GeneDavis

That upper roof in the inspiration image is three separate roof planes, all having a common ridge height. The wall-rise where the windows are under the jump is what Chief will do for you without any technique or coaxing. Have you tried this?

Take 8 minutes and about thirty seconds and watch this, and then try it and tell us if you can replicate it. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1944/creating-kitchen-island-elevations.html?playlist=87 And then another 12 minutes to watch this. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6105/kitchen-wall-elevation-and-island-elevation-dimensions-to-the-nkba-standard-automatically-and-manually.html

Take 8 minutes and watch this, and then try it and tell us if you can replicate it. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1595/dimensioning-cabinet-face-items-and-openings.html?playlist=87

But what generates the annotation?

There were no dialogue boxes shown addressing anno. I am curious as well, as to how the text is generated.

Every one of those details could be drawn in Chief (and look better using Rene Rabbit's style) and placed in a plan available to all on your system. Show your boss what Rene does. Maybe he or she will decide to come into the 21st century.

I just did what Scott described for an entry door, and the two enhancements I gave it in the CAD detail from view are: 1. Added the little diagonal groups on the glass top R and lower L, for a visual flourish, as he did. 2. Changed the line weights for the outer perimeter and the door perimeter from 2 to 18, to punch it up a little. My CAD detail from view brought all lines in at 2.

For next time, don't make us download your attachments. Just directly post the .pdfs. I just looked at the plan online and for the windows and door images, I'd just take a CAD detail from view, edit away all but the unit plus its frame, add in those little doodles they did to represent glass, and save each with a name. Bring them into layout at maybe 1/2-inch scale for your presentation. Edit: Eric has the easier method, and the doodles can be added in layout. Draw once, cut and paste away on the units where you want.

Select a CAD line or polyline, open it, and change its color to whatever you want. Whole bunch of lines, all on same layer. Each a different color.

Like from a camera drone making a slow lazy circle over the house, its roof off? Sorry if this has been asked before but I searched.

Start building a file called CAD Details. That is all the file will contain. You only need the CAD details when producing con docs, so your file is only open when needing to send a detail to layout. The progress photo raises a q with me. Was this started years ago as maybe a one bed tiny house with the intent of later adding on to make it a 4000-footer with all the other spaces? Because why would there be construction progress with you still working on the plans?

And save the framing for dead last. Model everything to perfection, solve all issues with surfacing, intersects, etc., get all roof, soffit, fascia, all the rest to model right so you are ready for the 3D, do lighting, then populate each room one at a time for your inside renders, do the shots and save, then delete the furnishings. This way you only have one room at a time with the hi poly furniture. It's like staging a house for photos. The furnishings are there for the photo shoot, and then go back in the truck. When finished with interior renders, go outside and do your terrain and features and plants, then do your outside renderings and save shots. Then delete all the landscape stuff like plants and trees. Only when all this is done, do you get into framing, which includes all the items like steel, hangers, etc. You'll need all this done for your structural plans and section views. If you want furniture elements in the 2D plan views used in the con docs, use 2D CAD so the spaces are all understood by those viewing plans, or just leave that all out like most of us do. I won't repeat what others have said about SPVs and CAD details and default sets and live views, all of which make your Chief life easier and faster. Your model is tres cool, but there are some waterslides in the roofscape where I would consider cricketing at bottoms to avoid Ian-type surges (I'm in SW FL) against those walls.

Should work the way we trim on site. I'll detail out a suggestion and post in that part of the forum.

What is the layer or setting to do this?

I should have been more clear. This is not a mulled window, in Chief parlance. They are windows spaced for two framing studs between, so separate openings for the windows. In my plan, not the little sample I posted, but the plan I need to finish, the windows have wood frames thus my spec setting for the casing overlap (I wish we could specify reveal instead because it is how I think when designing or building trim), and that between-window casing is wider than the surround casing.

Here is a plan that exhibits the behavior. I think a suggestion for program change is in order. I attached an image from a plan in which I drew 3D solids to correct the view. The error is in both the inside and outside casing arrangements. mull casing bust.plan

I've windows 3" apart, 3/4" frames, 3.5" exterior casing specified, 5/8" frame overlap. Perimeter casing looks good but not the "mull" casing, which does not overlap. Why?

