GeneDavis

What is a lot of work? Modeling a house in Chief? I did this in a couple minutes, but did not go the extra mile and do the surround jamb extension inside. I'll go back to the model, set the timer, and do the surround. The window is set inside the ICF wall, which is the way I do these. Fixed to the bucks with straps.

I looked closer and the cross hatch panel library element for railings shrinks and stretches depending on a wall's railing geometry. It is not fixed. I'm not certain Chief can program this to produce a 4x4 wire grid no matter the panel height or width, and height and width change depending on how one specifies rail and newel placement. May have to SUGGESTION this.

It makes a great hog panel railing look, but I'd like it to be a real 4 inch x 4 inch pattern. It's not, being around 5 1/4 H x 5 7/8 W. Is this a hard-coded thing, or is there a way to a.) make it 4x4, and b.) make the wire thinner like the 6 gage (0.162") wire of hog panel.

Unblock the windows. Open both and go to frame tab. Make sure "fit frame to wall" is unchecked. Play with inset and frame depth until things look good, then block/mull. When this is done, you will lose the surround of the unit, and let's think real world build 3D. Such a window unit will have head, jamb, and sill jamb extenders. You can create the right look with a 3D molding. I do a 2D wall elevation and get my perimeter by going CAD detail from view, then paste it in place in the live section, and make the molding.

@winterdd Why haven't you put it up as a suggestion in the Suggestions section? Which jurisdiction requires this on con docs you produce? Do they also do the "average" thing? Be specific in your write-up.

Understanding and using default settings. Use the Chief training videos.

You can designate in the room dialogue if the room's included in living area. Rooms like porches and garages and decks default as "no" or unchecked. Chief doesn't have a way to tally and display two totals. Write it up as a suggestion. It seems to be a convention in some sunbelt locales to list the two figures in real estate listings. Plans in Metro Dade FL may need this. Plans in Collier county don't.

Losing the wall removed the window but I got it back. Thanks.

Plan file here. Bly floor trusses_2024_05_30_08.plan

I figured it out. And it is an issue I filed a Suggestion about long ago. Rim joists are different from joists in the way the structural member reporting counts. One can set a rim item in the member reporting list at 20 foot length, and a second line same member but 16 feet length. But the only way rim materials report is from the longest length in the list. That is why my 15 footers were counted as 20 and not 16. Joists on the other hand are tallied the same way wall framing studs get counted. 8 foot wall studs report at 8 feet, 9 foot wall studs report as 9.

This is only a problem for me on the front elevation of this plan. There is a line that shows up in the plot line elevation view that I want to go away, but do not know how. See the pics. I show the live elevation in the plan, and the selected area is showing up in the dialog as "exterior room." Its top edge is what is producing the line on the plot line elevation I have in layout. The condition is not happening on the sides and rear elevations. What could this be and how to fix?

Thanks! I can place a watermark on a SPV, but have not idea how it translates to the layout page, 'cos I did not sent it over.

Es possible?

I have a floor frame with some of the rims 1 1/8" engineered lumber, and some LVL. I've I-joists at two different widths (series). Understanding how the rim material count goes, I set the member reporting buy schedule up with one length only, 16 feet. Thinking I understand how LVLs are counted, I set up two different lengths, 16 and 20 feet, and same for the upper series I-joists. But both these items, the LVL and the heavy I-joists, are reporting as all 20 footers. No 16s. What is causing the counts for lengths like 14'8" to come from 20 footers, when the schedule has 16 footers listed?

Got it! Thanks.

Thanks @JKEdmo, but I cannot get there. I found the library item but it seems (for me) it is not a material but a millwork-type item. I could not get it as a material selection for a panel railing, but can get something when I go after it in the balusters dialog. See the pic. Please describe the step by step to get what you showed. Thanks.

And by that I mean render it in 2D elevations and 3D camera views. I did a search and could find no "hog" anything, but maybe I am not a good searcher. I seem to recall it being discussed here. For those of you that are not pig farmers, hog panel is a hot design thing in deck railings. Heavy gage wire 4x4 inch spacings, panels sold in 4'x8' size so easy to fit in yer pickup. Sold galvanized and with black powdercoat finish.

I did, and thanks, @robdyck

I need it to finish up a project. Never used it before but have seen it on Chief sample plans, but the samples are .pdf. The one that shows the sequence of perimeter tape flash around a window and integration with wrap.

Sorry for the bandwidth. Figured it out after searching for and finding a Chief how-to video. Overframing with rafters is sort of like the inside-out version of overframing with trusses. Trusses, you need to build the truss base "roof" right atop the lower roof. To stickframe an over-roof valley set, the over-roof has to be set as frame-over in the structure dialog, so you are specifying it has framing, and I guess the Chief coders used this setting to determine which roof governs in autoframing. And yeah, autoframing. The only way you get overframing is to autoframe it. Drawing manually to attempt to generate rafters does not work. In my current project with this situation, I have a two-pitch situation happening on one side of the roof, and for some reason Chief does NOT generate the 2x10 shoe plate for the center plane of the three-plane over-roof. This, on both sides of my center bay. All settings same for overframing in these six over-roof planes. In this plan view, I highlighted the overframe planes that did not get shoe blocks. I don't need to show it in 3D and so have just used CAD to depict the missing shoeplates. This pic has them highlighted. And in 3D, you see them missing, and the bearing ends of the rafters not cut to seat on a shoe.

I can generate valley set trusses in a roof over roof situation, with a truss base plane drawn. But I want to stick frame the set and the rafters are not generating true in 3D. Drawn in plan view they look OK and I thought they were going in pitched, but they are level with no pitch and in the lower plane on which this over-roof sits. What's the trick?

I've not gone beta. is this a useless feature?

No. Copy mirror produces the headers (the 2x6s) with the cuts 90 degrees off. Drag them away, click on the king, do extend, and it won't chop right. I'll submit a bug ticket, see what Chief says.

Take a look at the pic. I first autoframed the wall, which then required manual editing to get it where I need things. The angled header on the R won't trim/extend. In autoframe, one came in on R and L sides but editing was needed, and in doing the edit I deleted all on the R side of this symmetrical wall. What you see in the pic is from taking the top horizontal header, copying it and rotating it parallel to the needed angle, and placing it, but it won't trim. Why not? I'm gonna have to delete it and fake it with CAD, which is OK, but should I have to?

And they are on a very tight budget. I drew what they told me they wanted, and produced a plan set they could use for getting a contractor estimate. So there is a Chief plan file and layout file. I've no time for this and want to steer them to someone else. You'll need to be registered in NY, capable of doing a terribly unattractive house, doing the structural stuff like beam sizing and shear walls for the C/D seismic region in which this is to be built, and perform the ResCheck. All for maybe $2500. No more. PM me if interested.