JiAngelo

Place some invisible walls to separate the lower ceiling areas from the raised ceiling area. Raise the ceiling, then use 2" tall soffit (or slabs) to define the perimeter and then paint them your desired colors.

I had to look crenellations up. I would probably build a slab (or use solids) to merlon height across the area to be topped. Then copy in place a second slab and either A) decrease the second slab the thickness of your merlons then subtract this from your first slab, or expand the second slab the thickness of your merlons and subtract the first slab if you plan to use corbels to hold support the merlons. Next create your crenellation slab with its top even with merlon height & thickness, then make it your desired crenellation depth. Copy and paste these crenelations around the outer wall in the merlon slab. Then subtract those crenelations from the merlon slab. Create, place, and subtract any loophole details in the same manner. for the second merlon above, in elevation view, draw cad lines to create the arc V shape and connect the top to create a polyline. Convert to slab and.make.it the merlon wall thickness. In plan view place all of these where you want them and the silubtract all of the from the merlon wall. You may have to subtract these one at a time. Let me know if this helps. I've used a similar method to create layered exterior corner/window/door details in brick or EIFS

Excellent video. You could also lock the framing layers if you wanted to see them, but not select them, in plan view. And placing the dirt slab as Mark showed works whether terrain is there or not.

Second camera includes attic walls. circled in red.

You have a bunch of dashed cad lines drawn on multiple layers. It's like you imported a dxf of another chief file. Those lines exist on Layers "windows", "doors", "walls, normal", "walls, foundation", etc... Change Layer set to "All layers OFF" Turn on Layers "WIndows" and "Doors" - now you can easily select those. (you can't see the real windows and doors unless the wall layer is also turned on.) Turn those layers off Turn on Layer "Walls, Foundation" - again you can easily see a lot of dotted lines that exist on that layer. Turn that layer off Turn on "Walls, Normal" - try and select a dotted line and the wall gets selected first. Select next and you now can delete that solid line. Unfortunately you would have to do this for every line. Another approach is to window select the dotted lines, then press CNTRL and deselect the wall itself. Now you can delete a group of dotted lines at once. Next time you import something like this, select all and move all those cad lines to a single layer, like "Walls, Existing", and you will have more control. You can turn the layer off when you don't want to see them, or create a Layer Set that only has that layer turned on and then you can quickly flip to that view, delete the lines you no longer want, then flip back to your working layer view.

Based on what you've drawn, extend the porch wall temporarily throught the triple window room on the left. Break the ext. walls at the intersection on either side. Turn on automatic roofs with all walls set to desired pitch or gable setting and Chief should build your valley automatically. You can then delete the porch wall bisecting that room.

If it is a road, then yes it should. And I just checked, polylines roads will cut the curb at driveways. But they don't merge well with intersecting roads. The road with the red arrows is a polyline road that includes parking for a building not shown. The concrete driveway is to a triplex unit not shown.

Driveways don't have curbs. Only roads have curbs. Having curbs specified for roads and drawing driveways won't produce curbs on driveways.

HERE'S AN AUTOMATIC ROOF METHOD. Use an invisible exterior wall to define the 38" exterior space, like you would for a porch (if you want concrete floor below it) or open below (if you want terrain below it.) Use same exterior wall to ensure same exterior material thicknesses, then make them invisible. Specify the exterior room to be either "porch" (if you want concrete below) or "open below" if you want terrain. Specify the exterior room to have your net 18" overhang (56-38) - Actually it should be 16 13/16" (56" - 39 3/8") based on your drawing dimensions, but this is just a demonstration. Make the room's rough ceiling to be 13.5" below your interior room ceilings. (107.5" - 94") based on your drawing dimensions shown and assuming same thickness of material.) I don't know about the rest of your structure, but on my model, I specified all trusses with roof automatically drawn and 6-1/4" heel height initially. Chief raised the open below areas to 8-9/16" automatically and left the rest of my model at 6-1/4" heel height. Elevation camera with framing layer set turned on doesn't show the lower soffit finish material. However elevation camera with section view layer set turned on and within that layer set turn on framing for roof & walls and it now shows. I found best was backclipped cross section camera, which isolates the truss without showing gable end of my model, with same section view layer set w/ framing for roof/walls turned on, I'm getting a extra 1/8" on the overhang, but everything else matches your drawings. Note: Chief adjusted heel height here to 8 9/16" above top plates. I forgot to dimension this. UNFORTUNATELY, manually modifying the trusses was a problem I couldn't readily solve. Again, with heel height = 8 9/16. No invisible wall outside the building. Just 56" overhang. Break the truss outside the room and drop 13.5" to match above. Unfortunately the under soffit and exterior materials continue to extend to the top wall plates intersection point. Even creating a zero pitch flat ceiling plane at the correct soffit height doesn't change #4 . I use the automatic method most all the time. I've tried this using soffits but can't seem to get the framing automatically right. Here's the plan view of the automatic method. Remember overhang is specified from the Invisible Open Below walls. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

OPTION 1 - Use a 3/4" slab w/ a 1/2" footing at drop ceiling height and use "rectangle ceiling tiles" for materials. You can specify ceiling lights a set distance from the room ceiling to be in the drop panels. In plan view you can specify your 2x4 or 4x2 grid pattern and offset it accordingly so that it looks correct on the plans (for locating lighting and hvac vents.) However you have no control over the grid pattern in camera view. OPTION 2 - Same 3/4" slab no footer at drop ceiling height, . Use a stucco texture color eggshell in Cat Face, Dash, or Lace. (This gives you a ceiling panel look.) Then add 1" x 1-1/4" molding lines in a running 2' x 4' plus 1 continuous molding line around the perimeter of the room (all 1/2" below drop ceiling surface.) Now you can see your entire ceiling grid if you turn the slab off. Isolate the drop ceiling molding lines and slab to their own layers and you won't affect the rest of your drawing turning these layers on/off. Here's the plan view. And here's another bathroom with a drop ceiling from a project I helped model with another chief user. Slab and molding lines can be broken and adjusted to match/follow any room's shape.

