cjanderson66

I have been a stick framer primarily in all my designs but the engineer would like to use trusses. The design I currently have was designed using stick framing and I need to change the roof to trusses. Since I have never done trusses in Chief I went to watch a video but it was for X9. It appears that is has changed since then and I now need to know how do I create trusses for my roof plan? Will I have to draw each plane with a truss or does it do it automatically? This is a fairly complex roof that has stop and start trusses along with attic trusses. Is anyone familiar with using trusses as I am in need of your expertise. Thanks,

I have a client that is requesting a (4) panel sliding Nana wall that will slide into a wall. Has anyone created one? This would be with a 4" exterior wall with a (4) panel slide by into a 10" wall with another 4" interior wall. Trying to figure out the best way to create one.

I would but this file is huge. Here is the issue I am having. I did what you suggested and converted the house into a symbol after I reverse the plan. Now the house is a symbol and I can't get it back to an actual plan. Is there a way to explode the symbol so it is back to my plan with walls, roof etc. Man this is frustrating sometimes.

Well to add to the confusion!!! My client just called and now she wants to move the whole house forward by 5' and flip or reverse the design all together. I'm with you @joey_martin, still Old School, print plan and elevation and roll up around a good ole canary sketch paper. But, this time is has got me puzzled and leads me to @Kbird1for the reversing a plan and @Renerabbittmaking a symbol out of the plan. I have gotten that far but the problem with a symbol I am having with the plan is I cannot move the plan to a specific location without exploding it first. Not that that is a problem because then I just have to move each floor to that x,y location.... Make sense? Or is there another way

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have never used the Terrain as a symbol but I get the idea or jist of it. Although I am a bit hesitant because of all the additional stuff on my plans that I have, i.e. trees, contours, setbacks elev. heights, etc...

So my client has decided that she would like to see the house moved forward by 8' to show the neighbors how the proposed design would look at the current house setback. Now the new home has a CC&R setback of 40' to the city setback of 25'. My dilemma is that how do I move the entire house on the plan but still save the current configuration in the existing layout? Do I have to a save as and create a whole new layout as well, which is what I am assuming? I just have a horrible feeling that she is going to also want to flip the entire house as well. Man some clients can just turn a nice set of hair grey!!!!

Damn, I knew it was something super simple as this. Thanks Micheal and Joey. I always forget to click the soffits.

I know this discussion has been discussed before but I am having an issue with the roofs overhangs. I have not had this issue before as most of the time the Boxed overhangs have worked but not this time. I have tried everything in the book to make my overhangs boxed and nothing is working. Any idea why my overhangs will show a boxed overhang?

@RobUSMC Where did you get it and how much did it cost? 3 - 30" monitors, isn't that an over kill or are you just a serious multitask-er?

Damnit, I hate you all!!!! Now I find myself changing my fonts as I am tending to agree with Rene on Century Gothic. This means I am now going to have to change all my preferances and my template sheet. What have you done to me!

You are absolutely right!

Rene, I would agree with you when it come to notes that the Century Gothic looks nice for notes and in schedules for a clean look. Here is were we seem to disagree. Architecture has lost a bit of the creative aspect by going to the computer with the lack of artistic appeal of the old drawing on a napkin feel. Architecture is a creative job left brain right brain and being brought up hand drafting and moving away from from it, I have always wanted to try and keep that feel. Your plan is clean (with the exception of those horrible arrow lines and arrows) not a fan maybe it is just me. That is another conversation that I have with CA. I personally like the Graphite Std or the ARchD for my plans as it still has a personal feel and I get a lot of compliments on my plans. That being said we all have our personal likes and dislikes and I changes things up often to as my personal likes change too... My two cents as well. SMITH floor plans only.pdf

Good God Man. I hope you go back and delete all those files one the project is complete. Your disc drive must be overloaded and need to be optimized! And to Charles V, How do you name them every few hours or so? I have a hard time just remembering to even hit the save file and have become to dependent on the file Archive system backup...

I have always used Caps for my plans with the exception of some notes that I provide. I have never been able to get used to Chief Blueprint font coming from AutoCAD so I have been using Graphite Standard or Architext as they look the best. For the most part Graphite Std. looks the best in my plans gen notes_opt.pdf

Thank you Robert. The process is not complicated but what I do is send them a standard perspective view (like the one attached). Then I usually, in my plan view, give them a Technical perspective which is more like a line drawing. For this specific situation I sent the entire perspective view to the layout and then cropped it to show only the entry.

Good God Jim! Your telling me you have that many files for a single job. I mean I make revisions and have changes but that must bog down your hard drive. I have found that I have several files but I am going back to backup Archive files and saving them into the folder. In this type of situation that I am working on, the entry is currently being built but the client wants to see several reiterations of the entry. Where I have noticed the problem is that when I save the plan as a new plan, the layout then saves that as the new plan. If the client changes their mind and goes back to the original design then I have to go back and change the layout to match the plan.

I currently have a client that I have been on their home for 3 years now and it is finally under construction. The entry was changed numerous times during the design process and then finally approved. Now that construction is moving forward and they are finally seeing the reality and the size of the project, they are making changes again. How do you maintain the the layout or the construction set of plans when the client has decided to make numerous changes and then goes back to the original design. I find that I am having to go back to archives and open up a previous plan and then send that back to the layout but it gets so convoluted. Is there a better way or a more effective way to make these changes or should I just get rid of the Client. I know I just opened up a can of worms saying that. Great client, never not paid a bill and have referred me to many others as well. SMITH FRONT ELEVATIONS 102919.pdf

Does anyone know how to create custom arrows for leaders. I know Chief has many different arrows to select but I am still old school and like the thick arrows that I used to draw that are Architectural. This has been one of my pet peeves is keeping my drawings looking Architecturally hand drawn i.e. text, line weights dims, and arrow are key.

Never mind guys I figured it out. Looks as if I went to the attic and added the dormers windows for a second floor window schedule and it added the second callouts. I just deleted the additional window schedule on the attic level and they all went away.

I seem to be having a problem that I am at my wits end with. It appears that my plan is showing double callouts for all my windows and I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of them. I have tried deleting my window schedule and then inserting it again but nothing. Has anyone else had this issue before? Sosine NFP.pdf

Does anyone know how to force a Window number change to a window. I have a window order from the supplier and the window numbers are not the same as my plan. Let alone he decided to start off with a 00 window and not 01. I would like to be able to manually give the window a number and it be reflected into the window schedule. This would have been much easier if the window supplier would have started with #1 and I could have just moved that window up in the schedule. Any thoughts....

Does anyone have a good way of doing a dimension for an arc. I was so used to AutoCAD's nice way that you could dimension an Arc/Radius easily and have not found one way to do it nicely that I like. I would love for CA to have an Arc dimension child menu that would be customizable. I would also like CA to have the the dimension feature a bit more customizable as well as I don't really like the arrows either and would love a bit more of an Architectural arrow.