GeneDavis

What exactly do you want the material list to report? Draw a simple 4 wall house, put in one door, one window, auto-build the roof, draw a foundation under it, slab or stemwalls, your choice, auto-frame the whole thing, then generate the all-floors material list. Examine it carefully and then come back here and tell us with specifics, what won't work for you. AFAIK, the only thing you can control as to how quantities are reported is the framing. If you have and use Excel, you can export it as such, open in Excel, and change it to whatever you need.

Thanks! I found the one I did three years ago, and recall what I got into doing it. Using Sketchup, I modeled one of Kohler's SS apron sinks, imported it into Chief, and then used the Kohler top cutout template data to create the cutout polyline that's the part of the sink symbol's CAD block that does the cutout. It was that exercise that taught me about how symbols that insert into cab tops cut counters. Yours is great and does what mine does not, which is to ease the cutout's top edge. For max reality when doing 3D renders, yours is best.

I never do these except once and recall having to make a new CAD block for the symbol so it worked.

I've done that and it does not give good results for me.

Thanks, Joey. I'll write up a suggested improvement. Doing it manually, and with returns, would be tedious.

Is there a way to get beyond simply check-boxing an apron under the sill, and specifying a molding?

What are you looking to get the material list to report? Do you know how to manage reporting for the framing? It can be as simple as total lf per type, it can be a buy list in standard lengths with scrap figured, or it can report out all the actual lengths in the build.

Have you fully drawn a building, then built all framing, then generated an all-floors material list?

I could do a Chief-drawn kitchen from a Sketchup-drawn one in 30 minutes or less. SU model in one window, Chief in another. SU's tape measure is the tool used. Chief is ridiculously rich in features for building the cabinets to any config, then lighting the room, putting appliances in cabinets, oh, and moldings.

I use both in every project and cannot imagine doing what you want to do. What's your need? 3D renders? Kitchen and bath plans, elevations, and details? Construction docs? i use SU to do staircase workouts, create furniture amd fixtures, and do framing elements Chief cannot do as readily as with SU. Show us what you have and we can offer better help. The only snaps you get from an imported SU model is at the bounding corners and centerpoints of edges, and only in plan view.

Home Designer has their own forum. This is the Chief Architect forum.

Thanks! That's it!

Pic is of installation

That's not the look we want, but thanks. We do a Shaker-door look always, and the open-shelf cab gets a frame on its front the equivalent of the door on the adjacent cab, but with no center panel. i can 3D model this with perfection to show the client the look. Just turn that cab's door panel to open-no-material. But the 2D elevation view isn't true. I cannot see shelves, and the dashed-line swing indicator is there.

First, I cannot upload any attachments other than pics because no wifi and I only have my phone to post here. Frameless wall cabinets abut this one, but this one has a faceframe and no door, thus the shelves are visible. i get the look I want by specifying a frameless cab, a glass door, change the glass material to open no material. But in elevation or section, I don't see the shelves, and I get the hinged door opening indicator dashed diags. Unable to use a door panel meaning fixed door, because that way I don't get to control shelves.

At jambs and head, then profiled sill with or without apron under. How done? And if difficult, let's ask Chief for an improvement. This detail is done in hundreds of thousand of windows every year. Maybe not with the bullnose bead, but drywall returns are huge in the biz.

I have Commander Compass and we'll give it a try next week. We'll stake out a grid and use the phone to determine grade at each point.

Who charges a lot and makes me wait.

Anybody know of any? My dream is to be able to go onto a lot with my phone, move to locations anywhere on the lot, and select-click to establish elevation data, corners, features such as trees and water bounds, and be able to use it to quickly generate Chief terrain.

With no wifi here, I cannot attach a pic, but I'll try to be clear with my question. The roof design has two half-hipped gables (a.k.a. "Jerkinhead" roof), the pitches all same, the short hips crossing the gable walls at about the 1/3 points on one, more like 40-20-40 ratio the other. in plan view, does one dimension for location of these hips a) where the hip line intersects the building line (outer framing layer line), or b) where the hip line ends at roof edge.

Level 0 is the walkout basement, with a slab floor inside concrete stemwalls. The walkout walls are done as pony walls, wood-framed atop the slab elevation, frost-wall stemwalls below. To show the floor plan in layout I set the pony wall exterior walls to display upper framed walls. To show foundation plan, I set those walls to display the lower concrete walls. The problem is layout. How do I get the pony walls showing upper in the floor plan, and lower in the foundation plan? Is the workaround making a copy of the plan to use just for that foundation plan?

Why won't this X11 plan frame on 16"? Every time I reframe it the rafters are spaced at 24". https://www.dropbox.com/s/pff3diuhyuh16et/Wilson cottage updated.plan?dl=0

Thanks, everybody! I went to the archives and snaked out a copy of the plan before I mucked it up with level changes, and got busy doing pony wall specs, and dragging footings and walls down where needed, and now I remember it's what I did before for these walkouts. I just don't get enough practice.

I suppose I could start over, but I've forged ahead and now have gotten myself stuck. See the plan, attached. I'd like the basement slab to be at elevation zero, and am close, but the structure specs have me confused. Note that the lower level floor (floor 1), cannot be selected for room spec. Room specs for floor 0 (the no-room basement, i.e. foundation) and floor 1, the walkout lower level, need fixing. Wilson cottage updated.plan

Thanks, Perry. So having built it already as walkout floor is 0 and main floor is 1, I'll need to raise the roof an appropriate amount, build floor 2, exchange 1 for 2, then exchange 0 for 1, and then go to work on zero to get the foundation I want. Right?