GeneDavis

All the framers I know want interior walls dimensioned to an edge, not to the center. Look at the example plans you see at the Chief site, all of which are showing interior wall locations this way. No matter how long one has worked with CAD packages, one will still need to educate oneself on how Chief works and how to set it up for your preferences. You can dimension to wall lines, wall centers, to inside finish surface, you can dimension in mm, inches, feet decimal, feet and inches, you can show the zeros, drop the zeros, you can do almost anything you want. But you will have to learn how, and the help files right in the program will be your greatest aid.

Adobe has what you want. You print to .pdf, your marker-upper opens the file in Acrobat, and doodles to her heart's content. Watch this.

By editing the material. Open the material spec for edit, and look at the image for texture, which will be a square with some number of courses of lap siding. If the image is nine courses high, change its size to 90 x 90. Make sure the pattern is gotten from the texture, so vector views match what you want. Try it out!

"Switched" to me has always meant half, and the usage has always been nightstand lighting in bedrooms. If both were switched it would fiddle with your clock radio, or your charge jack.

HD users have their own forum.

Thanks, and that's how I've set up my template plan. I needed to do the changes to an existing plan done a year ago.

This is the Chief Architect forum. Shouldn't you be posting this elsewhere?

Switched is the term I have been using.

Good ideas and thank you.

'Twas done way before SPV. I got asked to do a material list for sheetrock, and that wall has a lot of un-needed rock on it.

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.