GeneDavis

Piece by piece, huh? Are your block piers made of individual solids each the size of a modular block? If so, do you really need that level of detail in construction documents? Which of your elements, footings, brick wainscot, piers one way, piers rotated 90, do you model a piece at a time, instead of using Chief wall and foundation tools?

She's full-size, she's from the 3D Warehouse, and I don't know her name. 3D figures like this can make your file sizes huge, so choose and use carefully. I delete them after getting the camera shots I want.

Whatever, but five most used! Thanks.

I thought it might be interesting and useful for others, like me, that have and use few to none.

Is it easy to Skype Chief? I've a client that is terrible at communicating wants and needs, and it might be better if he could Skype with me, my Chief view active, voice to voice, both of us only seeing what I'm doing in Chief. Possible? How?

As seen here, it is possible, but not with the model you imported.

It looks like somebody did, though. Where did you get the 3D model? The texture scale on the cushion is obviously larger than on the rest of the chair. I suggest you contact this 3D modeler who has a number of upholstered models up on the 3D Warehouse. Ask her if she can improve your model. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/by/desiree

I have been using SU since the stone age. I've plug-ins galore, use it with rendering apps, and can model just about any house including all its fixtures and furniture. I had all those SU skills coming into Chief and started with the pre-X version 10. I still prefer it to Chief if I want to do something in 3D, simply because I find it faster due to my SU skillset. It has kept me from fully using Chief's 3D modeling tools. That all said, Chief has all the tools necessary to do all the totally-to-scale detailing you need to do, and the string of posts above describes all that, and well. But I gotta ask, how often in your work, do you need to draw details of moldings and millwork items that will require molding knives cut, patterns made, etc., and therefore require shop drawings done with precision? One might say, "it's required in historical replications," but in my experience with that, the shops are given physical samples of existing parts to replicate, not drawings.

Away from PC right now, but tried doing a simple 20' square box house with same window corner and got same problem. Casements, 30" w x 48" h, force into corner and edit offsets to 3.75" both ways, between-pair separation 3.5". I built two houses with this config, 3.5" corner post in 2x6 wall framing. EDIT: Incorrecto! The config works in a plain box house situation. See pic. It is the wall intersect that must be doing it.

I did this house model as an exercise, using a for-sale plan, the web page showing plan views and many inside and outside images. The wall in question is shown in the images attached. Plan is attached also. The psolid out in the air away from the corner is a start at manually patching the whole thing, but why do I have to? NSB_Cottage_1725.plan

Have you looked at all the layers in the framing section?

Have you used the HELP function in Chief, that explains all the features of the window spec dialog, and then tried things out, changing settings to see results? If not, then why not start now?

Rhymes with quiche, n'est ce pas?

I prefer recessed as the term for the ceiling feature. A web search turns up a lot of people using the spelling "trey." Some dummy says it comes from French and I am sure the dummy has it confused with Spanish. Let's face it, builders and real estate agents aren't purists when it comes to architectural terminology. But kudos to Chief for bringing us the tools to do this.

If the cab is to truly be a single, it's gonna get built as a single box with faceframe, not as three cabs ganged together, so if this were my project, that is how I would model it. You can get the true look you want by fiddling with the stile and rail widths and overlays and reveals. You'll give yourself a nice course in modeling cabs by Chief, when you do this, so be sure to explore around and play with it, end panels, toeboard recess options, and all. If you don't know the details of how these are made, here is April to show you how, just like in a pro shop. And show us your result!

Looks as if you might want to edit either the roof pitch, roof height, or overhang length of that cross-roof gable at the far end if you want fascia heights to match.

Can the cab really be made as a unit? Can you make it as a single in Chief? See the recent thread about a 2 sink vanity. We need more info to be able to help.

Rob, by now you probably have figured this out. One cannot generate a brick ledge unless the brick layer of the wall is designated EXTERIOR in the wall layer spec. In the image below, you can see that I have the 3-5/8" brick and the 1-3/8" air gap both in that exterior layer group. Generating the foundation gives me the proper and as-specified 5" deep ledge. To get the dimensions in plan view to pull from the outside of brick (and foundation) you select the brick layer as the one for dimensions, as shown.

Take a screencap of your wall def dialog and show it here. Bet you have the framing as your main layer. Change the wall def by grouping everything as the main layer and then do auto ext dims again. Show us the result.

Chief is dimensioning to the outside of whatever layer, in your wall specification, is defined as the main one. It is finding walls, not slab edges.

OK I get the blocking. I don't do these as a single unit, so the single-cab thing isn't something I'd do. Wouldn't one just do a comment about two sinks in the cab schedule? My plans don't specify or schedule out plumbingware, so I guess I just didn't understand the specifics here.

What is the blocking about? I drew a single basecab, edited it to 72 width, fiddled with the front specs to get a 28 wide opening at each end, placed a sink, moved it away from center, placed a second sink freestanding and moved it into place, and I think I am done. Did not do the work to edit the stack at the center into a 3 or 4-drawer array, but the sinks are there where needed.

Well maybe yes, Michael, but select>click>select>click>select>click is what it takes me in my neanderthal setup without hotkeys, to extend a cad line or framing element. Select>click-hold>drag>release is faster. And aren't we talking about faster?

Productivity? In Chief CAD, one selects the line with a click, selects EXTEND command, then selects the line to be extended to the first, and the line extends. Three mouse moves to select and click. Two, maybe, if one has a hotkey for EXTEND. Clicking a wall and then dragging its end to extend it to the desired wall intersect seems faster to me, than if we had the means to extend with the command we have in CAD. In what floor-plan-drawing scenario would one have a number of unconnected walls, interior or exterior, needing to extend-connect to a single other wall? Am I missing something here? Because extending in CAD (or in framing) using the FENCE tool is quite productive, but I cannot imagine a floor plan-drawing scenario with a bunch of walls needing to be extended.

No tilt to the baseline. Pitch is negative 5:12 from high edges.