GeneDavis

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.

Yes. Hyperlink in Chief! How?

I just did and wonder how it will turn out for the users. I tried it using my iPhone and it works nicely, but am wondering how someone viewing the .pdf with a PC might get to it. Maybe I should include the URL on the doc. I can then be cut and pasted into one's browser. An iPad should do it nicely just like the phone did.

I want to show the basement floor slab in the 3D view, which means I want the floor surfaces layer turned on. OK I get that and did that. But the 3D is showing me the 3/4 OSB up on the main floor deck which sits atop this walkout foundation. What do you do to separate that out? And then there is the pony wall element in this. My walkout walls are pony walls, stemwalls down to below frost line, wood framed from grade on up. How do you separate out the top part of the pony walls? I know how to use the delete surface tool, but was hoping I could do this another way.

That did it. Thanks.

Zipped X13 file attached. In the walkout basement, I did a tray drop in the game room, and something happened in the adjacent hall, causing it to have a full drop. How do I restore the hall to a no-tray situation. Screencap with both rooms highlighted is attached. I cannot seem to find a check box to uncheck, and I cannot recall doing anything to upset that hall room structure's ceiling. Wilmington modern.zip

Mine's nowhere near as sophisticated as Mr Hampton's beauty. As it is looking now, I have the high roof, which is not "modern" flat, but a 4:12 pitch, framed with series 230 14" i-joists, and a pieced-up overhang as shown in the detail, attached. Why I did not go with just extending the whole joist out, I don't know. Probably because I was thinking about a much thinner edge than what this has become. The roof arrangement is a hybrid, the high part being the thick-edge 4:12 "slab," the front a low 2:12 arrangement with a hipped piece. Roofing will be standing seam steel. I gave the hipped roof part a smaller fascia, thinking the heavy slab look for the edge was only right for the shed pitches.

This is more about architecture and aesthetics, but what the heck, I'll put it here rather than in chat. I am doing one of these with what I call slab roofs. Low pitched, large overhangs, no ridges, all shed-type roof planes. A look through the plans-sellers images, and in galleries at realtor shops, and also in the Chief sample files such as "Austin," and others with roofs like this, I see very thick roof edges. And this style demands thickness. The roofs must look like appropriately thick slabs. Austin has 1.5" x 16" subfascia, for example. The one I am doing does not have the mass in its elements to go 16, but still, it takes 12 to make it look right to me. My question to you, is how are you framing these type roof edges? Depths like this take a lot of 2x12 lumber, or composite rimboard lumber, or a buildup of OSB and sticks. Do you just say I give up and sock the timber to it? I attached a snip I took from one of the plans-selling websites. The one I am doing has about this scale.

Well, if it was done in Autocad, . . .

Wait until she sees all the 2x6s needed in lengths like 27'-4 1/2". No matter how carefully modeled with framing built, I find that Chief framing has to be edited extensively for the buy list to be worth anything. For pricing purposes, I prefer to use the total lineal feet output.