joey_martin

FYI...those tall deck posts are going to need some lateral bracing.

As the title says.... I am being asked to do more and more light commercial work, especially gas station convenience stores. We JUST handle the design and con docs for the buildings. The tanks, site, and canopy are handled elsewhere. Specifically, I need you to handle the MEP design and an occasional beam design that I can't do. I have another meeting early next week that will line up even more light commercial and multi family residential. My partner retired last year and I have been working with a couple engineers in Indy, would love to have a new partner that uses Chief to make the transitions and work-flows a little more seamless. I am in and out of the office today and into early next week on job sites, so email me with your info and we can set up a time to chat. Don't have to be local, just able to handle the stamp for State Design Releases here in Indiana for your MEP design. joeymdp@gmail.com

You're overthinking it in my opinion. Simply get the first plan the way you want it, then use the EDIT AREA(ALL FLOORS) tool to select, reflect, copy, and using the TRANFORM/REPLICATE tool you can move the copies precisely where you want them. Notice the first floor plan (left) is reflected, then copied using these tools. Took about 4 mins to get the entire building copied. And since the first floor plan had an independent roof, all of them did making it easy to move them up/down as needed per the elevations.

Just an FYI....these doors won't open with that window molding on the top.

EDIT AREA(ALL FLOORS) tool.

Not to hijack...but... I love to sneak pics of my kids into my renders. This one looks like a football game on the TV, it's actually a pic my wife took a few years ago of one of our boys playing QB in a high school game.

I'm up in Elwood, just sent you a private message.

https://www.usg.com/content/usgcom/en/design-studio/wall-assemblies.html

Thanks for the quick response. This is a big miss for @ChiefArchitect with regards to the room finish schedule.

I don't get asked for these often, but I need it today and on a time crunch. Looked at vids and did a search. How do I get the ROOM FINISH SCHEDULE number to show in the room? Why is this not right in front of me? Or is it?

Or hit 2 on your keyboard (shortcut for join roof planes) and it will show you the projection as well, hit ESC if you choose not to join them.

@vikiw_bend is local to you.

Turn off AUTO ATTIC WALLS and delete that little piece of wall.

Short answer is no. What you want completed can not be done automatically.

I have a few in my library but recently updated my template for X15 and added almost all of them into the wall def drop down menu.

I use the material region tool.

Did nothing but take a section cut and set the depth cue. I just need to label and dimension it to have a nice building section.

I like it a lot...

Use the BEARING LINE TOOL over that beam/bearing wall and Chief will split the span.

I had to do the same. Completely removed my user catalog, went back to X14 and cleaned it up a bit and exported it, re-loaded in X15 and I'm all good so far.

@Eric_S there is no "thumbnail", though preview allowed me to get a little farther. When I click to open the User Catalog folder to see all my folders it hangs up again.

I will need to try this as well, if I can get to that point...

Turn off the view window label.

https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/gallery/image/481-columns-and-pillars/ Columns and Pillars library also.. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/?r=site/library&x=true&search=Posts and Columns