GeneDavis

Offered here as a symbol you can download from the 3D Warehouse, where I just uploaded it. I imported it into Chief and it works fine. Since I now have it in my user library I suppose I could offer it here as a Chief object (.calibz??) but I don't know how. If you want to tell me the process, please do.

Thanks!

Closeup of my layout page viewed on screen, and .pdf viewed with Adobe Acrobat.

Is this the Chief Interiors forum?

A guy in my area built a "net zero" house, conventional 2x6 framing with smart-framing details, the continuous insulation being two layers of 2" rigid foam that went atop taped Huber ZipWall sheathing. The insulation went down continuously to the footings. To effect a vapor barrier, the outer layer of 4x8 foam sheets were gapped 3/8" and sprayfoam went into the joints, then the joints all got taped. The siding was vertical board and batten, really nice western red cedar 1x12 boards and 5/4 x 2 battens. The sub-purlins for attaching the siding was 5/4x2 atop strips of the product shown in the picture, which allows water to get through and down. It has a trussed roof with 28 inch heel height and the attic has 24 inches of cellulose on the floor.

And thanks, Mick! Swis 721 is identical (at least to my tired old eyes) to Century Gothic.

I just did and they are there. I am now fully in the 21st century!

Thanks to Alan (ACAD User) I now have all the variations of Century Gothic installed in my Windows font folder. But Chief does not have them identified. Does someone have a tip for how to get these fonts, in my Windows font folder, accessible for Chief?

Yeah, it's nowhere. There were articles I found in searches that said look for it in the Windows Recycle Bin, but it's not there. A few articles seem to be saying that it went gone when Win10 came. Guess I will have to buy it if I want it.

W10 here and I'm not seeing it. Screenshot attached of the fonts I see, listed through all the Cs.

I have become a big fan of Rene Rabbitt and to be a true follower, must now change my whole program to using his favorite font, Century Gothic. No more Chief Blueprint or My Hand or Frank the Architect or Graphite or any other of the hand-draw stuff. 21st century all the way. But I cannot find it except for one or more of the pay-for-font sites, and I have never bought a font before. Furthermore, I am wary of a font download free or pay, because of all the malware that may tag along. Anybody know a safe way to get Century Gothic?

Thanks! That was best. Drag and drop, no. Copy and paste, no.

Look at the thread Rene Rabbet has in the Symbols and Content section. He has a bunch of symbols there of furniture, fixtures, and more. Single-file downloads, or I guess that is what a .calibz is. I downloaded a bed symbol, and one for a nightstand with edison-bulb light on its top. They look like this in the folder into which they downloaded.

I am not good at this library stuff. No good at all. Wanting to install a single calibz symbol in my user library, I was able to download it into a file, but not successful getting it into my Chief. I ended up duplicating my entire user library three times and now have four copies of everything. My directory reads, for example Cessi chair 1 Cessi chair 1 Cessi chair 1 Cessi chair 1 Cessi chair 2 Cessi chair 2 Cessi chair 2 Cessi chair 2 And on and on. Hundreds of repititions. So how is one single calibz symbol installed. I need detailed instructions for doing it. And is there an easy way to delete duplicates?

Nice! Show us the equipment on that back wall, please.

It's a minor detail, but when joining wood framing to ICF walls, there is always the need for the tie. Here is what I have used for every ICF job I've drawn or built: https://www.mudsupply.com/Simpson-ICFVL-p/909200743.htm?gclid=Cj0KCQjws536BRDTARIsANeUZ58jqTmNY-3U99byqV-Q1GVhS8QVnG-AqSDe_2HO6Uk7Gt99nHk3iz8aAlBdEALw_wcB The ears of the plate go through the EPS foam and into the core area, where the poured concrete then locks to the insert, and this provides fastening for the 2x4 end stud that sisters up against the ICF wall. Placing something like this at a corner isn't quite possible, flush out to the corner where it is needed, but I could imagine the plate being able to pick up about an inch of the stud's edge for fixing that side, and then using some strapping for the other side, strapping back along the adjacent ICF wall to some "nailing" points.

The top wall should run all the way across the stairwell. The stairs will create the opening, and you'll like your wall junction.

Tight? If wall is 4.5", stair sections need to be that space apart. No Chief 4 me right now.

Make the wall a solid railing wall, the do the Solver expedition through the specs.

I've done that, Perry. And all the other setup work with new layers for the foundation anno, CAD, callouts, dimensions, and more. But as I said, Chief could have given us this, since they did all the setup work for many other SPVs. In Scott's excellent webinar on SPVs, he shows using his foundation SPV for preparing the view for layout and the CDs.

Ceiling planes and soffits. Have you tried? Seen training videos about it?

Am I missing something? Chief gives us a pretty nice out-of-box template with X12, but for those of us who build foundations with stemwalls and a floor 0 with some room finish, we need additional SPV and defaults setup to do. Why no support for foundation structure?

Having built with these, and living with one now, I'd recommend raising that shed roof a foot to give the hot vent more vertical clearance.

Thanks I'll undo and finish it up.

Sure, I'll try that, but my b&b is the entire attic wall and the top 15" of the wall below. Presumed all MR details had to be within a wall's bounds, and don't want to see joints along line where attic wall bears on wall below.