JiAngelo

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  1. JiAngelo's post in Note schedule, rotation of symbols was marked as the answer   
    Can you place the schedule in a separate cad detail box, then send to layout and rotate the view of that detail box??
  2. JiAngelo's post in Library downloads was marked as the answer   
    I had to first delete my ex. library to download a newer library.
  3. JiAngelo's post in Creating a custom specific railing was marked as the answer   
    With any stair or ramp, in their DBX 
    Choose Railing, then Style "OPEN", Include Top/Bottom & raise/Lower bottom = 2' Choose Newel/Balusters, then Type=ROUND, 2" width. Choose Rails, then replace both top rail & bottom rail with "Tubing Round" 2"  Choose Materials, then replace newels & rails w/ BLACK (or another material of your choice.) This will give you the railing style you are looking for. For the handicap rails ends, it is a bit more fun.  In 2D draw a moulding line extending from one end of a staircase.  I changed my line weights to 1 to make things easier to see.  Change Molding to "Tubular Metal" 2".  Note, because I was lining up with the ramp snap point, I had to offset my molding -3/8" to get the tube to line up with the stair/ramp tubing.

     
    Open a cross section camera looking at the rail section.  Raise the rail from the floor on which it has been drawn to match your rail height.

    Then highlight the molding and extend it around in a loop return.

     
    In 2D view mirror your railing so that it is 3/8" offset to match your initial.

     
    Switch to 3D view and paint it black to match rails.

     
    Select both moldings and mirror to other side of ramp/stair.  Then in 2D view raise/lower moldings to match height of that side of the railings.

    Voila!  
     
    If you zoom in close, the bottom rail has a better welded look than the top rail which is riding slightly above the rail.  I couldn't figure out how to automatically fix that short of connecting the rail end pieces and making my own horizontal rail, using only the stair posts, no railings..
  4. JiAngelo's post in Deleting Layers was marked as the answer   
    I'm back home now.  I'm assuming the layer you want to delete does not have a "+" sign in the Used column under the ALDO.  By chance does it have a wrench or an "S" in its Used column? - I've found those are system layers that cannot be deleted, but can be renamed.
    In my ALDO there are only (3) layers that can be deleted when empty.  
    Audio/Video Plumbing Text I will delete - which I created to test this The first two layers exist in my template file and are present in every new plan I create.  Below are pictures showing delete only works on the blank used column.



     
    I did discover that if you select two layers like so,

    You can merge them.  But you must select the wrench or system layer first, then the one you want to delete 2nd and it will merge with the first.  If you try the reverse system will throw an error telling you a wrench or system layer cannot be deleted - and this will turn your text I will delete layer into a wrench.  You can press undo if you do this accidentally.
     
    I hope this helps.
     
  5. JiAngelo's post in Just simple inches was marked as the answer   
    In case you wanted an answer to your original question, when you create the custom field check off "Format as a Number"

    Then open your window schedule and click on "Number Formatting" 

    You'll find custom field "Elevation" is missing from this table.  I created an "Elevation2" and "Elevation3" as a example.  For both I checked "Format as a Number" and both appear in this table. I then formatted Elevation2 and left Elevation3 unformatted.  Look at the results.

     
    Lastly, %bottom_elevation% reports in raw inches to begin with.  I had to change my window elevation reference to "Absolute" to get the second floor window bottom elevations to measure from 0.  I am curious how you were able to mix the measurements in the same line.  Your W02 measures Bottom Elev. from floor elevation, while both Comments/Elevation measure from Absolute.
     
     
  6. JiAngelo's post in How to make the two roofs meet was marked as the answer   
    For the eaves to match at the front porch and to use autoroof, Make the garage and middle room above roof planes all 12/12.  Don't build those attic rooms just yet.
    I personally then lower the room above ceiling to 4' 1 1/8" ceiling height (the minimum I generally want my room above sidewalls to be)
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    It was luck this worked first time around.  My garage was 24' wide and the room was 12' wide centered above.  Next step is to see how much wider I can make the room.  Turns out 14' is too wide, but 13'8" works fine.

     
    If I'm ready to lock the roofs on the entire house, then I uncheck automatic roofs and set the ceiling height back to std. in this room.  Chief then draws the slope start lines automatically.

    If the room was being used for storage, I might lower the walls to 37 1/8" and that would allow the room to be even wider.  This is the only way I've found to control the sidewall heights.  There's another method that draws the walls under the roof regardless of the sidewall height - it just does whatever makes it work and then I have to compare elevations to figure out heights.
     
    Alternatively some room truss designs require the side rooms so that a 10" bottom chord extends the entire length.  Using Kellyh's method, In the side rooms I would set the room height anywhere from 1.5" to 7.5" - unfortunately the overhangs won't align with a front porch unless you raise the porch roof - which is a problem if there are windows above to consider.  
     
    I've never been happy with the attic room results unless the room is alone on a floor by itself.
     
     
  7. JiAngelo's post in Tiny Home Foundation was marked as the answer   
    There are a couple of trailers in bonus libraries.  One is a triple axle you cam resize it to fit your building.
  8. JiAngelo's post in Garage Door windows was marked as the answer   
    There's a box awning in the commercial awnings bonus library that I use alot.  It looks like your roof but only offers 2 supports and the colors match the flat roof.

