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No problems other than Allow Full Disk Access during installation.

Dell owns Alienware

If you earn a living from the computer (TOOL) then have one built.

Puget Systems is great.  It's still great for my wife's business.

17 hours ago, Ange822 said:

Oh wow that is great!! Thank you so much!!  

 

How did you change the size of the window to have the subscript number as the inches?

 

Is there also a way to have the basement as 001, 002, 003... and then the Main Floor as 101, 102, 103.. and then I can just re-order them?

I paid Alaskan Son to create the superscript option.  He was fast and reasonable.  It takes a modified font that he provides, I chose modified ARIAL.

Then I set all my font type to ARIAL and the window and door openings to the modified ARIAL.

Rene also provides this, I don't know if it is only in his plan template or can be sold as an individual item.

You can reposition the order in the schedule.  The first column allows you to drag up or down and the label updates in the plan.

I don't know about floor zero numbering.

Trusses are engineered by their design software.  

If this is stick framed with a structural (curved) ridge for a cathedral look..................it's all do-able but the cost just went up.

Not just bending roof plywood or 1x8s, but the interior ceiling surfaces all have to be curved (unless flat ceilings)

Crazy fun.  If they have the $$$ and desire.......go for it!

Bob will be alnong soon. He seems pretty helpful. 

I don’t use chief architects project management system. But yesterday I took all of my archived files which were in dropbox and moved them to two separate external drives so that I could minimize my 380 GB Dropbox folder. I had almost all of that archived set to online only, but I realized, why am I keeping these archived copies from X7 forward?

I still don’t understand their project management enough that I would trust using it but some of you have been very successful with it so maybe one day I will take the plunge

Gene speaks truth. 
 

i would pass on framing that. Without flat roof planes, it won’t be able to be prescriptively designed and wait till you get the bill from a structural engineer. 
 

maybe they could 3-D print it out of a large scale plastic printer and just crane it into place

On a mac, the 3D mouse works amazingly well

in Sketchup.

In Chief....not so much.

That's called a prow over here

I use BCI all the time.  Never seen ELEVEN AND ONE EIGHTH  

If that ever slipped through to the site.....it would be a pain.  

https://p.widencdn.net/wm6anc

If you're correct, I will keep an eye out.

Where do they make/sell 11 ⅛" I-joists?

I asked Grok

I PM'd you a dropbox link for the plan file.  I hope it helps

It's X17.......your sig block says X16.......that might be an issue.

I didn't exactly match....like eyebrow roofs and the low pitched roofs were a guess.

What a wild design.  Good design always thinks roof as the walls are being placed.

Best of luck with this one.

I don’t think I can get the roof to match the elevations 100% so I wouldn’t charge you anything. I look at it as a chief architect and bad Design challenge.
 

If I can get something close, you might be able to be successful with it.   Sometimes we just have to help each other out.

We framed them in Harris and Montgomery counties as sloped treys or just trey ceilings.  

I need wall heights and corresponding pitches or there are too many variables.

I don’t think the attic ever has a floor. I’m pretty sure you could just add another floor to your model and make it very shallow like 3/4 of an inch or something so that you could actually have a floor system in your attic. I’m not in front of a computer so I can’t verify that this might work

Use temporary dims to actually move walls to the right location....dimensionally.

Make time to do things right......don't set the framers up for headaches.

YESSSS!!!

Thank you both for reminding me of the all-caps thing.  

All my plan text is ALL CAPS Arial.

I guess I could start doing sentence case and then select all and press the Aa button.

Thanks again, gents.

It's never worked for me since 2015.  Is it a mac setting?

Larry Belk

He's up in Stillwater, OK

I open the layout and whatever sheet I need to complete work on, I double click that viewport and it takes me to the proper saved Plainview.

Once I’m complete with that I close that tab and go back to layout to work on another sheet.
 

I’ve never worked in programming so I can only imagine how complicated and how much risk exposure happens every time you modify the code to do one thing it may end up breaking several other things.

I still think chief is probably the best construction document creator that I’ve experienced so far.

Only $49 US gets you a lifetime StreamDeck mobile license.  If it's buttons you want.....the mobile license works on a tablet and gives you 64 buttons.  In split screen, you double that to 128 buttons.

If you want to try Stream Deck for the least $$ first, their mobile device app is free and allows you to use a couple buttons.  Repurpose an old phone or tablet and get the app.  Then its a one time lifetime license, $49.

The lifetime license mobile license gives you 64 buttons per screen on an iPad tablet, (or 128 in split screen)

Yoda sells a whole Chief StreamDeck system.

I lean on StreamDeck for speed

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