GeneDavis

If you want the balloon framed wall to have top plates positioned for upright lookouts, like what is shown here You might have to edit the framing in the wall. Shown is a scissors truss arrangement inside for 10/12 vaulted ceiling under a 12/12 roof, and 2x6 upright lookouts running from inboard truss to subfacia, the lookouts bearing on the wall plates.

I've not downloaded it yet. What are the best new things?

You know you can break section lines, right? What are you needing to show? Screencaps of the issue and a plan posted here might be the quickest way to get advice. There's a camera view option the removes a wall obstructing a room view.

You've learned a valuable lesson. Always post a plan to get a quick solution.

What is the goal here and why is the surveyor not on the team? Is it to be able to view proposed buildings at various places on the acreage, all in 3D?

Sorry for the post and taking bandwidth. I got it. The plane I drew was a "regular" roof plane and I thought by specifying that overframe thing it made it a truss base. I corrected things and all is well. One thing of note. The trussmakers I know build these valley set trusses, when they get large like these, kind of like end wall trusses. Vertical chords only, spaced about 48". There is no way to edit a gable end truss and in the spec dialog, specify its chord spacing. I manually edited these in the truss details.

I somehow was able to do this before, but deleted trusses and was able to do it with rafters, but now want to make a copy of the file with the valley set trusses to show as a framing option. Main roof mixed pitch (8 and 5) has a 12 pitch cross gable that is framed in scissors trusses, the main roof trussed away from the center, needs to lay on the 12 pitch, and have a set of either stick built rafters doing the valley thing, or a truss valley set. Where the lay-ons go, I drew a roof plane, stripped it of all save its 5/8 sheathing, and specified it in structure as overframe. Here is a pic. The three roof planes above this, the section of the lower "main" roof that lays over the center gabled roof, all these three are specified in framing as being trussed. See pics here. Those three are specified in structure as having a framing depth of 3 1/2". With the three roof planes selected, I "autoframe" by clicking the framing button, and it gives me bad results. The planes get framed in 2x4 rafters, and inside the lower roof structure, the scissor truss envelope of the center roof's roof plane and vaulted ceiling plane below, I get between-truss parallel-chord trusses. How to solve?

Make a copy named Chieftalk Q. Or whatever you want to call it. Strip the file of everything but structure, i.e., take out all fixtures, furniture, 3D solids, etc., leaving just walls, floors, roof planes. Save it and close it and zip it, or if it is under 15 Mb, just attach.

How big in acres is the parcel? I did a new house on a 7 acre mountain lot and only modeled the terrain for the house footprint plus about a 40 foot larger bounds. All the cut and fill was within.

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Draw a test building in a new file. Four walls with the out-of-box Siding-6 woodframed walls. Frame it and look at the 3D framing view. It'll be studs. Go into Defaults > Framing > Exterior Wall, it should be Siding-6. Edit it so the framing layer is changed to steel, and the material down below is changed from lumber to steel C. Click OK to change the default. Your 3D view, if you had things set to autoframe, is now changed to steel.

You've watched the Chief training vid showing how easy? And the Dan Baumann one? Easier. With Chief terrain, less is more, unless the terrain is the side of a mountain with cliffs and outcrops.

Isn't the R.O. sill height lower than window bottom by half the additional height R.O. margin in the framing tab? Sounds like there is math involved. Why bother? We can include header height and R.O. W X H in the window schedule. How much more does a framer need?

What's under the slab as support, or is magic involved? There have been threads about foundations and floor structures for builds like what is typical in the tidewater areas, block piers, beams, floor structure, the single-weir brick perimeters. Have you looked at those? Very good content, with solutions.

Thanks for visiting, but HD Pro has its own forum. Most here don't know HD Pro.

Not according to the ANSI standard for residential, but what do your jurisdictions say? It matters in those whose fees for permits are based on footage. I've a client who is being charged, even for the garage.

That's what I did. Made one in solids to the exact specs for size, and from the seller's site, snipped a pic of the front for the linear fire, to paint on the opening panel. Sorry about the outlets in the pic. I forgot to turn their layer off.

When did you begin to use Chief and do you still have a template that has it in its as-shipped as-set-up config? You've obviously diddled with many of the settings. This is what is causing the unwanted results. Here's a tell. The tiny cross box atop your rim joist. Here's another. Your fur wall has one top plate, not two. Close the file, and post it here as an attachment. If large, zip. If larger, strip it of all its nonstructural stuff, then try and post it here.

In the section view, measure the ceiling height from slab to bottom of floor framing. In plan view basement, click a room, open spec > structure. Report back how room ceiling height compares to what it measured in section.

Click-select any room, or click all that have the same spec for floor sheathing and floor finish. The structure tab in the room spec dialog that opens has what you want. At the bottom of the panel, floor structure, click edit to open the spec dialog. Chief out of the box will show two lines, sheathing atop framing, and each line can be selected to activate a structure type (or not). Note the choices. Framing. Detail as insulation. Air gap. Or don't check one. The top line, typically subfloor at 3/4" plywood or OSB, gets a no select (no one of the three are checked). The second line, typically framing like sawn lumber, i-joists, open web trusses, whatever, that line is going to be checked as framing, and the floor when framed will be autoframed with that material at the spacing specified elsewhere. Up-page, same panel, there is another box you can edit where floor finish is specified. Again, you can oreo-cookie up some layers, like for example, engineered t&g wood over a thin foam layer. Again, you can specify any layer as framing, and you must have done this, as you must have done for the sheathing in the floor structure dialog. Please consider spending maybe 40 hours to watch many of the training videos on Chief's website. You seem to be playing monte carlo Chief right now.

Looks like your subfloor and floor finish layers are turned on, and you checked each of those as "framing."

Duh. Thanks, Glenn.

If the Google Drive thing does not work, let's see if Microsoft One Drive can. This file has the change I spoke of upthread, in which I masked the offending lines with a white CAD p'line. You can select it and delete it, and you'll get the offending display of the pony wall in the Foundation SPV. Bly floor trusses.plan

I ended up masking it with a CAD polyline, color white, brought to front in drawing order. Who knows why it's there?

Here is the plan file. I compared the SPV, wall types, and settings to other plans I have done with this ponywall arrangement in walkout foundation configs, and this is the only one that behaves like this. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yxzkvTqCuGMCJHK7vgk1okSv6GEbLeh2/view?usp=drive_link