     
    When I played around with the corbels, resizing them, only the timber corbel worked, but it is awfully big and may not give you the look you desire..

     
    So instead I created a 4"x4"x7' solid, created a side elevation view of the porch and rotated the solid column to 45 degrees.  Angled the ends to plumb/level with the porch roof and wall.  Then slid it into place under the roof, against the wall. - I colored it osb to contrast with the corbel and the roof - and I left the corbel so that you could see the difference.
     

     
     

     
    The solid idea actually works best.  I've used the corbels on smaller roofs before and suggested it without thinking it through.  My bad  
     
     
  9. JiAngelo's post in Adjust section views to be perpendicular to odd wall angle was marked as the answer   
    Here is where you can add additional angles.

     
    Section cameras can't be rotated apparently, but can be drawn to any allowed angle.
     
    Draw a line perpendicular to the wall and find its angle and allow it.  If it is 88 degrees for example you might want to allow a smaller multiple, like 22 or 11 or 5.6
    If that doesn't work exactly subtract 180 from the angle (or add) and try that number or fraction there of instead.  Here's an example of 2 parallel lines, one starts left and ends right, the other starts right and ends left - that is why the angles are 180 degrees different from one another.   

     
  10. JiAngelo's post in Stairs with vertical slats was marked as the answer   
    Code requires slats be no more than 4" apart.  The picture looks like studs, so oak 2x4's spaced 5.5" on center would work.
     
    All rail settings assume newel and balusters are equal x,y widths.  I'd recommend using a wall which would achieve this.

     
    Steps to reproduce.
    Make a copy of wall type Interior Railing. Open the new wall type definition dbx (define) and delete drywall on either side.  - Note I didn't change pattern/texture to oak here. I wasn't sure it would affect top/bottom plates. Select framing layer and check Framing to change stud spacing to 5.5"  - Note: make top/bottom plates thinner (and the count) here if you like.  Go to the main wall specification dbx and on the general tab select "No Room Moldings Exterior" and "No Room Moldings Interior" - Note: gets rid of baseboard. Go to Materials tab and select "No Room Wall Coverings" - Note: otherwise you just see a solid wall of stud material....not sure why. Open your 3d view and the wall should look like the above.  - Note: I then painted the studs and rails Anderson Oak from the library.  
    To make it look like your left picture, I then did the following.
    Open an elevation view looking at the wall with the stairs on the other side.  Turn on wall framing layer. Go back to plan view change the wall back to the regular interior railing definition - Note, if you don't you can't select the wall in 3D only the studs. In elevation view, select just the wall, not the room, and break the midpoint of the top of the wall. Slide the walls upper left corner down to match the handrail height. Slide the walls midpoint over to match the handrail meeting the ceiling (in my example.) Open the stair dbx and delete the rail on this wall. - Note, you could delete the other too - but continuous rail to the top of stairs is coded required. Change the wall definition back to your copy of interior railing (no drywall) Regenerate framing and you should see something like this.
     
    Of course the wall cuts ceiling.  But when I tried the above steps using a rail wall it wouldn't let me break it.  So I cheated, added a slab 5/8" thick at 109 1/8" high, changed its' material to drywall and colored it to match the ceiling.

     
    Hopefully these steps achieve the look you want.
     
     
  11. JiAngelo's post in Farmhouse roofing trouble was marked as the answer   
    You are correct, it was a mess.  
     
    Couple of quick notes when drawing.
    Don't turn on  "Ignore Top (2nd) Floor" in roofs dbx initially.  That took me the longest to figure out.  I'll show you later what it tells you.  Using the Garage as 0" and the main house as +1'4" causes Chief to build successive floors based on 0", not +1'4"  Why did you draw the foundation under left side of the main house and let Chief build the foundations under the right side of the house?   That's a rhetorical question.  Isometrics show you built only the first floor roofs over the garage.  I turned auto roofs on (next image)

    Tried to clean it up and this ridge circled red kept popping up.  The more work I did with the second floor, the more ridges and valleys started popping up. 
     
    It took me a minute to comprehend the 16" floor reversal was the culprit.  Chief was drawing all my second floor rooms above 0'  - I didn't want to continue this way so I,  
    Deleted your basement walls.  Selected all 1st level rooms that didn't have a floor on the left side of the house and checked "Floor Under This Room" in Structure DBX.  Made the floor 0" here. Selected the remaining rooms middle and right side of main house, made floor 0" here.  "Floor Under This Room" was already checked.  Selected front porch made floor -4" here. (you originally had it 1' instead of 1'4") Selected garage, checked "Floor Under This Room" and made floor -1'4" here.  This now looked identical to what you originally drew, with 0" the main floor and the garage -16".  And then I turned Auto Roofs on.

     
    Much cleaner.  Then I rotated it and found your front porch and bedroom roofs are overriding the main gable.  Examining the floor plan I found nothing matches up along your front walls to make a clean gable truss running straight through the home.....

