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You can do both. Depending on the complexity and size of your main house sometimes it is better to do the detached garage in a separate plan file. Another advantage of a separate plan files is if your floor heights and ceiling heights are different from your garage to your home and you want to use all of the automatic tools. Personally I generally model them in separate plan files.

Yup most likely what Joey is mentioning. Good practice is to have a "linked files" type folder within your plan folders that you save any pdf and or png/jpg files you are using in your plan or layout files. It keeps them all together and is less problematic.

I would highly recommend @Renerabbitt for this type of training. He specializes in efficiency methods, and has a great program for file and standards development.

Not without the plan file. Too many variables and possibilities. My guess would be your wall definition is not setup correctly.

This is true that it supports the ARM systems natively but the GPU RTRT is still only with the one type of Nvidia video cards. The new Mac Max and Ultra chips have the capability for RTRT but chief has not finished developing that portion yet.

Use 3d molding polylines instead and you can add your slopes . It can all be modeled as much as you need.

Sorry I misread what you stated. You are absolutely correct within the room dbx you can do the same thing. I personally didn't mention that method as I understood the OP question to mean they have a large room where the ceiling comes out into that room from an adjacent smaller room. My solution for that scenario would be to use a dropped ceiling plane across the rooms. Of course you can also do it as you mention within the ceiling finish layer. You can do that by dividing the room with a room defining wall but will need to manually adjust the wall but really either way is going to require wall manipulation of one way or another. Even if it was just the adjacent room you will still need to do something with the wall gap at the top as an invisible wall will not build up. Of course you can use a no-jamb doorway in a solid wall there set to the ceiling height: The issue with that is the doorway of course will break the wall in the middle so you have a small ceiling gap in there. All the ways have their issues though. For example using the roof cuts wall above and dropped ceiling plane you have to pull it past the edge of the wall as it will snap back to the framing layer (unless your drywall is in your framing layer for that particular wall. So yo either have to have a small bit of ceiling plane sticking out: Or you have a wall layer intersection issue at the ceiling plane. It all depends on your needs and preferences of course.

Definitely a good and fast way to do it. I was assuming the OP needed to show some of the framing for a section or other reason but yes what you are talking about would work if its just for rendering.

I will respond to this as this is the correct method of doing what you want. your ceiling platform in the defaults is tied to your floor above floor level so if you change one it is going to change the other. When you want a cavity between the floor above structure and your ceiling you would use a ceiling plane. Give more information regarding the "the molding is still at the original height in the space and no automatic walls or anything is being framed in for the sides of the lower ceiling." a picture or a plan file will help here. If it is a closet then you will not need to do anything. If it is a partial room dropped ceiling then you need a non room definition wall at the transition point set to cut by roof above and on a layer that does not show in the plan view.

1.) Best to start your own post as this is a different problem. 2.) use a custom placed ceiling plane in those rooms as that is what it is designed to be used for.

If you don’t care about the framing schematics then you can mark that wall below to ballon frame in the structures tab and it should help it as well.

That is why it is showing as two in elevation view because it is not sure what to do with the knee wall intersection basically three walls coming together at one point. You may need to look at the option of build through wall at end or start depending on that knee walls direction.

It is the automatic attic wall that is filling in. Many times it is not sure where to transition it. You can extend the actual wall you drew to fill in this area to replace the attic wall or in some cases you can edit what is there currently. You can try to do this by using the "Edit Wall Layer Intersections" tool in some cases to fix this issue.

Nice work. It really helps when you do it like this where the different moldings have individual textures applied when you make them a door so that if you want to paint or apply a different color/texture to them after becoming a symbol they are different. So great job!

Or if you want to show the door open in a rendering or a video.

Check out this article instead of trying to apply moldings to a door. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01808/creating-a-custom-door.html

Well this shows it can be done but if he had his son in law write a custom macro/program to do it with the other software then obviously he realizes it is not something automatic. But the answer to that exact question is yes it can be done. I personally dont use his system every time as I do a wide variety of projects that it does not fit 100% of the time in which case I will do a live cross section on the job and detail it out with saved text and notes that I have in my user library to detail it out quickly.

I highly recommend you take a look at @Renerabbitt's pro template as he has this worked out for you across multiple sections/cad details using custom macros. It is basically the same idea but you are changing the selection to what you want. I.E. you specify in one master model what your floor, wall, ceiling, and roof structure and components are and it auto populates across the different cad details. These can already be sent to your layout template so its a matter of just specifying once and then they are done.

Absolutely no issues with file transfer. I collaborate with lots of users every day across systems. I am biased and don’t mind paying for quality tools that keep me running 100% without any downtime at all in my entire time of working 100% with Chief on Mac. Everyone needs to do what works best for them, as far as switching I will just post this link:

Maybe these pointers will help a litle: Have a cad detail for each note type saved in your template .plan file. Send it to your template .layout file. Have all the views sent to layout and just relink these views (can be done with Tools>Layout>Referenced Plan Files all at once.) In the schedule you can set the name of the schedule as well as the note types that will report to that particular schedule so you don't have the 1,1, 2,23, etc. of a doubled schedule. So you could have a Preliminary note schedule, a Framing Note schedule, electrical note schedule, etc.

Chief is an amazing program and you can model an RV or tiny house. But if you are expecting to have the same ease of adjusting things adding walls/doors/windows as a house would model unless you are using it for just 2d work then chief is probably not the best program for an airstream. Now if you just want to model a square/rectangular RV it could easily be done but you have to build the custom wall types ceiling types, roof types, etc.

That looks like what Chief calls a garden window in its core library. If that works for you then you should be able to place the transom window fine.

If you notice in his many postings he specifically says they told him he could not sell the license, when others pointed out he has to transfer it he never answered their questions. So no, I don’t assume he did. They are very specific in saying no sales but transfers with approval are able to be performed.

Lew with all due respect. I am not the one who is transferring or trying to acquire a license. I was just getting tired of seeing you rant about it when some experienced users made a recommendation of how to confirm with the proper terminology to see if you still may be able to. Right here in the response from chief they mention that it is possible in certain instances. Why not try to call in and "transfer" your license to another user instead of selling your license?

This has been stated in about four threads now Lew. You have been asked by several if you had reconfirmed it other than the original sales person as others had received other information.... We haven't heard back from you so I am assuming No you didn't call in and ask regarding transferring your license and not selling your license. I had a client transfer their license to one of Mick's clients not too long ago so it has been possible as you state. But possibly due to emotions it wasn't expressed properly or the agent who told you differently was confused of your intentions. Maybe we can ask @ChiefArchitector @Dermotor anyone else at Chief to comment regarding this? Are transfers still allowed until Jan 10th? After? If transferred before or after does the new license holder have the opportunity to purchase SSA at that time and continue with a Legacy license? Please clarify for us all.