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2 hours ago, Dermot said:

If you want a sliding door with 4 panels that all stack on one side, you just need to set your door panels to 0-4 (or 4-0) instead of 2-2.

 

 

 

This is awesome, I was able to use the Marvin regular slider and modify it. I should have known it would be so simple.

Thanks!

For some reason the Marvin Window and door library has a stacked slider door but it is really just a 4 panel slider with two panels sliding out from the middle which is not what a stacked slider is.
I went to 3dwarehouse and they have the unit I want.
Question is, how do I make it act like a door where I can adjust the divided lites and trim and jams etc.
I have attached the file of the house with the door from 3d sketchup installed.

Thanks,

plan.plan

Thanks, I am not sure what you are doing with the wall definition specs here.
But let's even go more basic than this: how do I draw a slab inside ICF walls with no crawlspace or anything underneath, just fill?
And then how do I put a double treated plate on top of my ICF wall?

I guess the plan I sent was confusing because I tried to draw something simple to illustrate since my actual plan was to big.
Let's just start with this question: How can I make an ICF wall that goes down to frost footing with a double plate on top and the top of the slab floor is level with the top of the double plate? I have a detail attached.

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Got it, Thanks.
Seems I spend half my time these days just trying to wrap my brain around layer sets and project views...

Thanks again.
 

I guess I don't understand the saved camera views.
Say I just want to show the interior without the furniture so I remove the furniture and save the camera view giving it a new name.
Then I go to open a previously saved camera view and the furniture layer is turned off on all the saved camera views.
Am I missing something here? Shouldn't the saved camera view save the displayed layers in that view?

I am wondering how I can set up my foundation walls and main floor so that I can have a slab on one part and a framed floor on the other that flush out at the same level.
But I would like the top of the ICF foundation walls to have a double sill plate with the concrete poured inside of that where the slab is and the other side would have accommodations for the framing to come out at the same height. I have a simple plan attached and some cross section details of how the top of foundation wall would look.
I know I can just build it with the slab at the same level as the house and then just have these detail drawings included in the plan but I am wondering if there is a way to actually have Chief build it this way?

plan.plan

I guess I didn't realize that somewhere along the way my main floor ceiling height got changed to 9' instead of 8'.
The second floor should sit on top of the walls. I should have noticed that.
Guess my question is not a well thought out one though I thought I had looked it over extensively before asking.

Sorry.

And thanks for the responses.

I often have trouble with walls protruding through the roof like this.
I am thinking it has something to do with my loft or 2nd floor being higher than the top of the 1st floor roof but I can't figure out what to do about it.
I want those walls to define my second floor space even though they don't really exist... I will be drawing dormers in to get more space but where the roof cuts I want the walls to show on the plan where they are but then they are sticking through on the perspective view.

Walls problem.plan

20 minutes ago, robdyck said:

The 'Ceiling Hole' portion is greyed out because there is no ceiling. This is controlled (that is to say 'removed') by your 2nd floor room 'Open Below'. The skylight appears fine...what would you like to be different?

Sorry, I guess it looks OK now. When I was doing it this morning the sides of the skylight hole were not covered it was just open into the roof cavity and I thought maybe the ceiling hole would be the answer even on a slope ceiling. But now it looks OK so I don't know what I was seeing earlier.

Thanks for the response.

I am having this same problem, weather I have fascia turned on or not, the edit skylight shaft area is grayed out.

Skylight problem.plan

5 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

Thank you! That works!

Hello,
I am trying to get rid of a little corner of this attic truss in the soffit area.
Seems like I could draw it as an energy heel and it worked but when I changed the rafter and bottom cord to 2x8, the bottom cord continues through.
I have attached the plan and a truss drawing the way i want it to be.

Thanks,

7-27-20 plan 8-12 pitch.plan

20 hours ago, solver said:

 

I did not look at your plan, but instead of drawing a door in plan view, draw it in an elevation view -- no rotating needed.

 

I have several door building videos on my YouTube channel.

Thank you, I will look at these

It would still be nice if I didn't have to make it a symbol to rotate it like this. I can rotate a polyline solid from different angles but having the molding in there seems to make it impossible. Is there a way to turn the molding into a poly line solid? Then I could join them together and work with it without making it a symbol.

I can't figure out how to add a sash to a triple wide casement to make it a 4 wide casement. I know I can mull units together but I would like to have the window be a 4 wide unit altogether. Searches are coming up with nothing.

Thanks! i was missing the convert to symbol thing.   Thanks for the help!

I am actually using x12. I don't see a way to change the rotation on a symbol, that is not an option when I open the symbol.

I am wondering if it is possible to rotate an object around different axis's?
The attached file is a door I drew using poly line solids and moldings. It is laying flat and I would like to rotate it so that it is standing up. In other words looking at it from a side elevation, I would like to rotate it 90 degrees. This does not seem possible in the transform replicate box or just using rotate handles. It looks like I could rotate the the polyline solid but not the moldings and not when I combine them into a block.

Thanks

screen door 1.plan

1 hour ago, solver said:

I made the insert depth 8".

 

Thank you!!

If you look at the elevation camera you can see the window I am trying to create. The triangle one in the middle I had no trouble with. the one to the left I used Michael's suggestion and turned the window over once I had it shaped right. On the elevation it looks like it worked but on the full camera the interior wall surface is still there, the hole in the wall doesn't seem to be complete.

truss window opeing.plan

23 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

Make as Scott has shown using a manually drawn Polyline as a template (to get the required numbers), Convert To Symbol, set Rotation to 180 degrees and rotate once around the Y axis, set symbol to Inserts Into Wall (including appropriate Depth setting), drop into plan, and then use your original manually drawn Polyline as a template to adjust the symbol's Wall Cutout Polyline.

Wow, thanks, that is awesome. I got everything to work except the wall cutout polyline. I click on the wall cutout polyline tool but the whole still isn't all the way through the wall. Seems like the interior wall covering is still there no matter what I do...

Thanks. I figured it would be easier to just draw it manually but I always think there is something I might be missing. The window tools are a bit cumbersome for anything except some basic shapes.

I am wondering if it is possible to create a window with this shape.
I have a faux "W" truss in a wall and they want windows in the spaces.
I know I can do it with polyline solids and I can do a lot of shapes with the upper angles with a window but I have not been able to figure out how to git it to this shape.
That top line matches the roof line and the bottom line is level but the two sides are somewhat free form to fit the truss.

Awesome, thank you!