GeneDavis

I've an upstairs room that is half over a porch and the porch needs a lower ceiling than the adjacent inside room on floor one. Do I need to divide the upstairs room so as to have a ceiling below with the air gap layer I need to lower the ceiling? I already divided the porch deck into that which is under the floor of the room above and that which has only roof over.

Thank you, sir!

I see it here in this Chief training video.

I want to do a bumped version of a completed plan, in a new file of course, let's call it PLAN BUMPED ONE FOOT. The PLAN is in project management, the project titled PLAN, and the project contains the .plan and .layout files. I thought the method was to use EXPORT and export the PLAN project and the exported thing could be renamed, but that doesn't seem to be working for me. Walk me through this, please.

Two pics attached. I want each side to have its railing die into the wall, meaning that the stair widens one side at a different tread than the other. I also want the newels moved enough out, out meaning away from the bottom riser and tread nose, so that both tread and riser resolve into the newels. Steve from Chief Skills has a six-year-old video up on YouTube and he hacks it by pasting on short 3" and 2" wide stairs at the bottom runout. But that was a few Xs ago. This need of mine has gotta be a common one. How do you address it in X17. South Park Charleston.7z

Here is a view of the corrupt corner from outside. Here is the plan view of the corner, and the attic wall (the front porch gable end) is highlighted. And here is the spec dialog for the attic wall. I have fiddled with the wall join tool without success.

Used to be so simple, right? I want to make a "Post to Chieftalk" plan, one stripped of all except structure, then zip (or not) and attach here, to get some help. Walk me through doing some kind of "save as" to get my plan out of PM, for stripping and posting. Thanks.

I am trying to do a workout on a production-built plan that has a few modest changes, and the workout is to get all the framing modeled, to assess feasibility. It's a challenge. We've no idea how this roof frames, but it's very likely a hybrid arrangement of some stick framing and trusses, so I've tried that. If you open the plan file to see where things sit right now, you can see that in plan view upper right, that trusses won't generate, and I cannot figure out why. This is my first time attempting a plan attachment from the X17 project managment setup, and I've exported a .caproj file, the export producing a zipped file, and in the project only the plan file is included. See if this works. https:/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jLUT19Oimyq1wHD7Srtfdy6YSSiaU3q4/view?usp=drive_ In the screencap attached here, I have aimed the camera at the part of the roof that won't frame with trusses, assuredly so because I have not done room def properly, but I am stuck, so here it is.

Hey! Thanks for the look @Renerabbitt. I feel honored that the CA king of cabinets entered the room. I put my open-center door on the cab as a door panel, but did not try putting it on as a hinged door. Doing it as a hinged door gives me the shelves I need, but how do I get rid of the opening indicator in the 2D elevation?

See the pic. The cabinet at center of this vanity run has a drawer at top and under is an opening with two shelves. I want to dress the opening with a 1.25" frame surround, to bring the face out flush to the surrounding fronts. You can see the door object I made for this in the side panel. How is this done?

I'm in X17 using project management. I'd not had cab labels level turned on when sending my wall and section elevations to tje layout page, but now do. My two bath elevations display labels but no number of refreshes will work for the kitchen which has two wall elevations and two backclipped section views. i click the layout view, the view opens, labels all displaying, go back to laout, no labels, refresh, still no labels.

I'm in out of the box X17, fiddling with the lighting in a kitchen, and having trouble understanding how to control lighting objects by tweaking lumens levels. I have rope lights under wall cabinets, puck lights under a range hood, and an array of surface mount spots I built as solids and made to "have lights," plus a lineal pendant over the island I made and lit. The material (out of box) "lighting white" is used for the lenses of the pucks, the lineal pendant lens, and the lenses of the ceiling spots. Here is a view using standard camera, daylight set to day. All the lights I named above are turned on. Here is the spec panel one of the four puck lights I placed manually under the hood. The lighting has two components, a lumen strength setting for the bulb, and something called area lighting, apparently because of the material (lighting white) used for the lens. Note that in the camera view, something is lighting the range. It's not the pucks, because they are turned off. It is the lighting white material. But lighting white material is used in the pendant over the island, and in all the ceiling spots. Why aren't they emitting light in this standard camera view? Here is a PBR render, taken with daylight off. I want to dial back the undercab lighting, dial up the lighting from the ceiling spots, and dial down the hood lighting the range, but this area lighting is something I don't understand and seems to be messing with the scene.

You didn't need to add that second floor to gain heel height. Just raise the roof. You might learn something from this video. Check it out. Sounds like you want a platform of sufficient size in the attic for the air handlers and supply and return trunks, so the attic might just need 5 trusses to give an 8' long deck. You'll need to guess whether the truss engineer will do the trusses with a 2x10 or 2x12 bottom chord, but that'll all be figured at truss-quote time. Use attic walls parallel to the trusses so you only get the attic trusses you need.

Thanks, @DBCooper! Your 'chute musta worked, cuz yur still around.

I'm using out of the box X17 and having trouble understanding how to change text size for 2D camera views, both backclipped and wall elevation. Here is a screenshot of my cabinet plan for a kitchen with island. K1 and K2 were taken as wall elevations, and K3 is a backclipped section view. Note the size of the text in these is same as the cabinet callouts, and same as the dimensions shown. They are all sized for the K&B plan view. Now take a look at a screencap from a Chief video on the top of annotation using default sets, this one using the K&B view of a kitchen. Note the text size for the walls and section view. That's what I want. Larger. How do I get there.

If hand-drawn means squiggly lines, Chief does not have that option in 2D plans.

Thanks, @Chrisb222. That was it.

I used solids, blocked, to create the iron countertop brackets seen here. I want to display them in plan view using dashed lines, just as the under-counter base cabs and appliance display. See here. They are in their own layer, "Cabinets, countertops, brackets" and that layer is assigned dashed line. Since they are blocked, I changed the layer for Architectural Blocks to have the preferred line type and thickness. But none of this is producing the plan view I need.

I wanted a mid rail in a shaker style door for a tall cabinet, and specific placement, the rail not centered vertically. Took just a few minutes to make a group of 3D solids to emulate what I needed and convert to a door symbol.

Chief does not do 3D siding. It is a surface with a user-defined thickness and user-defined "texture" or surface imaging. Many of us here have discussed the board and batten pattern for vertical siding, which involves the use of the material region tool, but while that tool can both cut the planar surface of siding and project from it, it is rectilinear, in that you'll not be able to get that V-joint you want. Your metal panel has the same shape as V-joint wood paneling, so you should be trying to use one of those materials, edited for color and texture, to get the look you want. And you will be breaking your exterior walls each time you want to accent the vertical joint sections with horizontal joint sections.

I do it in the floor framing plan, with details. The framing is edited as needed. And on the architectural floor plan, just like Joey does.

Show us with a screencap what Chief is doing, please.

What I meant was to refer to the picture. Door on left is LEFT. As in, where it is. Not how it is hinged or how it swings.

@ImNewHereChief's default arrangement, when specifying a corner cabinet, is for the doors to be hinged together and opened using the single knob shown in the screenshot here. The hinges used are 135 degree blind-corner type. I do this for all the corner cabs I do, and this setup is seen in almost every kitchen cabinet showroom you tour. You never came back and stated what you were after, so I am showing here that Chief defaults to this type of action. For other types, you can do things with two cabinets like others mention upthread.

Describe L to R how you want the doors hinged and knobbed. There are various ways to do this. Example: LEFT DOOR, knob on L, hinge on R. RIGHT DOOR: no knob, hinge on R.