Joe_Carrick

As a former California Hospital Architect, you need to: Make sure you are licensed to do this work Check with the Michigan and local codes for: occupancy class fire resistive requirements. Hospitals require much more stringent codes than other structures and I'm pretty sure anything built on or attached will have to conform to those codes. The may be additional state Hospital licensing codes & review. That is definitely true in California - I don't know about Michigan.

What prompts did you use? I do notice some differences in the shingles and you specifice board an batt siding which wasn't my choice. BTW, the little pine trees planted that close to the structure is a really bad idea. They will grow and create all kinds of problems.

That cabin was done in X4 and I no longer have the plan. However, I will go back to the original rendering and try some material options. I don't have the time right now but I can do it in a couple of days.

I've made a suggestion several versions back that wood grain textures should orient according to the longer dimension of the object - or at least have that as on option. It should be available since there are a lot of condititions where it would apply.

It's most likely a problem with the text style for that layer. Check to see if the text color for that layer is "white"

Ok, so I tried ChatGPT with my A-Frame Cabin. Keep Architecture, Encance materials and Landscaping Add a few people on deck, change vehicle to a Mercedes GLK It's pretty amazing what a few simple instructions can do.

Does anyone have a wire glass material ?

Scale: %box_scale.delete(' ').gsub('=',' = ').gsub('ft','\'').gsub('in','"')%-0"

Anyone have a symbol for this? I probably just need the diffuser/lens material. It's a pretty simple 3D shape.

Use "Saved Plan Views" so all Defaults & Layersets are specific to that view. Then send those to Layout on different pages.

I have Layout Templates for: Letter - 8.5x11 Arch B - 12x18 Arch C - 18x24 Arch D - 24x36 Arch D2 - 24x42 Arch E - 36x48 Arch E1 - 30x42 Arch E2 - 30x48 Some of those are my own custom sizes. I keep them all up to date with my layout macros and borders. They all use the same Default Sets and Layer Sets. In addition, I use similar sized Plan sizes with a (Sheet Boundary & identical rectangle) and a Drawing Area rectangle. This allow me to send to layout so that all floor plans are in the same location on each page of my Layout. This is just my way of keeping everything organized the way I like it.

Build > Distributed Objects > Polyline Distribution Path.

Maybe a "Distribution Line" ? The light fixture would need to be "ceiling mounted". I think that woul work.

I find it easier to set the floor elevation for the room above. That will lower the ceilings below that room. IOW, work from the top down. Also, if you can do this in a 3D view it will be easier to see what's happening,

IMO the lack of : a "Grapic Repeat Patter" in Chief's linestyles start & end terminators is a major shortcoming of Chief's CAD tools.

Corner Board Tool

I consult with my clients and use what they want. Most of my projects are custom homes, not remodels. It's not in suggestions because I sent it to Chief via email. The respose I received is in red in the 1st post.

There's only one Plumbing Fixture Catalog that I know of in Chief - Kohler. Within that catalog are many Toilets, Urinals and wall mounted Sinks. For proper clearances (particularly for ADA, but also in general) there are standards for back, side and front clearances to walls, partitions & cabinets. back - 1" for floor mounted (Tank should be clear of the finished wall) each side - ((30"-width)/2) ---- 15" from centerline of fixture front to any wall, cabinet or door 24" for toilets 48" for urinals 21" for sinks In order for any/all of these fixtures to be properly placed with those clearances it's necessary to have the Bounding Box Offsets set to those values. OOB, all such fixtures are set to zero which means they can be placed right up a wall, cabinet, partition, door, etc. Chief's policy is: that it will not be distributing objects with bounding boxes that account for non-functional placement clearances. IMO, these clearances aren't "non-functional" and since we can't modify things in any library except the "User Library" we would have to copy: to our User Library make the adjustments there. unfortunately, there's no group modification of library objects so it would need to be done individually which could take may hours. If Chief adds any additional Plumbing Fixtures Catalogs American Standard Glacier Bay TOTO Gerber Bemis etc in the future we will probably be faced with the same problem.

Just open that "Dimensions" item and you'll get to select any of the dimension type defaults and then "Setup Temporary"

It probably doesn't have the correct front and back bounding box offsets. If you use a manufacturer's (Kohler, etc) all of those are in the library as 0. You would need to copy to your user library or just edit in the plan.

Toilets have rough-ins from finished wall (not framing) 10" 12" most common 14" from finished side walls (not framing) 15" minumum I just put point markers at those locations and dimension to them. For the side clearances I prefer to have the bounding box define that as well as a 1" clearance at the back to the toilet and 24" at the front. You will probably need to edit the bounding boxes for all toilets since Chief (in most cases) doesn't have those values set correctly.

In the Layout for that page - Update View(s)

The line showing in the plan can be eliminated by making the "Line Style" for that layer in the wall definition "Invisible"

No, because (=+) is actually "+" and has the meaning of addition.

Have you considered using open web floor joists so the utilities could be run thru? That might help.save 20 cm. It might also be possible to change the direction of floor framing in some areas to accommodate duct running between the joists.