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I don't see a way to do that. You can show windows with the exterior casings on or off, with the interior casings on or off, but you get the Chief-hard-coded double "glazing" lines you want to see represented differently. If you turn off the windows layer, you get a blank space in the wall wherever there is a window. I think what you want merits a clearly written feature request in the Suggestions part of the forum, and you might want it patterned like the way the WALLS - MAIN LAYER ONLY thing works. In fact one might want that windows-shown-as-a-simple-box feature to enable and display always when you select the WALLS - MAIN LAYER ONLY layer to be on. My way might be for that new display thing to work might be that it would yield the look exactly as you show, that being windows as blank boxes same thickness as mail layer walls, and (here is the extension of that) doors to display not as boxes with thickness but as fat-single lines, opened at 90 degrees, and showing the swing arcs. What you show in your post above, is pretty much the standard look for floor plans at every online plans-for-sale site. OK, and now do the roof lines in plan view like what you displayed. Edges of any roof planes that bear on the walls of the floor shown, should be shown in the plan view. That would be a separate Suggestion request. I believe it's already been requested (maybe this one about windows, too) but it never hurts to request it again.
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Just watched one of @Renerabbitt's excellent YouTube videos, the one about numbering cabinets in install sequence to help with delivery and installation, and he shows towards the end how he has his fillers, a cabinet-category item type, in a separate schedule. He does not show how this separate schedule gets generated, and I'd like to know. In my example I want to schedule all bathroom cabinetry separately from kitchen. So, how does one do this?
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Pic of glass wall quickly done doodled with material regions to mock up mullions. You can see the extents of the wall. The OP might better had described his situation as a framed curtain wall, in which case the solution is done better with windows and mullions. The way he described it made me think of some super modernistic thing done with huge panels of sheet glass. Like some 100 million dollar folly built on a seafront lot way out past East Hampton.
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Draw the glass wall with the wall tool, using the OOB X15 wall type "glass wall." Use material regions not cutting finish to apply all the muntins and mullions you want. Show us how it looks when done.
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Also be sure that whatever those angles, they be put into Plan Defaults. Looks like you got some customs. CAD detail from view will tell you.
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@leyi123why haven't you posted the plan? Do a "save as" version, call it "roof help" or something. Delete anything that is hi-poly and not relevant to structure and roofs. Like fixtures, furniture. Save the stripped plan. Close it, zip it, attach it to a reply in this thread. No one can help you unless you do this.
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Is this a two story house? All I see in your plan view is bedrooms bathrooms and a terrace or something. No living, dining, greatroom, kitchen, pantry, foyer, entry, but also no staircase or stairwell. Edit: Sorry, I see the stairs.
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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?