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Jimmy James His last night Jimmy's last night- Thanks all

Jimmy has held the ball for me for nearly 16 years on this forum. Sadly my truest friend and dearest companion has passed away. I am now left to hold the ball for him so he may rest.

The "eaves" fascia or sub fascia is smaller than the gable fascia

Quote:(How to export layer sets in X17?) You are correct, pre X17 you could export, layer sets, default sets, wall definitions from a plan. For some unknown reason the export function for these in X17 has now been removed. I exported these as a backup for my template plan in case they got altered or became corrupt. I presume the only way to retain these now is to keep a copy of a template unchanged as a backup

Agree, been using Arial fonts and a numbering system for years for clarity, no messy writting all over the plans, keep plans uncluttered clean and simple. Attached a basic as-built plan as an example. As-Built Plan Amd Deck Bracing 24.09.2024.pdf

Here's how we can meet code in a recess in NZ

Set your floor platform height and all your terain elevations, regions, line data etc relative to the actual height above sea level. Site sea levels can be obtain by overlaying a site contour map or plotted by a surveyors with a GPS system

Not sure if this comment fits in with what you are saying of how Chief handles or converts units, this is what I find. We are metric only so my template is metric. For example; I download a plan or symbol say from this site which is in imperial units. Open the imperial plan, add items to my library. Open my metric template, the imperial items inported into my library are now in equivelant metric units, a length of 12 in is now shown as 304.8 mm

Like this

"(I was designing and building high end residential with this bottom wall negative detail 25 years ago, it was a common detail back then)" now looking back at some construction records it was at least 35 years ago. Did a house about 5 years ago which had the same detail, with this type of house design I always have interior and exterior ceiling height doors, ie flush with the ceiling, exterior doors are always timber pivot (because they are heavy). We did it with a 120mm Sq edge bottom skirting/baseboard, 12mm gap, drywall with a bottom Sq edge metal trim and a 50mm black metal strip behind the gap fixed to the framing. In some cases also did the negative detail around interal door jambs, no architraves (casings), instead of timber window revels (frame) fixed water proof drywall into alunmin window revels (frame), so the wall drywall and window revel (frame) was stopped (plastered) as one, good things never die.

I was designing and building high end residential with this bottom wall negative detail 25 years ago, it was a common detail back then

I have 63 default sets setup the same or similar to yours, each default set is linked to a layer set with the same name. This allows using only one template with the ability use multiple plan scales for different plan sheets within one plan set, ie. floor plan, structural steel plan, deck plan etc. I have had CA setup like this for years ever since we had annotations sets before default sets, once setup it is quick and easy to use.

In these type of cases I use steel portal frames with concrete base footings

Use the poly solids to create the opening roof parts, re-size/shape to required size and then convert it to a symbol. OpeningRoofs.calibz

I have done a few designs with opening louvre roofs. Attached is overviews of opening roofs I have done in CA, not very good images though. Attached are 3D symbols I have made up to represent an opening roof, not perfect but looks OK. In the file are the poly solids I use to create the opening roofs size/shape and then I convert it to a symbol. If any use all are welcome to them. Opening Roofs.calibz