GeneDavis

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.

Is there one? Link? Thanks.

I make 'em in Sketchup and import them. Was a Sketchup user way before Chief v. 10.08 came into my purview.

Why don't you download (and learn to use) the freeware eCabinets? With that software, you can build your cabinets exactly the way you need per all your shop preferences, material preferences, hardware, finishes, edgetape, and more. The software can be set to produce either nested array parts for CNC cutting, or aligned array parts for saw-shop cutting. Every carcase part gets a label. The software produces your buy lists for whatever you buy out, whether drawerboxes, fronts, hardware, accessories, and more. Getting Chief to emulate your builds with thicknesses is as far as it's going to get. With eCabs, you are specifying tenon size, mortise size, mortise and dado clearances, edgetape thickness, back insets, nailer size, nailer placement, nailer fixing (pocket screwing, for example), and more. I attached a screencap of a part of their writeup on nested parts diagrams.

Laptop with Chief on it works for me. Gotta be a pretty skanky building to not have a place to set it on.

The challenge is when you want the skylight shaft wall at the lower side to be aligned to the wall below. A continuation of that wall right up to the skylight curb.

Still no file. Come on.

Made with the Chief window tools, including the custom muntins. 24" diameter. Go for it.

Explore the setting in WALL under the ROOF tab: Lower wall type if split by adjoining roof. Heck, explore all the things there in the WALL tab. Then go explore all the stuff that is under the STRUCTURE tab. So much to learn, so little time.

Take a look at the wall settings for the foundation wall and the building wall sitting atop that foundation wall. See the image attached. This is where you control how the walls stack. The MAIN LAYER is either a single layer or a group of contiguous layers (1,2,3, . . . ) and when building a roof over a wall, the baseline is set on that main layers outside face. If doing roof builds using the auto roof tool command, this is where baselines land. You have complete control over a roof already built when you select it for movement or editing, and can move the baseline somewhere else.

How can we possibly address your q without having the plan file?

Changed what? Did you look at your defaults for framing?

What is missing is your plan file so we can examine your window specs.

The Alaskan Wizard never fails to amaze us! Nice one, Michael.