GeneDavis

Then delete one of the kites, the one I marked, and reshape the one to its R to a rectangle.

The file's "unavailable," Val.

I didn't download but suspected it was imprudent use of spraypaint. Spraypaint's fun and effective if you are tagging bridge overpasses or train cars, but before using it in Chief, you ought to study the help files, watch all the video tuuts, and practice on a tiny simple building. It's a lot more complex than Krylon.

In plan view, draw a CAD "object," a rectangle, circle, polygon, anything closed. Convert it to a slab or 3D solid. Now convert that object to a symbol and choose type as Electrical. Open it, add lights or a single light, set it however you want for placement behavior (on wall, on floor, on ceiling, etc.) Since it is an electrical object, it will report to the electrical schedule.

You would be better served by going to the site for HD Pro users. This forum is for Chief Architect Premier users, many of whom don't know much if anything about HD Pro.

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Open your roof that's across the end. Copy its ridge height. Close the roof dialog and open both side roofs for spec. Paste that ridge height in. Go back and do same for fascia height. Then in plan view, click the edge of a side, use click the join roof planes tool, and click the end of the end roof. They will join. Do same for other corner. But why haven't you tried this already? Have you watched some training videos on roof editing?

In the wall frame detail window, use CAD however necessary to help edit your wall, rotating members, aligning them using the parallel/perpendicular tool, editing intersections with the extend and cut tools. Pro tip. You cannot draw new framing members, but you can use what is there and copy and paste and resize. A wall that autoframes at say, ten total members, can be edited to have dozens. Use section cuts and then CAD DETAIL FROM VIEW to create CAD you can then copy and paste into your wall detail. Have at it. It's fun. Do you have roof trusses? Did you know that you can do all kinds of editing of the truss chords, webbing, intersections, etc.? Play around with it all, and learn! The one shown here was heavily edited, to show the panelizer how we want it built.

OOB Chief comes with that layer (a System Layer) turned off. Somebody's been diddling.

Open up the wall framing detail, and edit away!

Thanks, Gary. I've changed to that one, and things seem good now.

I cannot get 15 seconds into a RTRT (PBR) without freeze-up and lock and have to shut off by holding power button for 15 seconds. My card and driver details are shown in the screencap here.

If you want the balloon framed wall to have top plates positioned for upright lookouts, like what is shown here You might have to edit the framing in the wall. Shown is a scissors truss arrangement inside for 10/12 vaulted ceiling under a 12/12 roof, and 2x6 upright lookouts running from inboard truss to subfacia, the lookouts bearing on the wall plates.

I've not downloaded it yet. What are the best new things?

You know you can break section lines, right? What are you needing to show? Screencaps of the issue and a plan posted here might be the quickest way to get advice. There's a camera view option the removes a wall obstructing a room view.

You've learned a valuable lesson. Always post a plan to get a quick solution.

What is the goal here and why is the surveyor not on the team? Is it to be able to view proposed buildings at various places on the acreage, all in 3D?

Sorry for the post and taking bandwidth. I got it. The plane I drew was a "regular" roof plane and I thought by specifying that overframe thing it made it a truss base. I corrected things and all is well. One thing of note. The trussmakers I know build these valley set trusses, when they get large like these, kind of like end wall trusses. Vertical chords only, spaced about 48". There is no way to edit a gable end truss and in the spec dialog, specify its chord spacing. I manually edited these in the truss details.

I somehow was able to do this before, but deleted trusses and was able to do it with rafters, but now want to make a copy of the file with the valley set trusses to show as a framing option. Main roof mixed pitch (8 and 5) has a 12 pitch cross gable that is framed in scissors trusses, the main roof trussed away from the center, needs to lay on the 12 pitch, and have a set of either stick built rafters doing the valley thing, or a truss valley set. Where the lay-ons go, I drew a roof plane, stripped it of all save its 5/8 sheathing, and specified it in structure as overframe. Here is a pic. The three roof planes above this, the section of the lower "main" roof that lays over the center gabled roof, all these three are specified in framing as being trussed. See pics here. Those three are specified in structure as having a framing depth of 3 1/2". With the three roof planes selected, I "autoframe" by clicking the framing button, and it gives me bad results. The planes get framed in 2x4 rafters, and inside the lower roof structure, the scissor truss envelope of the center roof's roof plane and vaulted ceiling plane below, I get between-truss parallel-chord trusses. How to solve?

Make a copy named Chieftalk Q. Or whatever you want to call it. Strip the file of everything but structure, i.e., take out all fixtures, furniture, 3D solids, etc., leaving just walls, floors, roof planes. Save it and close it and zip it, or if it is under 15 Mb, just attach.

How big in acres is the parcel? I did a new house on a 7 acre mountain lot and only modeled the terrain for the house footprint plus about a 40 foot larger bounds. All the cut and fill was within.

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Draw a test building in a new file. Four walls with the out-of-box Siding-6 woodframed walls. Frame it and look at the 3D framing view. It'll be studs. Go into Defaults > Framing > Exterior Wall, it should be Siding-6. Edit it so the framing layer is changed to steel, and the material down below is changed from lumber to steel C. Click OK to change the default. Your 3D view, if you had things set to autoframe, is now changed to steel.

You've watched the Chief training vid showing how easy? And the Dan Baumann one? Easier. With Chief terrain, less is more, unless the terrain is the side of a mountain with cliffs and outcrops.

Isn't the R.O. sill height lower than window bottom by half the additional height R.O. margin in the framing tab? Sounds like there is math involved. Why bother? We can include header height and R.O. W X H in the window schedule. How much more does a framer need?