GeneDavis

Monsieur Rabbit shows how with cabinets.

I am certainly not doing the download of that update until this is fixed.

And while at it, explain to me why there is no longer a GENERAL section of the Material List.

Thanks, @glennw!! I didn't know one could add a ridge cap into a valley. I am not able to use Chief right now, so briefly, what are the moves to put one in a valley? I have two standing seam jobs that would look better thus.

I belong to a club of about a thousand members. At any event or meeting, we all wear our name tag badges around our necks on nice logo (it's a car club) lanyards. It is a great big group, much larger than my Rotary club meet, which is nametags also. It is simple courtesy to wear the tags and badges, even though most of us know most all the members. It is a courtesy here to do the same thing. Your sig which gives very important information relating to software version and hardware on which it runs is essential to knowing how to respond to a question or problem or issue. So be courteous. Attached is a view of a plan with valleys in the roofscape. I pulled back the planes at one of the valleys, six inches exactly. I could make a copy of the building right alongside this one, auto roof it, edit the roofs away to leave just two 6" valley planes (the "valley patch"), retexture them as galvanized steel, and then copy and paste this into the roof with the gap valley. So this was a courtesy, and we'd like to see you back sometime, all badged up.

How might we do this? I know we can export a 3D framing model view as a viewer file, but I'd like to be able to do a walkthrough, with pauses at key places. I've got people too lazy to figure out how to use the viewer, but who can sit and watch a video.

From the info at the website, each chair is a 190 MB 3DS object. That is a size that will dwarf most complete plans. You sure you want to decorate this way? Your plan will bloat to an unmanageable size, and your screen response time will allow you long naps.

Roof over for sure, and dial than sunlight way way down. Watch a couple of Scott Harris's webinar videos about rendering and lighting.

Do them with slabs, with 3D solids, and also as general framing members. You won't get wall breaks (soffits are supposed to) and you may like the way one type can take texture more than another. Explore surfaces.

What have you tried?

It's what I get when a schedule is produced.

Or post it here. Strip it all down, save as TEST, zip it up, and post.

You know how it works in Sketchup, right? Make your box by dragging from top right, it's select contained. From bottom right, intersected. I have suggested this. The box lines are solid for contained, dashed for intersected. Easy and convenient.

Mark, I have opened your file, looked at the cab specs in the dialogue boxes, and I guess I am untrained, because I have no idea what is going on, and in particular, what the function of the turned-around doorless cabinet box on the floor is.

Well, Rene, I searched in Chief's cabinet tutorials for box replacement applied rear doors, and struck out. How about a quick vid?

That's the door margin. Are you applying this raised deck thing to a cabinet with inset doors?

I am doing a layout for the roofing buy list for a standing seam roof, and before I go and draw them all manually in a CAD detail, wonder if there is a way Chief produces this. The plan view roofs we do in 2D are of course 2D projections.

I was just lazy and painted knotty pine everywhere in this one. I'm gonna go with Eric's suggestion next time and do exploded solids. In Sketchup, you can apply a different texture to every face in a model, and it is a cool feature, you can edit the texture on each face, rotating it as needed, moving it to center a knot, and more. What you need in Chief is a bunch of imported textures, good photos of wide long boards.

I didn't download the plan, but looked at the .pdf of the layout. All the lineals, meaning the posts and beams, can be drawn with Chief's framing tools. I'd do the trusses with solids in elevation view. You can build it by creating wall types that are SIP-like, if that's you goal, but I think maybe the sample is of a hybrid structure, timber frame as load-bearing. I've done two of these, one an SIP wrap over a loadbearing timber frame inside, tight to the panels. The other was a hybrid, with wood framed walls and timber trusses up under the rafter-framed roof, trusses load-bearing to support purlins and a big ridge beam.

Here is the file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/fvp1lver272br2n/Farmhouse w loft.plan?dl=0 The staircase has one long segment going to a landing, and a short two tread segment rising from the landing to the second floor. That second floor, a loft, has a 24" deep floor structure, and the overlook and stair pulpit walls are railing walls, the railing done as 2" fir framing main layer, 1/2" sheetrock one face. It is that wall that the short upper segment abuts at its R side, the side showing no skirt board trim. The long lower stair segment abuts and interior floor drawn on floor 1 and Chief generated the specified skirt trim. The staircase is drawn on floor 1 which is the only way I know to do a stairs going from floor 1 to floor 2. Is the skirt trim not generating because the wall the second segment abuts is a floor 2 wall? Whatever. I'd like a solution before I go and do the p'solid workaround.

There have been 45 views of this so far, and no comments. I'm going to copy this over to the Suggestions section. Maybe as soon as I do that, someone will unlock the problem for me!

It's a toggle, and you might want to add the three buttons to your toolbar, as most need to swap and change depending on situation, and it's too tedious to make the change going to Edit>Preferences>Marquee Selection . . . See the attached for all three added to the toolbar: Contained, Intersected, and Centers.

I am doing CAD details, relating to callouts in plan views, and sending to layout at preferred scale, then in layout, choosing the label for the box as callout. See the attached screencaps. I did the link in the callout dialog in the plan view to tie the callout to the CAD detail. Using the link apparently brings in the label text for over the line (it's the title of the CAD detail) and the scale in layout. The scale is picked up by the program code. Must be. I want to be able to control the text size and left-center-right alignment, and cannot figure how. I made the label text size, which is controlled in layout, not plan, to be 1/8" high, larger than the detail text and dimensions, which comes in at 3/32" height. I'd like that scale note below the label line to be this, the 3/32" height. If this is not possible with present programming, I will file a suggestion.

Thanks, Scott. That helps. In your video you do what I want to do, which is to link the callout to the CAD detail, and populate the label for the detail with its number and page. I looked at the plan file for Nashville which was done in X13 (at least that is where it is in my archives) and see that for the CAD details in that plan, you created one (just one) CAD detail for all the CAD details used in the layout, so there was no linking. Your video is showing the linking which I guess is a new feature in X14. Might be nice for a future release (and I will repeat this in Suggestions) to be able to auto number CAD details within a "type letter." Plot details begin with P, foundation details begin with F, architectural details (maybe just called plan details) start with A, electrical with E, cabinets C, etc.

What's the diff?