jhoney

5 hours ago, DBCooper said:

X15 will let you drop your posts down to the ground.  It won't put any footings under them though.

 

That's a step in the right direction anyway.  Silly that this was not an option before.

6 hours ago, SHCanada2 said:

please add your request to the suggestions forum. There are many of us who would like deck improvements

I will!  Thanks

1 hour ago, robdyck said:

To make things simpler for yourself, you can make a cad block of a framing post, beam, and slab footing and then add that to your library. You can preset all the materials, layer settings, labels and even add a text arrow to for the label. Select all, make a cad block and add to your library if you use the same types all the time.

Thanks Robert.  Its interesting that Chief uses this method as the default for decks.  You don't see many decks built like Chief default builds them, at least not in our area.  

So we do not build decks the way Chief builds them automatically.  We don't run intermediate beams and cantilever our decks out.  Our deck posts go all the way out to the corners of the deck.  Is there any way of getting deck posts to go down to the ground without turning off the posts and beams and then manually drawing under the deck.  Surely there has to be a way.  Chief 14 user, thanks in advance for any assitance.

David, 

Thanks.  I actually just found a solution.  I went in plan view and adjusted my wall layer intersections for the brick and it took care of the problem.

By the way, I watch a ton of your videos and they are extremely helpful.  Thank you for posting these and assisting all the Chief users.

I am having troubles with gable to wall intersection.  It is only happening where I have multi-pitch gables.  You can see from the pics the open triangle that is forming between the outside wall and the soffit.  I've tried everything I know to fix it.  I can make it "look" correct in 3d view by pulling down the attic wall to cover it up, but then I have the overlap lines that show up in the elevation view.  I know I can edit those lines in the layout, but I'd prefer to find a way to fix this.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.  I've searched the forum and cant find  any previous posts on this specifically.

Thanks,

Justin

1 hour ago, DeLayDesign said:

Hey @jhoney

@robdyckis correct.  In order to the the wall to connect the way you'd like, it appears as though you need to adjust your wall layers.

I would copy the wall you built then move your house wrap and air gap to the 'main layer' leaving only the brick as your exterior and interior layer.  I recommend creating a copy of your original wall because adjusting the layers may ultimately push/ pull your walls away from where you had them unless you've changed your general wall default to lock a specific surface.

This did the trick.  Thank you so much.

2 hours ago, robdyck said:

For the portion that extends outward you need a wall that has only 1 finish layer on either side of the framing, or better yet, a wall type that has a single layer.

This helped a lot.  Thank you.

3 hours ago, TeaTime said:

I don't think you're doing anything wrong, I think this is just how double-sided walls draw.

I see the same thing with a Siding-6 wall.

If you're not concerned about framing that bit you could always make a half-version of that wall type and force it to wrap around, then just push 'em together.

 

Not the most elegant fix, but it works. I'd also recommend marking them as No Room Def though.

Thanks.  This was a good idea and worked well.

Thank you so much.  Here is the attached file.  I've also been struggling with the notching of the gable faces at the overhang area.  Is there an easy fix for this?  

Plans Redraw.zip

I have a double sided brick wall that I am having trouble figuring out how to get the wraps on the ends to act correctly.  The air gap is not continuing correctly around the end of the wall, so it shows incorrectly in both plan and elevation views. I've tried adjusting line layer intersections and it usually works, but not on the end of a wall.   Any asistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Justin

Ah ha.  I see what I did wrong now.  Thank you so much for the response.  I had been having fits with this for awhile.

ustin

Good afternoon.  I have realy been struggling with retaining walls and I am sure I am missing something simple.  What I am trying to do doesn't seem like it should be overly difficult.  I have a walkout basement condition and trying to put in a retaining wall.  I used two different elevation regions to create my lot slope.  But where they have to come together at the retaining wall, its trying to interpolate between the two and messing up my grade.  On the high side I want the grade to follow the retaining wall.  I am posting a couple of pics, as well as my Chief File.  If anyone can help I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks,

Justin

Plan.zip