joey_martin

Shoot me an email. I love that area of Tennessee. We try to get to Gatlinburg once a year for hiking. I will be happy to send you info. My email is joeymdp@gmail.com

Good idea. You can also take an overview, and turn off all layers except the floor surface and see the 4'x8' sheets. Do an overhead shot and you get a similar feature.

Mine are in the library under Chief Architect Bonus Catalogs>Water Supply and Drainage

FWIW I chance the door to a drawer and label my interior elevation. You can select to have to drawer match the door properties as well.

Click just outside the exterior and create a polyline. Pull the polyline to the edge it needs to be.

I don't think the macros are set up that way. One of the macro guys may be able to better answer, but even if there is/were a way...I prefer separate.

Others I don't know. But for my template, the layout page index, and the revision index are separate, live entities that exist on the pages. If I add or subtract a page to my plan set, the index on the cover page updates automatically and I don't have to think about it. The revision index is also live, and per page. I note any revision on the cover page, but also each sheet has a live index of revisions for me to notate as needed.

Change the size in the default text style for labels.

Post #8 has a link to a newer plan set that contains the notes in a different spot.

I have since changed my note placement. I have them on the page the trade would use. The front page notes are the same, and contain all the data the permit looks for.

I believe if you do a search for Architxt.shx you will find it.

I'm not concerned about the liability. I carry E&O that I have never had to use, and well thought out planning and con docs take care of that stuff. As for Scott, he is using backhanded sarcasm to insinuate that, even though my plans look good, there is no way I have thought through the engineering, or have taken into account the various loads, especially the trusses even though the plans clearly state that the trusses are shown for illustration purposes only, and the truss company is to provide all truss plans and drawings. As for the builders, I state on the plans that if a change is made they need to contact me, or assume any/all liability for said change.

Selecting the roof plane and unchecking boxed eaves doesn't give you what you want?

You are correct Scott. But again, if there are no girders resting on headers, and the retaining walls are designed and detailed to exceed code based on soil conditions, even without any steel at all (yes..some places build retaining walls up to 96" in height without any steel at all!!! e-gats), then you are golden.

I should state for the record, that this is an issue for me. I rarely...if ever...produce a set of plans based on what the jurisdiction want's to see. The purpose of a good set of home plans, as I see it, is to convey your design ideas to the builder. Of course you need a permit, and there will be items that need to be included in order to obtain that permit, but to suggest that we should do no more than that is a great disservice to everyone involved in the process.

I received the stamp from AIBD as a part of a seminar years ago. I stamped a sheet of paper and scanned the image in to be added to my plans. As for my templates. It's not that I am being selfish with them, but I offer them as a part of the training sessions I do, so the folks that have taken training with me have "paid" for them, so providing them to other for free doesn't seem right.

You're not going to be able to import the layout (paper space) files into Chief and get what you want. You need the actual CAD files (model space), and even then, it's not really a job for Chief. You will most likely need a 2D CAD program to make this work the way you are envisioning. I have learned to pass on these types of jobs. I am simply not set up for 2D CAD any longer.

The materials list shows the "material" Create a material for SPF #2 and change the stud material to that from fir framing.

110% confident. No one in my area uses copper any longer. And copper leaks too if not installed properly.

Just a few examples.... footing widths are not specified (Page S1.0) and there are no shear transfer details, window headers (See Schedules) are not spec'd and hip sizes are not called out (See Roof Plan - Truss Roof) and there are not king posts under ridge beams (No Ridge Beams) spec'd out. Location of vertical steel in retaining walls (Page S1.1) is not spec'd...... plate heights in sections (Page S3.0)are not called out and there are only 2 sections , for a house this size and complex, it seems more than 2 sections will be needed.

The American Craftsman set is a few years old. Here is a newer project, and an updated look at my plans. https://www.dropbox.com/s/83lzkad9n9zki4w/Plan Set 6_8_16_PROOF SET.pdf?dl=0

I don't show all the PEX, just want the Manabloc to show in the Materials List and on the Fixture Schedule.

Your anno sets and defaults are not set properly. You need to select the text and change the layer so that it can be hidden in the framing anno set. For instance I have layers called text, floor plan text, foundation text, framing text, electrical etc.... That way specific text shows where it should.

You can place them on a separate layer, I believe, and turn that layer off.

Here it is. Manabloc.calibz