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21 minutes ago, NRST8TRKR said:
Thank you Steve
Have a great week,Ken
Thanks...same to you. Hope your weekend was great!
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3 hours ago, solver said:
After placing the stairs and drawing the center wall, that wall may be centered on the landing placing it exactly between the 2 flights.
Yep...sometimes I get "tunnel vision". Thanks for taking the time to watch Eric!
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On 3/1/2020 at 2:25 PM, kwhitt said:
I run into this all the time and have never come up with a satisfactory way to do it. First attachment is a photo of the actual space. I am trying to recreate the wall that follows the stairs. Ticking "follow stairs" does nothing. Should I be manually drawing this shape and forget about CA automating it for me? And if I do, should I use an invisible wall on which to draw over? I still need a wall here to break the stairs, so not sure what to do... I have seen videos where the presenter is tugging on walls and manually shaping them; however, I have no luck with this. Thank you.
I made a video specific to your question...however, I didn't tackle your diagonal wall under the stair as I think this is one of the big problems with your stair not working perfectly. Is that really how it's constructed?
So...this video just shows how I'd place a sloping solid wall between the two stair sections. Hope it helps you somewhat...
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Yep...any molding will make that. Here's one...Mexican Lintel.calibz
I've attached an example....see pics.
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What Levis said!
Yes...paste and hold position. Change the view or floor reference.
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1 hour ago, dkmtek said:
Hi All, New topic! I am trying to create Remodeling drawings for a project to present for permit. I can't seem to do it all in one drawing? e.g. Existing walls, Demo Walls, and Proposed walls on the same plan because even with the layers turned off, they interfere with other layers? The Village wants separate sheets (Layout sheets) to reflect the existing, demo (to be removed) and Proposed. I have created different walls for different layers, but, when I work in other layers, they will interfere with what I am drawing in other layers? The only thing I can think of is, work in different "Plans" and send to one "Layout"? Will that work? (Would rather work in one "Plan")
David
I-Mac on X8
Here is another set of videos Chief has on the subject;
https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/120/remodeling.html
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You need to create an "AS-Built" plan...and a separate plan for the "remodel".
There are a lot of new features that can help...starting in X11. You should watch the videos Chief put together...
Here is an overview video from Chief:
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53 minutes ago, solver said:
Draw a room and divide it with a room divider to create 2 rooms. Raise the ceiling in one of the rooms.
Take a cross section.
Create a Tray Ceiling in the room with the raised ceiling, specifying Recess Into Ceiling.
Look at the cross section.
Undo the tray ceiling and then do the same building it in the room with the lower ceiling.
Thanks Eric...now I got it. Yea...doesn't quite work the way you'd think it should. Your suggestion as a work around does work...and it's not that cumbersome either. I can live with it..
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34 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:
Apparently what's happening is the Tray Ceiling actually creates it's own "Ceiling Plane" but doesn't recognize the Room Divider ("Invisible Wall") even though it actually is classified as "Defining a Room Separation". The created "Ceiling Plane" then encompasses both rooms incorrectly.
That's got to be a program bug.
Maybe I'm not understanding the problem exactly...but, the room divider/tray ceiling seems to work for me in X12.
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28 minutes ago, MichaelJerome said:
I removed the radio button selection "Hang Floor Platform..." and rebuilt the knee wall and that worked!!! Yeesss! Thank you!
Any thoughts on the drywall separation from the floor trusses? I look forward to suggestions from the file I attached.
Michael Jerome
Looks like you have changed your "floor defaults"...and that has your ceiling screwed up.
You might also just use the "reset defaults" and see how that works. You might have to re-draw the trusses...
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On 2/26/2020 at 5:30 AM, kwhitt said:
Steve - When I select the smallest wall, I get 6 edit handles (image attached). Are all 6 of these handles specific to this smallest wall or do they pertain to the adjacent walls too? Sorry, but this is confusing to me and I can't see clearly what to do in this case. My first thought is to create a miter, but moving the handles does not produce this... Help!
OK...made a video. Hope it helps... The wall layer intersection tool isn't that flexible...as you will see in the video.
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6 hours ago, Hammer7 said:
Hello all,
my second floor plan is missing walls in a couple places that I have circled. I'm trying to figure out why they are not generating in this view since the plan renders ok.
First: Post the plan...this saves us all a lot of time.
2nd: And...this is just a guess because we don't have the plan but I'd say those are "attic walls"...and you don't have the layer turned on. Turn on the attic wall layer...
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3 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:
A note default uses a note type much like a wall default uses a wall type.
OK...yea, I'm reading the tutorial doc and I get it now. Thanks for the info Michael.
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16 hours ago, Dermot said:
Just to be clear, note defaults are not the same as note types.
You can create new note defaults in both X11 and X12 through the Default Settings dialog.
You can only create new note types from the Note Type Management dialog in X11.
