GeneDavis

Thanks to you both. I run a laptop, one onboard monitor, and when I open OBS it is full screen and I cannot find a way to reduce its window so as to get to Chief. I've hotkeys set for start stop and pause recording.

I downloaded it and have watched training videos, but no one shows me how to just be in Chief and start and stop recording a video of me using the software. When I have OBS on the laptop screen, I see no way to jump out of it into Chief without exiting OBS. Help is appreciated. Thanks.

Use of a lintel as your window head trim might be the better way. In this view you can see my casing sized at 5/8 x 3-1/4" (out-of-box Chief default) and the lintel that is specified in the window dialog as having zero extension and no wrap at end. Thus the lintel end is flush with the casing edge. I had to create a molding for the lintel because Chief does not have a way to specify thickness in the dialog. Wanting a lintel thicker than the casing, I drew a box 7/8 w x 3.25 h and saved it as a molding and called it Lintel .875x3.25. With this done to my block-mulled window triplet, I did a molding polyline in plan view, added one crownmold profile, wrapped the ends, placed it, then edited as needed to get it looking right. Modeling your own house is a great way to learn Chief. It teaches you how to measure the as-built structure, and if you doodle all the features like what you are doing in this window group, it teaches you about how Chief works.

Play with the checkbox in the dialog for molding that selects whether it extrudes "inside" or "outside" the polyline. Also experiment with adding more moldings to the polyline. You can stack up as many moldings you want, and position them relative to the polyline, to get the effect you want.

Print it to Arch E size. No problems at that size. Get your printing done at blueprintsprinting.com. $2.28 a page on 20# paper for 36 x 48 sheets. Or send it to layout at 3/16" = 1'-0". Works for me all the time. My plans get used for building and the only thing I show in plan view as far as furniture and accessories go, other than cabinets and showerheads in bathrooms, are simple 2D CAD outlines for beds in bedrooms. Oh, and for walls, all walls, just main layer only. Kitchens and baths at 1/2" = 1'-0" on the K&B pages, of course.

Looks like TwinMotion to me.

So what exactly is your problem? You show us four different houses, and two screenshots of a 3D from a plan, the screenshots showing roof variation.

If what you have is a simple ceiling drop with a "lip" across its front, you can build the ceiling drop so it will frame and then glue on the lip as a polyline solid. That stick-out lip you want to do for decor and lighting above can be framed with steel studs.

Turn on floor surfaces.

I run them to the floor and make the bottom rail as tall as toe plus panel rails. Looks better to me, and the toeboard install is easier.

Bump. I edited this heavily including the thread title, after 32 views happened, and some of you 32 might want to check the first post, the thread starter, again.

I got more deeply into notes and note schedules after reading and participating in a thread about this a couple days ago. In that thread, @gravattedesign wants the style to be, in layout display, 1/8" font height for the notes (numbers in circles or squares or whatever), and 3/32" for the note text. I think he wants a third font height, even taller than 1/8", for the note schedule titles but that is a different topic. What we don't seem to have in Chief X14 is a way of controlling the scale of either of these text elements, what Chief terms "main" in the dialog, at the time we are generating the schedule. There ought to be a way, like what we have when sending a view to layout, of specifying those text styles, sort of like the scale setting, before the view (or schedule) is generated. I did a test plan in which I set text style for note numbers for 1/4 and 1/2 scale, the heights being 6 and 3 inches. I created a "kitchen" note with the 3 inch style and a "floor plan" note with the 6 inch style. Then I generated note schedules, and those schedules generate with "main" text styles per the one and one only schedules generation action we have. What happens is seen in this image. See what we are getting here? The note text, the numbers in the circles, is set per the dialog that created the notes, thus the 3 inch height in one and 6 in the other. The other text, that of the note line and the title above, come in at whatever settings we specify in the note schedule default. I think it is best to do that default with layer text as the source, because of the way this all works now. So notes schedules like this, when we have multiple display scales in our layouts, need fixing after they get generated. The most direct way I have found is to create layers for each schedule scale. I renamed the OOB layer as for 1/4 scale and did a new layer for 1/2 scale, and set layer text accordingly. Here is what it is in the layersets dialog. I forgot to edit the line weight settings, but they don't matter here for this discussion. With this in place, you can reset the title and line text ("main" is Chief's bad term for this) so you then have schedules that look right for shipping to layout. In this pic, you can see what I got editing the schedule for the 1/4 scale to have its layer be the 1/4 scale schedule layer. And then when sending both to layout, setting scale appropriately upon entry into the layout generation, we get this, the desired look. Is there an easier way?

