joey_martin

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.

I use floor 0. Here are a couple looks. Both are floor 0, use Anno Sets to be able to separate the floor plan from the foundation plan.

Always been that way. Turning on the MAIN LAYER ONLY layer turns off the other layers that deal with the walls.

Started a thread....

and realized it was in the ChatRoom and not the Questions. So....any framing and clean connections in the new version?

More of the same. Looks like I'll keep my money for another round. 

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-Indoor-Dryer-Vent-Kit-TDIDVKHD6/203626526

I also use Anno Sets to keep my site plan live and a part of my plan. 

As for the other tools, none of those. 

I use pony walls and anno sets along with some CAD lines for displaying the actual foundation walls.

This issue has been around as long as I have used Chief. Not sure why it hasn't been addressed. 

Second floor framing is the first floor clg framing in my neck of the woods. Always shown on the first floor, as the first floor framing in shown on the foundation/basement floor.

The line weights on you plan file do not match the line weights on your layout file. Make sure they are the same.

File>Print>Drawing Sheet Setup>Advanced Line Weight Options.

Make sure they are set the same on plan file and layout file.

Simply cut them from floor 1 and paste in place on floor 0.

@DecoratorsCorner I have a RCP Anno set. Everything set to gray scale except my CAD_RCP, Text_RCP, Notes/Text_RCP....etc. Anno Sets are they only way I work with Chief. Nothing better.

I have made the suggestion multiple times over the years to have the ability to select and shape footings as needed. There is no reason we should not be able to form footings into pads as required along a stretch of wall. 

Chief will not AUTO build floor trusses. Delete the floor framing and manually place the floor trusses.

Change the layer color. I use a black background as well, all my electrical layers are orange and show just fine.

You re right...thinking of something else. 

Select the trim piece and this tool pops up, use it to delete the offending piece of trim.

Once you select that trim, convert it to a basic molding pline rather than a frieze (roof trim) and select the box for no trim on this line. Then select the roof plane and remove the frieze for that roof plane so that it won't keep generating.

You can. I honestly can't remember the last time I drew a pier/post or a footing pad. Just set up what you want in the defaults and click under the beam. If it's a basement then you set the defaults to post/pad, if a crawl then go with pier/pad.

Since no-one else has, I will state the obvious here....between your username and the nature of the questions I would suggest that you take a pass on this project, or purchase a nice fat insurance policy. 

Go to the default label text box and set it transparent so that the boxes go away.