GeneDavis

Hmmmm. Who to up and who to down?

Filename dot plan please. Pics help, but need the model.

Here are the plan views a really complete set of con docs might have, and each one can have a saved plan view. Plot or site plan: bounds, setbacks, building location, driveway Grading plan: cut, fill, retaining walls, boulder and rock walls, all the stuff you do to modify existing terrain. Landscape plan: the plantings and hardscape, including pools. Foundation plan. Floor 1 plan. Floor 2 plan. More if needed. Floor 0 plan. This is the buildout in or on floor 0. Roof plan. Ceiling plans for any floor needing them. Floor framing for each structural floor. Roof framing plan or plans if one has them scattered. "Zoom" plans, which I call any plan that needs a closer look to get all the built stuff defined, and kitchens and baths are included here, but staircases, home office, media rooms, studios, anything with a little cabinetry or complexity is included. Electrical plans for floors 0 on up. Plumbing plans. One of my guys always wants the DWV figured out and diagrammed. Your con docs might have more needs than these, but whatever they are, it is worth the full day or however many hours you'll take to build your template plan (or plans) to have these. As for "working" SPV, I think a no-dimensions version of the floor 0, 1, 2, etc. is right for that. If you are needing to render to show furnished and accessorized interior and exterior spaces, take copies of those un-annotated plan views and make a set for floor 0 on up, for your rendering needs.

When anno sets were introduced it was the new hotness and designed to ease the job of setting up views for layout. The cool and powerful feature of annosets was the layerset tie-in. You could either choose to specify a layerset in an annoset, or leave it as "use active layerset." I thought of it, and used it the "active" way and created annosets that "drove" views by opening up views with the specified layerset active, and having defaults all set up for text, dimensions, etc., plus the desired active CAD default set. But now Plan Views supplants all that and brings in a technique where everything a "driving" annoset (one specifying a layerset) does, plus bringing in FLOOR specificity, and ZOOM, and reference layer choice. So I'll ask the power users of Plan Views, are all your annosets now "passive," i.e., set to use active layerset, or otherwise?

Just edit the framing to what you want. Make the framers jigsaw some lumber if you want to have a laugh. It is not uncommon to see bandsawn fill members nailed into an otherwise rectilinear and properly headed opening, so as to get the required backing for finish, and nailing flange bearings. But you know that.

You know the CAD block for a symbol is editable, right? You can edit it to look like a BB gun or a guitar. Whatever. If it is missing a line, put a line there. If there are too many lines, erase the ones you don't like.

Don't go outside! if you want to view the room through a doorway from an adjoining room, draw that adjoining room.

Watch the training video "Roof Design Strategies." Very useful info.

Move roof up or down a floor is a button icon at bottom dialog box when you've selected a plane or planes.

Thanks!!

Dimensioning in wall elevation, right? Have you watched the Chief NKBA training videos?

Cannot do Chief right now until I can get to a wifi place, but want to know. Basement with lotsa room division now needs to be 103-1/4 height rough floor to rough ceiling, and not 109-1/8 as drawn. And the stemwall height changed, of course. i don't do this often, but can remember there's a right way and a way that gets you into a confusing loop of errors.

But the problem here is unique to sites with multiple buildings, when one or more but not all need to reposition relative to the scheme. As in, "I now want the workshop building moved 20 feet east and the barn rotated about 15 degrees." Hasn't this been discussed before? Doesn't each building get modeled in its own plan file and then buildings done as symbols to place around on carefully modeled terrain?

I cannot try because no wifi. Does it work with Google sheets?

Here is one of many at the 3D Warehouse, and it matches Bilco's specs exactly. I thought I had made one, but it was this. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/2bc7693a5bd3bf71db15b6fb58cfb250/Bilco-Basement-Door-Classic-Series-Steel-Sided?hl=en

I did one as just another basement room, with door between. Pretty sure the 3D Bilco hatch I made for it in Sketchup is up on the 3D Warehouse. If not there, I'll upload, and include the stairs which were of 2x PT lumber. I toured the finished job Tuesday.

Using rise times two plus run equals 25, and 6-3/4 rise, then ideal run is 11-1/2, which is OK for big spacious houses and budgets for special order treads at widths not stocked, but my ideal is 7-1/4 to 7-5/8 rise.

How 'bout a CAD patch on whichever elevations have this condtion? Fast, easy, onto the next project. If it must be 3D, a p'solid's as fast as the CAD patch. Or use a material region. I find there's a limit to these kind of things. When you compare what gets built to what you drew, the answer is "we always do it that way." And you wonder why you bothered.

That's better. Thanks. I can use the 4" slabs placed under the 4" floor slab, ID'd as FOUNDATION in the Components dialog. Itemized nicely in the material list, and easier and more flexible than using walls, for this particular plan.

I know that tool and can use it, but wish it had more options. If I've a 4" wall with a 16" pad under, I want it to go another 4", which requires a short invisible wall. i just wish Chief would add an option to the slabs and solids spec that would let the volumes tally in the concrete foundation counts. I'll make a suggestion in that subforum.

Which is where, please?

Where the basement slab has bearing loads, posts or walls, we thicken the slab appropriately, and typically use CAD and text on the foundation plan to show where and what. It can be modeled in 3D by making and placing slabs and or solids where needed. What do you do if you want it all included in the concrete count in the material list? I'd like NOT to do walls with footings and posts with footings.

Antics with semantics. What Chief is calling "panel frame" is a stile if it's vertical, a rail if horizontal, and a panel if it is the entire assembly of stiles, rails, panels, and if glass, "lites." And if it's window talk, there are sash, the movable or fixed segments all surrounded by the frame. Doors have fixed and moveable panels within their frames, but for windows those subassemblies are sash. And you can bet that elsewhere if English is spoken, the terms are all different.

So Chief hiccups, and we need to do a dive into the darkness, and heaven forbid, drag a wall? I thought that for as common a wall and roof condition as this, Chief would step in with the automatic. The automatic!

Select the N arrow to open the dialog box, and specify its angle.