GeneDavis

Thanks! Hey, @robdyck why can't I find Boral in Chief's library downloads? I recall seeing it what, a year or two ago?

Anybody have one? I have looked through all the contertop textures and found nothing like what I want.

I'd like to be able within Chief to create simple 3D assemblies with 3D dimensions, to use in con docs to clarify elements of framing, trim, and cabinetry. I did a test assembly of 3D solids and cannot find how to actually dimension things with any input control. The pic shows how I like to see these, but the dimensions come automatically when I select something. Is there a way to dimension manually and have them show in 3D? I'd like a recommendation for how to do this within Chief project management. Ideally, we could build details in the CAD detail space that are 3D and do this, but I did this in a plan file I added to a project called Projectname Details.

Here is Steve from his Chief Skills channel showing a U-stairs build.

It died due to some kind of fault in the OS which prevented a windows reboot, but one or more of the geek genii at Best Buy was able to recover what was on the hard drive and it'll be back with a new drive, a new fresh Windows 11. I'd been dreading having to start from zero on the only unfinished Chief X17 job I had in progress, one 95 percent complete. I might still. We'll see. I'll go get the machine, specs below, later today. If you are using p-Cloud or Dropbox or One Drive or Google Drive or any other cloud storage, how is it set up with your X17 so things work seamlessly? Is it a once and done thing for each new project at setup time?

The stair tool will draw you a U-stairs with one click. You'll then manually edit the landing by dragging from one edge to make it half size as in your photo, manually adding one adjacent (polyline > make landing) and editing however you need to get what you want. That's a well-built staircase in your pic. It's not easy in Chief to get all those details, but keep at it. I use the stair tool first to draw a simple straight stair, one that reaches the next floor, then fiddle with the treads, locking tread depth at 10", and fiddling with number of risers to achieve a riser height between 7.25 and 7.5 inches. Armed then with numbers for tread count and riser height, I have what I need to edit my U-stairs when I go to do the editing after one-click placing them. Openings and walls all come last. Come back to this thread after you have it all solved and show us your result.

My laptop died. New something needed. Specs of the dead one in sig below. I was doing just fine with the machine which has an RTX3070, and while Chief recommends the 5090, it's 2X the $$$ compared to a nice 18" I see with a 5070.. Will it run the new X18? Beta users?

Plan views, elevations, sections, no 3D camera viewing needed. Is this possible? I am typing on my old laptop, last used with something like X14. The one shown in my sig went blooey on me, and I need to push out a job and only have this machine.

Hello, Hassan. What version of Chief are you using?

My laptop (see specs) has been giving me problems when doing almost anything 3D in X17. Yesterday morning it froze when I was doing something in 2D and as in all lockups previously, my only way out is to do a hard shut down with the power button. Yesterday I got the blue screen of death with some sort of Windows-related error code. I took it to the Geek Squad. Here is something at Walmart.com. MSI Cyborg 17 Gaming Laptop, Intel 7-240H, 32 GB DDR5 RAM, 1 TB PCIe SSD, 17.3" FHD (1920x1080) 144Hz Display, Nvidia G-Force RTX 5060, 4-Zone RGB Keyboard, W11 Home, Translucent Black Whaddya think?

That'll auto-roof if you set all your wall specs right.

Ceiling structure can be under floor structure and include as many layers as you want. You cannot do insulation such as sprayfoam or dense-pac as a layer, the way you are describing it as full fill or partial fill of a structural member layer such as joists or trusses. It is not uncommon for ceiling structure to have an air gap layer. Roof structure can be specified in as many layers as you want, and builds up from structure (lumber, truss chords, I-joist members) with "cover," i.e. sheathing, then maybe rigid insulation, film, and finishes like standing seam steel or shingles.

Thanks! I'm all set. Didn't realize the check for blind behavior was in general defaults.

@CarrieSthis box can be thought of as one with a vertical separation, flanked by a hinged door on left side, a door panel on right side, each door opening different. Ane ech door different. The reveal of the 3/4 separation is 1/8", and when the box is placed against the side of another, it CANNOT behave as a blind. How can I do this? I tried without success.

