GeneDavis

Or material regions. One for the arc-segment window top (it's recessed) and one for the brick lintel (proud). Good luck texturing the lintel so it looks like the photo. That might require a material region for each brick. Must it render with photorealism to match the pic? I'd charge by the minute if my client made me do it. A good situation for clay rendering.

Paint can?

You have an interesting mix of box types along the vanity run. The drawer stacks are frameless, while the sink bases are faceframed with only a 3/8" overlap for doors and drawerfronts. Is this the look you want? Whoever quotes the cabinets will sure want to know. I never place a cabinet adjacent a wall (or adjacent a deeper cabinet) without doing an extended stile (if faceframed) or a filler (when frameless) to give a little extra clearance for doors and drawerfronts when opened. You might want to consider that here.

This seems to be about "off-angle" walls and the program rebuilding walls when working to place and edit positions of wall openings (windows, doors) after you carefully placed walls to a CAD polyline or lines. Right? Post two versions of your plan. One in which your walls are where wanted. The other should show how Chief "dinked" walls after you added openings and edited position. Oh, and start your own new thread. This seems to be about Chief rebuilding walls when opening-work is done to them. Edit: I used X15 to draw a four wall "house" with one skew wall. Chief wanted it to be at one of the 7.5 degree snaps, but I used CAD to draw my preferred polyline with the skew angle "off" so as to get OK lengths for the top and bottom wall lengths. My skew line came in at -82.598612°. Chief wanted it to be 82.5 degrees. I used "make parallel" and the CAD polyline to force the wall to angle, then moved it to align to the CAD polyline with the p'line in place. I then placed a window and edited the position along the wall. The wall angle did not change, nor did the wall position.

Here is an example from a plan I did that required CAD to get the walls right. The skew wall has an angle of -82.543935° which matches the CAD segment in the polyline I used to force the wall to the lines. First drawn, Chief makes it -82.5 degrees which matches a plan default allowed angle (7.5 degrees). I forced it to match using the make parallel tool and had to edit with close zooms, but I got it. The two short dimensions plus the other rectilinear dimensions locate the ends of the skew wall, and I wanted those dimensions no finer than 1/2" increments so the foundation builder can build the formwork for the slab. The length of the skew wall is inconsequential. It is the corners (the ends) that are located. It's what you gotta do when you have skew walls that are off-angle. Draw the CAD and edit however needed to get right, then do walls and some forcing with the make-parallel tool.

To the OP: Have you tried using Chief CAD to draw your building lines? Are you able to get the geometry needed? Nail in all down in CAD, then draw walls and edit them to align precisely to the CAD. It is the only way to get the precision needed when there are walls with irregular angles.

Consider contacting some of our members here that are skilled in all those aspects of Chief rendering you need. Pay for some one on one training. Some of those members participated in the "realistic grass" thread which ran recently, and also the one on spherical backdrops.

Post the plan.

Looks like you changed the material of some framing members to something other than the default fir framing. Select one of those plates or studs and inspect the material. Report here what you find.

Flat-deck the thing and do all your drain sloping with tapered roof insulation. TPO membrane over. Your framing and roofing subs will applaud your wise decision.

Digging into this just a tad more, I see your ceiling heights for the living side of this project is at 11 feet, which seems a weird choice. Why not 10 feet, which results in a far more efficient use of framing lumber, and sheetrock? And your exterior wall build seems questionable. You show two framing layers one 4 inch one 10 inch. Are you planning to double-frame for doing high-R insulation? Your heel heights over the exterior walls at rear don't look right for someone who is doing ultra thick walls for energy. What kind of R for ceiling are you looking for? Is blown cellulose the plan?

Maybe pay a pro to do this for you, and include those charges when you bill the client who keeps moving things around. I opened Steve's "fixed" file, selected the porch roofs and those for the gable, moved them out 8' using transfer>move, and edited the roofs to join. The walls were locked so I did not bother with them to move the post/beam walls out, but the gable truss was not locked so I moved it out too. I suggest you engage with a truss engineer to see how this best gets framed. Where I do work there are limits on truss lengths and heights due to transport.

Cannot remember whether X10 had structural member reporting. Do you see it in the defaults: Tools > Materials List > Structural Member Reporting? You have to set this up (if it is there in X10) to get framing to report piece counts in your specified lengths.

It's in a castle! One thing I enjoyed when visiting Europe, was seeing how cool modern interiors came out in 800-year-old buildings.

Every manually drawn roof plane is born a rectangle. You edit them to the shapes needed. You use the join tool when editing to make ridges, hips, and valleys.

Shown in pics here are my default settings, in which can be seen two adjustable shelves at 1" thickness equally spaced, and the wall cab in place with no shelves. I want the open face look for this cabinet, meaning a faceframe with open center, but the cabinet is a frameless with a fixed panel door and the panel in the 5 piece door specified as insulation air gap material. The camera view shows the panel correctly. The cabinet has no shelves and the shelf option is grayed out when I open the front to specify and select the door.

Will the plan used in the new features video be available for downloading?

Two reasons: 1.) placement, and 2.) their layer is turned on.

What's complex about that roof?

Overframes are built "over."

I've done it using 3D Warehouse split firewood, but it adds way to much poly count to the model. Images on solid blocks would be much better. Is this the way those are done? I did not download the symbols.

Am I missing it somewhere? I set up framing defaults for my floor one deck to be I-joists with 1-1/8" engineered lumber rims. For decks, I set up the default to be a specified depth for framing (the OOB is 2x8, i.e., 7.25 deep members), but cannot find a way to set the spec for rims. Thus, when I autoframe a deck, the rims get framed with 1-1/8 thick engineered lumber stock, at the deck-frame depth of 7.25". I have to tediously edit the deck frame to be P.T. lumber 2x8. Why? And why can't we get the same "max length" thing for deck rims for material list counts, like we can for the house floor frame rims?

Finally digging into this after getting some help from various helpful contributors here, I see the ways to get my wall plates counted in 16 foot lengths, same for rim board (decks still an issue), same for mudsills, I'd like an easier more global way to do the setup. For wall plates, one has to go into each wall type to make the setting. If you have gone beyond OOB setup for walls, it needs to be done for each and every new wall type you define. For mudsills, since the pressure treated mud sill is considered an element of the foundation wall and not an element of framing, one does the setting inside the wall, also. For rimboard, the setup is done inside the framing default. I find it all tedious, and would rather have something inside the framing defaults for specifying max length (a misleading term and should be better described) for these framing elements.

Custom macros are a mystery to me and if it's going to be a requirement for full use of Chief, I'm going to need training videos to show me how. I don't see any now.

For a hipped roof, is ridge vent counted for half of all roof edge join in any single plane? Thus vent count for all hips? For any roof, is ridge vent counted for roof overhang? We've never done vented caps outboard of the gable walls?