GeneDavis

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.

Thanks! Attached is a photo of the siding. Here is a site offering maybe a texture and a bump map. https://www.filterforge.com/filters/1193-bump.html Are there any 3D specialists amongst us willing to do the texture and pattern needed?

I've got one that's specified as 1x6 novelty (also called dutch lap). Anybody got the material for this? The texture should show the cove feature and the pattern should have double lines spaced 1" every 5".

Eric's got a good solution. I first thought a cricket would fix the drainage, but it won't. The config Eric did elevated the plane above and right of the entry cupola, enough to stretch its bottom to the wall end. What's the client want? The roof's gotta drain.

Nice, Steve! Thanks. I'd never thought outside the box to use a pony wall.

Cannot help you solve it within the Chief stairs toolkit. I've never seen this done here. But solids will do all those elements atop the Chief-built stairs.

I'm not a fan of the way those porch roofs resolve into the timberframed entry roof, and would do whatever possible to avoid gabled ends adjacent.

Gotta love the trusses.

My detail for a flared shingle mid-band. Modify as needed for doing it at the base

A half hour spent with a simple test plan will teach you everything you need to know about this. If you won't do that important self-teaching, you'll probably still be getting confused no matter how much you read or watch.

I'm in Florida. There are probably 70 houses in the process of building here in my subdivision, by six different builders. Every kitchen has an island with plumbing. There are no plumbing walls in these islands. Before cabinetry, three pipes are sticking up through the slabs where the islands go. HW, CW, and drain.

Describe this plumbing wall and how it's integrated into the group of base cabinets and end panels you're calling an island. Even better, post a picture. And describe this MTO. Are you meaning Material TakeOff? Have you examined Chief's cabinet schedule capabilities?

Single-layer walls, texture in and out as logs? Symbols at corners to depict thru-notch overhang? Balloon all walls to eliminate platform stops? Easy to do, and satisfies both client and custom log builder.

How would we know? This is the forum for Chief Architect, which has a truss base tool. Try this forum https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/:

SU is super quick at this, and there's a snapping feature for text alignment that's great.

Thanks. I had re-installed Chief between back then and now and had not installed that bonus content.

I did a plan a couple years ago and opened it to revisit for possible changes. It has a wraparound porch on floor 1, post-to-beam open railing, so there are just porch columns. I did the columns to match the 1857 farmhouse this will replace, and don't know where or how I got the symbol. But I cannot find it in the library now, even though it is used in two walls of the porch. I had forgotten to change one side wall and now when I open for spec in order to change the post to "turned post 1," there is no such post in any of my libraries. I did a search to no avail. What might be the hangup here? I am posting some images ahead of maybe having to post the plan.

Trusswork always involves some fill somewhere. I edit out the ridge when doing fills. Just a few seconds to remove.

Sure would be nice if we could select the fill in 2D, have its lines and intersections be snap-to, and be able to either x-y move it, or point to point. I draw plans for a builder who is pouring concrete atop wood-framed floors, grinding and polishing it with what looks like terrazzo equipment, and sawcutting grid lines. I draw the grids using CAD, deciding best layout. I'll write up a suggestion.

Thanks, Eric!

I have had trouble getting dormers right since day one with Chief, which was back before X Chief. How to do the roof hole, how to specify the walls, using the specs that cut walls when joined by abutting roofs, what to do with the lower wall below the roofs, etc. It is all bad for me, almost every time. Maybe I should have used the dormer tool. I built all the roofs manually. If you go inside the rooms on second floor where the dormers are, you'll see the mess. Hope someone can help. Thanks. BZ pre.plan

Custom door needed for either way, whether one panel glazed or both solid. You'll use one or two sets of horizontal stretch planes, depending on the result you want. Write a suggestion for Chief to add this option. Chief seems to like cabinet stuff, and you might get it for 2022.