GeneDavis

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?

Add your version of Chief to the signature line 1

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.

Do all the 3d in Sketchup if you need to have photorealistic rendering. Here is some of the work done already. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/7103927bd6995f507e7c9f487eee4fdb/Shipping-Container?hl=en You can use Chief for plans and elevations, with appropriate wall definitions and roof plane specs.

The roof builds per the wall specs for roof (gable, etc.), the room spec for height, and the structure spec for roof. Have you examined all these settings in the plan that built the roof you want?

Texture and pattern needed for dutch lap siding, 1x12 size, in natural western red cedar, some knots. The photo shows it in 1x8 size, the pattern repeat 6-3/4". In 1x12 the repeat is 10-3/4".

Learn how to import a Sketchup file specifying it as an electrical symbol, which when choosing to enable advanced features, allows the addition of light sources. Here is me about to import a symbol called paddle rack as an electrical fixture, and I selected advanced features. My paddle rack is in no way a light fixture, but Chief doesn't care. I can add all the point lights and spot lights to it I wish. To demo this "Chief doesn't care" thing, I once imported a Sketchup model of a Winchester model 94 deer rifle and made it a millwork symbol and then showed it as balusters in a stair railing. 30-30s all up the staircase. Cool.