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That's not the look we want, but thanks. We do a Shaker-door look always, and the open-shelf cab gets a frame on its front the equivalent of the door on the adjacent cab, but with no center panel. i can 3D model this with perfection to show the client the look. Just turn that cab's door panel to open-no-material. But the 2D elevation view isn't true. I cannot see shelves, and the dashed-line swing indicator is there.

First, I cannot upload any attachments other than pics because no wifi and I only have my phone to post here. Frameless wall cabinets abut this one, but this one has a faceframe and no door, thus the shelves are visible. i get the look I want by specifying a frameless cab, a glass door, change the glass material to open no material. But in elevation or section, I don't see the shelves, and I get the hinged door opening indicator dashed diags. Unable to use a door panel meaning fixed door, because that way I don't get to control shelves.

At jambs and head, then profiled sill with or without apron under. How done? And if difficult, let's ask Chief for an improvement. This detail is done in hundreds of thousand of windows every year. Maybe not with the bullnose bead, but drywall returns are huge in the biz.

I have Commander Compass and we'll give it a try next week. We'll stake out a grid and use the phone to determine grade at each point.

Who charges a lot and makes me wait.

Anybody know of any? My dream is to be able to go onto a lot with my phone, move to locations anywhere on the lot, and select-click to establish elevation data, corners, features such as trees and water bounds, and be able to use it to quickly generate Chief terrain.

With no wifi here, I cannot attach a pic, but I'll try to be clear with my question. The roof design has two half-hipped gables (a.k.a. "Jerkinhead" roof), the pitches all same, the short hips crossing the gable walls at about the 1/3 points on one, more like 40-20-40 ratio the other. in plan view, does one dimension for location of these hips a) where the hip line intersects the building line (outer framing layer line), or b) where the hip line ends at roof edge.

Level 0 is the walkout basement, with a slab floor inside concrete stemwalls. The walkout walls are done as pony walls, wood-framed atop the slab elevation, frost-wall stemwalls below. To show the floor plan in layout I set the pony wall exterior walls to display upper framed walls. To show foundation plan, I set those walls to display the lower concrete walls. The problem is layout. How do I get the pony walls showing upper in the floor plan, and lower in the foundation plan? Is the workaround making a copy of the plan to use just for that foundation plan?

Why won't this X11 plan frame on 16"? Every time I reframe it the rafters are spaced at 24". https://www.dropbox.com/s/pff3diuhyuh16et/Wilson cottage updated.plan?dl=0

Thanks, everybody! I went to the archives and snaked out a copy of the plan before I mucked it up with level changes, and got busy doing pony wall specs, and dragging footings and walls down where needed, and now I remember it's what I did before for these walkouts. I just don't get enough practice.

I suppose I could start over, but I've forged ahead and now have gotten myself stuck. See the plan, attached. I'd like the basement slab to be at elevation zero, and am close, but the structure specs have me confused. Note that the lower level floor (floor 1), cannot be selected for room spec. Room specs for floor 0 (the no-room basement, i.e. foundation) and floor 1, the walkout lower level, need fixing. Wilson cottage updated.plan

Thanks, Perry. So having built it already as walkout floor is 0 and main floor is 1, I'll need to raise the roof an appropriate amount, build floor 2, exchange 1 for 2, then exchange 0 for 1, and then go to work on zero to get the foundation I want. Right?

I'm about to begin a plan for a friend that is a single story above a full walkout basement level, a very simple arrangement with the main footprint just doubled down. Having done these before but long ago, I cannot remember (nor do I have the plans available) whether I did the walkout level as floor 1 or floor 0. Floor 0 will have more than half of its walls wood-framed, and its slab floor will have 4-foot frostwalls under at the full-exposure locations. So, should I built that lower level as the basement (level 0) or as level 1?

I take a section cut in a plan begun in 10 and it takes almost a minute to generate the render. What's up?

Is it out? I'm on a cellphone and cannot dig into it.

Or you can make the floor structure as two elements, one the part that will get the hollowcore planks, the other the 'crete topping. Make the hollowcore part with material "open no material," then import your properly sized planks from Sketchup and precision-place as required. Get as crazy as you want with this floor structure, including lagging the bottom of the planks and then sheetrocking over. Someone already did the hollowcore for us and I attached an image from the 3D Warehouse.

You're unhappy with just making the floor a concrete slab at total thickness of span product plus topping? CAD details will show what to do with ease.

How did you do that?

You're right, Chris. My error. Preference settings are program. Who knows what goes on with Rocky's preferences. But if his snapping was all off, how did he draw all those walls orthagonally? As for roof building, there are scads of good videos out there to show a new user the way. Here is one that is quite relevant to the problem the OP has with his plan, and it is from Chief, and only a year old.

I just reopened the Ashley Close plan the OP posted, and the snaps are not turned off. Here is a screenshot of his preference settings. Seems to me it would take some mouseclick gymnastics to draw roof planes as he did with baselines not orthagonal, or not snapped to his walls. Mr Shepheard, I'm sorry I offended you with my earlier post. Is your dyslexia such that you can only read forum posts, but not watch training videos?

I was in second year engineering school long long ago, and the core curriculum required all of us to take a course called "Numerical Methods." Each week we were posed a problem that required a solution requiring the computer. The machine, the only one on campus, took up half the first floor of the computer center building. It was a Univac 1107, and all program entry was via punched cards. The language we used was Algol, a variant of Cobol. We were not taught to code in the class, but expected to learn it via the manual available at the bookstore, page-format in size and one inch thick. You figured out what you wanted the computer to do, and then wrote a program to solve the problem and print the results. We punched our cards at keypunch machines and stacked our decks, then stood in line at the card reader to run our decks, then again in line at the printer, to get our results. You had to be pretty good to get a successful run the first time. Precise editing of the code was required, and good skills at the keypunch desks. The computer science grad students were in charge of the whole shebang, and they wrote the error messages, one of which came at you in all caps if you failed to get a run in six attempts. It read "Do not attempt to learn Algol by monte-carlo methods. Read your manual." We've got an OP here named Rocky intent on learning Chief by monte-carlo methods. It is entertaining, but the process is getting a little wearisome.

Tile the 3D view and floor plan. Just as is shown right from the beginning in this training video. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5447/roof-basics.html?playlist=95 Have you watched this video? Have you watched all the training videos in the roof series?

None of his four pitches have their baselines parallel to walls. Mr Rocky needs some training. And some time with the videos. And a lot of practice.

Explain to us why you would draw a roof baseline not parallel to the wall on which the roof sits, in this plan. And further, how such a roof would be framed.

Take a moment to fill out your signature so it includes the Chief Architect software you are using, and a little about your system. Up on top right, click on your name, then > Settings > Signature, then type it all in. Those seen here are polyline solids, created in elevation view, then placed in plan view after doing some mirrored copies.