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This is good to hear. I would love to go full time with my services and work for myself. Right now its just part time(nights and weekends) and i get many different requests like renderings, full sets of plans, small diy task drawings around the home and such. Ive done house plans for 16 years and its been slow until i marketed better, huge construction growth in my area and building relationships over the past few years. My dream is still possible then. I would think to make it work you have to always set money back for the slower times. Thanks for sharing

At the risk of maybe being too personal, has anyone ever hit 6 figures doing home design/plans in a year's time or come close to it? I think it is very well possible if you plan right with projects. Im hoping i wont get ripped for posting such a topic.

haha, the first time this happened to me it aggravated the hell out of me.

you sir are a genius!! it worked.

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this is similar to a post i made yesterday. i cannot get this to work, maybe my screen shots will show where i'm going wrong. the footing detail is what the builder ok'd. what am i doing wrong? the bricks come in with one tier and no brick ledge is made.

Ohhhhh, i was going about that totally backwards. Thanks guys.

so i know how to get the 18", 24" and 5" dimension. where in chief can i tell it to give me the 8" dim for brick ledge depth? this is a cad detail so i cheated but i want my 3d model to match.

i figured out something better for my situation. build a second floor. draw your dormer walls manually. set to "open below". boom, throw your roof plane on the dormer and some windows and it works perfect.

so, my new project is a one story home with flat ceilings throughout and a two car garage. i have a couple questions. 1) the owners want a dormer centered on the house but want it functional to allow natural light into the living room. does the attic have to be changed to a "room" to allow this? if so, can i create a second floor with like 3-6" ceiling height just to get it labeled as a room? im sure it won't be built like this in real life, correct? 2) bonus room above the garage. will not have a flat ceiling. will be sheet rocked to followed the rafters (vaulted). again, does this space above the garage which chief considers an attic need to be changed to a room with a minimal ceiling height to allow the stairs finding it as a second floor? thanks!

Totally agree. I have a shotgun house right now that will not fit on 24x36 at 1/4"=1'-0".

Think i may change it back to the way you guys do it and myself in the past. I have a sample set of plans from an architect that used the compass but the building is in a true NSEW position on a map so it made it easy for that project.

So, im trying to explain my understanding of compass rose on plans to my client. He is confused. No matter the orientation of the building on a world map, the compass rose always has north at top on the plans right? Thus the front of the home is south elevation, rear is north, left side is west and right side east. Am i correct? This is why i love front elevation, rear elevation, left elevation, and right elevation lol. It dumbs it down for everyone.

thanks guys, i will let you know what i find out. i sent my sketch to the builder. i'm anxious to hear his reply on how this is done. i probably should have mentioned that this all started from the front porch being raised 20" and his suggestion of this type of slab. the 24" would create the 4" step up into the home.

you know, the more i look at my detail, what are you really saving on money wise? essentially you are doing the same type of foundation as a stem wall just more meat in the chamfer. am i correct?

i sketched this up. i wonder if this is the technique? 24 POUR.pdf

is anyone familiar with a 24" mono slab pour? typically they are 4" with footings. the builder for my client said it's cheaper to take out my stem walls and make it 24" slab. that sounds like a crap ton of concrete to me. anyone got a detail or pic of what he is talking about?

very informative posts here. thanks

Couldnt find the archive but i did end up redrawing the details. Leason learned. Alaskan, care to fill me in on how to create a cad details plan?

lol, i agree......just learned another thing the hard way. i had all my wall section cad details in my foundation level. i deleted the foundation and rebuilt and bam, all my details are gone. seriously pissed right now. thanks for the feedback on the OP guys.

guys, during the design process of a project is there a command to update the drawing (besides saving) and even cleanup overlapping cad lines? i spend a lot of time tweaking things and uneccessary things can end up in the model. how do you guys handle this? i ask this because i know autocad can detect overlapping lines and such.

Thanks guys, just wanted to make sure i dimension it right for the builder and avoid confusion. I understand wall definitions better now. Totally overlooked that box telling it where to dimension too.

alaskan, i copied a wall type and revised it to my needs so that is probably where i got the layers wrong.

10-4.........will do. thanks guys

well, i was just asked by the client to use block walls and here are my settings i made.