GeneDavis

Looks as if you might want to edit either the roof pitch, roof height, or overhang length of that cross-roof gable at the far end if you want fascia heights to match.

Can the cab really be made as a unit? Can you make it as a single in Chief? See the recent thread about a 2 sink vanity. We need more info to be able to help.

Rob, by now you probably have figured this out. One cannot generate a brick ledge unless the brick layer of the wall is designated EXTERIOR in the wall layer spec. In the image below, you can see that I have the 3-5/8" brick and the 1-3/8" air gap both in that exterior layer group. Generating the foundation gives me the proper and as-specified 5" deep ledge. To get the dimensions in plan view to pull from the outside of brick (and foundation) you select the brick layer as the one for dimensions, as shown.

Take a screencap of your wall def dialog and show it here. Bet you have the framing as your main layer. Change the wall def by grouping everything as the main layer and then do auto ext dims again. Show us the result.

Chief is dimensioning to the outside of whatever layer, in your wall specification, is defined as the main one. It is finding walls, not slab edges.

OK I get the blocking. I don't do these as a single unit, so the single-cab thing isn't something I'd do. Wouldn't one just do a comment about two sinks in the cab schedule? My plans don't specify or schedule out plumbingware, so I guess I just didn't understand the specifics here.

What is the blocking about? I drew a single basecab, edited it to 72 width, fiddled with the front specs to get a 28 wide opening at each end, placed a sink, moved it away from center, placed a second sink freestanding and moved it into place, and I think I am done. Did not do the work to edit the stack at the center into a 3 or 4-drawer array, but the sinks are there where needed.

Well maybe yes, Michael, but select>click>select>click>select>click is what it takes me in my neanderthal setup without hotkeys, to extend a cad line or framing element. Select>click-hold>drag>release is faster. And aren't we talking about faster?

Productivity? In Chief CAD, one selects the line with a click, selects EXTEND command, then selects the line to be extended to the first, and the line extends. Three mouse moves to select and click. Two, maybe, if one has a hotkey for EXTEND. Clicking a wall and then dragging its end to extend it to the desired wall intersect seems faster to me, than if we had the means to extend with the command we have in CAD. In what floor-plan-drawing scenario would one have a number of unconnected walls, interior or exterior, needing to extend-connect to a single other wall? Am I missing something here? Because extending in CAD (or in framing) using the FENCE tool is quite productive, but I cannot imagine a floor plan-drawing scenario with a bunch of walls needing to be extended.

No tilt to the baseline. Pitch is negative 5:12 from high edges.

Here is a single roof plane on a 24x24 plan, pitch set to 4", baseline angle set to -10 degrees. Its mirror image is all that's needed to complete your desired shape. Your pitch and baseline angle can be changed to suit.

I built this one manually, and am OK with the result, except that the fascia and shadowboards don't miter properly. It is a tiny thing, so I just ignore it.

Edit your truss envelope so as to get the ledger notch. Frame the ledger by hand, and same for the blocking. Chief does a lot for us using the spec dialogs, but for this, you gotta do a little yourself.

In my Win10 setup I find I have to do a restart to correct that, even with the Win toolbar set to hide.

Zip the .layout file and attach it, and I or someone else will print to .pdf and then post the result. If it's under the size limit, it may attach without need for the zip. Try that, first. You won't get help from the ghoster, but you will from us.

Well. Mr Tiny House, I think you have likely lost most of us here at the forum, who in future will see a post from you and click right past. Any quick foray into Chief's HELP dialogs when exploring the dimension defaults setup would have exposed the term "secondary" which you gotta admit is getting near your preferred term of "dual." So dual off, guy.

Here is two room house I quickly sketched. I selected the interior wall. Look at the picture. And fill out your signature (if you are a Chief Premium user) so we know. If using Home Designer or something else, find the appropriate forum to post your question.

Be sure and open the breaker before trying this!

I changed the glass in on of the pendants to "lighting white" and moved the light source down to 55" so it is inside the shade, not above it. I also set the number of light fixtures to be on to 100, from 20.

The ones in the kitchen? OK for me.

You drew a one room house. House area is measured to outside of walls, not middle or inside. Check with your local jurisdiction to find how property records are done for taxation, for bank lending, and in doing building permitting. Real estate goes the same way, to outside of building lines. Room figures are typically given in inside wall to wall dimensions, not in areas.

Putting these 3D birdseye view of a floor on the CDs seems all the rage. Look at all the Chief sample plans. How does one get the best resolution? I bring up the view in Chief, carefully orient it, and then export a picture. Importing into layout, I don't see the resolution I would like.

That function is available in other CAD packages but in Chief you need to work around it with a patch. In the two images, you can see the dimension as generated, the patch, and the patch moved to cover the true dimension.

Try it yourself. Go into a wall detail with whatever dimension default you want to use, turn off the framing finds, and you'll see you cannot get a dimension pulled. Then draw two vertical parallel CAD lines and dimension with end to end or baseline. Now pull OFF THAT dimension to snap dims to other points. It'll find all the stud edges, when it would not before. It's like the starter in making bread.

Well excuse me! That was it! But the big question remains, which is with the preference for framing find (edge or center) OFF, why does it start to find edges or centers when one begins a string using CAD lines?