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Different shadow board on gable vs. eave
plannedRITE replied to Larry_Sweeney's topic in General Q & A
There's a drop down that allows you to choose if a specified shadow board will show on the Eave, Gable, or both. You can also select a roof plane and, under Shadow Boards, choose if it will show on that selected edge or not. -
Can you clarify what it is that you're trying to accomplish? Which are the new 5 windows? If this schedule is showing more windows than you like, it's due to you sending the extra windows to that schedule. If you only want to show 5 of your windows in that schedule, you'll need to either uncheck Include in Schedule on the others.
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The simplest way is to use Rene's search on his website to look for seamless textures. That's always my first go-to. https://www.rabbittdesign.net/texture Making one is more difficult...you typically need some photoshop/photo editing knowhow. There are tools that supposedly can do it for you, they pop up after a Google search. They might work?
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How do I get these walls to join up properly?
plannedRITE replied to Ed_Orum's topic in General Q & A
Can you share the plan file? That's a fairly simple wall intersection and works fine when I quickly replicate it so I'm curious to see what is done in your file. That being said, Chief can have a difficult time handling complicated wall intersections and may even fight any manual layer editing that you may do. But this is simple enough that it should be fixable. -
Michael gave you a simple way to fix the issue. It's better to adjust your way of thinking to how Chief wants you to think - "slab" being the floor under the room, not necessarily a concrete slab. The model has a handful of problems in this area but if you only want to fix the material & fill pattern shown just select the displayed slab at your carport (it's a terrain feature that you placed, 1" thick with a concrete material) and change that concrete material to the river rock that you were trying to use as gravel. Then adjust the bounds of that terrain feature however you'd like, in case it's extending out to the street or something. Then, on whatever plan view you are trying to show this on, make sure that your terrain feature layer is displayed. And the design being showed is something that you must have accidentally set so in that terrain feature's DBX, set the fill style to whatever it is you're looking for (you have decorative block shown, hence the pattern). Plan view shows the selected fill type. Most 3D views will show the material.
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Cross section of a 3D solid doesn't show outline of the object
plannedRITE replied to Larry_Sweeney's topic in General Q & A
Chief sees faces of 3d objects so that's normal behavior. That's the reason that the foundation, walls, and slab are all empty too. I sure hope that Chief will allow us to slope floors sooner than later...this has been requested for many, many years. The new Poche tool in x16 beta would fix this beautifully if the floors could slope. (per what Kevin said below, if you only want to show the outline then make sure the layer is on) -
Angled wall meeting a straight wall creates a point
plannedRITE replied to StephenM's topic in General Q & A
I was able to replicate it perfectly when copying your screenshot, with all walls being 4". But when copying the OPs screenshot (with the 6" wall) it no longer works. I tinkered for a bit and couldn't find a solution. Try the 6" like they are showing, perhaps you'll have better luck than myself? -
Not a perfect example, as it continues to the end walls, but I imagine that it would likely be similar. Though this builder is working on a different one of our projects, this isn't one of ours so I don't have details that I can share. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn4cUHorowQ/ I'm interested to see how you detail it out, share updates!
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Create separate schedules for floor framing?
plannedRITE replied to plannedRITE's topic in General Q & A
I can't share this one but, as a reference, here are the included framing categories. No rim joist, I checked older versions as well with the same result. (To be clear, I'm really not that concerned about this, custom categories are a quick workaround even though it's a bandaid. Just odd to me since Chief has rim joists as a Role and even an OOTB layer.) -
Create separate schedules for floor framing?
plannedRITE replied to plannedRITE's topic in General Q & A
The only way that I'm seeing to differentiate the two is to manually set one of them to report to a custom schedule category. The default framing categories do not include rim joists as a standalone option. Am I missing something? -
Create separate schedules for floor framing?
plannedRITE replied to plannedRITE's topic in General Q & A
Yeah, not sure why I'm trying to go about it a different way. This was a bit of a stupid question...I've worked on this template for too long -
Not a great title but I'm not sure how to best summarize. Is there a way to create separate schedules for the same framing categories within the same view/plan? It almost works perfectly by using rooms but the rim joists are not contained within a room, darn it. Can I somehow create a schedule for the members in Module "A" and a separate one for Module "B"? I'm hoping to accomplish something similar to this: I also noticed that chief puts rim joists and floor joists both under the same category for schedules, even though they are specified under different "Roles". Not sure if much can be done about that one. I appreciate the input.
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Importing PDF from engineer with title block
plannedRITE replied to EastAveDesign's topic in General Q & A
This is exactly how we do it. It's the way to go. I haven't tried adding them to Chief in a few versions but I know that it used to skyrocket the file size when done that way, never understood why. -
Exactly. They are panelized walls for modular construction, per the company, but that's precisely what we are creating. And yes, at this point that is our process. Although, wouldn't it be neat if Chief acted on suggestions? This is low on the totem pole of things I've discussed with them so I'll just deal with it for now