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My client lost their home to Hurricane Michael back in 2019.  He is now finally at the stage to build new, but this time around its going to be a fortress considering everything else in his neighborhood (Panama City FL.).  Beside being above flood zone, which is 4' above his current grade we are building the exterior walls with 8" CMU's with a brick/stone facade (stem and slab).  All interior walls are going to be metal studs.  I honestly have never used these before and don't find as such in the Chief library.  I found this question in the forum, and wondered if this is still the case in X15?  Does this report as lumber by chance?  Does not showing the correct shape, not really matter?  Oh yeah, my trusses will be metal too..  

Secondly, when is comes to the furring of the interior of the CMU wall, he wants to use "Z-furring channels".  Would I do the same as the metal studs and create a new material and with name?  He wants 3" foam board insul, so I am assuming the sill would be a typical metal stud, legs up?  

https://www.clarkdietrich.com/products/z-furring-channel

Any advice in the build process will be appreciated too.

This man has done his research and knows what he wants, that is for sure. 

21 hours ago, mthd97 said:

(not ketchup BTW)

HA!

I watched the vid twice, but still not something I ever needed.  But I might once I have it, and know what it is and know how to use it.  BTW, I use Inventor during the day, and I can set my material defaults, like 304L S/S, when I do cross sections, that view is hatched.  Is this kinda the same thing?

11 hours ago, Michael_Gia said:

Also excited to see poché fill

What exactly is this?  Sounds like a meat and potato pastry, or is it that I am hungry?

Glad somebody else uses sheet notes.  I love these things, rids so much clutter.  I use them for my elevations and electrical plans too.  However, to answer your question, I have not found a way, but I also haven't had the list you've had either.  Would be a good thing to find out.  I am not a custom macro guy, many on here are though.  I wonder if a macro could be written for this? 

@Adrean

this is so cool.. I love it!

@tinadelllic

Sounds like a lot of work actually.  So you have the terrain all modeled the way you want it, but it needs to move 3'?  Is there too much just trying to pick the terrain objects wo the house and then move?  

Like I was trying to say earlier, when I do have a terrain design that isn't typical and needs attention, I just model it next to the house in the same model, get the perimeters, contours, elevations lines or regions all in place, then just slide over to the correct location with the house.

1 hour ago, Adrean said:

Can you guess what it is?

Material Regions would have been my guess and I was right.. .  I am not to familiar with this in the real world, but it looks very clean.  The gap between the trim section and the drywall, is that typical?  How do you keep the drywall squared off and smooth like what is shown.. (talking in the real world)?  Does look cool though..  

18 minutes ago, tinadelllic said:

which should I move - the building (with decks) or the terrain

Hi Tina,  Great question, and the cases I have had to do the same thing (about 20% of the time actually), I move the terrain.  Esp. since most of the houses are too far along that I don't want to miss not picking something or if a layer is locked by chance.  But, again, most of my terrains aren't to crazy so it easier to pick that to move than the complete home.   When I have had this come up, I actually do the terrain to the side, so I can grab the whole thing, and move in a X and Y distance.  

Others I'm sure will have there way of doing it too.  

On 3/9/2024 at 11:38 AM, GeneDavis said:

header framing over a corner window

Very Interesting..

The house I am doing is a single story, with a roof truss system, and in a high wind load area (half mile from the gulf). Panama Beach FL

I need to watch more form this content.  Def detailed in the video.  

Thanks Gene

Wow, some of you guys have been with Chief A L-O-N-G time.   2011..

http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread.php?55266-Q-How-to-build-Seamless-Corner-Window

@dshall

@Joe_Carrick

@lbuttery

@HumbleChief

to name a few members..

9 hours ago, solver said:

 

Show us your idea of a corner window

Hey gents..  I guess I didn't phrase my question correctly.  I know what a corner window is, and I have it in the model already, just like that link shows.  My question is how do I frame it, in a detail (more curious how one frames these esp. at the corner.  And in the real world, is this a one unit fixture, and if so, should my schedule have this as one window.. because right now its shows as two.  

