joey_martin

Open the window(s) and make sure the box is checked for those items to be included. Chief will not make a window egress or tempered based on size, you must check the boxes.

LA as in Los Angeles, or LA as in Louisiana?

I've done some fairly large scale projects. Not sure what you are asking. Just build the model, and take the camera views.

Not just hangers either. You can find most Simpson connectors in the 3D warehouse.

I download the hangers from the 3D warehouse. When you set up the framing defaults, make sure you uncheck BEAM BELOW JOISTS and the beams you draw will be flush with your joists. Not too complicated once you figure out how to let Chief do the work for you.

You need to pull the door down to the floor or raise the slab to the bottom of the door and it will fix itself.

If you have an opening in the wall, show the level that will allow the opening to still be visible. In other words..a pony wall of CMU on the bottom and 2x4 framing on the top, with a window in the framing (think daylight basement), I would show the framing part of the wall so that I can dimension the opening. I will put a dashed CAD line to show that there is a thicker wall below, note it, and can dimension to that CAD line if needed. If the different size wall thickness is linear, then I would simply place a break in the wall and choose to use the new wall type accordingly. Hope that helps.

This is true. Plan files are 1:1, layout is whatever you tell it to be.

Are you doing all the modeling as well as the renderings? I am sure the builder thought that anything above free was too much...in my experience.

@CornerstoneBill let me check when I get back into the office this afternoon. I have a couple older dongles you are welcome to if I have the one you need.

Are you talking actual blueprint, like back in the day? Or you just need some pages printed? I no longer keep a large format printer in the office, so I simply email them to my local staples to be printed and pick them up.

Just an FYI....there is no "convert to post & beam" tool. The plan will need some re-working most likely.

Rooms are already calculated. Just turn on the option in the schedule.

Like this....

Alan when you select the roof return there is an option to "extend" the roof return. Set that to 8"-10" and see what you get. I bet you get what you are looking for.

BTW @SNestor, I simply change my material to light gray in the materials dbx. So whatever pattern is assigned to the shingles, brick, siding, etc...I simply open that material and change the patter color to light gray.

No drainage plans around here.

My results

I do control my elevations with layer sets. Always send live elevations. @SNestor I'm not sure if I shared these with you previously or not. MDP Layer Sets 2_14_17.layers MDP Anno Sets 2_14_17.cadefs

Rarely use them

Keep in mind Perry...we are on opposite ends of the spectrum. I don't need 7 different schedules and 52 macros for headers and notes and etc...( I still have NO clue what Ruby or is or why I should care) so some of the improvements you are seeing and maybe using are 100% useless to me. For the majority of my builder clients this.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/1n4jajmfzj7jdoq/Caroline Plan Set_12_01_16.pdf?dl=0 ....is not only all they want, but it's all they are willing to pay for. Custom home clients can/are more involved, but my current system and workflow more than handles those situations. It's all the workarounds that I need reduced.

I have X9, tried it...useless. There is not one single thing in X9 or apparently X10 that I would use.

@Joe_Carrick I have to be honest. I have looked at the videos for the saved plan view, and I am simply not interested. I see no benefit whatsoever to improve my work flow. It's just something, IMO, that distracts from the fact that the stair tool is awful, the soffits still don't frame, the soffit connections are awful in plan view half the time, trusses still to my knowledge don't auto frame, so we have to build framing and then go back and change it all if using floor trusses or roof trusses. I am still adding 2D CAD line workarounds in my con docs and if I had any desire to upgrade from X8 I would still have to use those workarounds.

I do basements here in Indiana 80% of the time. No slabs ever, and crawl spaces for the other 20% (just a short basement really) and I don't think i would ever put my basement on floor 1. Not the way I am wired, and not the way my brain works. My system works very well for me.

Did I ask about a secret? I had one reply confirming that the soffit tool STILL does not frame. Thanks.