Thanks @CarrieS! I had not made it clear in my model that the fixed slab panel to the R of the hinges is one piece. The colored area and dimension is there to show exactly where the adjacent basecab butts to the blind.

I think I've run up against hard-coded behavior in Chief's cabinet tools (blind cabinet face items) that won't let me do this. See the picture. Chief won't build me an applied blind panel, nor will it let me control door width. A no-toekick frameless base cab of 32" width needs a flush panel (3/4" painted plywood, edgebanded) over its blind end at the size shown, with the door, which is hinged off the panel, sized as shown. I show where the cabinet bears against the adjacent run of base. Note the door's top reveal, which is 3/8", is not repeated for the flush panel. How is this done as a forced-build that when placed, retains, locked, all its face elements built per this spec?

Show us a truss from your truss detail page. Zoom to the heel and draw the heel height.

@Alaskan_Son @SH_Canadahere you go and thanks. 1300 sf Shoebox House - Copy.zip

Here is a zoomed in view of a kitchen plan view, and you see six cameras. K1 and K2 are wall elevation cameras, and the four marked "I1, . . . " are each backclipped elevation/section views. All were specified in their dialogs as "display as callout" and I entered the labeling, K1, I2, . . . I set up a new layer titled "Cameras, K&B section views and wall elevations" and opened each of these six cameras for spec, and changed the layer to this new layer. I then changed just one of the wall cameras (K1) and one of the backclipped section cameras (I1) to be on this new layer. Then I turned off display of the layer. Here is what I got. As is seen, the labels are not displayed, but the callout circles with arrows are still there. In the bathroom area of this plan, I have two wall elevations taken. See the pic here. B1 and B2. These two are on layer, Cameras, Wall Elevations" which is where Chief X17 OOB puts them. Both cameras were specified by me, same as in kitchen, as "display as callout" and "include arrow," plus the labeling was keyed in by me and not macro auto gen. When I go to the ALDO and turn off "cameras, wall elevations" both these turn off, as one would expect, plus any wall cameras shown. I have the two wall cameras in the kitchen for the cab runs along walls, but (so far) have put those in a different layer, and am getting the squirrely behavior discussed above in this post. What is going on here? It seems that when I re-layer a camera, as was done for the K1 wall cam and the I1 backclipped section, the layer control only works for the label INSIDE the callout. For doing layout con docs, I want the exterior elevation cams to only appear on my floor 1 dimensioned and annotated floor plan (SPV), and the K&B cams to only appear on my K&B floor plans floor by floor, I want some structural backclipped section view cams to only appear on an S plan view, etc., etc. Thus there's a need to place certain cameras on certain layers for display control.

I want to display section view and wall elevation cameras in plan view as callouts with the arrows, but only want the cameras to be viewed ON in specified plan views. The K&B plan view gets the view callouts shown there but in no other plan views. The exterior wall elevation cameras only are seen in the plan view for dimensioned floors. Etc. How is this best done? I have my K&B camera callouts set with manually-entered text inside the callout circle, K1, K2, etc. I tried setting a new layer called Cameras, K&B Sections and Wall Views, but when I turn off that layer, the circles with arrows remain, but the text inside is not visible. What is best practice here for doing what I want.

@GaryOhmer here is the plan file, attached. 1300 sf Shoebox House - Copy.zip

Disregard. I learned again how to make a copy, export it disconnected.

I've asked this before. Sorry. But I could not find the answer using search.

Thanks, @GaryOhmer! I edited the gable end truss so the top chord tails are snipped (as it will be built), and the truss has no elements that go into wall envelope below. No fix. The wall still displays as shown in my pic. I can select the wall and do second select and get the topmost plate, and where there are studs, I can do select tab and get the stud nearby, but the display is my problem.

I've an exterior wall that won't display with same fill spec and with framing, while every other wall in the plan shows the way I want. Here is a pic of part of the plan of this one floor house on slab. And here is the 3D framing view showing that the wall is 100 percent framed, as are all others. Here is the wall dbx for the exterior wall adjacent, at plan bottom. And for the problem wall.