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12 minutes ago, Doug_N said:

Concrete stairs are neither radical nor new.  They are common and used, perhaps on more than half of all projects in one place or another.  CA made a great step in making a railing wall that would follow stairs allowing for great flexibility in railing styles.  Unfortunately some common stairs can't be done at all using the stair tool.  

 

One example is stairs like this 

Not exactly what you are looking for but may help you in modeling them in the meantime:

Quick cross section and cad detail from view and cut and paste and had a functional section.

24 minutes ago, bscreen said:

Can a Chief Architect monthly subscription be paused while on a extended vacation?  And if so...how to do it?

Did you check in your digital locker in your account?

10 minutes ago, MJViking13 said:

Hi all, 

 

I am currently working on a home design that has a fiberglass pool and a large hardscaped area. I am new to using Chief Architect, but I did not see anything in the catalogue for either of these items. Can someone direct me to where I can find different pool shapes and/or hardscape options? I appreciate any guidance you can provide!

Hardscaping is basically done with slabs and/or terrain features.  I believe @ChiefArchitect has a terrain and site plan seminar coming up any day if we didn't already miss it.  But the help files and videos are very helpful on this. 

For the pool there are several in the catalogs if you want a fiberglass.  For a standard built pool I generally use a room on the foundation level.

1 hour ago, Tkangas said:

I've been using Chief Architect for 20 years but I still run into challenges.

 

An issue I've been unable to fix is: to make a flat roof thickness match the fascia height. When viewed from below, the soffit appears recessed into the eaves, but it should be flush (or nearly) with bottom of fascia. 

 

Unable to attach floor plan.

 

ANY help is greatly appreciated!

 

Chief X15

Windows 11

 

 

 

 

 

52 minutes ago, Chrisb222 said:

Without the plan file it's just a guess but I'd try increasing the gable sub fascia depth.

  Should be 12"

Also make sure rooms are turned on in that layer set.

Very hard to tell in this picture  but a few things come to mind as possibility.  Best would be to include your plan in this post after closing chief first.

1.) Did you manually adjust the wall below or the wall this door is in place?  Select both walls and in the structures panel of the wall DBX make sure that default wall top and bottom height check boxes are selected.

2.) Is the door sitting on the subfloor like it should be (at 0 elevation)?  If it is raised up then the apron might be set to this and that might be what you are seeing.  Hard to tell from the picture but in the door casing panel of the door dbx midway to the bottom is the option to use the sill apron.

6 minutes ago, EPChief said:

Good evening. I am trying to design a Barndo with 12' outer walls but want the inside to be at 9' and 10'. 

When I change ceiling heights it messes up my roof. Any tips on how to stop this? What am I doing wrong?

 

Chief X12

Probably not actually what you are looking for but is what you are asking for.  Set your ceiling height at 12’ turn off flat ceiling in the rooms then place a 0 slope ceiling plane at the 9’ and 10’ heights just like it would be built in real life.

4 hours ago, JKEdmo said:

 

Thanks.  Do you mean overlapping or stacked topo lines?

 

Jim

 

Too close together.  Put the different elevation lines or regions on either side of the retaining wall with a break in the middle of the wall.  Too close together will cause the spikes.

2 hours ago, JKEdmo said:

Good morning,

 

I've been using the terrain tools more and more and enjoying them, but still run up against terrain blips / squiggles at abrupt grade changes.

 

I suppose Chief is calculating grade and is freaking out a bit...

 

 

 

Couple of questions:

 

• I understand Chief terrain is modeled realistically as a curved "drape" (for lack of a better term).  But, is there a setting that simplifies the terrain model and treats it more as "folded planes" with sharp creases rather than complex curves?  For my purposes, not having a complex curved terrain would be perfectly okay.
   
• If not, does anyone just skip the terrain tools and use 3D solids?  I'd be interested if this is a passable technique.

 

Thanks again,

 

Jim

 

Your terrain information is too close together.

1 hour ago, Hodgin said:

Hello all,

Home Designer Pro is new to me and so I am starting out with an easy rectangular garage (26'x28').  The footings are 16" wide and 8" tall and 8" CMU stem wall.  I am interested in putting insulation under the 4" slab. How do I add this insulation to show in a drawing?

Not positibve you can do this in HDP as this is the forum for Chief Architect Premier.  But look to see if in your room DBX in the general panel under floor structure if you can add more than just the 4" of concrete floor to the structure and add the 1" or 2" Rigid Insulation under the concrete layer.

13 hours ago, winterdd said:

Reason? I had them in porch but the owner wants them placed there for furniture reasons.

