HumbleChief

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One of the first things I learned as a contractor (in a previous life) reading plans was never to scale drawings. If the dimensions are not clear enough to read or missing or couldn't be figured out through deduction, then a call to the architect/designer was in order. I also never scale details because that can only lead someone to think it's wise practice to scale them in order to figure out a dimension. IMO it's just bad practice to scale a drawing in the field. And what if the printer got it wrong and the printed dimension says 14' - 8" but at 1/4" scale it scales out to 14' - 0" are you working with a builder who is building to the drawing as scaled or to the printed dimension?

Of course no problem Glenn, always appreciate your input...

Just to be accurate - 10 hours ago, HumbleChief DID NOT say: Glenn's post above, but I was wondering the same thing. It's one thing to disagree with Chief's approach to software design, but to fight it for 20 years is another kettle of fish. How do I know? Because I've been fighting it for 20 years as well but have learned how Chief works and learned to work within that paradigm. Either way best of luck to the OP.

Apologies as I saw the trial version on one video and thought you might have been a new user. Not sure what the problem was you were having but hope it got worked out. Also, as I remember, wishing Chief worked in a way it does not was always a sure formula for frustration.

Great advice from Mick - Alternate - 2. as above, move components in desired direction. While holding down the left mouse button, hit the tab key and enter desired 'X' and/or 'Y' distances.

Oh joy, tried it a couple more times and it's behaving as I expected. Sigh...

I have 'matched properties in 2 different rooms and when those rooms are 'joined those new properties are ignored and they revert to the default room/ceiling/floor heights. Is that expected behavior? THANKS https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtk50nfupogd3l4/MATCH PROPERTIES 1.plan?dl=0

Lots of good help here Lane as you've seen and another 2 cents. Simple note and hope it's not too obvious or repetitive but roofs will not build to 'wall heights' but they will build to 'room heights'. The 'room' is most likely defined at the 97 1/8 that the roof is building to. If you have "several walls in a certain model that are not standard 97-1/8" tall" they can only get there if you manually pull them up, or the 'room' is defined at that taller height. Pulling the walls up is never a very good practice with Chief, even though it can be intuitive to do so. Defining a 'room' to be taller is the paradigm Chief works with. If you can use that paradigm and always remember Chief is 'room' centric or 'room' dependent the program starts to make sense.

THANKS RYAN!! Glass louver - nice. Never knew it was there.

Thought Chief had a symbol or window? Did a search but am not succeeding. Any help appreciated. THANKS

Mick, Do you add the 2 x 6 to the 'Surface' (as I show) or the 'Structure in the dbx? Thanks

You can frame your ceiling/roof structure with 4 x 6 Beams @ 48" O.C. spec'd in the 'Structure' of the roof then add the T & G in the 'Surface' under the shingles. Is that what you are looking for? How did you 'add' the beams? Manually?

OMG Jon, How did you channel 'me' from 20 years ago? Stick with it and with all the help here you'll be fine. Good luck.

I just used a 'glass wall' and in my Chief it defaults to 'partition wall'. Tried it with other walls and it seems to partition on one end but not both. Either way, learned something new today... Redefined an individual wall to partition and it behaves as defined in help. Cool.

Interesting, never knew that about 'partition walls.'

Curious too. Did you check 'help' for a clue?

Defaults?

I think roof groups is going to help me immensely in the future. Thank you.

Did NOT know that. Thanks Dermot.

NICE - Thanks Michael...

Curious, let's say I cut a section on floor 1 but now I want that callout to show on floor 2, and not on floor 1. Is there a way to do that? Or once cut on floor 1 it must stay on floor 1? Thanks

...or even a "Pony Wall"

Yes, whenever "1/4 " =1 ' is too large for a vertical orientation." There's no convention that I'm aware of that requires plans to be oriented 'vertically'.

Hey Dan, it can be frustrating to continually make changes to your template plan (and Layout Template) but over time you may find, like I have, that eventually very few, if any, changes need to be made to those templates. I have my templates pretty well dialed in but sometimes I'll run into a little niggler change that I haven't made for a while and have ignored. I simply open the template plan make the change and get on with things. Or even leave that template file open and make changes as you're working on other plans. It takes time, but eventually there's very little work that needs to be done to your template files.