joey_martin

12 hours ago, gravattedesign said:

'Does that mean a half wall type?

No. In the framing tools there is a tool to create just general framing members. I use it all the time to create 3/4" deck fascia boards.

Add them manually using the general framing tool.

Chief may work differently that HD but, do you have rooms overtop of the offending rooms that have different ceiling heights? In other words, you have a vaulted great room but upstairs a bedroom wall accidently snuck over top of the great room, that cantilever will through off the ceiling height below.

Give the joists a starting point. Look in the framing tools.

Manually draw this thickened slabs in place. Save yourself the headache.

Use a ceiling plane to get the extra framing layer.

AI missed a couple big no-nos. 

Please remove the powder room from opening into the living space. 

Please re-design the master bath to put the w/c in the space not out in the hallway. 

There is no door into the master. 

Bedroom 2. Those abutting pocket doors really aren't conducive to good flow. In fact, all the bedrooms. You have to go through the closet to get to the baths. No bueno..

You have a coat closet next to the pantry, no need for the oversized closet near the front door, use that space for a bath if needed to open into the foyer, not the living space. 

For a home this size, the great room seems incredibly small. There's enough room in the kitchen for a small army, but the actual living space only 6. Give the flex space to living. 

That's a quick overview by an actual human.

Save to library. Right click on it in the library browser, hit export.

1 hour ago, MDancey said:

So now comes the question how did this happen, I'm going to do some looking to see if I can find what you're referring too.

Your ceiling planes were lowered somewhere in your workflow. You raised the ceiling height with auto roofs turned off is the most likely culprit

Export the project to Dropbox or Google Drive, or simply use a thumb drive and import it on the other machine. 

I have done those. You will need to put the first truss in, open that truss and manually modify it, then multi-copy and adjust as needed. It's tedious, but can be done, just not really automatically. You need a "dropped" ceiling for the first floor, and the 14.5" "floor framing" and you will have the heights you want.

Now, having said that, someone will have a tricky workaround to make Chief do it, but is the juice worth the squeeze to spend a bunch of time on? I set all my heights and simply worked through all the design development with the client before doing the trusses. No need to do it until the end or you have to keep doing it when revisions come along. 

On 3/31/2026 at 1:51 PM, agenoarch said:

I also do not like the project management system. There is no longer a saveas option and trying to figure out how to use it efficiently is more of a pain than its worth

You can turn off that option in preferences and the SAVE AS option comes back and the program works like it always has.

Those are generally created with a template from the publisher. Making them in Chief is easy enough using a layout sheet. Just set up an 8.5"x11" layout page and put the info on it.

Have I missed an update or patch? What's with the tick marks all over my CAD details?

What's your budget? I would love to design you something.

It's a PITA. You will need to do some manual cleanup of the sections and elevations. 

On 3/7/2026 at 12:29 PM, robdyck said:

And what's up with the constant re-appearance of point markers in a CAD detail?!

So frustrating..

Manually unless you find a door in one of the libraries that has hardware already included.

Did  you draw ceiling planes and uncheck this box?

You're overthinking this..just draw with concrete exterior walls and turn off everything else. It could be on level 40 for all you care anyway, so just draw the room.

You're not going to get Chief to create that detail. A workaround would be a second roof plane for the overhangs. Model it close and detail the rest out.

Remove fascia and sub-fascia and add these as rafter tails.

No renders in preliminary, only 3D is presented in clay or hand sketch style so that we don't get hung up on color or finish. Just form and function in preliminary. The other stuff comes later.