joey_martin

FWIW...this seems like a lot of overthinking the process! Chief will keep copies of your files in the archives forever. Occasionally I will "save as" a copy for some changes that I know have little hope of surviving but....honestly...I just open the file and go to work.

Here is what I do... I layout the first floor...obviously....and when I am ready for the second floor, I set the second floor ceiling height to the height I want my knee walls. In this sample I set them to 54". So that means my entire second floor will have 54" ceiling heights, and that is OK with me. Now, when I am ready to start laying out my rooms up there, I TURN OFF auto roof build. Now I can move those ceiling heights up to 97" and my roof stays where it's suppose to be.

I've moved to TImes New Roman for all plans and docs. Easy to read and prints well.

Multiple details can be drawn in CAD Detail windows and sent to a single layout page at what ever scale you want them to be.

Smart Board, Hardie Trim Boards, AZEK Trim Boards. They come in many sizes and can be used to help with that transition.

Either is fine with me. I do them manually and there is a capital X, but I don't care either way.

MAcros....AHHHHHHH.....I can't for the life of me figure out to get mine right. Why, at this stage of development, is this not a standard macro? I have to do these manually when I need them because everything I have tried fails! I WANT THIS STANDARD!!!! Sorry, I now return you to your regularly scheduled topic.

Just noticed this. Anything become of getting together?

You don't have one specified judging from that picture, otherwise there would be a gap there. Look at the foundation tab and make sure you have one specified.

Still there. Also still treats the door between the garage and the house as an exterior door. Super annoying!

Without looking I would say you need to go back and ensure you have specified all those other things to be built. Also, the materials list is just like other aspects of the program, there are "layer views" for the list. Do you have those items turned on?

Have you made sure those snaps are turned on?

Turn off the label in the layout layer set.

It won't. Just use an actual beam if you want it shown.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ukbkp4oquic3qq/FreeGreen Detail Library Welcome Pack %26 PDF Library.pdf?dl=0

This may help. I think I have some LEED stuff as well, but the last time I worked with a builder in Kokomo, we found this program to be more cost friendly for residential projects. EDIT...the library item is a block that will fit onto a 24x36 layout page. Green.pdf NAHB Green.calibz

When you take a 3D overview of the room do you see them on that wall?

Unfortunately turning it off and adding a manual molding piece under there seems to be our only option.

Chief and Sketchup dont work that way. It may....M A Y ....be remotely possible, but not without a lot of work-arounds.

Check you mouse settings. As I am working this evening it happened twice, but I was in a hurry and clicked to move a shelf and the DBX popped up.

Preferences>Appearance

Set up the layers in the ceiling structure tab. Nothing to "invert", just set it correctly from the beginning. As for placement, take a measurement for the top of the wall it's setting on and match it to the bottom of the ceiling plane.

You need to manually place them, but I would leave the Auto Deck on until you are certain you are ready to place the piles. That way all the deck posts and beams will be in place and it's just a simple matter of deleting the concrete footings and replacing them. No need to know what your computer or software is, just a simple answer to a simple question.

Nevermind...found it in the roof dialog box.

As many of you know, I am far from a newbie, but I need to know if something has changed in X11 (which I am diving into finally) for this situation. Simple bonus room above above a garage that will be framed, not trusses. Notice on my pan view that the ceiling break lines don't show, and the drywall is missing. I have done a million of these and never had an issue...did something change?