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Hello everyone, 

I offer exterior and/or interior renderings for $100 each with 1 revision. Below are a few of my Chief Architect renderings. Please email me at micahrwise@gmail.com. Let me know if I can help with your rendering needs!

We are looking for an experienced Residential Home Designer/Draftsman who desires to join a creative & experienced team. Base pay with added commissions create a feeling of ownership as you help our clients create the home of their dreams. If you are looking for incredible job satisfaction, great growth and partnership potential we want to talk to you.

Requirements:

• Competent with Chief Architect Design Software
• Familiar with International Residential Code
• 3 years experience preparing home plans
• Expert in wood framed construction methods
• 3 years experience with vertical load analysis
• Familiar with permitting requirements and processes
• (optional) Ability to apply architectural design principles to create unique and creative home designs.
• Ability to review peers designs and assist in quality control process.
• Ability to communicate with design team, engineers, plans examiners and builders.

Thanks, I notified my web guy. It was working and I think when we had him change some code for the last revision it must have busted something in there. Thanks for the heads up.

Vancouver, WA Residential Design firm seeking talented Chief Architect users with knowledge of residential construction methods. Wise Owl plans is a progressive firm of 10 draftsmen and designers. We are a good team but we can be better with the help of the right person. See our web page at wiseowlplans.com for examples of some of our projects. Call me or email me to discuss this opportunity. 

jameswiseowl@gmail.com

360-750-8911 ext 1

Anyone interested in a local users group? Open to any and all ideas for collaboration. 

I am also looking to hire one or two local Chief users if you are interested. 

We are growing at a rapid rate and need help turning our residential designs into completed plans ready for permits. We currently have a team of 10 people and need more. Willing to hire as employee or you can work as a contractor. Prefer local but may consider other.

I use a surface pro 3 for measured drawing, and in general for job site work, and meetings. It works well for these things, but there are a few cautions.

• I use it with a miniature Logitech mouse, not the stylus
• It's a small screen; it works, but things are easier on a larger laptop
• You'll need to work on a flat surface so you can use the keyboard and mouse
• The integrated graphics card can slow things down doing 3D work on a moderate size plan

I love the size and weight. It's no bigger than my clip board.

Thanks, That answers my question. The concept sounded so promising. But it sounds like we are not there just yet. 

I've given up on the stylus for now, but I found the Surface itself very convenient for a number of tasks and Chief plays well with cloud storage such as Onedrive.

 

If you are considering a Surface Pro I would however wait until October 6th.

Thanks for the advice. I did see the Surface Pro 4 may be announced on October 6th. I would imagine that would not solve the chief vs the stylus issue.

Is anyone using the Surface Pro 3 with Chief? Are you able to draw reasonably quickly with the stylus?

We want to use it for as-builts. It is an expensive solution, but hoping it is the best. We looked at Redstick. That would be option 2.

I am about to make the same leap. How did it work for you?

We are experience a crazy rate of growth in our company. We currently have 60 homes in various stages of design and several of our clients are expanding. We anticipate this will grow to 80to 100. We currently have myself and 5 full time and two part time designers and we are struggling to keep up. (3 of the employees are being trained)

I either need to hire and train new people or find an experienced chief designer who would like to work in Vancouver, WA. I dont think working remotely would work, but I may be interested in that if we could find a way to make it work. 

Also looking for advice from any other users out there who have gone through this type of growth and how they handle it.