Chopsaw
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Seeking someone skilled in entering topography for my new house
Chopsaw replied to nbmorgan's topic in Seeking Services
Not sure what area you are in but it is not likely that you will be satisfied with public topo maps for your lot elevations. They will give you a general idea on a very large lot but not detailed enough for proper drainage and planning. If you have access to a builders level and tripod you can lay out a grid and collect some pretty accurate measurements in a few hours and enter that into Chief. -
Nice catch Glenn, I ran into that a couple of projects back and wondered why that would be so. What if the glass is mortised into the frame?
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Try two curved half walls.
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Any chance you have Click Lock turned on?
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Doors and Windows hatched thru on Gable end walls
Chopsaw replied to contractcad's topic in General Q & A
What version are you running? And you may want to consider posting the plan unless you get a good answer right away. -
If you are having issues with multiple roof planes and editing an existing auto rafter is impossible then you may have to resort to solids that are not influenced by the roof planes.
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Yes, Change those roof planes for the Gable dormer roof to 235 and you will see that chief can then manage to close the gaps. If you were going to try a different size rafter you must consider a lot of things inside and out. soffit, fascia, valley location, wall height, etc , etc..... You might consider trying to figure it out if it was an open rafter situation but otherwise probably not worth it.
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Yes, Usually all the rafters in a joined roof section are the same size based on the worst case scenario of the roof. It is usually just too complicated to to figure out and build a transition that works for both the upper roof surface and the ceiling surface on the bottom when it is covering just one room. It seems a little wasteful but not sure there is a standardized way to make anything else work consistently.
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It all depends on the roof pitch and rafter spans, required insulation and ventilation space on top of that and right over the supporting wall is usually the most critical place. It would be best to talk to a local contractor or building department for details. It will make more sense after you have framed and cut a cross section. It seems that you are now using X8 ? And sometimes it is helpful to have some computer specs in your signature if you run into performance issues and are asking those kind of questions on the forum, and anything else you care to share.
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If you can you are better to edit and add text with a PDF editor. Chief still has known issues with imported PDF's depending on the initial quality. And yes you must be quite careful how light of gray you use because it may not print. Usually just a pain but can sometimes be used to your advantage if you know where the cut off point is. If you have SSA it would not hurt to send it in to tech to make sure they are still working on the problem or at least keep it on the list of priorities. You could maybe trace over the lighter lines before you print if you are out of options and have a deadline.
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Open the Roof Plane or Build > Roof > Edit All Roof planes and then Structure-Roof Layers-Structure. I changed yours with the gable roof to 235 (2x10) and it seemed to help a lot but still not sure if that would meet structural requirements for your area. Account Settings > Signature.... X8
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Yes I agree the gable looks better and will keep the rain out for longer. You still have a structure and ventilation issue without addressing the rafter thickness and figuring out how to support the roof overhang.
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Ok I see the issue on the interior side now but it seems that even if it does not snow where you are your 87 mm rafters are not going to work for a cathedral ceiling in combination with the ICF wall. You will need a much thicker rafter and an interior attic filler wall that sits on top of the ICF. Would also be helpful to updated your signature.
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It appears as the top of that wall was edited in 3D or altered in some other way. Select the wall, open the DBX and go to the Structure tab and under Default wall Heights select Default Wall Top Height. Done Any other issues you need help with while the plan is open?
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Try to see if you can post a zip file that is under 25MB
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Just in case you are not aware, this is where Chief is at with their version of VR. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/3d-viewer/ https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10163/incorporating-virtual-reality-into-your-design-business-demonstration.html?playlist=126
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Alan, Here is a unique solution that Kyle was working on a while back and sounds promising if you want to give it a try. I have not tried it yet but may be doing so soon as I have not transitioned to plan view notes totally and still see benefits of layout notes even when the advice is not to do it.
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Scott, Do you have any PDF's ? Are your boiler notes chief text ? What about your saved cameras, are any of them set to be live because chief is likely still having a white dream over every blank pixel. You could make a copy and randomly delete things until it speeds up.
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You will need to make a copy of the brick material and change the orientation by 90 deg. and apply that to the posts.
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How about a video? You have a bunch of great guys that want to help and I would not mind learning as well if I can't help.
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Johnny, Is that with "Auto Rebuild Attic Walls" turned on or off.
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By cad I mean just line drawing functionality rather than the "smart" features in Chief such as walls and (electrical) symbols etc.... Every symbol (3D) in Chief has a "2D Block" associated with it that will auto generate or can be customized that represents the item in floor plan (2D) and and these are all smart items. However all of these 2D Blocks also exist as "dumb" line drawings in CAD Block Management and can be inserted into your floorplan for use to represent symbols when there is a conflict with actually using a 3D symbol and it's associated 2D Block. And you could maybe go that direction if you don't get a response that is easier.
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There are some quite efficient ways to set things up for CAD but I believe that you need to use the electrical symbols to make the Material List or Electrical Schedule function properly. There are some other guys that specialize in electrical and maybe they will have some suggestions or there may even be a way to define a symbol as something other than electrical but that is a little above my current level of expertise. Hope we can find a solution for you.
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Are you hoping to use the Material list or Electrical Schedules or are you just looking for a CAD drawing?
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Did you shut down and reboot and then try opening the save as file? If that does not work look for a recent auto save file.
