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I really liked that colored detail sheet. Different plus easy to read. I am up here in Crawfordville (just south of Tally), when you say 3D rendered details, are you referring to the example I attached? If so, I've been trying to get one going myself, and have been trying to figure out how to take the 3D model, and put each view on a layout sheet w annotation. The only thing I can thing of is a screen grab and annotate on the sheet itself.. which isn't productive at all, esp. with changes. I attached views of my working detail model in progress. That last one is a screen grab put on a sheet... not liking that process.

So do you want the crown molding wrapped all around (into the shower), but not have the shower floor move like your attachment shows? Is that a step up shower, hard to tell? As far as the lighting at the cabinet floor, I would first try moving that pendant just a tad, hard to say. Can you put backsplash on the side to see if that helps? Maybe move the cabinet off the wall and put a filler piece in? Change sun location sometimes does the trick too. This is one of the things I struggle with too, lights from no where. Cool sink and faucet btw...

See if this helps https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00285/restoring-the-living-area-label.html

I would love to help, but you support that team down south. LOL. Go Blue!

So you want the gravel to show on top of the conc slab? I am assuming not, but that's what you have in your room dbx. You had the foam and gravel as flooring, with a slab underneath. Actually, you have two slabs. One in the room DBX but other as a terrain feature. Delete that feature and that pattern will go away from your plan view. Once that is deleted, go back to your dbx and pick "Floor under this room" and your gravel will appear, so will your foam and slab. Adjust accordingly... Hope this helps!

Curious on how you will tie into the existing walls though. Your model view shows block at the kitchen door, are you just going to put a ledger board there and bolt thru that block like a deck? How about the other three walls, looks like that's wood framed? Is that a crawl space on the other side of that block? Thinking ahead for you on the waste piping that will have to connect to existing.

Sorry, wife had me putting up shelves all evening after work. IKEA is becoming a PITB. Nice stuff, easy to put together. But mounting 8 of these things to a wall was just the best time ever.. To your wall.. Hope you figured it out since I was absent. You can see the dashed line is my divider wall, dim'd 4" off the "apparent" intersection. I stretched the horiz wall to that divider, then connected.

Your almost there Stephen. Where you have that dashed line, put a room divider line there and it should work. That room divider line will be in your wall pulldowns if you didn't know.

Thanks gents, I kind a figured as such. This is the client I mentioned in another post, in regarding wanting "shopping list" per say. I should be able to create a material of the the Z's, but still show as a channel, so that he can get that count. My CAD detail will show the correct config.

How do create and use a custom structural shape? I need to use z-channels in lie of the C's on this exterior wall. Interior wall are good with the C's. I am not finding a lot of guidance... but as it usually goes, it's probably right in front of my face. Actually, I already created the profile, but not clear on how I can use as an option in DBX Thanks in advance

Ha... Must be some good juice in Cali. Or did you do the "Weird Science" method...

Nice touch. Where do you get your people from? I've searched, and there are a lot of sites dedicated to people, situations, etc. So it's hard to just pick one without asking a reputable person, as in you, who they'd recommend.

They want this here in FL?

Yeah, I did that after I put that out there. Down in Gene's neck of the woods, there is more CMU built, here it's either ICF or stick built. I guess I panicked just a tad because my client knows more about this stuff than I do (he's a concrete engineer for Cemex). I wanted to know what he was talking about. I did my diligence, looked up some things, and put that wall in a model. I freaked out over nothing. Glad to hear from you Michael... Hey Gene, I figured most of this stuff out, but the one question I cannot find a real answer for is how the Z furring strips connect at the floor, or don't they?

Some great stuff~

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.

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?

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.

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..

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.

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..