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What software are you using? Your signature does not list it. You know how Chief wall types work, right? There are 8 inch walls, 3 inch walls, and any makeup and thickness your heart desires.
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How to exclude existing house framing from an addition framing schedule.
GeneDavis replied to MCCCcc's topic in General Q & A
Why not instead of autoframing the whole thing, just frame each of the new walls singly? -
Best practice to quickly strip plan to reduce file size
GeneDavis replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
Thanks @Michael_Gia! I joined WeTransfer and will use the free version for occasional uploads such my issue as re cabinet display in another thread here. @RobDesLLC I will edit my sig line to delete Dropbox, which I do not use any longer. Tried it long ago and never fully understood its operation. -
Cabinets display joint lines inconsistently in plan view
GeneDavis replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
Here is the unstripped file. The issue is the kitchen wall cabinet to R of corner wall cab. Upper L corner of kitchen cabinets ell arrangement. Joint between. First time I have tried using WeTransfer, and hope it works. https://we.tl/t-B6840ozbKS -
I post a q about an issue, someone properly says post the plan. I check file and it's 50 Mb. I can't go cloud 'cause I have no cloud accounts. What's the quick way to scrub the stuff unimportant to Chief building?
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Attached is a plan view of a kitchen with cabinets displayed. I drew two arrows to point out lines I cannot make go away. The cabinets both sides of these two lines are same type, height, distance off floor as adjoining cabinets. No other cabinet to cabinet lines are showing. Why these?
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Archived backup file won't open. What do these messages mean?
GeneDavis replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
Yes I do but it is from three days prior. Here are my settings for archiving. The corrupted file is from about 8 a.m. this morning. I worked on this plan yesterday afternoon and evening, March 17, but there are no archived files from March 17. All I have is a backup from March 15, but the job plan file was open March 16 and March 17. -
A house with a low pitch shed roof and one end hipped is to get a simple addition, just a big bump-out at one end. Job file attached. See the pics. I can certainly do a hipped roof on the addition and join it into the as-built roof, but I thought there might be a more creative way to roof it. Any and all ideas would be appreciated. Roof challenge.plan
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Chamfer Wall Corner Connections/Intersections
GeneDavis replied to svengustafson's topic in General Q & A
Then ask the framing sub how he might prefer building it. -
Sorry! Never happened before. I must have hit the exchange with floor above. First time I ever used this.
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How could this have happened? I cannot recover from archives. The only one there is saved wrong. All I had for floor one is now floor two and two is now one.
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Why not just use solids and be done with it. Model one closed, model one open, do the opening as a doorway, put each door model on its own layer, show elevations both ways.
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Doing it on first floor with second floor over is a little easier, because you can put some beef into the floorframe rims to do what's needed, but there is some good info here. I just did a search in my browser for "header framing over a corner window."
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A 40-plus-year-old house was built first as a rectangular chalet-roof thing, then it got a rectangular addition, another rectangle, joining the chalet at an off-90 angle. Now another addition is to happen, this one a rectangle, patched to one side of that second rectangle. Roofing this new addition, and joining it to the as-built, is a challenge for me. I envision a hip-roofed array, must be the same pitch (very close to 2/12 if not exactly that), truss-framed, with a lay-over section built atop the existing. See the pics. There is a Google Earth overhead of the as-built, and my two pics, one highlighting the two as-built roof planes, the other highlighting the addition that has the lay-over part. I think to do the roof remodel this way, particularly with engineered trusses (100 psf ground snow load), we'll need to get via site measurements, the exact as-built roof's geometry. However we design the roof of the addition, the overhang of the as-built roof along the 24-foot length of this new addition will be demo'd, so right now we could go up with ladders and cordless sawzalls and chop off a segment directly above where there is a window. What tools and techniques would you use to get the measurements so as to be able to model the as-built roof accurately?
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Not likely. I've built those as garage floors with basements under. Just use a floor structure with layers for the top finish, the 'crete, and the molded EPS stay-in-place forms, and CAD details to show what to do. And do a CAD detail of the plan showing the layout and form lengths. That'd do it for any responsible builder.
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Surveyor topo lines as dwg how do you convert to chief?
GeneDavis replied to cbucks's topic in General Q & A
Does this help? -
Privacy screen with vertical slats at an angle?
GeneDavis replied to cbucks's topic in General Q & A
Solids will do this nicely. There is no Chief "tool" that produces these, so create them manually with solids. -
Can auto roof on top plate above ceiling joists be done?
GeneDavis replied to CARMELHILL's topic in General Q & A
I just tried doing this by creating a second floor, floor structure like a ceiling structure, i.e. no sheathing, 2x6 joists, made the height of the "floor" 1.5", and autoframed with 2x10 rafters. Comes out just right. -
Suggest it. Be clear. It ain't there in X15
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@rwaldrondesignswhy not go ahead right now and compose a suggestion that Chief have an option for this? Preferences>Appearance>Text seems like the right place to have it. Something like "Attach leader lines to text at font center first line of block" might be clear enough to understand. Right now the attachment defaults to center of block, and the attachment point can be dragged to snap to block corners and midpoints sides and top and bottom. Your option, if checked, would give you what you want, and also give users an additional snap point for moving the leader attachment point.
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Open for spec one of the OK walls. Take a screencap of the wall's type. In the structure tab, take a screencap. See my examples. Now do the same for the 45 wall.
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Now is a good time to learn to make new layers for your specific needs in controlling visibility of objects. Click on "New" and type in your new layer's name.
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I think @ValleyGuy has the right approach, and it models the top cap and rail, with 1.5" square baluster butted to cap at top and bevel cut at bottom, seen in almost all those decks built back when this was the fashion. Plus, if you are a newbie with Chief and interested in learning new things, you get to create a molding (the 2x cap and top rail) and a solid (the baluster) you save as a millwork item.