GeneDavis

I built deck framing and then spent hours editing it, moving posts, beams, adding more. Now I am stuck with a bunch of footings I stupidly let go at deck autoframe time as 16" x 16", and since specified round they are really a square edited round. I want them 8" dia. It seems the only way to get them 8" dia is to spec them that way at build time. I don't want to rebuild deck framing and lose all my edits.

And the big thing adjacent is as-built?

For photorealistic trueness, that Schluter metal trim will be drawn in 2D and placed with a 3D molding polyline. Check my 3D Warehouse page for the hinges you will need for that 1/2" frameless shower door. When I was learning Chief, I took a house I had just built, an architectural masterpiece of detail, trim, curves, stone, and fixtures, and modeled it all to be 3D true. It's all worth doing if you enjoy it, but the clients rarely appreciate it, if they even see it. I recently did a kitchen work-up, all the appliances and fixtures matching owner specs, came here to the forum to help solve my issue with an open-front wall cabinet. Specifically called it out in my drawings and the rendering submitted. Her reply, "can I have that open-front wall cabinet we discussed?"

Just do a p'solid or slab on the ceiling surface, just as the tile setter will do. That section of ceiling will be sheeted not with drywall but with cement board, at least that is what my experience with builds has been. You place it where you want and make its material the same tile as the walls. And you don't mess with room specs.

I've a 6' diameter hot tub on a deck, and the client says after it is all modeled and framed and "for foundation permits" con docs, he wants something done to fend off mosquitoes and black flies during bug season, so I dream up a pergola with tin roof he can get a mosquito net custom wrap for. And I do it all in Sketchup so he can see what I dreamed up. SU images attached. I was going to import the whole frame into Chief and place it under the Chief roof, but thought, hey, why not try this with Chief tools. Image attached of the Chief one, which took a little less time than the SU version.

Problem is I edited every single wall detail. Deleting it all loses all that work.

No, I did a search here and came up with that, doublechecked my file's settings, and that's not it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/01hgiyeqhc1enx3/Irvin Whitney.plan?dl=0

I have fully framed the job, and am testing to see what the material list produces for quantities. All interior wall studs are either precut 9' or 8', thus 94 5/8" or 104 5/8". It is not counting any interior wall studs or plates. Yes, I have the walls turned on. I'm set to mixed in structural reporting. For 2x4 and 2x6, I have deleted all lengths except the precut 8 and 9 lengths and 16-footers. I try a material list polyline to calculate just one wall. No plates, no studs. What's up with this?

And in conclusion, while the spike can be edited away, I still feel it is a bug and will take it to Chief. The spike should not be there to begin with. The job I would like to clean up has 49 different trusses and cleaning up the tails of each of these is just not worth it.

Wow! What a revelation! Thank you all! The truss detail layer set is something I never knew existed. Why do you suppose the default is LOCKED when a truss detail is created from a truss build? And why do you suppose that truss envelope editing is available in both the 2D section views and the 3D views, when the real editing is best done in the truss detail view?

Do I need to fly to Chief HQ in Idaho to get training? I am lost here. The "Framing, Roof Trusses" layer is unlocked as anyone who has downloaded my file can see. I make certain I select the truss and open it for spec and validate that [ ] Lock Truss Envelope is indeed unchecked. I then open the truss detail and the window displays the CAD detail of the truss and in a boundary-line envelope shows the envelope. See attached. I move the mouse to select the envelope to be able to edit it as I would any polyline. The envelope disappears. I am unable to select anything at that point.

Must be me. Here is what opens up when I select the truss for editing, and I cannot edit the truss envelope in the truss detail. I can only edit it in a clipped section view.

I thought it may have been because the specs for the roof underwent changes, going from 7.5" heel to 9.5" when Ms Truss Eng ran the loads (we're sprayfoaming the roof to R49 in the cavities), then went back and forth on plumb tails or not, added gutters, put shadowboards one and off and back on, so the truss ends kept getting messed with. So I made a small test plan, same specs for this roof but just one truss wide, and lo, the spike is there and cannot be edited away. It is something that shows in 3D if I leave the truss framing layer on. It shows in 2D sections and has to be CAD-masked to dress the section view for layout. So, yeah, it's annoying. Play with my model if you can and report. If it happens to others, I'll report it to Chief. TrussTest.plan Edit: The truss ends have been edited by me in this plan. Just place a truss alongside and you'll see what Chief produces from the "draw."

