GeneDavis

Looks to me as if the numbers do not relate exactly to a unit of measure. More like S, M, and L sizing. You slide until you like the look.

It looks like a 2D elevation that has been colorized by hand (or done in something like Photoshop). You could do an elevation in watercolor, shadows on, no squiggle and no line extensions, mask out foundation or turn that off in layers, and hand it off to an artist or PS wizard. If your client the builder has to have exactly that as shown, I see no way to do it in Chief. The foreground "terrain," while flat, is drawn with features and lines to give it perspective, the driveway is given only a hint of texture to simulate wet pavers, and the window and door glass is airbrushed or painted to give it the appearance it is reflecting a wooded setting. No Chief tools will do any of this.

I am going to be doing con docs for something that has been sketched using these sources as inspiriation. I've watch these get framed, and all with straight rafters riding up over very gently arched wall plates. Two layers of sheathing, thin t&g, get used atop. Lotsa staples. Curved roofs with these quite large radii are troublesome for me. How would you do it?

With all the current tools at our disposal, how would you do this, and get the grout lines right, also. Not my work in the image.

It's gone, and it's a mystery why. And export to ResCheck? I can't accomplish that, either.

I'll bet Ron wants hollow metal frames, and as we all know, ya can't do the with Chief 3D. Do your best with the Chief tools, and detail it all with Chief 2D CAD if you gotta.

Going onto a big new "great camp" stone chimney, with seam details like the standing seam roof all below. Big copper chimney cap.plan

That big open space in the building where the stairs are, should be defined by walls and as Open Below.

When I needed to do a railing that had mirrored pairs of balusters repeating along railings and down stair railings, I made a symbol of the mirrored two, and that was my "baluster." I remember at the time taking a 3D of a Winchester Model 94 30-30 from the 3D Warehouse and making THAT a baluster, also, just to show that anything done in 3D can be a baluster. The three stooges would be a good one, if you had a low poly model. You've got a 4-straight-one-patterned repeat, so that group of 5 solids is your baluster. Show us your results, please. We're anxious to see your solution.

Chief's been asked to do proper door sills, but they are not here yet.

Thanks, all. So the method, now that I've practiced it, is to make sure polar is unchecked after the TAB opens the dbx, check the "relative" button, enter the desired offset into EITHER the x or y field, ZERO the other, and click OK.

Here is my problem. See the image. I go copy, paste in place, hold c, grab a corner and pull it in for concentric, stop the drag, hit TAB, enter 24", and I get what is shown. If I grab a side not a corner, do the same thing but after TAB, enter 12, I get the side dragged in and the opposite side, but not concentric behavior as I want. Chief takes the offset input and gives you the diagonal pull.

In Sketchup I do concentric copy resize, click-drag any side of a polygon, enter a distance into dbx, and hit return. The sides of the new are parallel offset by that distance. In Chief I gotta grab a corner, not side, to make all sides go c, and doing TAB then 1, does NOT make sides offset a parallel 1 inch. Can this be done differently?

Chief exports multiple 3D formats, all of which bring in true textured 3D when imported. You may not like the way the textures transport, but your software has a huge library, right? So you can paint fresh?

Thanks. I'll wait until there's a decision about roofing. Owner's builder will present costs after bids are in for asphalt shingles, exposed-screws steel, and standing seam steel. I'll detail it accordingly.

I just did one with 14" series 230 i-joist rafters, and wanted a somewhat less beefy roof edge. Lotsa pieces, but in short, a rimboard subfascia is there, capped with a pad piece and 1x12 Miratec trim board fascia, and a 1x6 Miratec shadowboard to cover the top.

In plan view you do 3D > Lighting > Add lights. Click and place the light outdoors. Circle with rays all around. Then select it, open for spec, and change from point light to spot light, and then you can rotate and aim it in plan view. Before now (X14?) you could do "parallel," but now they term it "spot." Same effect.

Close Chief, zip the file, post it here. Or at least give us screencaps showing structure for both garage room and stairwell.

Ultimate Garages is the name of one new motor condo down in FL where I live. About a dozen ringing a central courtyard, a really handsome gate into the courtyard. Big show space in each on floor one for the Ferraris and McLarens, and a loft above outfitted like a superbox. Is that what I see here?

Cabinetry is hard in real life, when you are tasked with either building a cabinet to house an appliance (best) or fitting an appliance to an existing cabinet (sometimes terrible.) In Chief, it can also be hard, but solutions are easy. First and foremost, you must get the appliance maker's instructions for installation, which will definitely include all the required dimensions of the "opening" in the cab, plus stuff like how to route power and where and how to make openings for it. I just helped build a kitchen for a job I did in both Chief Architect and eCabinets. Chief for the design and layout, eCabs for the specifics of all the lock-tenoned carcase parts, doors, drawerfronts, hardware holes, and more. The sink is to be a specific model from Kohler, a farmhouse apron thing in cast iron, and the sink base was specifically sized and its front panel all CNC cut properly, for the exact sink. The client bought some other sink. I explained the sink was not right, was too big one way, to short another, and the only solution was to get the cabinet remade, and the doors that go below. Six weeks for the cab, fourteen weeks for the doors. And we cannot template for the stone tops until the cabinet gets made right. She decided to return the wrong sink and get the Kohler, fortunately in stock at Amazon, of all places.

Thanks, Ryan! New trick for me. But still, why the annoying behavior? Why does Chief think a text arrow being drawn is on the TEXT layer?

I am detailing the plan of the foundation for a house with a walkout 0 level. A walkout basement. As with any basement with all kinds of framed walls and room finish detail, one needs two SPVs: one for the foundation plan, one for the floor plan. I am in the foundation plan, the SPV established, all the required defaults set. I select TEXT, type in the text, set my attribute for alignment RIGHT, and go ENTER. There's my text. I go ALT+A to get TEXT LINE WITH ARROW (why is it called that?) and click and draw my arrow where I want it coming off the text box, and POP! goes this stupid warning message. I do not want that layer on. I have a layer specifically established for foundation text, and it is on. I can draw the arrow OK despite the message, and the arrow goes to the right layer, bu BUT WHY THE SPEED BUMP? I don't need this message, do I?

Open the oven SYMBOL. Not the object, the SYMBOL for the object. Open it for spec and examine the OPTIONS tabbed page. Your appliance should have the option checked for "inserts into cabinet front" or some words to that effect.

The symbol has to be of a type "inserts into cabinet," and its 3D origin properly set. Some Chief library objects are hinky and have to be fixed, most are not. As David said, if you are bringing in a 3D from Sketchup (or elsewhere), they are not ready for the insertion and need work by you.

I have lines in close proximity and at the display scale wanted for layout, one blanks out part of the other. I want to shift one or both, but there seems no way to select and get a handle.