GeneDavis

Trying to help a builder friend with a project, file attached. Rooms are not labeled yet, but the mudroom should be evident between house and garage. Owner wants to access basement from the mudroom. The plan is not mine, the owner has an architect that drew it exactly as I modeled it, not realizing the stairs he drew won't work. Floor system entire main floor is a combo of 11-7/8 I-joists with 3/4 OSB sheathing, and then a 3" concrete slab that will be ground and polished. Think terrazzo. The large room with the floor pit is a gym with one of those endless exercise swim pools. If you can redraw things to stair-access the basement from that mudroom area, we'd be much obliged. MirrorLake.plan

I've been trying that. Thanks.

And I have searched the web and YouTube in vain. I've a house I want to model for which the main front and rear elevations are curved walls.

For a friend's sister who lives in a new house, needs a lanscape plan and renderings done in order to see her vision, and for getting some quotes. My problem is the project has curved walls and I am totally stumped as to how to manage them. The project area is relatively flat, carved out of a gently sloping hillside with the concave side of the house plan bounding one side, and a concave retaining wall on the other. The gear includes an outdoor kitchen, container swimming pool, dog fence and exercise area, dining, firepit, all that stuff. Two photos attached, plus a screencap of my feeble try with curved walls. No real house design work needed, just enough modeling to be able to do some exterior rendering of the landscape work.

Got a symbol for one?

We like the Simpson screws, SWDC.

Do a search. That same question has been asked, and answered. Edit: The search function apparently does not search the archives of Chieftalk before the recent update. Or whatever. I used Google to search and came up with this. There are more. http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread.php?62715-A-Commercial-Bathroom-Stall-Partition-quot-How-To-quot-using-Railings

Are your customers wanting plans? Meaning, drawings, whether paper or .pdf files? Or do they want something like a file type that plugs into systems they are using?

Thanks to both of you. I'll try both and see, but had gone ahead with molding polylines, one to do the segments up to the door heads, the other above. Repeat copy up in the z direction. The gables are p-line solids.

I want to model a building that is going to house limb-wood fuel for a maple-sugar farm. 1x3 slats will be applied horizontally with 3/4-inch space between, and that is it. No other finish on the framing outside or in. Can this be done in Chief? I have not begun yet, and was wondering how a molding polyline might do, a vertical string of 1x3s in section, to get me up to plate height. I can do p-solids to front the gable ends.

I had done the front piers as elements of a foundation wall. I changed them to slabs and all is well.

I've got piers elsewhere on the plan with no issue. They are under the deck at rear. They are on their own layer, and the ones under the front porch are on their own separate layer. Sayers.plan

Version 10. I created these on the first floor and now want them to show on the foundation level 0. Trying to cut and paste in place, I get this message. And no layers are locked.

I was in the door biz, and we shipped a lot of product to the SFB area. If their callout methods were different from everywhere else in the US, I would have known it. Excepting high end work, exterior entry doors in residential construction are not beveled on the lock edge, and are called out as RH or LH. Inswing is default, so outswing is called when needed. Interior doors typically get beveled edges and are called out as only RH or LH. It's when ordering locking hardware that's not reversible that one has to be paying particular attention to this, and this is when "reverse" comes into play, and only for interior doors.

You, your mouse, and Chief"s excellent framing edit tools.

Looks loke you are trying to copy a plan found on a website. Link us to the site, and maybe someone will show you how.

Two different fascia heights. The front gable arrangement is lowered from the main and the back ell.

If you've got 2x2 balusters face-nailed to those upright 2x4 rails and shoes, you might need to continue modeling for true 3D representation.

Pretty large opening headers for a gable end. If I was paying for the lumber I would have someone check it.

Free Sketchup is, well, free. Easy to download and install. You want to learn at least the basics of exploding models and editing materials before you go with it for Chief. Open up a new blank SU file using the application, and with the 3D Whse function, download whatever you want into your SU file. Examine it carefully for size, geometry, and if needed, explode things to be able to get at the materials for all the surfaces you want for have separate materials. Edit your materials the way you want them. Resize the model if needed using the tools available. I often just use the 3D scale tool to stretch or shrink. When done, save it and give it a name. Now you have a file on your drive you can import directly to Chief.

And be prepared to dimension and annotate them yourself.

I've built with ICF and am curious to know why one would want to see a 3D view of a such a structure this way. Who needs to view the concrete core as if the styrofoam forms were stripped away? And why?

Spend an hour with all the dialog boxes for railings. Check and uncheck, change fills in the display, newel sizes, balusters, everything. You'll learn a lot.

I think you had better edit your signature line. Click on your name upper right, go to settings, then create a signature script. It should include which version of Chief, and something about the system on which you run it. We cannot offer specific advice without knowing this.

Will the OP please enter the room and tell us if Michael's quick and easy solution (fillers) will be used? I love getting into the weeds of the builds, because I detail stuff like this for CNC fabrication, but I'm betting the need here is for simple representation, just as is shown in Michael's post, above.