I won't post the plan yet unless necessary, but I've a 35 foot span, 7:12 roof, scissors truss with 5:12 ceiling rising up 16" then goes flat, 2x6 top chord, 18" overhang, square not plumb fascia, 2x6 subfascia, 1x8 fascia. No matter what, I get this, and when trying to edit the truss envelope (there is a 9.5" heel) to make it look real, I still get the spike.

But in real life the siding will resolve into a vertical trim board where meeting the brick.

Thanks, Michael. I did not do that, but had solved it before seeing your post. I fiddled with the SU model, generating and then manually deleting the surfaces covering the panel recesses, then grouped the model, and re-imported. All is well now. For anyone wanting this bifold door style, it is here in this revised mini-plan, and it is a match in both detailing and proportions to the Simpson door in the Chief catalog. TestIntDoor.plan

I'm putting this here and not in Symbols and Content because I have a problem to be solved, not a nice symbol to show and offer. I have a craftsman-style interior and doors are from the Simpson catalog and there is no issue with the doors. The style is the high-waisted one panel over two with flat panels and plain sticking, the top panel being about 18" high. A style seen in any images you find when searching craftsman style interiors. There was no bifold version in the Simpson content, and nothing in Chief content would give me the high-waisted two panel look, so I modeled one in Sketchup, and imported it in as a door symbol. My screencap, attached, shows the model in SU and I used the section plane to show its cut-view so you can see the recessed panel. Chief is not modeling it correctly. It seems to be filling the recessed opening plane with a surface. How can I correct this? Plan attached, plus the SU model, and the screencap. TestIntDoor.plan Craftsman III bifold slab 16 wide.skp

And while you're at it, examine your anno sets and set things up, new set or whatever, so your foundation plan and first floor framing plan annotations, CAD, etc., are all separated for display.

Some codes require headers be laterally braced by being plated with flatwise members at both top and bottom. If the header is up tight to the top wall plate, no top plate is required atop the header. This, whether the wall is an exterior one or interior. When Chief builds framing for me, it puts my specified number and sizes of plies of headers above openings, but does not place the required plates. Am I missing something in either wall settings or framing settings or window or door framing settings?

And that's what I did. Right to the roofs in place. A little editing, and done. Thanks for looking and commenting.

I have a number of roof edges in this hipped job to change from plumb eaves to square, and really need to just regenerate the subfascia. I changed the eaves specs of each and tried opening for spec a subfascia, but it did not rotate from plumb to the 7-pitch square orientation. The trussed roof arrangement is all full of manually built overframing and fills, and I don't want to lose that.

Need to go through the Rescheck thing for the latest, and wondering before I start, how accurate the Material List General section is with its thermal envelope numbers. Do any of you use the walls, window, and doors numbers straight from Chief? Interestingly, Chief gives me no figures for floor 0 of this project, one with walkout basement with much of the exterior wall being pony, i.e., framed above ground, frostwall under. I have square footage galore of framed walls and windows and doors, and the material list General section has only the concrete walls where we are fully in the ground. I am certainly not going back and redraw this thing with floor 0 being floor 1 and a 0 being only the stemwalls part, but it may have helped for the Rescheck part, if those Chief area are usable.

Agree with Joey. The problem is the spec for the foundation. You gotta check a box. Wall specification > Foundation > [ ] Sill plate Comes checked out of box. Somebody unchecked it.

IMHO, the line is architecturally correct for planview exterior doors. There's almost always a floor elevation change st these thresholds, maybe small, maybe a full step, and the line is there to represent that. I'd only want that line NOT there, if there was no change in floor elevation, and I'll go further to say no change in floor finish, either. I know a designer who always insists the front entry arrangement for a home have no step up from outside, thus his designs have either deeply canopied entrances, or are under an extension of a porte cochere. The foundations are raised there, the floor framing hung inside, and outside hardscape paving brought up to match the floor level inside.

Thanks!