Steve_Nyhof

We typically set attic trusses on top of the main floor top plate. We do not balloon frame around here.

Thank you! I will look into that

I see in my profile the latest posts - so that is handy if you need to go back a bit. But how do I locate ALL my posts, or in some way find older posts not in the profile? I tried to include a marker - like "~Thank you" in the body - OR - (sn) in the Title - but these do not show up when I search. Thoughts? Thank you

I got this funny result once before - the knee wall issue from above (showing on the elevation) seems to be gone! .plan included Thank you! cape code test.plan

ok- I'm starting over just to see if I missed something. If it fails again I will post the .plan - thank you

I am working though the video on building a cape code roof - doing it step by step. However, I get the knee wall showing through on the elevation. I deleted the wall and mirrored the other knee wall, but that did the same thing. is there a setting I can click to prevent this? can things like this (unwanted lines, etc.) be removed from the elevations? Thank you

I'm excited to learn it! I feel more confident with walls and foundations now that I have messed with them in challenging situations, lowered, daylight and walkout, and roofs are the next challenge as everyone knows there is a lot you can do with roofs in the real world. I know I should spend more time learning the basics - and I am working through the tutorial, but I need to know that the Chief and I will become good friends. Even the best of friends can give you a hard time now and then Thank you for your support here in the forums!

That was it! Thank you Sir! Even though I read about this stuff, some times my mind does not connect the dots - quite literally! - So now I understand that that dialog is for roof defaults, not only to build the roof initially.

I have been setting up all my defaults and preferences, and also working with walls and setting up my User defaults, etc. Today I wanted to begin to learn about roofs. However, watching the video(s) where I am shown where I can change roof options, like Full Gable, nothing happens. Is there another settings that I somehow turned off? ~Thank you

Love it!! I need to learn about the layers in Chief which I know from what I seen so far is vary versatile. Thank you!

Perfect! was just thinking about that. And I would want to turn them off for printing only

I'm getting this figured out... On the main floor I am cutting the Foyer with a Divider Wall Then change the floor to Foyer and its height to -4'6 Then I added a second Divider Wall where the stairs are placed and made that Open Below So I have a Foyer, an Open space and then my main floor 0 height Go to level 0 - Put my stairs in from the basement to the Foyer Go to level 1 - Put my stairs in from the foyer to the main floor Add my halfwalls - no funny results this time with the walls. Now I am confident that this can be done and quickly

So here is what I found... (It's working! Its's working!!!) I made the main floor and made 2 rooms - one for house and one for the garage I found that when I made the garage room specs with the wall height as I wanted it to end up (9'), I failed to bring it down later after moving the floor down. So I undo, and this time made the ceiling of the garage where I wanted it to end up based on the 0 point of the main house floor - and only made that change and OK. Then I created the foundation. Broke the walls between the house and garage, and set the Wall Type heights for the floor and wall top. Then opened up the garage room and made my height adjustments. My typical plans do not show a stud wall on the foundation document, but I think this is fine, unless there is a way to hide the garage stud walls only. Bilevel test.plan Bilevel garage to house.pdf

I would like to see the section lines on my section. The layers for Section show on. But I have been using my ADT to figure out the heights

I have tried this in elevation view, and the snaps do not work, or work often. And I am always left with 2 lines where it was that I cannot get rid of. I feel I am making some progress and will upload what I have at some point - Thank you!

I have already messed a lot with daylight and walkout foundations with Pony walls and am very pleased with my results. I found a specific order, but I do not get the vertical footing but exactly what I was hoping in a stepped footing. I think I have since deleted these test plans, but as I move forward I will upload my results.

This is very good to know. I will also give this a try. All of this is helpful in learning how Chief likes to play

I will look into this - I do have a section open all the time so I can see my results.

Not a problem at all! If anything, I am enjoying and gleaning from the info you guys are sharing

I completely understand this and working within this. When I drag the heights I know I am working against the system per say with a more traditional CAD approach. I am not even fighting Chief's design but trying my best to understand and find use and of it's relationships. I am drawing my plan over and over, working through what chief might like me to draw first so that other things fit instead of fight. I currently have a 2-5/8" discrepancy in my garage wall height that I cannot get rid of. This 2-5/8" is often related to the difference between 11-7/8 and 9-1/4" floor joist - defaults I am finding. So deleted everything and starting again by making sure to change my Floor/Ceiling defaults first to 10" floor. Working on the plan again now. I realize that traditional CAD allows me to do as a please, but it does not then have any real relationship to the model like Chief does. I am building a model whereas traditional CAD has you design lines and blocks and objects, etc. in space.

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I'm starting again and including the garage before building the foundation and see how that goes.

I am creating a test Bi-Level home to learn about what I would draw at least 10% of the time. Plus I draw very complex homes with different height floor levels. I have already drawn single floor and two story test homes, and those are easy because they follow more simple rules. I know I can master these in a short amount of time. However, to draw a Bi-Level home, or Tri-Level (same issue with the garage), I need the foundation plan to show the foundation walls of the garage, and the first floor to show the main floor walls of the garage. The house part was a challenge with the foyer floor and stairs, but it worked as the foundation plan will show the foundation wall AND the exterior walls on the foundation plan. To create the foundation garage, it wanted so badly to sit in the air up with the main floor. And for the life of me, I could not get the footings and walls down where the house foundation show. So I made elevations and dragged them down manually (trying to avoid doing that). I went back into the floor dialog and seen no changes that I could equate to do this from there. I could not get the floor down, so deleted it and made a slab and moved it down into place. So far, I'm ok with how I pulled this off, although I know many of you more skilled will disagree, but I'm just trying to prove it can happen before perfecting a proper method. Chief either can do what I need or it cannot. I'm hoping it can because I really want to make this work. I could always design more complex homes in ADT, but would love to walk away from it at some point. I am happy with the way the plan looks on the foundation, but now I need to add walls on the main floor but when I do it totally messes up my foundation walls. I tried to add Open Below on the first floor garage walls because I do not need a floor on the first level if it shows on the foundation - It can show on the first floor, just not sure how. I am guessing I may need to venture into more advanced tools to pull this off, and I get that I am just starting, but I have been drawing on CAD since about 1992, so am learning Chief by forcing myself to figure this out - and I have a lot. I know it seems I am asking a lot of questions, but not until I have spent many long hours trying and reading and watching anything with related topics, and then trying. Thank you

I'm just uploading my progress. The Open Below worked. I figure I need to work in Layouts to hide the Open Below dashed lines. I have a funny 2x extruding up that I just cannot make go away. Thoughts? Thank you

Thank you guys! I had made a default for my open below and have messed with it and forgot about it.