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Have you tried perpendicular structural sheep? Older and stronger in my opinion...

Genuinely curious, do you all as designers/architects make these decisions without consulting a structural engineer? Sometimes I think steel and my guy suggests PSL/GLULAM. Sometimes I think PSL/GLULAM and my guy suggests steel. Do you all make these calls without that advice from a structural engineer? Or do you make the call THEN ask a structural guy?

I think I would ask my structural engineer...

Hi Michael, I don't do much of these but if it's a serious venture it seems it would not be that difficult to build up a library of the various fixtures including colors, hatching etc. that the client wanted then used in any future plans. There are some limitations, since I assume this will be built off an original floor plan, and saving as a new 'MLS plan' with differently filled walls and fixtures would not lend itself to future changes in both plans. Would like to see what you come up with as a solution.

Hey Scott thanks as always for your great work at Chief, looking forward to the new release.

..and perhaps a stairway to heaven?

Any updates to share?

Yes Joe, I try and keep it there throughout the day...

Here's mine... Have no idea how I ended up with a medical dictionary but it's come in handy...

NICE!! I can't tell you how long I searched for that simple (and now obvious) setting. THANKS Scott.

Framing a deck and the rim joists are defaulting to stucco and I can't find where that setting is. I selected them individually and changed them to treated lumber but on a rebuild they changed back to stucco. Where is that material set? Thanks DECK RIM JOISTS.plan

Depends on how accurate you need the model to be and fortunately I only need the 'look' for now. In the case of the roof I am working with, the structure has a new 1/2" layer of plywood over the skip sheathing/purlins. When the 3/4" lookouts are moved/duplicated/replicated they end up higher than the 1/2" plywood and roof surface. Easy to fix visually by increasing (inaccurately) either the plywood thickness or the roof surface thickness but structurally it's not quite right - perhaps only in this case - but even a true skip sheathing will end up with the lookouts above the roof surface. Framing will look OK and without framing/roof rafters layer on it might be OK in 3D. Michael's solution will probably work the best, until X13 comes out, but haven't made time to try it yet.

Thank you for all the help. I used a lookout and repositioned/resized/multi copied/and reflected about the ridge. Worked OK but messes with roof layers a bit.

NICE FIND - Thank you Eric.

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Tasty... Do you know of a way to get the lookouts to rest on top of the rafters auto?

Gonna try that...

Interesting as the current lookouts are let in to the rafters instead of riding over them.

Thanks Michael, I think X13 will auto frame these 'purlins'?

Thanks Chop, X13 will do this auto? And perhaps that alludes to Michael's post labeling them purlins that can be auto framed in X13? I can get the lookouts sized and spaced to look OK then I guess I can turn off auto roof frame and manually place them. Was hoping for an auto method but perhaps X13?.

Can it be done? Thanks

Your confusion is understandable. The ceiling break lines cannot be selected individually and then their layer turned off. You have to simply know what they are. I once turned off all layers and ran through layers one by one to learn what those lines are and now just know, but otherwise there's no real way to understand what they are.

Thanks for posting that video Michael. In my experience it's the small changes that make work flow just that little bit better even though there probably won't be a blockbuster feature that will change that work flow in a large manner but the little things add up.

Todd, looks like a worthy upgrade and these threads can be very valuable for future purchases but can't quite understand the details of your test. You ran a RayTrace on a file - which file? Under default in Chief? What is default under Chief? Can you please post a little more detail, or even the RT file so we can get a better grip on the results? THANKS ...and typically RayTracing use the CPU and not the GPU but I wonder how much effect the powerful 3080 had on the results - if any.