JarrettS

Hello, I'm doing my first house plan in chief architect - the home has two stories plus an attic loft & full basement. So I need 3 staircases: basement to main floor / main to second/ second to loft. When I use the build framing commands to generate the floor joist layouts Chief Architect draws double joists to frame the staircase openings. However, our floor systems are built using engineered beams at the staircase openings (some type of microlam or timber-strand, whatever the floor designer deems adequate). I want to change the default beams at the opening to 3 1/2" single ply lvl's. I've figured out how to go into the plan and manually change them but it would be a lot faster to just change the defaults so they always draw this way. I've gone thru every default I can think of but can't find a way to set this - is it even an option? Thanks!

I figured it out.Turning the flooring surfaces layer off turns off both the line of the finished flooring (in my case the 3/4" hardwood), and the line of the sub floor. Drawing the floor joist framing then turning on the appropriate layers in section gave me the look I was going for. Thanks for the advice!

What I want to do is turn off finished flooring in my 2 D cross sections, but be able to have it on in my 3 D camera views. I tried the floor surfaces layer as Alaskan Son suggested, but it had the opposite effect - it left the finished floor in section & turned off the sheathing.

Hi, new user of Chief Architect (Premier X10). I'm starting to get the hang of the program, but there are a few things I haven't been able to figure out... One is how to control the layers that finished floor materials draw on. I'm working on a simple home & I've set my defaults for floors as follows: 11/78" floor joists / 3/4" plywood sheathing / 3/4" hardwood flooring. When creating the design drawings to show the clients I want to show the hardwood, but when I produce the 2 D technical drawings for the tradespeople I would like to be able to turn the finished floors off & just show the floor joists & sheathing. I can't find the layer the finished floors are drawn on...