GeneDavis

What floor is the view?

Wanting layout views of floor plans at 1/4" = 1'-0" scale, and text at 1/8" height, we enlarge text x48 to 6". Thus, for a detail we want to show at 1" = 1'-0", text at same 1/8" height, we enlarge text x12 to 1-1/2". Math. Use it to create default sets for annotations at all your common details scales. Tell us how it works for you.

Presuming you're controlling the pony walls to begin framing at your user-specified elevation, and manually dragging frostwalls down. No?

Show us how you use the 2D measurement report and the 3D model. I have watched various Hover videos and see this one sheet that gives the footprint measurements in 2D (attached). My questions are how do you deal with the missing measurements, and how accurate are those given, compared to field measurements. Hover seems to be aimed at exterior remodeling contractors, and is quantifying everything they need to know to estimate roofing, siding, and trim. Unless I am missing something, it does nothing for interiors, or structure. Its pitch information is in whole inches.

Ceilings won't cut walls for me, but I'm not that adept. I posted a plan recently with a question like yours, got no response, and made the required wall fills with p'solids.

Sounds like you are doing section 8. Mine are civilized, but I take a pair of folding horses and a top so I can stand and work at the 42" height. Can't count on working space otherwise. A package of wipes to keep hands clean, but no problems otherwise. I see subcontractors taking laptops into working jobsites all the time, and those are far more dirty than the typical house getting measured and studied. Now if it is an unheated place and it's minus five out, that's another story. But a very rare other story.

Chief has a lot of videos on their site, one of which features doing an asbuilt on site by a long time user, who makes his living only doing asbuilts. The tool is a laptop, the software is Chief. He certainly must deal with dirty and musty and damp conditions. Sure looks like the absolutely most efficient way. Watch it and tell us what you think.

Check your room def, structure. Match ceiling height in tutorial. Roofs build from wall plates, height of which is set in room spec.

I'll add a 3D person for renders, but always delete them from the model after saving the pics. Same with high-poly fixtures. A Kohler farm sink from their 3D library can really jack up a plan file's size.

But Rene, we thought your font of choice was Century Gothic! I went all-goth because of you! So it's Ariel? Or Arial? I am so disappoint.

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Did your template plan get updated?

Maybe you should soak in some training: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6022/foundation-slab-full-basement-crawl-space-dutch-cottage-design.html You model the building first, then Chief builds your monolithic thickened-edge slab foundation for you on level 0.

Why not just extend a section of the main roof down to cover the bumpout? And you ought to make a signature block in your profile to describe your Chief software and the hardware on which you run it.

Thanks, but no, that wall has to be "cut" by the ceiling plane in the kitchen-dining room, so that the result looks like my image. And it also needs a cut on its exterior side because above the roof, it gets siding, and below the roof, gets no siding.

An upper wall between two spaces needs to be shaped so as to ride atop a carry beam, part of a timberframe bent. See the image. Here is the file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_m21MY0Num-MAuFgWjkOsx1WSRL2vwBd/view?usp=sharing I screwed up the model somehow. Unable to get the shaped wall with a visible wall, I did it as an invisible one, and put a p'solid in the space where needed. I would like to be able to do it with a visible wall. I drew a line around the area where I need some how-to advice.

Show us how ACAD looks. Use the same font. Has anyone suggested (in Suggestions) that Chief offer a stacked fraction option?

Great job! Now play with the pitch a little. Select both planes, lock fascia height, see how it looks at 11, then 10, then 9.5, and keep checking how much ceiling you get for each up in that upper half-floor. Then raise up both in the z direction. Look at the photo again. The front fascia height looks to be up around the ten foot elevation. Rear maybe eight.

If you can take a pic, you can measure it. Use the measurements and do an asbuilt!

You can't. Upgrade to 13 and it's there for you. See this video, go to the 48 second mark, and watch. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5516/what-s-new-in-x13-drafting-project-management.html?playlist=177

I'm using Century Gothic printing at 4-1/2 height for 1/4" scale, and no problems. Ever been on a jobsite where they're working in metric, and listen to the dimension callouts by carpenters laying out? Sure sounds better that way, but we are stuck with imperial.

My existing system (see sig below) really crawls through walkthroughs I create. What I am asking is whether I can expect better speed when I upgrade to the RECOMMENDED system for X13. I'm getting that late this week, I hope.

I've only X12 and my present system for a frame of reference. X13 won't run any 3D at all on my setup. No sections, elevations, or camera views.

My system is old, but it's a gaming laptop and fast for its age. I've a new one coming, i7 11th gen, 3070, 32 GB. On the present setup, recording a video seems to take forever. I am wondering what kind of improvement in speed I'll see with the new box. A lot of you have upgraded getting ready for X13, so tell us what you've experienced.