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This sound like a dumb blonde but here my question;

If I draw a wall and then check the invisible box in the dbx it used to change to an invisible wall with a dashed line. With X7 it doesn't do that anymore. The layer doesn't even change. Does anyone know why they even have the invisible check box anymore or am I doing something wrong? I just don't get the whole invisible wall thing anymore and I don't understand the "no locate" (what it is) and why it has a layer. What does it locate and how can you see it? Where is it and what is it and how can you locate it if you don't know what your looking for? Cant find any information that explains it.    :wacko:    

When I have an invisible wall and I want to put a regular wall or half wall through it I notice it brakes the wall up or stops and starts each side of the invisible wall. Do I have any options with that? Is there an ignore wall easy button or pass thru wall check box or something?

Any wood (post or sill plate) has to be at least 8" above grade by code requirements. There are other rule's to follows if there is a concrete slab around it and you have good drainage. Does that answer your question?

You can also break any floor joists anywhere you want to by just drawing a bearing line anywhere on the plan.

Chief has come a long way with framing. The tuff part is getting all the setting right in the dbx's.

Joey,

 

I'm going to do a video using your technique and post it to my YouTube channel on the public page, that way I'll have something to refer to. Thanks for the technique Joey.

Thank you! I will take that as a compliment. Soooo much to learn

Just send me the royalty check!

What's 50% of "0"?

Yes joey - Very Nice! If I can only remember this when it's time to create the next crawl space.

That's the problem. I have a hard time remembering how I do things.   

Here is my video to show you guys my method. Thanks to our team effort.

http://screencast.com/t/5DEwiGV7p3j1

Perry & Joey,

 

The grade line is controlled by the Terrain Specification, not the floor heights - which makes sense to me.

You can set the grade line to whatever you want using the terrain tools.

The Elevation Region is the one to use if you want a level building pad at a set height.

I agree and is what I do.

The terrain is set for elevation around the outside of the building. What I am talking about is what's on the inside of the foundation walls or room. I think you are miss understanding what I am trying to do here. The grade within the foundation room is what I am trying to control independent of the terrain.

Perry, do you agree?

If you can choose between having the slab floor or a grade line that would be good.

Very helpful Glenn

I'm with you on this foundation dbx. I think I get it all figured out and something else comes up to confuse me. But you and Glenn have both helped me to better under stand it.

I think the biggest thing is understanding what floor you need to be on when you are making changes. Also understanding where you need to be making changes to what I call now "The Big Three" (floor, foundation & framing) in your defaults.

Another think that is confusing at time is in the "Room Specification" dbx under the floor section. The three items in the attached picture.

With that said, all these things have to work together and has to be done in a certain sequence or it wont work. Too much for my little pea brain to remember so I might have to start writing things down,

I know, sounds dumb now. There is or was a point. I assume you know that joists break over a bearing beam, and are continuous over non bearing beam, so I am assuming I ran into a situation where I wanted that option for a floor joist. But I cannot think of an example now.

I was assuming when you first posted that maybe you were coming up with some genius technique to do something with joist to help manipulate the framing for better use for beams or something. But then it sort of went know where. My expectations of your work is very high so I felt a little let down

But your still one of my hero's in the forum

Thank you Jon that did the trick.

And thank you Joe for the nice shower building demonstration you did. This is the result.

Can anyone tell me how to remove the base boards on the shower walls only and not the rest of the room? The inside is easy because its the whole room but what about the outside? 

Joey,

 

This may help with the confusion regarding top of footing height.

 

http://screencast.com/t/MQLFXlaE

Thank You Glenn,

I wonder if their way of thinking was that without the 4" thick floor that it would be figured from grade level? There may be a purpose for doing it that way that may affect another part of the program. As long as I understand it and it works that's all that matters at this time. I have a lot better understanding of foundations now though.

 

 

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See,  a joist by definition is a beam,  but a series of beams.  So why can't we define them as being BEARING.

 

Are You Serious!

Really!

Are we over thinking here? Do you have nothing better to do? I mean, what brought all this up? is there a valid point that you are trying to make?

thanks mate, always good a memory jog.

have a great day/night

Your welcome! Glad I could help.

Uncheck the show lower floor in the camera defaults.

I think I may have confused this post by the name. I should have titled it "Girder piers with post" instead of "Grade beams on piers".

My Bad, Sorry guy's

Joey, this is how I've shown pier & beam years ago in 3D. We don't show this in 3d in our plans. We only show plan views with call-outs and cad details for the call-outs in our construction drawings. In the image I show, the piers and interior beams were done manually. Floor framing and perimeter beams were created using Chief walls and floor framing. If you're interested in how I did this, then call or email me. The image was done a long time ago using V10 or X1. I guess it would work the same way. I haven't done it in a long time.

Pier & Beam 6.jpg

What I sent on the picture is what I wanted to do. Got it figured out.

Thank you and I look forward to our next goto meeting.

Joey,

I think what is happening is this:

If you have a level zero (foundation) with Floor Under This Room checked (ie, the foundation has a floor) - Chief measures Height Above Floor from top of footing to top of foundation floor.

If you have level zero with Floor Under This Room unchecked (ie, no foundation floor) - Chief measures Height Above Floor from top of footing to bottom of foundation floor - even though there is no visible floor.

I think I'm more confused now. Your welcome to do a video for me to explain it.

Joey,

 

You're using the grade beam and piers dbx but you're picture shows that you're building with a stem wall. The posts will sit at the bottom of the 'floor' height of the foundation room.

 

If you want to build with post and beam foundation (not grade beam and piers) build a stem wall foundation and manually place your beams, posts and post footings. Again set the floor of your foundation room to place the post and footings at that same height.

 

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Larry you helped me a lot. Check out this video

http://screencast.com/t/quqjdcyYYrlL

Also here is a picture below with my final result. Just what I was after.

AFAIK   Max Separation = Max Span  but I have not used this often as not common here but you are talking about two different things here , Posts under Beams and Foundations using grade beams and Piers.

 

The Top of the Post Footing defaults to the Setting in the Post Defaults in the Building Framing DBX and the default is usually (Zero)  0" above Floor though the setting can also be negative if needed , if there is no "floor" I think it defaults to the top of the Footing , so to raise it up just put a + value in the height above floor box for Post Footings. 

 

M.

Yes that is why I posted the second question because I figured that part out.

Thank You

Let me tell you what I am trying to do;

I want to edit the default settings for the post with footing tool under the general framing tools. I edited one of them manually in the section and that is in the attached picture with the circle around it. But I cant seem to get what I want as a default when I place them under the girder beam.

HELP!

I don't know how this maximum separation is used. Can anyone enlighten me on this? Also it wont let me change the depth.

I did try nailing the brush to my hand but it kept rotating. I will try tomorrow with more nails.

One nail wont work you need to use two nails.