GeneDavis

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.

Let's get the fingerprints from the spray can.

You should post the plan.

That's my primary use. Painting trim. Also painting solids and slabs, unless the slabs are real concrete and I want them in material list.

Is this a remodel and you are beginning with an as-built? Or is it all-new and we can redesign?

OK I opened it and you have a tee-roof and need to learn about truss bases. No dormer in sight. Search the archives here and go to the Chief site for training videos and learn about truss bases.

Did you try exploding all so the roof hole can be selected and deleted?

False dormer no roof hole under it? Didn't open your file.

If we shouldn't paint walls with it, how is it best used to avoid problems?

Main floor is 1, walkout is 0. Floor 0 walls will be pony walls framed wall up, foundation wall down. The frostwalls and foundation stepdowns will be edited manually by you. There are Chief training videos that give you the how-to.

Post the plan, please. Close the file. Zip it. Attach the zipped copy. And if your sig (can't see it on my mobile) doesn't show your Chief version and system specs, fix that, too.

Snip it just inside the border, with a screencap tool, so the image is clean.

Do same in each "room?" Did you try?

In Colorado, along the front range from Colorado Springs all the way up to the Wyoming border, the soils are not stable, and a well-built house has its footings bearing on pilings that go to bedrock. Little screw pilings, but they do the job. The basements get what is called a "structural floor," exactly as this is being discussed here. A 60-mil membrane, think "Stego," some airspace, and a framed floor, with any required beams being steel and intermediate bearing points for the beams being piling-supported. Houses there, if built with the basement being slab on grade, have a wall base detail that permits the bottom plate to move as much as 2.5 inches up or down, which the bentonite soils can do.