HumbleChief

Kinda sorta have it figured out. When I build the foundation I have the 'curb width' set to 8" but when the foundation is built Chief sets that curb width to 16". I can manually change the curb width on each foundation wall back to the intended 8" and the problem goes away.

Seems to work OK on my template plan so....

Hey P, the foundation is on auto build so that should align the walls, no?

Thanks Michael. Yes, that's what's happening but can't seem to figure out the why or a fix.

Can't figure out what's happening with the pony wall display. User error most likely but any help appreciated. https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9z7mzvjkaxnj23/PONY WALL DISPLAY.plan?dl=0

Not exactly sure what you are looking for but perhaps this will help. TERRAIN PLAN.plan

VERY nice Eric. Thank You.

I Love this forum....

I think this has been suggested before but in a thread over at the 'Announcements' Forum Bradley Boltz reminded us of this option for those of us who are quick to give a post/idea/opinion a down vote instead of giving your counter opinion or idea. A down vote serves no purpose and only isolates the poster from the idea or opinion and we get to learn nothing new. So before you hit the down vote button let us know why. Why do you disagree? Why should we rethink our position? What's your idea? Thanks

This is a very important point in my opinion. A down vote doesn't let anyone know what your idea or opinion is and only serves as an anonymous indictment of someone else's ideas and opinions. It's childish and serves no useful purpose. Let us know what you think instead and instead of down voting this post, what do think? Bradley, I'm going to post something similar in the main forum as I think it's important. Thank You.

I haven't followed this thread that closely for a while and can understand the frustration with the pricing change but "all of them" have moved on? These are colleagues? How many? Current Chief users? How is this subjective assumption relevant? And it may be true that Chief, with its new pricing model, "will lose more business" but it might be more accurate to suggest that Chief will lose some current customers or end users which with increased revenues may still drop a larger profit to the bottom line allowing more resources to be dedicated to making the program better for the remaining users. I think the biggest challenge will be attracting new users. I think it is the hope of management that they have created a solid enough niche in the competitive market place to attract small home and remodelers as Chief currently is IMO the best option for that niche. Time will tell and I have less and less concern as I will happily pay the SSA fees going forward and factor in any increases to my business model. And as always best of luck to everyone no matter their choices.

Fixed...

I think it's their version of 'sharing' to various platforms.

I downgraded to 2022 and all is well for now. No word on whether or not that feature will be reintroduced in the future.

Thanks Michael, I'd love to be wrong about this but in version 2022, second pic below, there's a radio button "Copy To Clipboard" URL in which when the video was finished uploading the YouTube URL would be posted to the clip board, then pasted any time before anything else was pasted to the clip board. In the first pic, version 2023, you can see the radio button is missing and instead there's a brief selection window that appears after the video is finished uploading and you have to be quick to select the 'get video' button before the selection window disappears. Again would love to missing something but have communicating with tech support for a while with no help. Do you have 2022 or 2023?

Wanted to bump this thread as I just discovered that Snagit 2023 has removed a key feature for those wanting to upload to YouTube. It no longer has a 'Copy To Clipboard' radio button selection so videos when uploaded to YouTube, URL's have to be manually copied and pasted. 2022 still works but the feature was disabled in version 2023.

No but the model's perimeter was different enough to relocate each camera at its new 120 degree angle. Also it's easy enough to relocate the cameras by dragging them into place for easier zooming/panning. Was just curious about the default locations. Thank You.

This looks to be true, that the distance is based on 'some fancy math' and in this case not considering 0,0 as the model is drawn close to 0,0. In the pic attached I change the model size 3 times, set the default cameras and their locations changed 3 times based on the size of model's floor plan. 0,0 (X) is pretty much in the middle of the pictured example.

Thank you and of course a camera can be manually located but why the default location? And as above the X, Y Michael is pointing out was the current location of the cursor when the screen shot was taken. I can move the camera closer and position it manually but again am curious about the default location.

Thanks Michael but the X,Y you are pointing to is the current location of the cursor when the screen shot was taken, not sure how that could effect the default location of the camera? I opened the plan again and the cameras default to the same X, Y location. Not sure why?

I'm taking a standard 'Perspective Full Overview' and a 'Perspective Floor Overview' of a plan and the default X,Y coordinates are 961 7/16, -2438 13/16 as shown in the pic. Why? Is there a setting for such things? Thanks

Not sure this is a good example of where a structural engineer might be helpful but a Simpson JBA hanger is intended for solid sawn lumber up against a ledger of sorts, not up against a concrete stem wall where the only attachment is on the top of the hanger. I think my engineer would suggest a ledger off the concrete wall and hang the joists from that but I don't know anything about the OP's experience or intent so very hard to say. Or perhaps a Masonry hanger from Simpson? And again this is not a design I would impose upon my construction team without a S.E.'s approval and design. https://www.strongtie.com/masonryhangers_masonryconnectors/category

I'm curious with a question to the OP. Are you a licensed architect or a 'designer' like myself? The reason I ask is that I, as a designer, stay far away from details like this and have my structural engineer take care of such things. I review the details for anomalies or a misunderstanding of job site conditions but don't create the details as they tend to get in the way of actual best practice job site construction techniques. As an architect I 'might' create details of the structural engineering spec's but I have no experience as an architect so cannot speak to that issue. When I was a general my brother ran our field work and he was an excellent field guy and he did not like too many details and preferred to build to code or beyond instead of trying to interpret detailed details that many times were either unbuildable or hard to interpret in the field in a way that actually made for a better constructed building. Not many of us are lucky enough to have a field supervisor that is super competent or knowledgeable and that's just one person's experience.

Try putting some break lines (3 key) in the wall and reshape it. A pass through window seems to works as well...

Yeah I think a pony wall should work with the soldier course rotated 90 degrees.