GeneDavis

Who would use this data and how?

Walkout basement plan. At the walkout framed walls, the pony wall break, stemwall below, framed wall over, is at the rough basement floor elevation. The floor slab, which is built as 4" concrete over 2" rigid foam, comes through the wall to coincide with the main layer outside. How can this be controlled? I'd like to have the floor bear INTO that wall 2" from the inside, which we can do by blocking 2" foam pieces in the wall forms before pouring concrete. But I sure don't like seeing the lines in elevation, or the foam in 3D views.

I've a walkout basement and doors in the walkout walls. One door is a double hinged door, the other a sliding glass door. Both are raised 1/16" off rough floor as a workaround to make the foundation plan show continuous stemwall across the openings. See in the pic, the hinged one has the (unwanted) casing showing under the door, the other does not. Both door specs identical. Exterior casing is checked, sill/threshold checked. Why is the slider door showing nothing under, but the hinged one does?

I've a walkout basement foundation, the walkout elevations as pony walls, framed above grade, frostwalls below. At a corner where we want full depth foundation joining the pony wall walkout wall, we want the pony wall to return 2-1/2" around the corner. I used CAD to show in plan view how the framing will go. I cannot make a wall that short to work. Longer, like maybe 12 inches works, but I cannot "force" a short wall how I want it. What is the trick?

I've been a Sketchup fan and user for a long time, since before my intro to Chief. I regularly use the 3D Warehouse as a source for symbols. Doing a job now for a client with a property near a ski mountain, at the base of which is a large mountain-biking center with many miles of trails, and threading through the valley is the beautiful west branch of the Ausable river, this all in the northern Adirondacks of New York state. The house has a storage room in its walkout basement with a double door to the rear part of the property, and I wanted to show them what it might hold. All the contents are from the 3D Warehouse. The Deere tractor and the kayaks (not the paddles) came in from the cloud way oversized. I always model at 1:1 in SU, but many people don't. SU has a great scale tool that would be nice to have in Chief.

Watch your step doing this. I am presuming your engineer wants 12" more heel height for energy reasons. You get different results raising a truss for which the truss envelope is locked, than for a truss not locked. And unlocked is the only way the trusses will raise but maintain bottom ceiling chords, so as to get that extra foot for the insulation. I just did a little test plan, rectangle, hipped roof, manually did the truss framing, did not lock anything, but I DID copy-reflect trusses both ways because of symmetry. I then selected the four roof planes, raised them 12 inches, and the trusses remained unchanged. Then I did all layers OFF, turned on only trusses, selected all, and raised them 12". The results are uneven. Lots of editing needed. The trusses did regenerate and gained 12" of headroom for insulation, but some were erased, and others generated where not wanted.

Thanks. I found it. Had forgotten it is in the framing specs PER OPENING.

Is there such an option? I have not done the download of beta 14. Is it there? And for packing multiples to the outside? Seems a waste of precious wood, but the builders I draw for have framers that want plated headers, i.e. a lay-flat 2x6 above and below. And they want multiples, when used, ganged up to the outside of wall. See the pic of a header done with 4 2x6s. Same look for deeper or shallower. Same top and under plates if only one ply of header.

Please do future pics as attachments so we don't have to download them into our PCs. Like what I did here with yours. Consider doing the detail using a stacked molding. By stacked, I mean a molding with all the elements in the cluster. The counterflash above. The steel siding. Battens. Foam. Build with the framed wall and thickened-edge slab with foam under, then build up the molding and apply. You can do versions of the molding differently to address doors. You can break the molding polyline and not have the molding at segments where needed. Maybe watch some training videos about molding polylines and built-up moldings. 1312248009_Chiefhelp.pdf

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.