GeneDavis

Doesn't seem buggy to me. All rooms in Chief have some kind of floor, even open below rooms. And we know how a floor above can affect room heights of floors below, don't we? A cantilevered room or part of a room with part of its cantilevered area above a room below (as different from no room below) is going to behave in an unexpected way. We control that with the invisible walls.

If you want precision, i.e., 3 per tread and all spaced evenly, the only way to control it is with solids. You can do it with the framing, but you'll probably need to edit the framing to get that precision. Solids go quickly, and you can use the move-edit tool to go really fast, using pitch and run as the move. There's probably a way to use a distribution path if you are going the whole way with Chief's capabilities.

I am looking for an online color pick tool that generates these, and have not found one yet that simplifies it into these three.

Maybe you ought to go and repost this in Seeking Services.

That's why I said start a new file, draw a box of four walls, post it right here. No need to zip. (Close after save.)

Same new file template every time? Go NEW, draw 4 walls, save it as NO PLAN FILES, and post here.

And how does one get those numbers? This one is a color offered by a millwork company.

I am about to do some renders for clients wanting specific colors not available in Chief's libraries, and am failing to get the color right. Following the directions, I right click on my owner library, drop down to new material, name the material, click the material panel, which opens up the color window, click and drag the eyedropper to my color which is in a window on the same screen, and lo and behold, some muddy version of the color is what gets generated. What's the secret? I have a red-green colorblindness, so some colors don't register with me the same as you, but this blue seems all wrong.

Nice on the fascia mount thing, Robert. How do you handle corners? I like to see corners done with newels not AT corners, but a newel about 6 inches FROM the corner in each direction, with the cables run through and then doing a 45 turn twice

I like my floorplan perimeter dimensions and the aligned foundation under, laid out in whole inches no fractions however possible. The framing sub and foundation builder expect this, and rightly so. Someone anal about detail might demand that sheathing face align to foundation, but the alignment gets blown by whatever cladding scheme is used. And particularly so when rainscreening happens. So why, exactly, is this done?

This was discussed recently and yes, the printer operator can make the wrong setting and get scale wrong. I only trust someone like blueprintprinting.com, and have had places like UPS Store, Staples, and other "general printing" businesses do it wrong. It's all about the 1:1.

What is the NKBA standard for these opening indicators? I show a single panel type and a two panel folding type here.

Blum has some nice hardware for cabinets with these types door action. Does Chief have these covered with specs and opening indicators?

Here's a blitzed-up version I did in Sketchup. Imports as a symbol. You will want to materialize it. SCONCE.skp

What's the overall h x w x d. That can be quickly done in Sketchup, and I'll do it.

If you can get the structural performance you need with 2x4s, and can get the thermal performance required for ResCheck with sprayfoam in the cavities and Huber Zip-R Wall sheathing, is there a hook in the code that says you MUST frame with 2x6? Because I am being told there is by someone who is not (and I think cannot) citing the code language. And I cannot find any. 2018 IECC and 2018 IRCC.

I'd suggest it be a 5-kite winder.

I think you should get your help from the license owner, not us. You didn't actually steal software, but the licensee is the one who should be assisting you. We're not quite with you in this effort. Good luck.

Ah, the beauty of snaps. I couldn't build without 'em.

Thanks, everybody! I got by for now doing the simple select-then-drag, which worked. But back to the symbol and it's "cut hole" thing. This particular Kohler from the bonus Kohler library (I'll come back with ID) has a not-right hole-cut polyline. I recall getting this three or four releases ago and learning how to edit it, but haven't gotten the skill back. I thought it was something in the CAD block.

What's the trick to this? I placed a Kohler sink, it plops into the center front to back, and I need it a couple inches toward the front. I opened the symbol and changed the origin, and the sink moves, but how does one get the cutout to move? Oh, and how does one get the cutout to match the Kohler spec with round fillet corners? This one came in with square corners. Going into CAD block management, I open the block for the sink, and there are two almost identical perimeter polylines one sitting atop the other, that seems to be the perimeter, and both have corner fillets. The proper cutout for this sink is a concentric offset polyline to get the sink hole almost in line with the vertical faces of the sink. You know the drill. Guidance is appreciated as always.

I don't know a way, but what you want would be a great feature to have. Unless a wizard shows us a way, you should suggest a mod.

Give us your example of clean. Also show us Chief not-clean. We cannot help without seeing what you see. Please use screencaps and attach the images to your post.

Yes! Mark, you are the expert. I wanted a 1/8" reveal at top so I reset that overlay number accordingly. Now, tell me how I can get the same 1/8 reveal on the cab to its left. I believe this might involve making another door symbol

I have a plan brought forward from X12 and to a new computer, on which I do not have any of my X12 user library things. Why I was so dumb is another story. Wanting an open-front cabinet instead of the hinged door one, I built a symbol in Sketchup of the open-center door, just as I had done for the wall cabs doors in this plan (back in X12). The scheme for these wallcabs is that the doors overshoot the bottom decks of the wallcabs by 1.25 inches, so as to create a cavity under for undercab lighting and more. My symbol for the "door" has its origin set so the 1.25 hang is right, but I cannot get the top right. See the pic and see the plan. Open face.plan