payettedesigns

Ok what are we talking about?

I am doing a story and a half addition with a staircase in the rear corner of the addition. Chief balloon frames the walls around the auto generated stairwell. My Exterior walls are 2"x 6" 16" O.C which is more than enough beef to hang the stairs on. I do not want to balloon frame these walls. I tried breaking these walls and doing a frame rebuild to no avail. I want to run plates on top and bottom and rim and band just like the normal floor platform. There is nothing structurally wrong with the way chief generates it but it is a lot stronger to frame it the way I want. Instead of using open below I tried using a poly-line and cutting a hole in the floor platform but that is tedious for sure and almost impossible to get everything to line up. if I spent hours I could re-frame in 3D frame view but that does not even show up when you do a frame section of the wall. Any suggestions anyone.?

THANKS: GUYS. I HAVE DONE THE CAD MASK THING BEFORE I WILL STICK TO THAT.

ANY WAY TO BREAK A LAYOUT BOX BORDER?

Does anyone have a detail of how a deck connects to web floor truss.

I make my own and add macros. Its as fast as adding from a list plus you can control font ect...

but it does now go figure?

-unchecking post to rail did not work.

Maybe the way I did it was the best way?

In order to change newel height on deck railing, I had to convert to panel change height of newel I picked from library and then convert back to balusters. The only dbx I found that had the check box for railing passes over newel was in the stair dbx. anyone have an easier way to simply change newel hgt so railing is in between and not over the top of newels?

Hey Guys: My business is swamped right now and I need help with a couple projects. The first thing I need help with is to duplicate a set of plans for a client. I am doing an addition on their . house and I need the whole house drawn in chief X7 If possible. We can discuss payment ect if any one is interested. Contact me at payettedesigns@gmail.com. or give me a shout @ 919-697-2428 David

Thanks Humble Chief figured it just before you sent message..

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I have never experienced but siding and drywall is turned off in floor plan . How do I get it back on walls display. . Its late and I tried to read old threads about it. I feel retarded right now because I usually can figure out hings quickly.

Listen to Joey Martin on this one he is the God of Con Docs

Yes we all are in competition in some sense. With that said I have given out help and have gotten some really good help on here. If you do not live within a hundred miles from me Ill help you. I am just saying...I do have a little public servant animosity though...

Ok folks you are confusing the hell out of me. I have windows 8.1 and I have x6 version 10 I am guessing . I have no problems should I? Should I try to make some? If version 10 does not install on 8.1 why did it for me. I get an ocassional crash . Should I go back to the cob webs of history and be using an outdated version of wimdows?

Does anyone out there have a copy of the Building Code Summary in DWG or maybe typed out in Chief... I am willing to pay.

Has anyone out there purchased the Architectural symbols library from Chief Symbols and is it worth the $300 dollars

Politics you gotta love it.

Thank you guys it was the hot key which was 0 --- A key I use about 60 thousand times a day- I took it off the hot-key list

yep more and more peeps are starting to pitch there stuff.. there goes the world....

This was what I was talking about.. This was a response to another user... Exactly and I figured it out. The edit snap properties(intersections) in preferences randomly gets unchecked constantly and I don't know why. I have never changed it in preferences which are supposedly global. I think what happens is if I import a drawing from someone else -- it will un-check it but I am not sure why. No big deal.

Exactly and I figured it out. The edit snap properties(intersections) in preferences randomly gets unchecked constantly and I don't know why. I have never changed it in preferences which are supposedly global. I think what happens is if I import a drawing from someone else -- it will un-check it but I am not sure why. No big deal.

I am getting really good at this program and don't ask a lot of question. This one aggravates the crap out of me the dashed line that shows wall intersections when your drawing walls keeps turning off where is this setting? I found it one time... I keep resetting defaults to get it to reappear.. I don't have to use it but it is a handy little guy....