HumbleChief

Very helpful Glenn

Way to go joey. Glenn has posted the key to the behavior you're seeing. Not sure I'll ever understand that blasted structure dbx but if you do it's the key to understanding so much about Chief.

Joey, You're using the grade beam and piers dbx but you're picture shows that you're building with a stem wall. The posts will sit at the bottom of the 'floor' height of the foundation room. If you want to build with post and beam foundation (not grade beam and piers) build a stem wall foundation and manually place your beams, posts and post footings. Again set the floor of your foundation room to place the post and footings at that same height. &rel=0

Joey, It looks like the post footing is defaulting to the height of the foundation room. Check/change the floor height of the foundation room and see if the post heights don't follow. Also your dbx is showing a 'grade beam on piers' but your foundation is built with stem walls. Sorry I don't know how to get just the link to show instead of the entire screen shot of the You Tube Vid. &rel=0

Another method if you simply want to get rid of the stray plan references.

Very helpful thread. I constantly have various views sent from various plans as the model evolves and using %referenced_filename% with Layout Labels turned on during Layout creation, then turning off Layout Labels for final printing will help identify any straggler views sent from the wrong plan file. I don't think I need the full path at this time because my plan files are never that far apart in my folder structure. Again thanks for the lively discussion and some great solutions.

...Or open each roof plane and set the ridge top to be equal heights for each roof plane. The pitch will vary if the baselines aren't equal lengths, but the ridges will be the same height.

Funny - looking forward to meeting you guys.

I've got a man crush on Glenn. You are the man - hope that helps the OP.

My advice above blows. It's WAY too hard to find a pattern when vertical siding doesn't come with a pattern already spec'd. Please, someone tell me it's easier than this video shows. Here's the right way to do it. Here's the wrong way, but might be entertaining.

Hey Dude, The standard view uses a texture and the 'vector' views use a pattern. Go to the pattern tab and find one that works for your siding.

I suggest you call tech support.

You could put the framing member that is the edge of the deck on a separate layer, turn it on, the rest of the deck framing layer off?

Yeah it's still a 2 step process in Chief, and not live either.

Nice tips you guys. Thanks. And great home design as well.

Select the windows icon and hold down the shift key as you draw a marque around the windows. This will select all the windows. Don't know much about lintels as we almost never use them here in CA. You may have to add the spec in the 'Comments' section of the schedule. You can set the header to be concrete here.

Build deck framing, turn on the deck framing layer?

My searches for Chief information almost always leads me to the old forum where my question is almost always answered. It's a very valuable resource IMO and will probably be removed eventually under the guise that the information is outdated. If it were true that the reason for its eventual removal were that the information is outdated then many of the teaching videos would have to be removed as well as older posts a in this forum. I, of course, do not have to pay for its presence so would like to see it preserved.

Nice job Jonathan

Think about a larger power supply (750 - 800W) and perhaps a larger SSD. 120 GB will fill up really fast, otherwise it looks good.

I never intended to get a Xeon let alone multiple Xeons but found a builder (have always built my own machines) from this forum and told him what I really wanted and that the CPU was the biggest bottle neck for Ray Tracing. I of course wanted the latest i7 but he had a couple of Xeons around and ran some tests for through put and found that these 2 relatively low range Xeons when OC'd slightly out-performed the then current i7 crop. $2500.00 all in so I went for it. It was not for the faint of heart. When the machine arrived (HUGE case) with the cooling fans connected the stress from shipping had wrecked the MB and that had to be replaced. I had had a lot of experience building so it was not that bad but if you didn't have that experience then it would be no fun at all. After it was all said and done I'm very happy and feel pretty lucky to have gotten the deal I did. I'm not sure when I'll upgrade again (or what I'd upgrade to) and having a machine that's fast enough is a very rare experience as all of us know.

I've overclocked almost all of my recent (last 5 years) machines with no problems whatsoever. It's not a simple task but I'm not the brightest bulb and got it done by doing a lot of research and investigation. The speed benefits were well worth it and if you have a good cooling system and keep the overclock conservative it's a no brainer and well worth the effort - or just buy a faster chip. (and overclock that )

http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-031089.htm BTW Dennis I know nothing about the Turbo Boost monitor - I'm just googling the term. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=intel%20turbo%20boost%20monitor

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