CAmichael240114

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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

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"(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

If you care to step outside the US its a big world with more than one country and one terminology

Quote: "So you're saying that because another company used the wrong terminology that it's "Standard" now?; 2 wrongs don't make a right." Just pointing out that MiTek, a US International Company which is leader in the supply of construction fixings etc widely use the term "outrigger". As you would know terms used in different countries differ to decribe different construction methods, materials, terms and items, We in NZ have many other different terms which are mainly handed down from English origins, ie; we have door architraves and skirting, you have casings and base mouldings and the list can go on forever, whos right? Original terms and decriptions go way back to the Greeks, Romans, Euorpeans, English and other countries, pre our colonial days, they were all designing and building before all of us.

"MiTek" (standard terminology) MiTek Outriggers.pdf

Sub Fascia Depth/Height Setup Top of rafter to top of soffit lining measured at the back of th fascia

Michael, no offence meant, just trying to say that when a standard truss is set with standard settings and placed in the plan it should not have an energy heal or raised heal.

This is only true if the VSD and the roof pitch remains the same. Greater truss spans may require the top and bottom chord to have a greater depth. Steeper roof pitches increases the depth of the top chord. Therefore the heal height would be different in each case as the VSD increases or decreases. Standard trusses are not specified as having a heel height.

A Standard Truss: A standard truss has no heal height. The bottom of the bottom chord sits on the top of the top plate and extends out to the wall framing exterior face where it intersects with the top chord. The top chord under side sits on the bottom chord where the bottom chord meets the wall framing exterior face. The truss heal height or energy heal height is the height from the top of the top plate to the top of the top chord vertically above the wall framing exterior face. An energy heal serves two main purposes, one to increase the distance between the top an bottom chords to increase the structural span of a truss, the other to provide a greater depth between the bottom chord and the under side of the roof for increased insulation depth for higher insulation R-values.

Yep 55 years plus ago I was hand drawing doors with a straight line, it was the drafting standard

I create a CAD dashed line box called "set-out frame" on its own layer. The set-out frame overall size (height and width) defines the extend of the drawing area for a floor plan or cross section on the plan/cross section sheet. The set-out frame size is determined by the plan scale that it is sent to the layout, also the layout sheet size. Once the plan sheet is sent to the layout and centred or placed on the layout sheet as required, you then turn the "set-out frame" layer "off" so it is not displayed on the layout sheet. In my library I have a range of set-out frame sizes already set up for different scales.

It is not always the norm where I am but occasionally used where the section has a slight slope

I have been with CA since version 10. During this period I have seen it develop into an excellent program as others have. Over the years the loyal support of the users have allowed the company and the program to progress to it's current day position. Business is a contract between a seller and a buyer, a moderate approach to change should have a mutual benefit to all. Chief Architect, excellent program, excellent service, excellent price, excellent value, excellent partnership, I trust these values are maintained.

Thanks DBC, I have experimented with the height in decimal mm, that alters the text height as required. But how do you relate the "line style text height" to the desired text height for different required scaled plans.

Another question re line styles which include text with the line It seems that the standard OOB font/text size for all is set to 1.0mm (in my case metric) How do you determine the font/text size to suit the different printed scales If you adjust the text size from 1.0mm to 2.0mm the text in most cases is too large

Another example were they are most useful: Over concrete foundation lines, load bearing post foundation lines, load bearing beams etc. When positioning load bearing walls/posts or roof loads on the floor levels above it clarifies where the load can be placed/distributed over the foundations, posts or bearers etc below.

Yes this is an issue with "plain text" when migrating from X13 to X14. It is caused by having a "mix" of tabbed text lines and un-tabbed text lines in the same text DBX. I have the same problem with all my "plain text" notes in my saved templates and hundreds of saved text notes in my library. I have reported it to Tech Support and they say that it is a complicated problem that is hard to fix and they do no intend to fix it. The only suggestion they had was to convert all my notes to "rich text", a huge undertaking. I would report it, it may help get the issue fixed.