GeneDavis

But, what's the best route to the look shown in the original post. I'm thinking CAD, use a grid, and draw the brick-lines using snaps. I'm trying to imagine the custom hatch that would deliver that look. It would have to be a great big thing to be able to have the nice randomness of what was shown. A suggestion for Chief for next release?

Yup, there it is. Third from the bottom. It's not easy to find Waldo when he's a blank!

Thanks, all. I tried both methods and both work. So, Bill, would you change your wall-move way and use the invisible wall junction way?

For the brick wainscot wall I have on a face elevation, client wants it to wrap only 12 inches on adjacent sides. Framing is 2x6. I have this as a pony wall and need the pony wall length on the return side to be 12 inches. I cannot get (or force) the wall break for this pony wall to be that close. Closest I can get is 14 and a fraction. What controls this?

Thanks! That was it. Closed the section view and, voila!

I wish for the section camera, which I am displaying as a callout on my floor plan for layout, to only display in that plan for layout. It is in my framing plan and I do not know how to turn off its display. Please advise.

It may be worth it to learn enough Sketchup skills to be able to do symbols like that.

You all are correct in saying I did this bass-ackwards. I have since schooled myself and corrected the model by using the foundation build dialog. All is now perfect. Thanks!

Thanks! That did it for me.

Anybody? I need to know how to get the file linkages right, model file to layout file.

Well, mine was set to that in the wall spec, but the monoslab foundation edge went out to the outside of the outside finish layer. Not the slab, mind you, but the integrally-poured perimeter footing underneath it. I had to use the foundation offset feature to get things to look right for me.

To get this building to model with a thickened-edge slab, single-pour, I specified the walls as "foundation," and set the spec for the foundation to align to wall. See attached. But Chief models it with the slab edge to the outside of finish. How do I correct? Edit: Fixed it. Unchecked "align" and specified the appropriate offset. Sorry to make you look!

Got it. Thanks.

Here is the file link (DropBox): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17835038/16080%20Ivanhoe.plan All was going well until I started to edit the foundation, which is a mono slab with perimeter footing. I have lost my proper walls. Somehow I did a wall spec wrong, and I cannot figure out the recovery. Trusses are as I want them, and sidewalls are framed correctly. But walls left the scene, somehow, and I cannot now frame the gable end walls under the end trusses.

Lock it.

These are ubiquitous and should be part of Chief's package, but it will be a challenge to get it right. It will require the the Chief programmers obtain clear specs. I'll go ahead and begin a thread in the SUGGESTIONS section, and maybe we can collectively get them the right information.

I'm on the smartphone & away from Chief, and so cannot check. Is this available from the library as a window treatment, with all the controls for stacking and panelizing, and so that louver count goes up as height increases, etc.?

Here is an Austin builder showing how the detail is done in a 2x6 wall, no doubling. They frame the opening in the 2x6 large, then sub-frame inside with 2x4. This yields a 2 inch recess. The builder I spoke with north of San Antonio was achieving a 6 inch recess with the doubled wall.

I've no solution, but when I was seeing that look down in Texas last year, I asked the builder how it was framed, and he said they doubled the walls where the embedded windows were to be. 2x6 out, 2x4 in. Where I saw it, the detail only appeared on street-side windows. All stucco, the stucco returns at the windows bullnosed with large radius corners. The look of windows in 18th century mission buildings.

Thanks, Joe. Impressive work. A very useful piece of annotation, and it's smart.

I am going to write a request in SUGGESTIONS that Chief add the feature to the cabinet build dialog. But note this about specifying. Mr Gulfshore Design, and you gotta admit his work is quite good, and his contractors do excellent realizations of his designs, does not need to model it in 3D. Attached is one of his cab elevations, and I have highlighted the "money quote," the key piece of annotation that describes how he sees the cabinet face arrangement.

Beaded faceframes with inset doors is an extremely common look, particularly in Maine. Go here to this guy's blog and scroll through the pics and see. Actually, enjoy any of his stuff there, cause there is a bunch. http://www.gulfshoredesign.com/blog/?m=201402 But why is it so important to see it in a Chief rendering or 2D elevation? Can't you just get by doing plain inset doors and drawerfronts, and let the rest happen in real life? Don't any of the manufacturer libraries have this feature?

Specify? As in, use a dialog box, call it all out with sizes, dimensions, colors, etc., and voila! Chief models it for you in 3D? What are you asking for, exactly? You can use the 3D tools to model it all, exactly the way you want, if you need to get the look you need in 3D, but if time is money, and it is, why not just do it using CAD details and specify it that way, so it gets built right?

For use as a background? There are plenty on the web for you to copy.

Did this in Sketchup and put it up on the 3D Warehouse. It is all one color except for the mirrored upper panels, and the brass and plastic-tipped coat hooks. About 32 inches wide by 6 feet tall. Hope you like it! Search for "hall coat tree bench" and you'll find it.