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......sooooooo Public beta soon?

Winders are pretty hard to make code compliant. 6" at the short point and tread length at the 12" walk line. I sometimes wonder if the code guys fully understand what they are specifying.

I missed the show so I’m looking forward to seeing if there’s a way to watch a recording of what you all did

Boom. If you want chief to do things beyond the out of the box capabilities, contact that man from Alaska. Thanks Michael.

Done. E-mail sent.

I wish there was a %simple_note_letter% that started with whatever letter you chose and increased to the next letter, like numbered notes do. I'm still searching....so I might find it

This is not useful for people to help you with. Not enough context. Upload your chief .plan file and someone will come along with a solution. Most the people here want to help. Good luck.

Wow. I know the feeling, but I won't name the culprit. His big thing was don't ghost him. So he ghosts me. Crazy. I even worked for free just to put him at ease to see if collaboration would work out before I charged him. I guess it wasn't working out for him. It's funny as you say, finishing touches......so many people create a rendered model, but have no interest or skill in creating the actual plans for permit. The Model is no more than 30%-ish of the effort. If you see someone as just finishing touches.....that's a collision waiting to happen. You should contact Bob.....he is a former framer.....that's money. Sad you lost $$$.......that's never acceptable.

So far as I can tell you can create a schedule to show the square footage of each roof plane and then divide that by 32 to get number of sheets. It would be a cool feature if that was built in to the material master list and you could add a value of 15% for waste

Swoop roof on one side. I know you don't need this as a framing view for permit. It's just helpful to know how they go. In most instances we used 2x4s in between ¾" plywood, like an inverted barrel ceiling.

Steve creates the most stress-free videos of all the CA people. Steve will show you ways to win with chief and lower your BP. DS Hall makes the most fun to watch videos......well he used to. He got us through that BS lockdown back 5 years ago. Love his Harley timer. Dan Baumann and John Schrader are the two men who I learn the most from. - Traveling John even camped overnight at my house last year, and showed me some chief things I never knew....sitting right beside me. - Dan thinks about homes as structural wood framed buildings, first. He teaches so even a framer can understand. Rene Rabbitt shares tons of content for free, and offers a super automated template set, textures, and details for sale. If rendering is your goal, he's near the top. if not best. Rene is also a macro wizard. Macros in general: Alaskan Son. I've only bought one thing so far, but he breaks chief down to the molecular level to get it to perform how you want it. Enjoy your journey mastering chief architect.

If your plan is 98% done.........you're almost there. You got this! What 2% remains to be done? Is any of your model exported to layout? Do you need to submit it to a permitting authority? Do you understand framing enough to create correct details? I hope you take a swing at completing your design yourself. It feels great to accomplish something complex that might last 50 to 100 years. Good luck

I just used Bob's exact image with chatGPT. WOW!

I haven't found a way to charge for renders. All my clients just need as prescriptive (least required engineering) as possible, 2D plans for permit. AND I suck at color pallets or themed rooms....so there's that as well.

Rob, I like how clean you make it. My way is a bit overwhelming but since I'm the guy cutting the members.....I manage. This is all 2D...not linked to the model.