GeneDavis

I know, I know, closet built-ins are highly personalized. But cannot the same be said, even moreso, for kitchen storage? Or bathroom vanities? Here are a couple of pics snipped from a Zillow page, the larger room being a "her" closet, the other a "his." The arrangements done, are likely not high-end custom, but built using one of the many available kits of ready-to-assemble parts to achieve a hung-to-wall array of modules for hanger bars, shelves, drawers, shoe shelves, laundry basket tilt-outs, and more. Because there is a single separator "gable" or "partition" between the various modules, you build these in Chief with frameless settings, doing every odd one, and filling between with the shelf tool, then popping the rods as symbols, stretched to fit. Arrangments like this can cost up to 25 grand per large walk-in, and somewhere along the line between foundation and final walkthrough, something needs to be put on paper to describe the specifics. Are you doing any of these?

Thanks, @VHampton. It was right there and I never saw it. Somewhere, buried in the "what's new in X16" information, there had to have been a mention. Before posting this question, I searched the training videos and webinar videos for this and did not find anything. But, hey, look! Search the Chief website for "edit newel" and up comes just what I missed, from a year ago. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03195/manually-adjusting-newel-posts.html

I've a need for this right now.

Here is a guy with a couple hundred hours of Revit tutorials on YouTube, and it's about an hour of him showing and discussing detailing. It's worth watching just the first dozen minutes or so, in which he is comparing annotation by manual text and arrow entry, vs doing it using the "I" in Revit's BIM, meaning information. He explains it using a roof edge detail, two of them that appear identical, one done with all the anno done "manually", the other with "I". Since the detail is live from the 3D model, and all elements are modeled and built with information, i.e., their ID "names", and the model knows the sizings, one can extract that info in doing some kind of Revit auto anno callouts, which then require just the manual placement of the arrow. Heck, I just wish we had the auto lines for cutting away the unneeded runaways, by which I mean the line-z-line thing we use to chop. It's tedious in Chief to have to do all the masking and duplicating in CAD to achieve what is done in Revit automatically, without even needing a click.

I wondered what Revit detailing might be like, and the first thing that popped up for me on YouTube was this. Pretty good stuff. Makes me want to ask Chief for some mods.

Thanks to those of you that looked and commented here. I contacted tech support and got walked through some system settings that seems to have solved the problem. You don't simply install Xnew whatever and all works well graphically. I needed to go to System > Display > Graphics and add X16, which had not been done by me when installing X16. In the screen cap, attached, you can see X15 as an installed app, and X16 below it. When I opened this up during the tech call, X16 was not there. I installed it, and now all seems well. Or so far, all seems well.

If you are on X16 with this card and problem free, tell me your driver ID please.

@Renerabbitthow'd you do dat? Don't be the magician with secrets. Your wall build included the top trim horizontal batten, and a base band.

@PitMan71 material region is the preferred way and this has been discussed in earlier threads. Do a search and find some. Then try it yourself. What is nice is that copy and repeat horizontally across an elevation places the battens quickly and trims them to gable lines and above and below all window and door openings.

I've found that lookouts only frame correctly when autoframed. They are a special kind of rafter and cannot be properly drawn manually. Maybe time to suggest a program enhancement, no?

It seems the OP has left the building.

Please take the time to learn to manually edit roof planes. And the best mode for editing is 3D perspective overview, color off, vector off, toggle patterns off. Like this. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5447/roof-basics.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/728/locating-roof-plane-intersections.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1500/the-dialogs-that-influence-roof-design.html

Sounds like you want the house roof to tee into the garage roof, with both having same ridge height. If pitch can vary, just decide whether you want the common ridge elevation to be that which the house has, or the garage. Then for the roof that you'll change, open it for spec, lock fascia height, and change its ridge to match the other ridge in height. It's easy and takes just seconds. Show us your result.

Describe "go into."

I cap my PBR samples at 150 and like the results. Have you tried something low like this? My card's a 3070.

The pic shows what I get. My system specs are in my sig. The driver is version 32.0.15.7260

Arrows are within dimensions.

Try that, Mike. I did. I got three lineals in this sequence, for 1x6. 16', 20', 9P (104.625"). All my cripples and all the jacks are getting cut from the precuts. And the 19 foot walls are getting their plates cut from the 20 footers. Not what I want. We simply need to be able to specify that in wall framing, vertical members less than stud length, and opening framing parts, plus items like ladder framing, are all cut from what we wish, and the wish is what we specify. I want it from sixteens. Likewise wall plates. We need to be able to say, "cut from length X." Not longest length, but the one we want. In my case, sixteens. You've framed. I've framed. On the deck, you want simple rules, and a minimum number of stock lengths. I'm only addressing wall framing in this suggestion. We could use something like this in floorframe work, for rim stock. If I frame with rimboard it's not an issue because I set one length for that item and whatever it is that is what gets used. But for sawn lumber floorframes, one might want all the rim to be from 16 footers without exception.

No, and Chief needs to program for it. If I have a 9/0 nominal ceiling height on main and 8/0 on second, plus a feature wall balloon framed needing some studs from 18 foot stock, I'll set up the buy list to have precut 8, precut 9, 16 and 18 lengths. I want the plates and headers, cripples and trimmers, and sills, to cut ONLY from the 16s. But that is not what Chief does in counting.

How can we help you without knowing something about your setup? Learn to do a signature line so we know your software details (see mine?), and learn to post a plan file. as an attachment. Look at other posts here in other threads. See the plan files attached? You gotta close a file before you can post it.

Watch the video and practice. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1969/framing-an-overbuild-using-rafters.html?playlist=146

Try making a door from solids, slabs, countertop, whatever, saving as a door symbol. Use the TruStile visualizer for inspiration. Those little reveals are probably 1/8" x 1/8", and surely NOT on the sides.

There's only one floor 0 in which to model the foundation. So no.

You left out Chief version. Find out how to do a signature script in your profile like almost all of us here have done. You can get much better help when your info is up for all to see. Are you aware of the tutorial videos Chief has available on SPV? This feature totally revolutionized construction docs prep with Chief. Here is a link for you. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/#playlist-100 That takes you to those that Chief produced. Search YouTube for even more on SPVs uploaded by Chief users.