A couple of questions on this actually.  First question, can these only be fixed, I am assuming so.  2nd, should this be considered one unit, the schedule calls out two.  3rd, how is this framed?  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

6 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

3d Plants for Premiere

OK, I do have the catalog of 3D Plants, just thought since they broke it out more with diff catalogs for each, it might have been different.

Thanks Rene..

I was under the impression, that if we have active SSA, and monies are taken out monthly, that all catalogs via Chief were free?

I am looking at a couple right now that are not..  is it because they are for Home Designer series?  If so, why can't they be used in Premier?

3D Plants - Trees

3D Plants - Shrubs

just to name a few..

1 hour ago, pshelander said:

It would be so nice to be able to just choose them from the library

Hi there..

Not sure if this helps, but there is a bonus catalog of decorator switches and outlets..

Its called 'MEP No.3 Decorator Switches and Outlets", they also have a "MEP No. 6 Specialty Electrical"..  check them out, maybe it has what you need.

4 hours ago, TeaTime said:

I don't know why you'd want a landing, why not just Build New Floor?

My thought exactly...

4 minutes ago, solver said:

check out the settings

ugh...  I was looking on every tab for a molding setting, and in the room dbx.. and its right there under options, "Ignore Room Moldings".  SMH.

Time for another coffee and to clean my glasses.

Thanks Eric.  

I am adding a soffit over a kitchen island that will have rope lighting.  I do not want molding here, but I do want molding on the wall to ceiling at the rest of the room.  How do I turn off molding just at the soffit??

Thanks,

5 hours ago, winterdd said:

I could not for the life of me grasp it haha

Haha..  I use it everyday at day job, AutoCAD Plant 3D.  Almost daily I am pulling drawings, done in the old fashion, where they scaled the items, dims and text. PITB.  

I guess I should clarify too, that in Chief, you do everting in the model, all 1 to 1. That means the model, dimensioning, text, etc.  Then bring to a layout view as Mick mentions above.  In Paper space, the modeled item is in model space brought to a drawing with a scaled viewport.. all the dims, text, etc would be in PS (not the model). 

6 hours ago, DBCooper said:

You should draw your plot plan at full scale and then just scale the view when you send it to your layout.  Same for cad details.

As Cooper mentions and I want to reiterate, You should draw EVERYTHING to full scale, even your cad details.  

Paper space mentality!

1 hour ago, Kbird1 said:

Power Supply Issue

@DeLayDesign

AH.. the dreaded PS.   To start, that's where I'd look too.  With your vid card and ram, no way should this being doing what its doing.

@thomasbldgdsgn  So it is good to move forward with helping Go Blue?  I just want to make sure...

@GoBlueDesign  Go Blue is right!  Lets get that championship!  Hale to the Victors.  I would love to help you out too, but backlog not able to start anything new till Feb.

18 hours ago, DBCooper said:

Try turning off winders

No kidding...   I spent a few minutes on this last night, and didn't know how to even search for a resolution.  

@glennw

@yusuf-333

Hey gents..  a quick question on these spirals staircases.  

I am just using the normal stairs, nothing fancy on the rails, etc..  however, its giving this "bumpout" when I get near the second floor deck.  How to I get this to NOT do this?  

I has to be a setting because the one I copied inward, does not do this.  

1 hour ago, KirillP said:

Happy New Year!

I am no expert on this, not even close..  I too have struggled with rooms that should be bright as day but look dark, like yours.  My observations are this:

• Why does the rope light look like its hanging at door height?  Causing that shadow line, I assume, because the light is facing down.
• All the can lights appear to be in the soffit and none in the actual ceiling?  Lights aim down, meaning the main ceiling will look dark.
  • move some of the 18 to the ceiling.  I think 18 is way to many.
• Is this a  PBRT?
• I set my lights at 2850 lums max in this situation..  just to get a descent camera view.
• I have my samples set at 500.  With your machine, it shouldn't take long either.  My denoise is checked and I max out the brightness to 100.00.  All done in the render technique Options DBR.

Hope this helps some, and I hope the PBRT pros chime in too..  I'd like to know myse;f.