Why can't you use Chief for cabinets? Are you going straight to CNC and cutting lists and hardware buying using Cabinet Vision? Are you aware of all Chief's cabinet capabilities?

Here is a pretty good guide as to what the parts are called. What has not been addressed here is the dentil molding seen in the OP's opening post #1, and how to do it in Chief. Alan linked to a great book above. If we are in this biz, we ought to learn the names of things.

I need make a 3D solid that represents a curved (the curve in plan view) framing member. A curved rim joist. I cannot figure out a way to get the arcs smooth and not segmented. Or rather, I cannot see a way to make the segments smaller. I drew two concentric circles to get the 1.875 inch thickness I need, and the circles had nice smooth arcs when trimmed with CAD and still were smooth when I closed things to make the polyline needed, but when converting to a solid, BOOM, segmented so it does note even look curved the segments are so large. Where in the dialog can I set segmentation so it lasts through the process of conversion to a solid?

Maybe think of it as two walls sandwiched. The outer one has no-trim passthroughs, the holes being the outers, the inner wall has no-trim-on-outside windows, and each of the steeply sloped "sills" is a 3D solid. That, to model it in 3D. Showing plan views with the 2x8 framing layer requires another model, identical to the first but with one wall, and one framing layer at 7.25 thickness. The ROs are the size of the "outers." You can use CAD details to show how the openings are framed, sheathed, and finished. I'd only want that look, if I were the client, with the top and side surfaces of those outer openings tilted, maybe only 10 degrees, but sloped. Hope your client has deep pockets.

Duh! Thanks, @robdyck

@robdyckThanks, Robert. That helped greatly but I still have a problem. Your solution was to do the entire curved screen wall in six equal segments, but silly me, I want the first segment of the wall, its plan-left one where a screen door goes, to be less wide than it is in your solution. I want a screen door not so wide. So I placed a screen wall there at my preferred length. See image 1 and 2 below. I then went to CAD and did some test-fitting of circles to get what looked like a reasonable arc for a FIVE-segment screen panel set of walls, and my included angle while not the clean number as yours, is still a number, and I show it and its 1/5 division, the one I used to replicate using trans-rotate. I drew the first segment and rotate-replicated 4 more to get the wall I show. But I cannot get room definition because something is not closing and I cannot figure where. Plan file attached. If you solve it, I'd sure appreciate a fixed plan file back. Close 5 seg.zip

And here is a copy of the plan. In the plan you can see two instances of the symbol I imported from my Sketchup model, one positioned in the space to define where I want the posts for the screened wall panels and screened door openings. A screencap is attached here to show all the off angle (and one no-connect) warning messages. Ranch camp 2 bedroom.zip

I need to finish this silly plan for a porch addition, and am stumbling. The porch walls arrangement is a combination of wall and post-to-beam railings, the railings are screened panels, and the problem is that what's desired for the view side screened wall is a segmented curve with only about 6.5 degree angle change in the chords as the wall sweeps around. If any single segment is "on angle" it isn't because I wanted it that way. Most are off. And there is always some joint, where I want a wall to end at a 4x4 post, that I cannot get to close, thus there is no room definition. Glenn Woodward agreed to a zoom meeting maybe ten days ago, a fun back to the future experience for me with Glenn more than a half day ahead of me, and with the 40 minute free Zoom limit, we exhausted ourselves through three consecutive sessions and almost got it, but not quite the way I wanted. See the images attached for some views of this in its imperfect state. By that I mean that the walls all close and I could get images to the client for review, but the curve is not the curve I want, and the post spacings are not as equal as I want. I can build it in Sketchup because SU lets you draw exactly what you want. A view of the SU model is attached here. I use SU for proofing it all and for perfecting the trusses and all the roof build stickwork. Sorry, Chief, but for something like this, you can only do it with a whole lot of manual work by me. SU is simply easier. My SU model has the posts positioned exactly as I want, and those positions are different than in the imperfect model you see I did in Chief. I tried to edit the model and am failing. I took the SU model and stripped out everything but the posts and a polyline I did for location the framed walls, imported it as a symbol, and those posts can be seen in my Chief plan. I have tried everything I know to force the railing segments to a.) join cleanly, and b.) place posts where I want. I am close but now I cannot force a wall join where needed so this thing closes up. How do you work to force these off-angle railings to join like what you want?