GeneDavis

The hinged doors I know about are all under-width to fit into a nominal whole inch opening. A 3/0 door slab is 3/16 to 1/4 under 3/0 in width and that margin varies shop to shop. But the jamb thickness is a pretty consistent 3/4", thus the unit width of a 3/0 door is 37-1/2". The glass patio door biz is separate from the hinged door biz, and the units, instead of being assembled in door shops from slabs and frame parts, are completely factory-built. There is no real standard for unit sizes of these. You gotta get the manufacturer info.

I did not look at your plan, but if you have walls that are not at 0, 90, etc., you must have been drawing with angle snapping off. Tell us what you see checked or not for angle snaps when you go EDIT>SNAP SETTINGS.

Later sets for Dimensions Permit 1, Permit 2, etc

Looks like Joey's sending live vector views to layout, no-color grayscale. You gotta decide if that's the look you want, compared to what you get sending plot lines. Some prefer to mix it up, with the principal elevation done with a vector view, some 2d trees, shadows, etc., and the others as plot line views, no shadows, no plants.

The text was from X14 help. Your sig says you are up to 13, but 13 has it for multiples.

Well, that earlier problem is because I tried to do a second raytrace with one running. I went back into the scene, and doubled the lumen counts for all the lights in the room, and the CPU raytrace looks a little better. About how you might want it lit for some pool while the game is on.

So I went to the plan view, went 3D>Lighting>Add Lights, and placed four lights, one at each corner of the pool table. Went to same camera, initiated the default interior CPU raytrace, and it's sitting there, not getting anywhere. Just the black and white checkerboard screen.

I saw the thread over in Suggestions about joist hangers, and though, why not take a look at the Simpson catalog. Downloaded it and found it kind of scant. I was looking for an ITS series 1.8 width x 9.5 depth face mount hanger for TrusJoist 110 series 9.5 members, and the catalog only has one such hanger, way bigger than the one I want. Looks like I'll stick to the simple CAD way I've been showing them in floor frame and roof frame plans.

If it's a real timber job, not just accents, I take the time to model the whole framework arrangement in 3D, using Sketchup because I know it so well, and then import the whole thing into Chief as a symbol. In SU, I can detail out whatever is helpful to the framer in his shop. I rarely do the joinery elements, but I do size all the members. The images here are from a hybrid, a house with its exterior walls stick framed, and timberwork inside that supports the second floor deck and a roof beam member. The roof frame is all engineered trusses. The trusses you see with collar ties and kingposts are all decorative. The wrap porch has a timber post and beam array, and exposed rafters all 4x6 roughsawn. I show the frame assembly, enough for the timber framer to do his thing.

Same camera, two raytraces. Why is the CPURT so dark?

I use the free SU Make 2017, which limits me when trying to use the 3D Warehouse. If you've newer Sketchup, and can download this one from the Warehouse, then import it into Chief and post the calibz file, I would be much obliged. Pool Table | 3D Warehouse (sketchup.com) If you could save it in the 2017 version, it would be a huge bonus. I was given a set of slates for a pro-8 size table 30 years ago and used them to scratch-build a table in cherry, in a really cool art-deco style. With the SU model, I could re-do all the trim and legs to match what I built. The ones available in the bonus libraries do not do it for me. Either way. Just the Chief .calibz, or both. Thanks.

Dif you build the attic room before generating trusses?

You're still gonna have to learn moldings, if you want a baseboard around the wall edges of the landing.

Building this, one might need to fix a continuous block of treated lumber atop the foundation wall adjacent the base of the framed wall, then do a finished cap on that, and an apron molding under it along the face of the wall finish of the lower wall. Three parts. Take a section through that wall, do a CAD detail from view, zoom in to where this cap and block and molding is to go, and draw your three shapes. Those closed polylines, three of them, are your moldings, so save each as a molding in your user library. You'll build your "track" (i.e.: "molding polyline") in 2D plan view, the "track" is the route your moldings will extrude along to create the 3D arrangement you need. In plan view of the main floor with the OPEN BELOW stairs opening, draw a single straight CAD line, then convert it to a molding polyline, and attach a molding, any molding, to it. Now look in 3D to see what you did. Select it in 3D and open its dbx, and move it in the Z direction by changing its height. You'll figure it all out. But watch a training video, please.

Watch some Chief training vids on moldings. You'll learn how.

How did you get over ten miles away from zero? Oh, I didn't read about the someone else. Move the project to 0,0. Set new cameras. Everything will work as expected.

How about a nice built-up molding, just like it gets built?

I've a raytrace cooking, hoping to burn off the flecking. The electric wall heater towel rack was modeled in SU, and the wall rack inside the tub/shower "room" was a download from the 3D warehouse I enhanced with some texture for the towels. Here are the Chief symbols. Towel rack with towels.calibz Runtal NTRE-4620 with towel.calibz

What is your goal? A material list that shows quantity for the various Hardie plank areas of a project? If your Hardie is set to, say, 6", for which the plank width is 7.25", the material list will return the quantity in lineal feet. Just like in your example. Something else needed?

Full house view, in which one can navigate through inside with mouse? Or 360 panos of each room?

I just had to flip on yesterday, and used the reverse plan tool. Had a mostly complete set of con docs in layout. Wished I hadn't after all the cleanup I needed. Reverse plan tool does not reverse all the terrain work, among the other things it stumbles with. I had used Chiefs other tools before, in the few times I reversed.

I ended up using a Kohler undermount tub, which I capped with a quartz countertop. Much easier to clean a shower-room with this, versus with a freestanding tub. Think about those hard-to-reach surfaces between a slipper tub and nearby walls.

I tried resizing the one that is sort of like it in the Chief library, but got a big crack in the tub. See attached. What I want is exactly the one Depot sells. See the pic and the spec.

This is for those of us who have watched Rene Rabbit's excellent how-to video on building a shower. Here it is. First of all, he is doing it in X12. I am trying to build mine in X13. My hang ups are: how do you do the pony wall glass over framed whatever, as a railing wall, which is what Mr R does in the video. His wall models the shower wall as most get built: glass does NOT run up to the ceiling. So he is not needing to drag a wall top down (a cautioned no-no by most of us here). Rene has the wall in his library in this X12 show, but in X13 Chief put a glass over tile-clad frame pony wall in the prebuilt walls and gave it a build icon, and it's NOT a railing. I try specifying it as a railing wall and then things blow up on me. I lose the wall cap atop the lower wall section. Next hang up: The plate hinges for the glass door, the door handle, and the fixed glass panel brackets, all of which Mr R says are in Chief's core content library. They are not in mine. What's up. So, anybody got those brackets? I don't really need the glass door "plate hinges" because Chief prebuilt us a shower door complete with hinges and handle for X13, but what about the needed brackets? I remember back, way back in X single digits, maybe 8 or 9, scratch building all this stuff. Hinges, brackets, handle, all done in Sketchup and imported into Chief. Right up there in the 3D Warehouse yet today, "hinges for frameless shower door."

For the subfloor, which looks like anybody's OSB, you just call it out in specs and point to it in a CAD detail.