GeneDavis

This is from a Chief Architect Premier model? How would we know? Do a signature please. Sort of like mine. Software being used, hardware on which it runs, other relevant info.

Thanks!

I cannot find where to do this. Gimme a hint, please. I'd like to do it in defaults so as not to have to go wall by wall already built. I can change the material to OSB vertical in the default for exterior wall sheathing, but where is the key for the size?

I recall watching a Chief training video on trusses, and the ceiling planes were draw with baselines at the outside of exterior walls. If there is no plane to stop the wall, the wall will reach up to whatever stops it. I'm completing a set of con docs right now for a shed-roofed house, and found i-joists to be much better, cost-wise, than parallel chord trusses.

And if this is your absolute need, gotta have it, write it up in the Suggestions section. For me, the sloped sections would be drawn like the way we draw roof planes. The image shown here is of a 22 x 22 2-car garage, sloped the way one of my builder clients does it. His flatwork sub places screeds to get it right.

Garage floor slopes are typically more complex, with hips and valleys. I just draw the lines and annotate. No one has ever asked for 3D realism in something so subtle.

If you just absolutely must have it for 3D realism and the customer is paying for it, draw the 4" slab and put a 3D solid wedge atop, 2.5" to zero.

Well, there's a nice outside-the-box solution. i like it!

Or do it with 3D solids, exploded, so you can wood-grain texture the faces appropriately.

I can't find it.

I needed one so modeled it in SU and did the import/make to achieve a light fixture. So here is a plan with the one I used in a plan (for hanging from a 3:12 vaulted ceiling, and one that is level. The level one is "raw," in that it needs editing to add lights and do textures. The one with the pitched canopy/transformer housing is set up with an array of 3/8 dia. point lights inside the LED light cavity. The cavity has a 1/16 thick lens I textured as Lighting White with 100 percent transparency, which one might want to tweak a little. Wac Volo Linear LED Pendants.plan

Dave's not here.

I don't know how and need guidance. I made a corner shelf in a shower using the slab tool, and cannot figure how to address my situation, which is one texture on the edge, and another on the top. Two different. I converted it into a 3D solid and that did not help. I want the same 3x6 subway tile on both these faces, and know I have to make a version for each to handle direction and origin.

I'm a fan of these, because they light a dining table so nicely, and are relatively inexpensive. If you gotta do a $6,500 chandelier over the dining table in that big vaulted space, do so, but I prefer enough can lights for general lighting, always dimmable, and one of these for each two table settings. Modeled in Sketchup and imported and lit with 4 little point lights right up against where the LEDs are in the real ones, this one is modeled after one of the better products available from Amazon.com. 14" h. x 4" dia., matte dark gray. Table lamp rechargeable.plan

My problem stems from too much focus on 3D realism. Can lights in Chief ceilings appear as paste-on disks, and don't give us a good representation of one when there is a recessed lens, with cone or baffle. I made a symbol for a WAC recessed can light, a model that has a rotating lamp to work with pitched ceilings up to 20 degrees, and rotated the lamp 14 degrees to be right for my 3:12 pitch. Without a hole, the light has the ceiling cutting through it, and does not look correct. I'll live with it and forego any try for a workaround, but will log a suggestion that flush can recessed ceiling lights need to be able to cut holes in ceilings.

But I don't want holes in the roof. Only the ceiling.

How does one do this subtraction? There is no ceiling plane per se. The room is specified as the roof structure "being" the ceiling, as is common for vaulted roofs with finish applied directly to rafters.

The room is under a roof framed with 16" i-joists. I want to cut some 4" dia. holes, and placed a CAD circle, but it won't convert to ceiling hole.

Use the room dividers and put them on a layer you can turn off. Room def defines ceiling structure.

Floor structure is a room setting not a joist setting. You don't edit the joists for height. You edit the floor structure of the room. With autoframing on, Chief will change the joists from whatever to your new whatever height. What was it, 9.5 but needing 11.875.

Ryan said it and I said it way upthread. It's not done in Chief. You rotate in your printing program. Here is an image of a page of a print set. The page orientation is landscape, but as can be seen, I rotated it in Adobe for printing in portrait mode.

I ended up doing the smoothing angle thing, doing a regen of the CAD block, then SAVING not just closing. Thanks, all.

A pedestal sink in the Chief Kohler manufacturer library has incorrect 3D, so I got a good one from Kohler and inserted it. The generated 2D CAD block is inadequate for 2D plan view, so I opened it in CAD Block management. The images below show the plan view with the auto-generated CAD block that doesn't pick up the lines from Kohler's 3D, a 3D view, how the block looks in the dialog box, and how it looks after I edited it in CAD. Why are my edits not taking?

Thanks, Brett. That did it.

Base molding in a bathroom, and I want to delete the run across the shower wall. Should I have manually drawn the molding instead of doing it in room spec?