GeneDavis

Post the Chief plan. Looks like the plans are done, job al ready for permit and build. Are you copying this for practice?

@Racergirl731 we can help better when we know what software you are using, and the platform on which it runs. The four Chiefers who responded to your post all are showing their creds, as am I. You should do the same. Click on your name top right, go to SETTINGS, look for SIGNATURE, and enter your info and digits. Thanks.

Nope. Walls are rectilinear. In your case I would do the wall as a wall, to the point of the bottom beginning of the lean-out, and only use a solid for the angled-out segment. Dashed CAD lines in a plan view and annotations with CAD details for the rest.

Create s lighting set for each camera view? Be aware of maximum lights permissible in each view?

Here you go. Get out your credit card and make room for this 78 Mb beauty.

I am back because I think some more needs to be said about not this problem caused by somehow wall def getting improperly spec'd, but to comment on @Cadwork22Michael's larger problem, that of not knowing the most elemental basics of Chief. I downloaded and opened to explore the Barndo plan, and it is a very simple three bay two story thing with one single shed roof. But how it got built is kind of a mystery, and I did not want to waste time trying to imagine the sequence of walls, floors, etc. The plan, simply, is a huge mess of bad practice. In just a couple of minutes, I drew the a floor plan of something with the same footprint arrangement, drew interior walls to make it three bays, just let it all auto-roof from the OOB setup defaults, added a second floor accepting the same exterior perimeter, drew railing walls over the lower floor walls to create the balcony rooms, then specified the center room as "open below." All it then took to get the roof about right was editing the exterior walls for roof definition (slope, hip wall, gable wall, high shed/gable) and it autoroofed as wanted. Here is a glasshouse view of my quick build. One single roof plane, three rooms floor 1, two lofts with railings on floor 2, center bay open below. Michael got an answer here as to how to get the loft floors to generate, but he got no real direction about how to correctly build this very basic arrangement of rooms with the roof over he wants. Until he takes the time to learn, either by video and study and practice or zoom sessions with pros, he is still going to flounder. Posting badly-built models here and getting quick fixes for single-issue problems ain't a good learning process.

Way back before even the first Apple PC, with computers the size of buildings, we second-year engineering students were all required to take a core course titled "numerical methods." The problem assignments, one per week, required we use the big Univac, but as for learning to code, we were on our own. One bought the Algol manual at the bookstore, and read it. With paper and pencil, I'd write out the code, take the notebook to the keypunch room, wait for a free machine, type out code into punchcards, then take my deck to the card reader, stand in line, get the deck read, then move to the printer for my output. One typo, one mis-sequenced card, or just plain code error, and your printout said, in computerese, "no good." Three unsuccessful tries in same day got you a printout with the message I've never forgotten: "Do not use Monte Carlo methods when attempting to code." Translation: read the manual, dummy. The message was probably some grad student's idea of a joke. @Cadwork22, you are attempting to learn Chief using Monte Carlo methods. Please spend more time with the manual, and watch the training videos. Get one on one personal training from a Chief pro. Do the work of learning. This thread shows us you haven't even fully grasped the concept of Chief "rooms," which is beginner-level stuff. A couple more like this, and everyone will ignore your threads.

My go-to detail for wall cabs is to raise the deck (bottom) 1-1/4", overhang the door the same as the raise, pin a 1-1/8" light rail behind the door up against the deck, all this done readily with the frameless schemes I draw, and exposed ends ("gables" in cab-speak) get their bottoms extended 1-1/4" to match the doors at fronts. From my CAD detail library, here is a section showing the detail. In a run of two or more boxes with exposed ends, only the end gables get the extension. In the plan attached, a run of three cabs is modeled, and I want to know why the center box has voids at the front edge of the sides. This particular model has applied panels on the exposed ends, but the behavior is there whether or not the ends are paneled. End box right. Center box with voids at R and L front side edges. Raised deck cab run.plan

OK I get that, DB. Thanks. But that's a mirror or reflect op. How does the corner CL help in a center-on move?

Please give examples of its use. I'm clueless as to its benefits.

Are we talking about the centering axis which appears when we click the centering tool after selecting an object?

Takes a single click to find out. Whadya get?

Select the window after creating the custom muntin array. Go to Lites. Change muntin width to something else. Worked for me. As for your connection issue, I've no clue. Try dividing the arc into three segments, then making each side polyline a side arc and a vertical. The center segment arc is all by itself. Then block the three p'lines and see if the verts join to the arcs OK.

Click, hold and drag, pause, don't release hold, press TAB, you can how release the click, enter your length in the d'box, click OK.

Way more info needed. A 16x60 footprint sounds akin to a mobile home, or a houseboat. Sounds like the shore owners association doesn't want to see that look paralleling the shore line.

Almost anything is possible with solids. Try it.

This one uses "beer can" nodules, not balls as many do. The pressformed squeeze on the pipe ends coming unto the nodule join is gonna jack up the poly count to ridiculous levels. i watched a video of a ball-connected frame module being modeled in Revit. Looked like how I'd do it in Sketchup. Note in the photo how the bottom chord panels of the frame are arrays of identical rhombus patterns and how the edge angle is that of the long skew wall's, and the module at the front wall edge is a split of the central one.

Well, hatch me! Thanks, @Alaskan_Son for introducing me to Chief wall hatching. I can see what it does, but as for its usefulness, I am undecided.

Your use of the word "hatch" is really confusing. I showed you gray solid fill options, done at the wall definition level and display modified by use of the layer called "walls, main layer only." Chief users are used to the term "hatch" as a style of fill that is an array of parallel lines, where the control is for line weight, angle, and spacing. There is also the "grid" style of fill, a variation of "hatch" in which the lines go both ways. Again, there are inputs for line weight, angle, spacing, color. Solid fill is not hatch. You seem to want a solid color fill, but with what you are calling "outlines." That is what I showed in my example above. Chief's new poche fill (po SHAY) is a display option controlled at the plan view level (for plan views) and fills the displayed walls with a solid color, filling also the interior and exterior layers, and turning off "outline" layers. Users can show main layers only with the same level on-off tool one uses regularly. The intro by Chief of poche fill for walls in plan views gives users a quick tool for displaying walls the way most are shown in light commercial work. Users choose black not gray for this look. You want something unique, which is poche but with control of both wall fill color and line display and color. You should write a suggestion and show clear examples and post the suggestion in the "Suggestions" sub forum here.

What tools and techniques would be used to model it in Revit? In Autocad? Do those apps have parametric tools for modeling the space-truss roof?

What do you mean by "hatching?" This is just solid fill. One with interior and exterior layers one, the other main layers only.

Hey @MarkMc I only dip my toes into Chief cabinets and are way short of being in the weeds as deep as you. What is this "Side Panel CRP 10" or whatever inset panel you use to get a beaded panel? And how do you build the tall door with two intermediate rails as the OP needs if the door is from, say, the Wellborne line, the one I show in the pics below?

It's not a good practice, and a waste of time actually, to do that with rod shelving in a closet corner. The clothes crash, and the hangers crash. I stop one of the runs 12 to 15 inches away from the face of the other. if custom building, it's OK to run the shelves as mitered into the corner, but not the rods.

Did you try a roof exactly covering the outer exterior layer, and with a 1/16" thick fascia?

Hi @SNestor, how can your door be smart enough to have its mid-rails align to the doors adjacent? The cabinetmaker paid attention to that detail of horizontal alignment.