GeneDavis

I do a railing on a deck as "no room location," drawing it in middle, anywhere. The need for it is between two stone piers along deck edge. The railing thus drawn, has its end balusters flush to the ends of the top and bottom rails. I want a 3-7/8" offset. i know the workaround. Draw a railing segment 3-7/8" long, no balusters, no endposts, point-to-point place a copy on each end of the balustered segment. But why do I have to do the workaround? The railing has custom profiles for its top and bottom rails, and custom balusters. The whole thing is as easy, maybe quicker, to model in Sketchup when compared to Chief. The hangup in Chief requiring the workaround is what's annoying. Am I missing something in railing wall build that will set the end offset?

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What happens when you assign it a completely different block? And what happens when you change the y-offset value in the CAD block spec for insertion point?

Have you tried grabbing that diamond and moving it to the wall layer line where you want it?

I mean select the wonky dimension, show us where the pickup marks are (little diamonds). And turn off line weights.

Sometimes I like to do a whole plan in curves instead of segments. Draw the arrow horizontal, release mouse, then right away grab the arrowhead end and CRTL-ALT to curve it where needed.

Zoom in and show us where it is picking up the something else.

Do all the 3d in Sketchup if you need to have photorealistic rendering. Here is some of the work done already. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/7103927bd6995f507e7c9f487eee4fdb/Shipping-Container?hl=en You can use Chief for plans and elevations, with appropriate wall definitions and roof plane specs.

The roof builds per the wall specs for roof (gable, etc.), the room spec for height, and the structure spec for roof. Have you examined all these settings in the plan that built the roof you want?

Texture and pattern needed for dutch lap siding, 1x12 size, in natural western red cedar, some knots. The photo shows it in 1x8 size, the pattern repeat 6-3/4". In 1x12 the repeat is 10-3/4".

Learn how to import a Sketchup file specifying it as an electrical symbol, which when choosing to enable advanced features, allows the addition of light sources. Here is me about to import a symbol called paddle rack as an electrical fixture, and I selected advanced features. My paddle rack is in no way a light fixture, but Chief doesn't care. I can add all the point lights and spot lights to it I wish. To demo this "Chief doesn't care" thing, I once imported a Sketchup model of a Winchester model 94 deer rifle and made it a millwork symbol and then showed it as balusters in a stair railing. 30-30s all up the staircase. Cool.

Thanks! Attached is a photo of the siding. Here is a site offering maybe a texture and a bump map. https://www.filterforge.com/filters/1193-bump.html Are there any 3D specialists amongst us willing to do the texture and pattern needed?

I've got one that's specified as 1x6 novelty (also called dutch lap). Anybody got the material for this? The texture should show the cove feature and the pattern should have double lines spaced 1" every 5".

Eric's got a good solution. I first thought a cricket would fix the drainage, but it won't. The config Eric did elevated the plane above and right of the entry cupola, enough to stretch its bottom to the wall end. What's the client want? The roof's gotta drain.

Nice, Steve! Thanks. I'd never thought outside the box to use a pony wall.

Cannot help you solve it within the Chief stairs toolkit. I've never seen this done here. But solids will do all those elements atop the Chief-built stairs.

I'm not a fan of the way those porch roofs resolve into the timberframed entry roof, and would do whatever possible to avoid gabled ends adjacent.

Gotta love the trusses.

My detail for a flared shingle mid-band. Modify as needed for doing it at the base

A half hour spent with a simple test plan will teach you everything you need to know about this. If you won't do that important self-teaching, you'll probably still be getting confused no matter how much you read or watch.

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.