As mentioned because you are now placing the load from the porch roof in the middle of those two windows.  You now will have oversized headers which may cause issues with energy efficiency but now will most likely require four point load bearing footers instead of just two.  Just adding a few thousand dollars to the build.  But if that is what the client wants and they understand that by all means go with it.

Engineer is going to hate you on that one.

1 hour ago, DeLayDesign said:

Hey Experts.

Before I reach out to @ChiefArchitect about this, I though I might try here first.

I have a client who wants me to show a specific scenario on floor plan where I extend the stile on a cabinet, but the drawer face covers it.  I've accomplished this task, but I want to show this particular drawer open so the client can see what we are proposing.  Doing so though makes the drawer open in my elevations as well.  Does anyone have a way to show it open on floor plan and closed in elevation - without drawing the lines myself?

Thanks

  

Open it in plan mode.  Do a cad detail from view and copy/block the cad work of the open cabinet and paste in place on the plan view.  Then close the cabinet so it shows correctly in your elevation view.

39 minutes ago, KendallDesign said:

Every once in awhile when I'm working in the camera mode the screen gets "digitized" for lack of a better word.  I'm running Chief on Mac and connected to a second screen.  I think this also will happen when not connected to a second screen. It happens on the second screen I have at home as well. What is happening? 

1.) Plug your laptop in as its using the UHD graphics card instead of the AMD card.

2.) Set chief to only use the AMD GPU regardless of power settings.  (quick google search https://support.apple.com/en-us/102265#:~:text=If you want to use,is in Energy Saver preferences.)

Is part of the symbol sticking into the wall?

Use a reference display to show exterior stairs.

1 hour ago, solver said:

Select one of the symbols. Mouse over the tools in the Edit toolbar -- one will be obvious.

By chance when you said scanned into chief you used a service such as Canvas to scan a project and had them provide the .plan file to use in chief?  If this is what you mean by your description the file you received does not have the same settings/configurations as your template plan.  In this case you are seeing they do not have a site or terrain saved plan view.

2 hours ago, wpdesigninc said:

I aimed to use a simple soffit detail to shower a sloped shower floor base for drainage to a linear drain. However, I need the slope to run side to side not back to front. From what I can tell, the soffit detail only lets you specify drop front to back.

How would you build this detail into your plan to show the angle in plan view so it renders properly and details in a wall elevation as well. I need to also show the 3/8" tile on top of this. in an elevation view. 

 

Using X15. 

Thanks! 

Lots of ways to do this but if you want to stay with the soffit turn the soffit 90 degrees.

2 hours ago, mthd97 said:

Thanks, I was able to see the signatures for a little while on my mobile device but recently they disappeared. I will try with another device to see if they show up.

 

Edit: I can see them with Windows Surface Pro.

Turn your phone or tablet to landscape mode.

7 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

How will the shelf deck which wraps the sides and has rounded front corners be addressed if doing sides as doors?

The cabinet is still squared off but that rounded portion is the custom door which has a corner missing for all intents and purposes...

3 hours ago, Breeze_Design said:

Can anyone share a symbol for this cabinet?   I don't know how to make the curved section

It's from Waypoint

 

Custom door on the two sides.

32 minutes ago, ChiefChrissy said:

how can I make the base different colors on different walls within the same room?  I want white base on white walls and dark base on dark walls. 

room molding polylines duplicated with one with dark color and the other with light color.  Turning off the sections of the corresponding color.

7 hours ago, mtldesigns said:

Hey Chief...

 

I recently bought a laptop to keep the business going, since my desktop STILL hasn't been fixed by Dell.  Supposedly tomorrow, hoping so.  My question is, this toggling back and forth to transfer my lone license is a PITB, when do you plan on having a sale for a person who needs a second license and who is current on his SSA?

Thanks

You can no longer purchase an outright license.  You would need to subscribe to a new license.  You might be able to contact sales to see if they have a break for multiple licenses with a hybrid setup since you would have a legacy license and a new subscription license.

On 11/19/2023 at 8:50 AM, HFreed said:

Trying to decide whether or not to upgrade my current MBP and would love any feedback if you've used x15 on the new MacBook M3 (Pro) chip. I'm particularly interested in how PBR is looking. Thanks! 

Are you asking about PBR or PBR RTRT?  PBR is still doable at least on the m1 and m2 chips.  Not sure if anyone has reported on m3 yet as it is very new.  RTRT is not currently supported by chief however is available in a competing software starting with the m1 chips.  The issue is the compatibility with the rendering engine Chief uses and the apple silicone architecture.  Kind of same reason why it is only a subset of nvidia and AMD GPUs that can do the RTRT as well.  Regular PBR still works though.