GeneDavis

And though the pitches differ for this irregular ("bastard") hip, the fascia heights must match.

By setting the floor elevation at -6"? Have you tried this?

Trim's applied to sheathing not framing.

HardiePlank is 5/16" thick and laid up it's closer to 3/4" at max, so that's how I've set it in the wall build. We use cornerboard at 5/4 thickness (1") and since Chief places cornerboards ATOP the siding, I specify the CBs at 1/4". If you prefer a "flush" look then go with 1/16" over whatever you've set for siding, to avoid z-fighting. We won't do "flush" because it won't permit well-caulked joints where claps resolve into trim.

My bad. Had not tried it and thought those posting pics had resolved it with layer settings. Maybe copy the file, re-material framing as OPEN-NO MATERIAL, and see what happens with the 3D Framing view.

If you want the cab sides gabled, you're going to need even more time making p'solids.

The 3D Framing View is the key.

There needs to be an option for doing it either way.

Find a way to get some one-on-one personal training, BnC. If it takes getting into town, to a place where you can be connected to the web, work it out. Do the miles. Put in the time. If you cannot figure out how to edit cornerboards, you need a trainer to show you how.

Show us how. And how it can yield the count in 16' lengths as it can for framing with structural member reporting.

2017 SU Free "Make" can be downloaded and used. I did it three weeks ago. But no 2018.

Glenn's method will yield material counts. Not so for battens done as material regions.

For material lists we can have a "master " list. Do we for this "Bates?" And can it please be automatic?

Dear BnC, Learning Chief without an internet connection must be really hard. And to add to that, being unwilling to learn using the Help function, training videos, the search function here at Chieftalk, and the Manual, must make it well nigh impossible. You need to find a way to get some training by video. It's a process. You watch, hit the pause button, try doing it yourself in a test plan you have open, then go back to the video. It'll take weeks, months You should be working from a laptop, so you can take it with you, and go do this training at a quiet corner somewhere there's WiFi. How long a drive is it for you to get to such a place?

What curve in eave? Your detail depicts a frieze board with a flared bottom end, the flare having a radius cut at its inside edge. That flare detail can be done with a p'solid, begun by taking a CAD detail from the elevation, then drawing the shape, etc. The crownmold rake with return at bottom is tricky. Not the crownmold, but the return. Consider making it as a solid, then do it as a symbol, and place it.

Calling it trey is tres gouche.

Takes a lot of books to keep those secrets.

If a railing wall that follows stairs with a handrail mounted above it, along its top, meets code, why won't this? Cite code language in your answer, same way you would insist the inspector do.

Tray ceilings got called that because the center raise, whether straight up, beveled, or corbeled, resembles an upside-down tray, as in "serving tray." So who started calling it "trey?" Someone at Cheef? Trey's the Phish guitarist, not the ceiling.

Tried breaking the wall each side of door, dragging down top to where wanted, and placing a slab there at size and elevation needed? If no 3D needed, ignore it and annotate it with a callout and CAD detail. Like the Stones song says, "you can't always get what you want," so you just move on to the con docs and "if you try somehow, you get what you NEEE - EEED."

This is getting old. See my thread in Suggestions, and please, add a post there to append onto the request EVERY single feature you want for such a new set of tools. Be specific. The Chief programmers need to know PRECISELY what you want. "Sorely lacking" ain't a spec.

Your question is not clear. In Chief, you can do just about anything you want structurally, if you are willing to go manual and edit. Not quite that flexible in stairs, but you can always do stairs with everything opted out except for stringers and treads, and go manual from there. There is not as much control in stairs for autobuilding railings exactly as you might want, or getting carriages (stringers) to match what you are specifying.

Chief doesn't represent the gap in the 2D plan view.

I've made furniture that involved curved cuts, designed in Sketchup (free version) the parts then imported into Chief and sent to layout at 1:1. The printed pattern sheets are then stuck to wood blanks using spray adhesive, and the parts roughed out on the bandsaw.

A trial version of Chief Premiere X12 is available for download right now. Get it. Chief has a "post" tool that with one mouse click places a post with pier. It is typically used for modeling 4x4 timber posts and for lally columns, but for your application, one would just set up the post as solid concrete and 16x16 in size, and the pier pad under as 12" thick and 30" square. You can readily edit the post to whatever height you need. As for modeling the post part in CMU so you get the 3D, there are ways to do it, but not so automatic as doing it with the post tool. I am presuming your "post" has the CMU cores filled solid, so in effect, you have a solid concrete member. Just do callouts and CAD details to show what's to be done on the con docs.