GeneDavis

I've a room with no ceiling specified, and have placed 4:12 pitch ceiling planes to make a vaulted ceiling. The 7:12 roof is a few feet above. I want to frame this ceiling. Ceiling joists are not working. They do not pitch at the required 4:12. Roof rafters won't work, as they want to track the roof above. What to do here? I can make p'line solids and call them ceiling joists, layer control, etc. Is that what I have to do?

And be sure, as Joe did, to put your hardware on the door symbol. If you don't, the only way to get hardware is with the standard Chief spec dialog, and you won't like the results.

A common thing in showers everywhere. See attached photo. Door shorter by maybe a foot, in this case, door at 80 inches, opening at 96. No way in the door spec dialog to do this, I believe. What's your favorite method for getting this look?

Ah, double-click. Who'da thunk it? What threw me off what that when selecting the entire polyline, the MAKE PARALLEL was not there to choose. I now just select a line. And double-click. Thanks, Andy.

A common need when drawing details. I draw a roof edge section, then want to add some doodles to the roof, up at that 8:12 or whatever pitch. What works to rotate a newly-drawn polyline, or box, or a blocked group, or whatever, to match the pitch? Not a line or a segment, but the whole thing. Is copy and paste the angle the quickest route? Works, but wonder if there is something else.

I'm a Sketchup user, and would find it easier to model in that. Maybe an hour to get it pretty close. But, yeah, Chief slabs, p'solids, and moldings will do it readily. It seems to me that customers would be better off paying to get an all-new-creation modeled, rather than paying to get their as-built stuff modeled. But that is just me.

I would think anyone designing and building custom cabs would accept Chief for what it can do, and realize its limitations. Then use something that is shop-friendly for the actual building, such as eCabinets. Cutting lists, joinery, CNC interface, buying lists, etc., all that stuff Chief cannot do.

If you construct the stairs as a symbol, you can do what you want. In the attached pic, you can see a stool, which is of course a symbol, in an open doorway.

I've a need to turn off the upper gutters of a roof plane. I do it successfully in 2D, which is the only way one can do it, but then when I take a camera view, the gutters are back. Here is my method. Try it on an X6 new test plan. Draw a set of exterior walls like I show in the pic, and manually draw a two-plane gabled roof arrangement. Go to your 2D plan view, use your ALL OFF layerset and turn on just the roof gutter layer, unlock it, select the high gutter line, specify it as "no molding this edge," then LOCK the layer again. Now do a 3D perspective overview and see if your upper gutter is gone. Mine isn't, no matter what. The generation of objects and surfaces when 3D is done somehow brings the gutter back.

Cannot find this using search. Who knows the number?

Got a roof with three eave lines in one plane. Want gutter only at the low eave. Guess I will need to uncheck, and do the low gutter manually, if I really want the 3D accurate.

I thought there was a way to select a roof edge, an eave edge, the roof plane having GUTTERS checked, and have no gutter on that selected edge. Like any molding polyline. The gutter is a molding done by Chief to a roof edge, an eave edge, when that option is checked. But I cannot remember how. Please advise. Thanks.

Pitch the roof baseline for some eyebrows

I make a door symbol that includes the pull. Do a search about this.

And this is not a complaint, just a notification. If you have upgraded to SU 2014, you will need to save your model to 2013 or earlier, in order to be able to do a clean symbol import. Found this out when trying to bring in these stairs, which I put up on the 3D Warehouse.

I guess I should have asked it this way. For an SIP wall height, do you dimension to the OUTSIDE point, where the wall is shorter, or to the INSIDE point? Forget the other arrow, dimensioning to the roof's "baseline." But then, I suppose the SIP person doing the shop drawings will figure it out no matter how you detail it.

First time dealing with con docs for a job done with SIPs. Structural Insulated Panels. What is the convention, if there is one, for dimensioning to tops of walls? See the attached sketch, which shows a typical wall-roof junction. This particular job will have very minimal eaves, and they will be done with applied sawn timber parts, which will be clad in galvanized steel sheet. But the wall height question. I show two points in the sketch. One at the wall top at its outside face where the roof bears, the other above, at the roof's "baseline" point. I specified walls for this job so that the outside face of the SIP sandwich is the outside of the wall's main layer. There is no framing. No plates. The SIP walls are structural, and the SIP roof panels bear directly atop them. Is this top of wall point where one goes to for the wall height callout or dimension?

Change your material specs for the floor to have the kinds of roughness and reflectivity Jintu advises. Change every single light in this room to NOT cast shadows. Turn OFF all other lights in the project, except for this room. See how it looks then. Lights that cast shadows should be used sparingly.

Try this in X-section. Using the ALL OFF layerset as your base, copy it and rename it something like TRUSS EDITING. Add a new layer, turned on, called CAD - TRUSS EDITING. Now use CAD and draw any guide lines, polylines, curves, whatever you need, to help with editing the truss envelope. Use the lines for force-snapping the truss envelope to suit your needs. I find that with room specs for ceiling heights in flat-ceiling space, and ceiling planes, I can get the truss to build initially almost perfect most times.

Never had this issue, but never found myself unable to edit a truss to do what I wanted. Way back in V10 or maybe X2 there was a bug that prohibited certain radical surgeries, but that got fixed. But I never edited a truss in truss detail. Only live in section. And I always lock envelope afterward. In the image attached, you can see a simple roof thing I did with a dropped vaulted ceiling under. The far truss was drawn and meets the spec for the envelope defined by the roof above and the ceiling planes below. I locked that and copied it to another part of the building where the envelope is different. I also placed a copy of the truss out in space beyond the building. It has always worked for me that a truss, when selected in plan and in spec, checking "lock truss envelope," stays locked and is movable anywhere as any 3D object. I suspect there is something going on with your situation due to your editing in detail, not in plan.

Print to .pdf in color, print to paper from .pdf, in b&w.

Anybody know why my warning posts count is showing? Zero is good, I guess. Are they like speeding tickets? Like, go away after a while, in your record? Can a state trooper get my warning post count by scanning my license plate? I had better just take cabs.

I gotta say, only a 3D purist, and within that class of folk, the even-smaller class of purist, the 3D framing purist, would have a need for a lay-on valley sleeper. Then there are those, rarer still, who want it beveled. In 3D. And textured to look exactly like #2 SPF, or SYP, or whatever. Sadly, no, you won't get this in Chief. But you can dream. Short of that, and way too utilitarian perhaps, for your taste, you can show it in a CAD detail, and call it out on the roof framing plan with a nice dashed CAD line, to show the framing sub what to do. He probably will never look at the drawing. The ones I know wouldn't.

Your cabinets are not sitting on finished floor, but are on subfloor. There's your problem. Use the finished floor check-box for all cabinets. When you make the change, you will have to reset those top-box wallcabs.

Looks like it is 108" clear to me. 109 1/8" rough, less 1/2" ceiling, less 5/8" floor finish. Your DB link is done this way. Going to your ONLINE dropbox, right clicking the file, should give you the "copy public link" option. Do that, and paste the public link to your post here. In a cross section view, use the tape measure or end to end dimensioning to find your shortfall. It may be due to your wallcab spec or your offset or your crown height or anything, but whatever, it is just a number.