GeneDavis

I cannot and have tried. The breezeway in this plan was changed by the client to be crawlspace instead of part of the basement, so I put a pony wall across to define it, ICF foundation wall below, 2x6 framing only above. I am unable to get room definition, and it has got to be one or more of the four intersects shown in the image here. Plan attached. Thanks. Hickey SBR final for permit.zip

Thanks but tried that.

3D Warehouse.

See the picture. A breezeway intersects the house wall, and we know it's just sheathing in that attic area. How to delete the siding?

The kind that's low voltage, two parallel wires maybe10 inches apart, the little flying saucers with gimballed spots, and more. Edit: downloaded this little beauty and it's by one of my favorite lighting outfits, Tech Lighting. I am afraid of blowing up my already-overblown plan with more surfaces.

Manual mask. Easy. Can be translucent. Can be done as transparent fill angle hatch, and with the right combination of line weight and spacing, can render the below-grade parts in dashed lines.

Is it available? A library of CAD depictions of beds, tables, chairs, sofas, and more? I place 3D furniture and then my model gets slow.

File here. Rear porch roof. Roof rafter Oct 3.zip

I have an enclosed deck with 2x8 roof rafters over, and cannot get Chief to NOT trim the rafter to the soffit condition. I have tried in the roof dialog checking and unchecking the trim to soffit box. What am I not seeing or doing? What you see is the roof trimmed to 2x6 size.

I've done it with a molding, it was wood shingled, the editing for pattern position took much more time than getting the molding positioned.

IOW, your 8" ought to grow to 15" But tell us why you want ICF there at all.

I cannot get the inner wall in a position to see and click its pass-thru for editing. In plan view, I select the inner wall, move it 12" x-direction to get it in the room, and it shows no pass-thru. What's the trick? And Eric, how did you get your result?

I did the splayed wall surround for a basement window in an ICF wall. Set the window depth to 4-9/16", created an outer ICF wall at 4-9/16" total thickness, an inner, broke walls and did the double wall work, did a molding for the splay, only have the molding as my interior casing, but I have an unwanted lintel or something that I cannot delete. In section view it is on the inside face of the wall and also against the outside face of the inner wall. File attached. It is in the floor 0 bedroom at plan top left. Hickey SBR hipped roof.zip

Thanks! I'm all set.

I have a plan with the garage at the customer-specified 25 degree angle with the house. It was not easy to draw, because I don't understand how to get angle snapping working for me. I want snapping for walls and camera section views, and while I have added 12.5 and 25 as additional angles, nothing snaps to those.

And I need a fix. Pic attached, also file. The camera is looking up to the ceiling above the entry, where a wall I manually adjusted for height has an attic wall above (I made it invisible) but it cuts away the ceiling. Hickey SBR hipped roof.zip

Had you closed the Chief file before zipping?

A search here got me nada.

Into Google Sheets?

It is a minor little thing in the whole scheme of building, but the curvature generally specified in a section view of eaves such as this, at least in the few plan-sets that I have encountered (likely not drawn in Chief but instead in Revit or AutoCad) dimension it out as a.) tangent to the upper slope, b.) clearly showing the point of tangency, and c.) the radius of the curve. And that radius is always shown to the top of the rafter. The curve follows and is the sawn top edge of that rafter. But Chief does not do the curve that way. The curve begins at top end at the top of the rafter, but it begins to deviate away from the rafter immediately as it moves downslope, and it ends precisely at the tip, the outboard top tip, of the fascia. So for Chief, two other things come into play in developing the curve. The thickness of the sheathing, and the thickness of the fascia. So if I do a section of the eave for con docs, annotated for building, I show, as the Revit- or ACAD-user has done in the detail shown here, the overhang reach, the point of tangency at the building line, and the radius of the curve, with my callout arrow pointing clearly to the rafter top. To make a pattern, the cutter will either loft it out on the floor with a beam compass and some straightedges, or he might use his BuildCalc phone app to get a half dozen chord points and then draw it using a thin rip flex stick, and that'll be it. But it won't be the actual curve Chief develops for the 3D model. Note in the attached pic, no fascia height is given. Plate height, yes. Heel height, yes, because the slope (4.5") and framing (2x12) is given. But all that is there is radius and reach. Not my drawing. And I can tell this is a copied-in CAD detail from something the architect must have done previously. See the leftover note about "existing second floor?" This is a new build, and there is no second floor.

Been there done that, but when I get the o'hang to curve to the 108 radius, the top angle does not match that of the abutting roof above, and I believe that for true tangency, it should. That is why I want to be able to spec the overhang by ridge and radius and let the rest calculate. Here is the plan. Curved roof edge study.plan

Followup. Shouldn't one be able to lock the ridge, specify a radius and top angle, and let the roof build to whatever bottom angle and fascia height gets determined by the program? I cannot get it to work.

For all-stone or framed, the application is the same. Two walls, the furred one inside is the one with the splayed treatment, done with the moldings. Try it with an outer wall, one main layer, stone, 8 inches thick. Inner wall that smacks up to it, one main layer, all stone, 16 inches thick. Pass-thru on the inner wall, centered on your window, raise its head and lower your sill as needed, adjust width as you want, uncheck all for the pass-thru so there is no frame, no casing, etc., and then do the molding work. Have you tried it? CAD detail from view will be your friend to get those molding lines exactly right. Show us your results!

Furred wall inside, no casings, no sill, no lintel, 3D molding to emulate angled wall returns all around. Multiple moldings if you want different angles at head and sill than at sides. It is a thing sometimes done when walls are ICF. You build the ICF wall with the window opening larger than the window, maybe 12 inches all sides. You frame inside that opening for the smaller window, with 2x6 framing. Then detail out with framing for the angled-in wall returns, and sheetrock all. Castle-like, no?

I am pulling my hair out trying to get a little test plan to give me some roofing numbers. I've a 4.5:12 roof that gets a 30" overhang that flares with a 9' radius, point of tangency at the building line. The angle of the 4.5 roof is 20.556045°. Am unable to get the curved roof to rotate at its ridge line while keeping the required radius. But the plan I want to apply my numbers to has curved flares everywhere so I was able to get it to work before. What am I doing wrong right now? We should be able to examine the main roof's specs to get its angle in degrees, copy that, go to the flare roof overhang, lock its ridge top height (the point of join, the point of tangency), set the radius (which I want to fix at 108" and Chief wants to call negative 108), and have the roof build. It rotates about that specified and locked ridge height. But it won't build and hold the radius and top angle. Why not? An interesting thing about these is that when you get it working right, the sequence of specs so your curved reachout is good, you then have to manually go in and lower the roof to have its top edge match the roof it is to join.