That projecting lip feature is all over this house I modeled, which I built-built, frame to finish, and then two years after, Chief-built, way back in X5 as a learning exercise to figure the ins and outs of finish, furnish, and lighting. The inside is all doodled up with 2D and 3D moldings and 3D solids. Chief will only take you so far in framing for a build like this, but if you are really interested, you can manually frame this, or anything.

Chief's Austin Kitchen in the Gallery section of the website. You can download the file to examine the build.

We've really no way to know about your needs without an image of some type.

Invisible walls to define the low ceiling area, then ceiling structure with 2x framing ceiling joists and whatever air gap you need between the joist tops and the framing above. Just the way it will be built.

I looked at your plan file and wow do you have way too many text styles. You created 1/2 inch scale text styles for some of your note schedule elements. I did not go through it all but stopped there. You want your notes at 1/4 scale text, and the reason your text looks goofy in layout is because your layout box scale for them is 1/4 but the text is sized for 1/2. You really ought to clean up your whole text defaults setup.

" . . . at the same scale as the drawing view the notes are linked . , , " You know you are drawing at 1:1 scale, right? And that any anno you want seen on the drawing view is sized to output at your specified size for the scale you use in your layout box? And those notes are appearing as anno in plan views that are at full scale. What's you desired output at layout? Give us your specified text heights for the note text in tables and the label text (inside circles and hexagons) in tables. Why are you mixing label shapes?

Or a material region at each opening, use concentric to give 1/8 upsize, airgap material, 1/8 thick single layer, cuts into surface? Aha! It's 3/8 thick and cuts the 1/2 drywall. Takes maybe 20 seconds per opening side. Involved a CAD DETAIL FROM VIEW move to copy each window perimeter, then upsize by 1/8 concentrically, copy/paste-in-place in section or elevation, then the MR dialog. I colored mine dark gray. Anybody wanting the expense of this in a built job surely isn't going to balk at paying a Chiefer to model it in 3D, although it seems a folly to have it in on a screen just to see when there are photos of it all over Houzz. You can trim in mahogany for the same cost of no casing plus reveal.

I'm with Michael on this one. Design problem not Chief. First rule of architecture is to consider total mass including roof arrangement, and it was obviously not done here.

Don't attach .pdfs.

Find the 2D CAD block in the symbol dialog. Note its name. Go CAD>CAD block management and scroll to find the block. Highlight it and open for edit. Select one of the perimeter CAD polylines. Open for spec. Find the one with the cuts hole in countertop spec. Looks like in yours it will be the outside perimeter with the square corners. Edit it to have fillet corners. If it is a topmount sink, edit it concentrically to be just smaller than the sink object perimeter. Save your edited CAD block with a new name. Then go to the symbol and associate this new CAD block with your sink symbol. It's harder to type out all these words than to just do it.

That item in SU is described as "Right Shoulder Horizontal 1" Webbing 1-sided 5"" What is it? My SU is the last free one they let you download to your box, Sketchup Make 2017. I cannot open any of the models that can be downloaded.

Where did you get the "custom" sink symbol? It is the symbol maker that made the error, and he or she should correct if for you. Except if it was a freebie.

You will need to edit the CAD in the CAD block file that creates the hole. Place the sink on the floor outside a cabinet. Open its symbol and look for its assigned CAD block, then find the block in your project library and open it for editing. One of the polylines at the perimeter is ID'd as "hole in countertop." That is the one to edit with corner fillets. When edited, save it and then assign it to the sink.