GeneDavis

I prefer elevations sent to layout as plot lines and then when in layout, the pattern lines set to 1 and color gray not black.

Be more careful building your solid. Or solids.

When I began building I was lucky to have a drywall supplier that worked up the sheet counts by on-site measuring. He chalked the counts onto each room's door frame, and the house got loaded, room by room, with the rock. Ceiling boards on floor, wall boards against walls. Chief's calcs fail to subtract the thickness of the ceiling rock and the 1/2" pry-up the lower course gets off the floor. Just subtracting that would help to get the counts more realistic for the 1/2" boards. But if you've specified 12-foot boards for a 10 x 10 room, you're gonna have to live with that small pile of two-foot offcuts. Unless you've some 13 and 14 foot walls, they're going in the dumpster.

Some jurisdictions consider permit plans public record, and will email you the pdf. I have gotten 25 page plansets for jobs built in Florida. Floor plans, foundation plans, floor framing plans, roof framing, electrical, MEP, exterior elevations, details, all the sections needed, all the boilerplate annotation, and more. Other jurisdictions will let you view plans, and take all the time you want with them to absorb info and make notes.

Hey @Renerabbitt! Thanks! My first ever dive into macros and it's like speaking greek, but I tried and got nothing. See attached. I typed "windows" and "doors" where you were not-plural, only because my layer names are plural with an s following, i.e. windows. To quote the artist formerly known as Prince in, for me, his best ever song, "Nothing compares 2 u," . . . where did I go wrong. The macro is returning "No." and not W or SD.

Is there a way to have Chief label them as a "D" when they are to be scheduled with windows?

Fiddling around with it, I find Chief eliminates the cabinet countertop overhang when the distance is 3" or less from cab to appliance bounding box. When you consider what they've done here, it's a convenience to the user, who doesn't have to adjust overhang for cabs next to ranges. The 3-inch space at a cab's side also extends cab side overhang and adds an auto filler when cabs are placed 3" or less apart. With a 3 1/8" space, there is no filler generated, and the c'tops don't join. Looks like you can solve it with a custom. If you want it done auto somehow, you should request a mod, but honestly, any auto fix would likely mean as many clicks or more than just doing the custom.

I have ceilings to plank and I want a good look.

Looked at the pdf and cannot understand the garage. The floor plan shows a door to the front entry foyer from the garage, and no step height is called out. The elevation is clearly showing garage floor elevation a few steps down. Have I missed it, or is no floor elevation data given on this pdf plan?

Hi @Faze5_3D You should have started your own thread topic. Conversations on the sidelines don't get the play and participation you need to get to where you want to go. That plan you show could have readily been autoroofed, if you specified all the rooms and roof directives in walls correctly. Look at all the models in the Chief samples galleries, and you will see lots of projects with complex roofscapes, and you can bet they all got autoroofed.

What would be the method used when a combined area is the way one would want the area reported in a schedule? Example would be front porch at 100 s.f. and rear porch at 400 s.f., with schedule reporting "porches" at 500 s.f. One big beautiful macro? Help out a guy who is macro illiterate.

To me, looking at the inspiration image, the high roof and the porch roofs have the same pitch. You're going to figure things out using section views, to determine the high roof settings for ridge, etc.

Make a suggestion to Chief in the other forum section. There is much we cannot do on stair treads, and this is one of those.

I don't see a way, like the way we had before this release came with its project management. I've a plan file in a project, and want to begin the layout. I know the layout will default to an Arch D size but I want it to open using and Arch C template that is available. Except I see no way to choose.

I realized too late that I had selected an ARCH B but now need the ARCH C template. Show me the way, please. The pic is showing the layout set on ARCH C paper. I need the ARCH C borders, title boxes, etc.

Mr Rabbet's vid shows making a material region then making it an architectural block. I select the object (the region I made on a west wall) and see no way to make it a block. What's wrong?

I balloon-framed the endwall and that did not do it. I unblocked the lower two, tried blocking the upper two, and that's not working. Attached is a pic of the entry door with sidelites, those done as a three-stack, and they block fine. Block two, then block the block to the other. As I said in the opener, I can get this to work by raising the room hight so the window is in the same room as the blocked unit below, but doing that raises the plate heights of the 9/0 sidewalls, something I don't want to do. I can edit the framing, I guess, but would rather this work. I can see when doing 3D floor overviews that the upper window is modeled in the attic, and not modeled on floor 1. The opening is there, but not the window.

See the pic. The window stack at left, two windows mulled, has its top height at 8 feet in a room specified as 9/0 ceiling, no flat ceiling above. I drew ceiling planes to vault the space. The window stack at center is desired to be a three-high stack, mulled, and I cannot get the top unit to mull to the mulled stack below. I select the stack below, and shift select the top window, and I do not get the blocking option. I want the ceiling height at 9/0 to control wall heights and wall framing.

I'd just draw it using the OOB X17 glass pony wall, set lower wall height at 5", place a 26" wide door in center, in wall elevation edit the door to be a 3/8 glass slab, no casing no frame, bottom of door 5 1/4" up, top of door 74", drag down wall top to be a tiny bit above door top, and 3D solid continuous (and necessary) top rail. See rails at the CR Lawrence site. Then place the glass clips, and spec the door pull. What's the problem

Chief framing ain't good in roof overhangs. If I am doing 3D for renders, I turn off all framing. 2D framing plans, and CAD details plus edited section views (CAD to view is perfect for this!) get the job done.

Here are screencaps that point out this behavior quite clearly. I placed three windows, edited all to have 3" frame thickness top, sides, and bottom. I then moved things so two are a pair, and blocked ("mulled") them. The casing reveals were then edited. Here is what the reveal spec is for the single window. 3" reveal exposes the entire 3" frame all four sides. This placement of exterior casing is typical for clad windows or flanged vinyl windows. The blocked pair unit needs a different value to place the casings so they match the single window. Here you see the reveal edited to 0, and using that value for reveal places the casing to match that of the single window. This view shows the two windows, the single and the blocked pair, side by side, exhibiting same casing placement, but having different reveal specs. Can anyone explain why Chief set this up this way?

I am taking pains to do windows and framing and trim for a project with mulled units close adjacent single windows. I have made the frames and sash in sizes that match the specified windows (Andersen series 100). Horizontal window and trim lines are important to the look wanted. Frame width of these fixed windows is 1 15/16". Exterior casings are 5/4 x 4 (1 x 3 1/2" actual). As you all know, clad windows have exterior casings that butt to the perimeter of the projecting frames, so if we are using the term "reveal" in the dialog spec entry to place casings properly, we enter 1 15/16" for these windows. It works as expected for the single window, but not for the stacked (blocked) unit. That unit is specified with reveal specified as zero. Why this difference?

Hi @TSarantopulos What version of Chief? Need to know. I might know how to do it quickly in X whatever, but we don't know what you are using. Best way to tell us is in your sig line. See mine. Go to your account settings, find "signature," and give us the digits.

None of us like to download pics from links. Attach them right in your post, and it always helps to post a plan file.

Easy to make one. Set the symbol's origin so it sits how you want. You might even try the wrap.