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Have you tried drawing/modeling a foundation wall with footer (perimeter), then go back in and draw/model another foundation "footer" per say around the inside perimeter? 

What's this for anyways, kinda unique?

I bet you get comments on your name a lot, don't you?

20 minutes ago, westvale said:

Is there a way to have a room label display the area instead of the dimensions?

Click inside a room, look at your layer display options...  

Interior Area

Interior Dimensions

Standard Area

are all available for display.  Just pick the one you want.

1 hour ago, Cadwork22 said:

thanks!

YOUR WELCOME!

2 hours ago, Cadwork22 said:

There is a space between the loft floor and the and the ceiling beneath

Did you build your flooring?

6 hours ago, winterdd said:

Does anyone know why it is labeling two header heights.

When you pick that story pole dim., where is the snap showing?  Have you built your framing yet?  What I do in a case like this, is to move that "section line" just inside the exterior facade, to see the structure, that should tell you what that snap is grabbing.  Is this happening just with garage doors?

1 hour ago, Gawdzira said:

https://buildshownetwork.com/contents/hvac-design

I absolutely love this show.  Been watching him for years now and have learned so much as well.  You will learn a lot on every aspect of a build.

20 hours ago, DBCooper said:

Did you draw the railing wall on the first floor or the second?

On the second floor originally, but then I tried the first to no avail.   Yes there was a 4.5" gap (2x4 framed wall w drywall.  I'll check out that help dialog inside the stair dbx and see what it says.  Thx DB

Even though I drank an Nespresso, my brain is not figuring out why I can't get this wall to follow the stairs.  Its a railing wall, height set at 42", so I'm not sure why it doesn't follow.  I shouldn't have to use a ramp IMO.  Regardless, the client ended up going with open railing to get some natural light in that stairwell, but in the future, this is possible, isn't it?

Another question..  on the stairs dbx, the "railing" tab, what is "railing transitions and smooth transitions" used for?  I picked both and don't see anything different.  Just curious.

Never saw that before.  Did you try rebooting?

22 hours ago, westvale said:

Does anyone know how to get rid of this flare (light, solar...) in my elevations in standard view?

You can try to change the direction the light is coming from.  Pick on that light, see if it's point straight down. Look at the Light data in that fixtures dbx, it should be pointing down (-90 degrees).  See if that helps.

On 9/28/2024 at 5:57 AM, AdrienS_FX said:

painted surface needs to be calculated regarding the real surface

Not trying to be mean, but why do you need to the exact surface amount?  Surely you don't order paint with this hard number as is, and not round up?

Is this a thing we report as a bug and how do we block or delete off the Chief

1 hour ago, DBCooper said:

If you think it's a feature request, you can post it here:

Just did...

Thanks DB.

22 hours ago, DBCooper said:

Did anyone ever report this to Chief?

Hey DB, how do we do this?  I thought the same as Steve, that there was a preference setting I could turn this off.  This isn't a service issue or a bug, so just figured someone from Chief was on the clock to read all the threads and would have an idea.  

But I do agree, its probably to late in X16 to have an update just for this.  

@Steve-C I totally agree with you and I said the same thing just a couple days ago.  This thread has a small video to explain what we are talking about.

Cool.  Thanks and it has a Chief option too...

On 10/2/2024 at 12:52 AM, DHerb2014 said:

Michael, thanks again for your invaluable help on this one.

You're welcome David.  This looks great!  Great job my friend.

This was an easy case where I can avoid all the "choices", since this isn't very detailed.  But those areas in the Working Plan View where all the layers are on, and the area is very busy, I have to zoom way up on the object I want to center on, and still I am 50-50.

13 hours ago, glennw said:

Can you be a bit more specific.

Hi Glenn,

Please see the video.  I don't want the angles alignments on, just horizontal and vertical.  I don't know if this is a setting I can turn off.  

I am looking for a way to turn off the annoying "angled" selecting lines when I am lining up anything with another.  I don't think I ever used this to align with anything at an angle, ever.  On a large, busy job.. those dang lines like to grab everything.  I believe these came with 16, since I don't recall them on earlier versions.  Is there a way to just have it set to do horizontal or vertical alignments?

The Knowledge Base is really no help at all on this, at least that I could couldn't find..  

1 minute ago, winterdd said:

so I had to outsmart it

We have to do that sometimes. 

2 minutes ago, winterdd said:

didn't get s single drop of rain

Yep.. another reason to go that way.  Most people here went east when they left, I have no idea why.  We rode it out at the house, since we were not in a surge area and about 9 miles off the coast.  Lots of wind, about 8" of rain, had to drain the pool twice, lost power for most of a day, but not a lick of damage.  One potted plant was knocked over was it.  Thanking God again.

10 hours ago, winterdd said:

You were right, I deleted that "5 1/2" purlins" under the surface dbx and made the structure 5 1/2" purlins. It brought the roof down 5 1/2" so I then I used the transform/replicate object and moved in up 5 1/2" in the z direction and boom, it's perfect. May not be the proper way or best way but it worked and I can move on.

 

I believe I would have done it the other way.. Make the 5.5" part of the roof layer, and then delete and structure.  The metal joist are the structure IMO, and you won't be building that in the Chief world. This would have left your roof planes as is and moved your attic walls up.  However, I am glad I could help and it worked out.  

Daphne, AL, I didn't realize how close you were.  Great.  Now I have another place to run to if another Helene comes up into the Big Bend area. 

Perspective Framing Overview, under the camera pull down.

Make sure to build your framing or you wont get much.

CONT.  The double upping of those members looks to be your issue.  Looking at your attachment, focus on the framing view of that gable.  See how your top of wall frame doesn't go all the way to the underside of that purlin?  It needs too.  Since your not doing a roof structure per say, delete that 5.5" and your wall will continue up, and hoping fix the soffit issue.

BTW, I always build these gable walls outside the joist and post.  This way my wall goes all the way to the bottom of those roof members, AND now its just basically a curtain wall. This helps the framers too, since they don't have to cut around those metal joist.  My $0.02.

9 hours ago, winterdd said:

another pole barn style home

Got to love these..  I've done a couple this year already, got another new client wanting a 40 x 80.  The good thing, no load bearing walls,  :-)  

So what's going on Rob?  Why do you have 5 1/2" located twice?  You have 5 1/2" fir framing under the surface tab and then another 5 1/2" under the structure, both in the roof layer dbx.