    So I extended the right front "closet" wall temporarily through the entire home.  I changed it to blue so that you can see it.
    I broke the left gable end wall at the blue wall intersection and changed the upper half to red.  I also changed the right gable wall to red and then opened both walls and changed the roof to gables.  Then I selected the front half of porch and bedrooms circled in red opened both rooms and changed them to roof group 1 (R-1).  Also I selected the right wall of bedroom  and made it a gable (forgot to highlight this - and the file I attached has all walls I turned to gable in red now.)   
     
    I also did the same thing to the garage bumpout walls (making them gable) and told Chief the back bumpout wall was a 6/12 pitch.
    Then I made the blue walls invisible (but it still divides the rooms in two for now).

     
     Much closer with Auto Roofs still turned on.  But it doesn't quite match your original drawing.
    Now, because you said the rear of your house has some vaults, I drew some second floor walls and this is where I discovered I had to turn off  "Ignore Top (2nd) Floor" in roofs dbx because this wasn't permitting me to see how the 2nd floor at standard wall height interacts with the auto roof.  I used the blue wall as the front of the 2nd floor room and extended it from the right bedroom to the left bathroom exterior walls.  Made both endwalls gables, and the ceiling height 3'1-1/8" to match my original information (in hindsight 4'1-1/8" might work better to match over the garage...  I then broke the front wall over the blue wall 10' left/right of the front door using temporary walls, made this broken section a gable, then copied your dining windows to this floor centered above the door.  I had to raise them 2' to get them where you see now.

    .Notice your second floor is sticking out of the roof over the garage, so you can see where it is.  Now I'm going to play with your room over the garage.  Most attic rooms inside room trusses will slope from 4' at the side walls to the allowable ceiling height.  You can go lower, but I usually wait until I have room truss data to do this.  At stairwell width, the a second floor flat ceiling has to drop from 8' to 4'10 1/8" before those extra rooflines disappears.

    The stairwell is off center of the gable.  Changing the room to no ceiling initially revealed an extra 1'7" to play with, And I dog-eared the doorway one foot at a full 80" high opening because the roof would impact it.. I also determined the room can also be 8'6 wide at 4'10" flat ceiling height.
    Then I realized the program was drawing all roofs 1'4" above the ceiling plane of the 2nd floor.(SMH - this was probably my own fault when adjusting the foundation earlier)  The right picture is after I corrected all your roofs.  This forced a 2' dogear on the entrance to the attic.  You could explore lowering the garage ceiling 1', but that means it gets closer to the laundry door (whose height doesn't change.)  I can explore that later if necessary.
      
    Changing the ceiling height to 4' room truss height, (4'1-1/8") also allowed the room to increase to 10'4" inside the room trusses (safely)  Your truss guy will determine the actual width permissible.  You may be able to lessen the dog-ear once you have truss data given the rigid foam insulation.  I'd wait and see.
    I then extended the front of this room to the outside garage gable wall, copied your dormer windows, making them 6'8 from the truss room floor and only 5' tall.  I put red dots where you can see the 4'1-1/8" flat ceiling intersecting the windows.  In glass house view you can see the room inside the trusses.

     
    I renamed the 2nd floor stair opening room to open below.  Broke my new wall over the blue wall to either side of the stair well and extended it back to the beginning of stairs.  Added some room names and a text box that automatically calculates ceiling heights.  Open Below is measured from the first floor.
     

     
     
    Lastly, Why are your stairs 11" treads (nosing to nosing) which creates a 12" tread and 6-7/16" rises?  Those are commercial dimensions.  In residential we typically use 9" nosing to nosing, which results in a 10" tread, and less than 8-1/4" on the rise.  typically 7 to 7 1/2 works well.  This allow you to have only 14 treads to reach the next floor.  The stair landing is then inside the laundry closet.  Giving you more head room underneath for storage.  I left your framing intact for you to delete.
     

     
    All this with auto roofs still turned on.  I made the blue wall visible again and saved the entire file as 3 and attached it.
     
    Before you turn off Auto Roofs, delete all the blue walls - don't for get the one under the stairs.  You'll find Chief is still building things automatically properly now.
     
    If you turn off ceilings over the attic, you'll almost have the same room view that "Ignore Top (2nd) Floor" gives you.  But now you know why the room can only be so large.
     
    Now turn off Auto Roof.  In attic room, change ceiling height from 4'1-1/8" to default 8'1-1/8".  You can do this in 3d view while viewing the room.  It changes to the same view you'd have with "Ignore Top (2nd) Floor" checked, but again now you know why it is designed the way it is.

     
     
    Lastly, it looks like Chief builds soffits at the upper ceiling height and facia at the roof height, I think your 6" roof surface is causing this.  Rotate your model and you will find a 6" gap between the siding and gable ends facia.  Maybe you need to move the OSB/FOAM/OSB to the structure layer (like it is for floors) and let surfaces just be shingles & underlayment. I'll save this for later. 
     
    I hope this helps.  Sorry for the length.
     
    HousePlan working3.zip
  12. JiAngelo's post in X6 - Delete Dialog Box was marked as the answer   
    Nevermind.  Finally found it under General Plan Defaults.
     
    Persistence pays...