floor in the foyer, so you can have it run through that area with no problems.

Open the stairs, go to Stringers tab on left, then click on "Custom Stringers". For the middle section, change the count to 2...or whatever you need to get approx. 12" OC.

@Evolution I haven't looked at the plan, just looking at your postings and pictures. Is the existing structure set to have "floor supplied by room below"? That's kind of what it looks like on your last cross section you attached above.

@EmmaCox To make it easy for you, if you go to Edit>Default Settings>Floors and Rooms>Room Types, before you open the room type, you can click, hold, and drag to select multiple rooms. Then go to Edit on the right side, and edit the moldings. It works even with CTRL + click as well so you can select specific rooms you want to edit (i.e. only the bedrooms, and not the garage and attic, etc...)

@EmmaCox I think I see the issue. On your room type default box, under moldings UNCHECK the "Use Floor Defaults" box at the top. Then set the molding that you want to use for it. That should get it done for you.

@EmmaCox Are you 100% positive that you edited the molding in the room type through the Default Settings? I just tried what you said in your last post, and it works for me when I change my room type to Bedroom. Can you just do a test plan and attach it here so we can poke around? EDIT: I think I see the issue. On your room type default box, UNCHECK the "Use Floor Defaults" box. Then set the molding that you want to use for it. That should get it done for you.

I would say make sure that your walls match their walls first and foremost. Then spend a little time reviewing the roof planes on the PDF to get it to match. I took a quick look, and it's not overly complicated...I trust that you can get it with a little time and effort.