GeneDavis

You might advise the client that just as the builder will need to hire a specialty millwork supplier and installation crew to build it, you might need to do the same in order to render it in 3D for their review, and for that, there will be a separately broken-out charge, the payment due upon submission of rendering. Otherwise, they cannot pay you enough to keep engaging with their hallucinations, taking their screensnips and trying to 3D model it in this custom design. I'd be looking for a 3D wizard both here and from a community of Revit users. Someone that can build a model and give it to you in .skp, 3DS, or any of the other formats that Chief can import.

Solids and shelves and partitions. Doors are another issue, but your photo shows none in the arrangment.

Material region is another option.

You can control gutter ON and OFF by selecting a roof plane by its eave edge and going to the gutter tab in the spec dialog. For the other side, you'll have to give your entire gable a tiny nudge out to have Chief build a return. Play with it and see.

Is this for a framing buy list for the framing contractor?

Try this.

From two days ago, here is an autosaved file, and the wall renders OK. File attached Wall OK in this one.zip

I had it and fiddled with the wall spec and this happened. It is not the roof that is doing this. The part that is good sits atop a first floor exterior wall, and the part with the problem bears on a carry beam, no wall underneath. I'm quite sure it's not the roof cutting away the finish. File attached. Why the siding stripoff.zip

ICF builders, the pros not the DIY, recommend the molded plastic foam bucks and build openings with 1/4" clearance around windows. I want to dimension to the opening, not the window. I can pull a leader off the story pole for the window, but not my opening, which is 1/4" different.

Is there a way to trick Chief? There is a way to pull the unit, i.e. window or door top, for an elevation dimension, but with no wood frame element, I see no way to get the opening elevation.

Windows and doors are to have 1/4 inch RO clearance and Chief won't let me get that tight. Where is the minimum clearance set?

What is this? What did I do wrong? I only got to this when doing what I always do when downloading Chief content. Within the Xwhatever app, do "get additional content," then wait for the download complete message, then do the install selecting the .calib file from my downloads folder. I do the routine today, in the X18 app, selecting the catalog for X18, and if I do in answer to "what do you want to do with this," select OPEN, and what happens? Chief opens X17 and then flashes me this message. I have tried catalog after catalog, and am seeing no .calib files appearing in my downloads.

Maybe @Renerabbitt will enter the room. He's got this covered well.

Here is a camera view with both issues highlighted. The gable wall with fake window centered under peak is killing me. I am unable to generate the wall so it shows properly in 3D. Its right half is "roof cuts wall at bottom" and needs to have that spec so it doesn't protrude into the vault space below. The other is the beam atop the railing (post and beam). The corner join won't render correctly. There are OK corner joins all around the porches. Note the wall spec with the offset posts and beam. Both are offset horizontally so I can get the slab edge 3" past the wall line, so columns do not bear right at the edge. This corner has one of the walls NOT offset, and it needs to be this way. File attached. ICF barndo.zip

I did this post-facto and have now to deal with dropping the foundation wall top. Where is this done? I open the foundation "wall" for spec, and see no way.

Do I just export each layout page as a separate .dwg?

Thanks @robdyckMy file (did I not sent the right one?) has that roof plane specified as structure depth 9.25. When I uncheck soffits (and why would this work checking a box in the roof layers sub-panel?) I am able to generate a 3D proper view of a 2x10, but now I have uncut rafter tails? Why can't I have both proper depth display and cut tails to match up to my 2x6 subfascia?

@robdyck here you go. Overframe 2x10s.zip

I've a complex roof due to a cathedral ceiling below that is making for an overframe config. See pic here. You can see the 4:12 rafters of the overframed part. They are specified as 2x10s, the roof plan strucure is set to that, but the rafters are 2x6 in 3D. Select any one of them and open for spec and you see that it is a 2x10, example here. Section views are worthless, in that they are displaying the rafters as 2x6. What is going on here? Is this the bug that occurs in overframing, in which the rafters somehow default to the soffit size tails? What is the workaround? Over on the other side of the 4:12 overlay roof that is coming onto the house from the attached barn, there is a segment that is over the cathedral roof below framed by the 2x12 rafters of the 10:12 pitch of the main house gable. The section is seen in this view, and I highlighted the perimeter. This is done in 2x8 rafters and they are represented properly in 3D and section views (which are 3D). The difference between this plane and the one with the bust is that there is no bearing wall and overhang with soffit to this one.

See the pics. Why is this wall bottom held up over 4 inches above the roof that is cutting its bottom? In the actual build, the roof gets a pair of rafters under, and the wall is framed with its bottom plate spiked through the sheathing into the rafters. Chief builds it with a big air gap. Why?

Thanks Shane @PitMan71. I exported the X17 project file (**.caproj) into a folder, then opened X18 and imported the .caproj file using IMPORT. Seems clunky but now I have it in X18 managed files space.

I have only one project going and began it in X17 using project management which I don't really understand. I want to stop working on it in X17 and get it into X18 for the rest of the duration. How is this done? I have X17 running and both .plan and .layout files open for this job. I have X18 running.

Patterns are toggled on/off in 3D views when camera type is vector. But you know that. It was Eric @solver that got me in the habit of doing full overview 3D views using those settings: vector view, color off, patterns off, and shadows on. The best way to examine the details of a building's exterior envelope, and it's fast. Great when doing manual roof build work or editing. Are you wanting to control patterns on/off in a different way?

Hey, @robdyck, thanks, but I did that, and it won't frame. What is the secret for Chief autoframing it with the 1x3s I specified (3/4" thick framing layer above my ceiling finish, 16" centers, 2.5" widths, fir framing 1 texture, layer specified as framing), and those straps run perpendicular to the trusses?

I've a huge attached garage (Shhhhhh! Don't say Barndo) with roof trussed at 24 inch centers, and the ceiling finish is to be 29 gage ribbed roofing panel, Fabral's Magna Rib 3 or equal. I need to strap it with 1x3s at 16" centers. Is there a way since we are in this new age, the 2020s, AI and all that, X18 now fully live, that this can be done, or do I gotta hack it.