You can also create new note types in the Note Specification dialog or the Note Defaults dialog in X12. Please take another look at the picture I posted above.
What is the difference between a NOTE TYPE...and a NOTE DEFAULT. Could you elaborate...
Thanks
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2 hours ago, kwhitt said:
I got three new issues with this plan. How do I resolve the two circled intersections? I've tried the wall intersection layer tool, but having no luck. Also, there's a return air vent where marked and the framer used two 2 x 4 studs back to back. Is there a way to get the walls to sit next to each other? I'm having all kinds of weird things going on when I pull the outer wall over. I will remove the drywall from this unfinished area, but wanted to know the process to keep CA from joining these walls. Thanks again, Kevin
Do you know about the "Edit Intersection" tool? I think this is all you need to fix these "intersections". Also...double click the wall icon, open "general wall"...and change the resize about surface. I find this helps quite a bit when trying to get intersections like these to work the way you want them.
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1 hour ago, LouFabb said:
Greetings,
The bay window in my plan has problems that I cannot solve:
I've been searching through the catalogs for a copper roof for a bay window, I could not find one so I used a conventional asphalt roof which is an not ideal look. Does anyone know of a copper roof anywhere in the catalogs for this purpose? If not how do I fix this roof so it looks correct?
The interior ceiling also looks weird, I've tried many times to make it look seamless but am unsuccessful. I have check my structure numbers and they seem right?
The exterior view shows framing that appears through the wall, cannot fix this.
Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks, Lou F.
The main roof of the house is lower than the ceiling in the bay window "room". You also should raise the bay window roof so that the fascia is at the same height as your "main" roof...then lower the pitch of this roof to may 4/12. You should also lower the bay window room ceiling height. I lowered it to 81" in my example below...looks good to me.
Hope that helps.
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8 hours ago, scottharris said:
These half walls should have a cap on them without needing to make additional changes. You might open your plan in X12 and see if the problem is resolved in the newer version; although it should also be fine in X11. Consider posting your plan.
Scott...
Using X12. Two half walls. Both are Interior-4. One has an added "paint layer". The one with the paint layer does not wrap the end of the half wall.
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11 hours ago, solver said:
Here is a probably over complicated way of creating the molding symbol.
Make a symbol from one of the ceiling planes. Rotate it so it's vertical. CAD Detail From View.
Outline the ceiling plane, concentric resize, copy and paste back in elevation. Convert to 3D Molding Polyline and add your molding.
Make symbol of molding setting stretch plane and rotate to match ceiling plane.
Eric - another fantastic solution. Thank you!
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18 minutes ago, robdyck said:
Make your own brick texture...Check out the link below.
Unfortunately the brick designer tool from Acme only works on PC's running "Windows". I'm on a MAC...such tech discrimination...
The good news is that if you are member of Dan Baumann's Chief Experts Academy you can download all the brick textures. Unfortunately...there isn't any "course brick" as Chief calls them...just brick textures for standard running bond.
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2 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:
Yes. In that case it would and should work just fine. No reason not to. When there's only one ceiling height to use, of course the software will get it right. In this scenario though, there are 2 ceilings as well as the open to below area. Remove any one of those variables and and you make it clear as to what's supposed to happen. The stairs just add even a fourth layer of complication though.
At any rate, here's another fix using some very strategically placed room dividers and some very specific room definitions...The main key is a very very small room in that open to below area (expanded for clarity in this screenshot)...
...I basically just thought to myself..."How can I make it clear to Chief that I need a lowered ceiling and a lowered wall in this area?"
Excellent as always Micheal.
If time isn't a factor (and you have mad skills like @Alaskan_Son) you can probable sledge hammer Chief into submission and get most things to eventually "work".
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23 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:
Yes. That's exactly what I was saying. Chief doesn't know what to do with that area. Like I said, it's in a sort of no-man's land. Does it belong to the stairwell/open to below area? The lower ceiling area? The higher ceiling area? I don't expect you to answer. As builders and designers we might know exactly what we want to do with it, but I can certainly see why the software would be confused and ultimately just have to make a decision one way or another. If it dropped that wall to be part of the lower area, I can gurantee you that behavior is going to cause problems in another plan with a different layout.
Not sure I follow. What are you using as you basis for "normally". How would that section normally not be a problem. Have you modeled this exact scenario before and not had this issue?
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44 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:
I'm talking about this red section of wall that really seems to be the source of most of the problems. And the stairs themselves add even more complication to the matter. There's just a lot going on there.
But - normally that section would not cause a problem. I think the two different floor/ceilings are really causing the problem.
Yes...just use a solid and move along with the design. But - maybe Chief Engineering can fix this so it doesn’t happen.
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7 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:
Not so sure I can totally agree with this. I can definitely see why this scenario confuses the program. That little section of wall is kinda in no mans land on multiple levels (stairs, 1st floor room definitions, 2nd floor room definitions, and that open to below room.
you are referring to the stair rail wall?
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