GeneDavis

I want to revise my template plan, one with a lot of different walls in it using drywall, both 1/2" and 5/8", so that it is all counted in 4x12 sheets and not 4x8 sheets. Sure wish there was a quick way, but I have not found it. The drywall component seems buried in far too many elements, each of which has to be edited. Why can't this be a default setting? Or is it?

It's not even over the interior wall it's near. Fawn RIdge.zip

Insert the molding stack into s CAD detail? Less time than talking about it here?

Learn to use the framing tools to frame only what you want. Autoframe is not your friend.

This?

He cannot post plans. No internet, just a guy and his cell phone. Maybe he takes his laptop to a McDonalds once a week to keep Chief going.

A preferred lumber buy list, for me, having framed in the field five big houses, has only two or three lengths for 2x4 and 2x6 lumber. The lengths are the precut wall studs and 16-footers. Thus for a job with 9/0 main floor height and 8/0 upper floor, one would have 97-1/8", 109-1/8", and 16-footers in the pile for each of 2x4 and 2x6 sizes. This logic is only a single degree off that of an Amish framing crew I used over thirty years ago, the deviation being use of precuts. Those guys said all we want is 16s and we'll cut everything from that. So how, in Chief, do you set up the structural lumber reporting to get a material buy list this way, just precuts and 16s?

A recent thread addressed this wall/roof configuration with a house exactly as you show.

Think of the rainscreen cavity as a framing layer. You define the width of the "studs," their spacing, and material.

Chief is not 2020 and never will be. What we have is a nicely capable cabinet configurator and some libraries of doors drawerfronts snd moldings.

I have two mirror-image overframes to do. I did truss bases under, but cannot get the ridge to generate OK, nor the rafters on the opposing side of the ridge line. It looks OK in 2D, which is really all I need to do to get to con docs, but it annoys me that it won't model right in 3D. Known issue?

Have you tried creating a room using a railing for the gallery walk?

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.