Generally plan files are stored locally (to the computer you are working on.) Either copy the plan files you want to a thumb drive and transfer them to your laptop. (And transfer them back if you want to work with them on your other computer later on.) OR use a cloud storage system where both computers can access the same files. I personally use Onedrive with all my plan files stored locally and in the cloud. When I get a new computer I add both Chief and Onedrive, downloading my ART folder to the new computer. Note you have to.make sure you don't have the plan file open on both systems at the same time. And you need to allow files to cloud sync before opening them on the next computer.

The "Short Panel - Square Grille" stretches to fit the door size. You want the 8' wide look times 2. Unfortunatley Chief doesn't have a Horizontal Panel multiplier like it does for Vertical Panels on the Options DBX. To work around this, Make your door 8' wide to one side. Copy & paste to the side a second 8x9 with no gap between them. (red 2) Then mull the unit together to act as one 16090MU. (red 3) This will give you the look you want. But there is no control over the handles with this symbol. To work around this, Before mulling them together reverse the symbol (bottom of the General DBX) The handles are now inside the garage, which generally doesn't matter since we don't often show interior elevations of the garage. Clopay needs to revamp their Chief library. I hope this helps.

Your windows are on the attic level in the gable wall. This is why they show a negative distance. They are being measured from the attic level. IF you select the left trapezoid and mirror copy it using the window itself and not the doors below, it will appear in the right location. And you can mull all three together. And it shows the same negative distance as the others. I tried mirroring it using the door and it appeared inside the door itself, so it mirrored properly but was attached to the first floor. . .Hope this helps.

Follow @ValleyGuy's instructions. Leave Room Type alone and use it as Chief intended.

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Chief needs a "build group" setting similar to "roof group" setting. Multiplex units could share the same roof group, but rooms belong to different build groups and each gets it's own living area just like detached buildings do in the same plan file. Schedules could be limited by build group or include a column in the schedule like I did with unit no.

Keep the room types their defaults. Open a room dbx. Create new custom schedule categories Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, etc... Create new custom object field "Unit No." Bulk select the rooms inside of Unit 1, open the Room Specification DBX, Schedule and select Custom> "Unit 1". Leave the existing room categories alone. Go to Object Information and enter Field Value 1 for Unit No. Bulk select the rooms inside of Unit 2 and per the instructions above, Custom>"Unit 2" and OI Field Value 2 for Unit No. Keep doing this for each Unit. Now create a room Schedule. For columns/rows add "Unit No." to include. Then on General deselect all room categories. Select only Custom categories > Unit 1, Unit 2, Or Unit 3 OR you can select all of them if you want to see the entire building in one table. (If those are all the custom categories you have, then you can simply select custom to select all.) In the example below I was working on a house, selected 4 rooms on the right side for Unit 1, and 7 rooms on the left for Unit 2. I also used 01 and 02 in case you have over 9 units in a building. You could also use 001, 101, 201, if you had rooms on different floors. This way it doesn't matter if you have 3 kitchens, 3 baths, 9 bedrooms in a building, each gets assigned to its Unit No. I haven't messed with my room defaults and I don't even have to delete what I've done within this plan - my schedules don't group information in that manner. The categories helps you sort/filter a Schedule. But you can't include category on the schedule so that is why you need the Unit No. to identify within each schedule what is being shown to you (a single unit, groups of units, or all units.) Hope this helps.

Based on your blue grid background size and the dimensions shown, did you import "inches" when it should have been "feet" ?

Can you isolate the symbol to its own layer and lock it or hide it? does that help in any way? I actually do the reverse of what you outlined. I insert the building plan 3D model in the terrain plan file. I recently learned you can reference one 3D view of a plan file within another. open your help dialog and type in "the reference display." It will tell you how to reference both floorplans and 3D models from another file. It's pretty slick and I'm slowing adapting to using it instead.

I think you have this "loss of accuracy" reversed. converting from inches to millimeters is accurate as follows 1" and 1/2" require 1 decimal place accuracy (25.4mm & 12.7mm specifically.) 1/4" requires 2 decimal accuracy, (6.35mm) 1/8" requires 3 decimal accuracy (3.175mm) 1/16" requires 4 decimal accuracy. (1.5875mm) Chief won't let you specify 1/32" accuracy. This image has the red boxes drawn in inches. Converting from millimeters to inches is where accuracy becomes a problem. This image has the red boxes drawn to 0 decimal place millimeters. . Notice the loss of accuracy compared to the first image. 25mm doesn't equal 1" -- 25.4mm does. 13mm doesn't equal 1/2" -- 12.7mm does. 7mm doesn't equal 1/4" -- 6.35mm does. 3mm doesn't equal 1/8" -- 3.175mm does. 2mm doesn't equal 1/16" -- 1.5875 does..

Can you place the schedule in a separate cad detail box, then send to layout and rotate the view of that detail box??

It is similar to the other threads instructions. Break the front porch wall into 3 walls. Make the middle wall a gable end wall. Size the middle wall for how wide you want the gable to be.

R602.10.8.2 states bracing is required only for rafters greater than 9.25" above the braced wall panel. Also required for trusses greater than 15.25" above the braced wall panel.

How does your roof venting work if the soffit intake is blocked off?

I had to first delete my ex. library to download a newer library.