GeneDavis

Do I need to get better trained, or is there a gap in the software and I should make a suggestion for a mod? Rainscreen's the new hotness, and Chief stepped up to the plate in X13 and gave us the additional framing layer to handle the furring, but how are you all handling exterior trim? I find that I need to add thickness to the trim to make it look right in 3D. If my furring layer is 3/4 and I am casing with 5/4 stock, I need to make it 1-3/4 thick not 1 inch thick. All's well with my 3D and 2D, but my material list is calling for the wrong thickness, of course. I'd prefer there be a setting for exterior trim that allows one to specify which layer it bears against. No? Is there a hidden setting in 13 I'm missing, or is my workaround a necessity.

Got it! Made a small four side house test plan, built everything to specs, paid attention this time since I was doing it from scratch, wall-wise, not coming into it backwards. Everything worked as expected and I then changed all settings and specs for walls in the remodel file. All is good. Thanks for looking and commenting.

I'm looking in the 3D framing view and the foam is not there. Neither in a section view.

Thanks, Mick. I edited the wall spec for the upper framed wall, and that seemed to make the gap go away, but the pony wall foundation is still glitchy for me. I fiddle with the height (where the walls stack) and some heights make the foam inside go completely away, or partly away, and some settings to the same to the outer layers.

This plan is driving me nuts with the behavior I've caused by my worst practice, I'm sure. It is an addition to an uninsulated summer place built a hundred years ago on a shallow stone foundation. The new addition will get a proper foundation. Rainscreen siding detail for walls so as to be able to get siding to cover concrete stemwall. I cannot figure out how I messed this up. It would not frame as expected, so I did the floor frame manually. The remaining issues I have are as shown in the images. Insulation won't show in 2D or 3D where it is on the upper half of the pony wall foundation. A gap in the exterior layers won't close where the mudsill is. I can just CAD patch to fix this enough to do the con docs, but it annoys me I cannot solve this riddle. Bedroom bath addition no steps (2).zip

No. That is not it.

A mulled unit of any kind, when shown in the window schedule, will not call out the types or sizes of individual units that are joined into one mulled unit. It's up to you to do whatever necessary to ensure the window supplier gets it right. Usually text in the comments can do it. Maybe like this: "Fixed casement 66" w. x 30" h. over fixed casement 33" w. x 30" h. and operable casement 33" w. x 30" h."

Doing a room addition on a 100 year old seasonal camp, with the camp having a barn-like foundation of stones chinked with mortar only 16 inches into the ground. The room addition is to have a frostwall foundation to 4 feet depth, and the walls are rainscreen type so as to be able to continue on over the foundation which sticks above grade about 18 inches. I drew the asbuilt just enough to get the endwall right for where we attach this new build, and did not put a foundation under it until after I built the foundation under the new construction. Trying to frame now and everything is screwed up. It is the first time for me doing this siding-over-foundation. My floor platform wants to frame INSIDE the 2x4 walls, and my mudsill wants to sit flush to the stemwall exterior when I thought I had specified it to sit 1/2" in, to match the wall line. So, because of my bad settings somewhere, my walls want to frame atop the mudsill not atop the platform, and the platform wants to frame INSIDE the walls. What the file shows (attached) is manual floor framing by me. What settings are doing this? Bedroom bath addition no steps.zip

Got a good one? I thought with as many of these as there are, Chief would have given us the tools by now? Unless it's a hidden thing. I never needed one until now. A harpist needs access from her car to the music room, to dolly up the Lyon and Healy harp.

Thanks. Didn't know I had that option for the single dimension. I will do that to increase my training level, after I delete the text patch I did over the numbers.

I am struggling with some imprecise, or rather precise-but-not-imperial, CAD and dimensions. I draw a square in CAD and specify the sides as 9' 6.6006239531". The number comes from me trying to define the foundation for an octagonal porch whose long dimesion is exactly 16'-7 15/16". But that is a digression. Here is the issue. When I throw dimensions on that nine-foot-six-somenting square, the left to right number comes out as 9'-6 9/16" and the vertical one as 9'-6 5/8". Now we all have calculators and know that 9/16 is 0.5625 and 5/8 is 0.625, which means Chief rounded DOWN to get the horizontal dim, and UP to get the vertical, but why the inconsistency?

Using wall coverings to decorate a bath just line Chief did in the Nashville design they used to showcase X13. Did it with shiplap siding under subway tile, and the finished floor build of underlay, mud, and tile makes floor thickness 7/8". A 6" baseboard sits atop floor, and to get the shiplap (6" pattern) to sit full board atop the baseboard, I adjusted the pattern y dimension to get what I needed. Followed through with the subway tile. See the images. I checked for both materials, match pattern to texture. Vector view gives me what I want, but not the 3D "normal view.

Any tips and techniques for this? Hidden strip lights around perimeter for wall wash effect? Of course emissive band for front-facing, but what lighting?

But the goal is to have the material list give a count for all the rigid foam, that under the slab and the outboard wings.

And study how to create a brick ledge.

Do deck posts display on 2? Cylindrical posts, right? Created with auto deck framing? Drawn manually? You know they're in the plan, right? You can view the in 3D? Post the plan. Close the file before posting it. Zip it if it's too big, or put it in the cloud and provide the link. You'll get your answer quickly by doing so.

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.