reedie2000

Looking with assistance with large custom home in New England. 

This is my largest and most complex project to date, and not local to the NE. 

Mostly done with Schematic and into DD in some places. Have a model that actually looks like a serious house.

Primarily need help with:

1. Complex rooflines 

2. Understanding / applying applicable the building code

3. Developing general and plan notes 

4. Clean, detailed documentation

Not a beginner with Chief, but definitely hoping to increase my productivity (I'm heavily discounting fees and writing off hours) so would love to find a person with a bent to mentoring / explaining rather than just whipping out the work. 

I have a mostly flat lot with perfectly rectangular areas depressed by 10" here and there. I'm having the hardest time getting clean edges without a slope - there are a lot of pavers and wide concrete steps. In sketchup I could just depress an area but I am having the hardest time building small slopes. What is the best practice in Chief Architect for this kind of thing?

Thank you everyone

I'd like to indicate walls that will be demolished / added during a renovation. I want these to show in plan view but for the demolished wall, I don't want this to be a modeled wall. I'd rather not have to draw things on the document in CAD, but for it to be indicated as I work in plan view, but not show up in 3-D and be considered a component. Is this possible?

What is the best practice for creating a bridge / catwalk along a tall wall overlooking a vaulted great room?

This is a common condition in my plans but I usually get a floating rail without any floor.

For weeks, I've had trouble getting the bridge to generate. I have a second floor with bedrooms but I can seem to get any room definition on the floor above the great room.