GeneDavis

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?

Chief generates and reports quantity for ridge caps. There is no way in Chief to place or count ridge vent.

It's not that intuitive, but you can set up your file using a framing defaults and wall specs, plus material list to do the "buy list" reporting, and get pieced framing like what one does at build time. By that I mean mudsills, wall plates, and deck rims modeled and reported in the material list in your specified max lengths. If for example you have set your wall plate max at 16 feet, the count is going to give you, for a 17 foot wall, one 16 foot piece, and one one foot piece, and it is tallying the one foot piece with other shorties from elsewhere in the build, to cut from 16 foot pieces. What Chief does not do, but what a framer does, is cut the 16 footer back to the nearest stud or joist center, so the butt joint falls on a member. Chief will put the joint wherever 16/0 falls. As others have said here, there is no such way to piece rafters with a bearing line dialog, as there is for floors. There is no way to specify a max length for fascia or subfascia or ridge members, either. They will build at full length and report to the material list in lineal feet.

It is not clear what you want but if you want two rafters either butted at the bearing or lap-joined over, all you have to do is manually frame it.

Consider posting a suggestion to be able to nest polylines and create holes so as to be able to make hollow moldings.

All that CAD work for naught! Bummer. Did you classify the hollows as holes?

Does Chief acknowledge the bug?