GeneDavis

Pony wall following stair is what you want. Do a search here and you'll find the previous thread with Steve's how-to video.

A farmhouse sink goes into a farmhouse sink cabinet, according to dozens of pictures you see when you do a web search. Tru this. Go to Kohler's website, find an apron-style ("farmhouse") sink you like, and download their installation instructions. You'll learn from that what to do in Chief.

Chief has no options for window hardware, whether handles, operators, or sash locks. You'll love the new minimalistic look. Doors, sliding or hinged, can have hardware, but not windows.

I've got roof edges designed with 4x5 timber rafters on 32" centers, one false tail sistered to every other 2x8 rafter, the eaves cut square not plumb, and Chief framing won't trim the rafter end square. The overhang parts of the roof are sheathed with 1.5" t&g decking, the interior part of the roof is OSB sheathing atop 2x lumber rafters. What is the solution here? An image from my Sketchup workout shows what is wanted, and a little test file done to proof the build specs is attached also. I wanted to proof it before taking it to the big plan. OH test.plan

Chief has no tilt-turn windows in its kit. Casements and awnings, yes, but no tilt-turn models. Show us what the dashed hinging lines look like in elevations, for this kind of window.

A roof plane spec always has sheathing thickness, and a fascia hxw, even if we try to zero it (Chief'll make it 1/16x1/16). So why not have the two elevations, baseline height, and ridge height, be to top of sheathing, as it is for fascia height? I often do a CAD or 3D workup of basic mass and shape before drawing in Chief, and the roof plane lines and edges are far easier to sketch in when those points are colinear.

Post the plan.

Hooray for Chief! The can't spell "tray" but they know how to resolve ceiling drops.

This sloped sill detail is needed for both hung windows and exterior doors, both hinged and sliding. And it's all been requested multiple times in Suggestions.

My floor framing defaults have 1-1/8" engineered wood for rims, but for the decks I want plain ol' solid-sawn 2x lumber. What's the workaround? Frame all floors before decks, change spec for rim, then autoframe decks last?

Nice find, Glenn!

Many versions ago this was there all the time for me. Where is it in X12? Need to do some overbuilt roofs.

Not a good app for Chief, which is typically used to do wood-framed structures.

Ah, I see. What you mean is "new headers in asbuilt openings." I've done pop tops and understand completely. My earlier take on it was it must be a California thing, needing to show all that stuff to the plans examiner, that is of no relevance to the new addition on the end of the house.

Why would an asbuilt need to show header info?

Blame Andersen, sort of. Chief gives them the platform, they provide the data. But Chief's never gonna go like 2020 for products, like is done for manufacturers with cabinet lines. If you even got the whole chart of standard sizes for, say, the 400 series windows, would you expect the labels to be Andersen codes? What if you popped in a 34510 and then resized it?

I gave up on it and used a Sketchup-built symbol.

I used a room divider wall of zero thickness and air gap material to cut out a deck edge where a column pier runs through. See the picture. Two things are annoying. The gap I want between deck and stone pier face is 1", and the room divider wall is preventing me from running the railing (three segments, ends and balustered middle) into the stone. I think I'll just bite the bullet and make these railings as library symbols using Sketchup. And what is with the z-fighting seen in the face of the framing rim board?

I do a railing on a deck as "no room location," drawing it in middle, anywhere. The need for it is between two stone piers along deck edge. The railing thus drawn, has its end balusters flush to the ends of the top and bottom rails. I want a 3-7/8" offset. i know the workaround. Draw a railing segment 3-7/8" long, no balusters, no endposts, point-to-point place a copy on each end of the balustered segment. But why do I have to do the workaround? The railing has custom profiles for its top and bottom rails, and custom balusters. The whole thing is as easy, maybe quicker, to model in Sketchup when compared to Chief. The hangup in Chief requiring the workaround is what's annoying. Am I missing something in railing wall build that will set the end offset?

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What happens when you assign it a completely different block? And what happens when you change the y-offset value in the CAD block spec for insertion point?

Have you tried grabbing that diamond and moving it to the wall layer line where you want it?

I mean select the wonky dimension, show us where the pickup marks are (little diamonds). And turn off line weights.

Sometimes I like to do a whole plan in curves instead of segments. Draw the arrow horizontal, release mouse, then right away grab the arrowhead end and CRTL-ALT to curve it where needed.

Zoom in and show us where it is picking up the something else.