GeneDavis

Tight? If wall is 4.5", stair sections need to be that space apart. No Chief 4 me right now.

Make the wall a solid railing wall, the do the Solver expedition through the specs.

I've done that, Perry. And all the other setup work with new layers for the foundation anno, CAD, callouts, dimensions, and more. But as I said, Chief could have given us this, since they did all the setup work for many other SPVs. In Scott's excellent webinar on SPVs, he shows using his foundation SPV for preparing the view for layout and the CDs.

Ceiling planes and soffits. Have you tried? Seen training videos about it?

Am I missing something? Chief gives us a pretty nice out-of-box template with X12, but for those of us who build foundations with stemwalls and a floor 0 with some room finish, we need additional SPV and defaults setup to do. Why no support for foundation structure?

Having built with these, and living with one now, I'd recommend raising that shed roof a foot to give the hot vent more vertical clearance.

Thanks I'll undo and finish it up.

Sure, I'll try that, but my b&b is the entire attic wall and the top 15" of the wall below. Presumed all MR details had to be within a wall's bounds, and don't want to see joints along line where attic wall bears on wall below.

But drawn on same wall.

To avoid complicating the batten work with material regions. The b+b region begins at window head height, more than a foot below ceiling height.

Cannot post the plan so here goes. In a second floor exterior wall under a full gable, the wall top equals ceiling height of 97-1/8" and above that wall is stacked an auto generated attic wall. The wall finish outside is claps up to 81.5" window height and board/batten above up to the soffits. Wanting to do the battens and the horizontal trim band they terminate on as material regions, I deleted the attic wall and 1. Redefined the second floor wall as a pony wall and set its height 2. Redefined wall structure as goes thru ceiling above But in elevation there is no upper part of the pony wall visible. Lower yes, upper no.

This has been discussed previously, and the consensus seemed to be paper and pencil plus a well-rehearsed program is quickest and best. Tools are laser tape, tape, ladders, levels, clamps, sticks, small pieces of board for laser target, and more, depending on your program.

Great job, Rocky! Your questions were posed clearly, backed up with an annotated image, you included the plan file, and the thread title gave us the content! A model for us all. I gave you an upvote.

I'd like someone to do a video of what Joey did. He has a backclipped section of a "bump" on a house, the house in light gray beyond the section cut of the bump, and it was done without masking. The section cut is in heavier lineweight and black. And Joey says it is not a CAD detail from the view.

I'd like to know the method, also. Sure seems as if at some point, the view has to be converted to all CAD. I cannot get line selection any other way. An alternate way is to draw two plans, one of what you want to show in grey fog, the other the full remodel. Superimpose two views, one done with gray plot lines, the other in stark black.

Are you editing a CAD Detail From View, Joey?

How can you get precision placement in stacked views? Point to point won't work unless I'm doing it with dead views (not live), and I want the elevations to be live.

In a recent thread, Joey Martin showed a section view with the cut all done with heavier line weights, while back, the rest of the house is in fog. Not really in fog, but lesser line weights and less black more gray. He alluded to the technique being done using an annoset. We've had other threads about this or something like this used to do elevations. How do you go about achieving this?

Drawing dashed-line slabs works for me, and they get put on the same layer as other footings.

Been discussed before. Not easy. The positioning of the valley plates Is tough, and the seat cuts for the rafters bearing on the plates is tougher. Best to just do a 2D CAD detail. I do them in 3D using Sketchup.

Out of curiosity, who needs and uses the info portrayed thus? I'll do that for exterior walls and any interior walls that have special header details or blocking for timber work or in-wall posts with drops to point out. You can always do CAD details from wall framing detail views and point to point stitch it all together in layout.

Do a web search for "wall dormer" images and you'll see quite a few. I tried to auto build one but couldn't. Chief doesn't have a shed roof button for the lower end of a shed roof.

You want Chief to auto build it?

We've got a 34x34 corner with pie-hinged doors, a 32" susan inside, and it sure holds a lot of pots and pans.

I can see what's in the drawer just looking down through!