joey_martin

Can you send a PDF of the plan(s) to be modeled for review and proposal purposes? joeymdp@gmail.com

Use a pony wall, and wall types to have the insulation show. The profile of the insulation at the slab must be done manually once you create a detail with a camera section.

I have not seen that size either. Best bet is to use a 30" w/ 3" decorative fillers on each side. Be careful not to use the pull-out fillers though...they dont have sides and don't work well next to an upper microwave.

If you look in the library there is a folder called DETAIL COMPONENTS in the CAD Detail folder. There are individual block and brick in there that can be stacked to create details.

Words to live by! Besides, here in Indiana, there are only a handful of structural engineers that are even willing to work with residential. Everything needing to be engineered around here (some beams, i-joists, trusses) goes through the lumber yards and they send them off to a supplier.

Or highlight the actual text and paste into the answer.... and hit the quote button.

I copy the link from the toolbar and paste it in the answer. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10458-attaching-a-previous-post/

I would also price 84" doors. If you put all headers at 84" you have more options for exterior overhangs and frieze options, as well as decorative lintel pieces, and the interior would leave room above the openings for the option to tray down ceilings or use various built up moldings.

Opening this week for a quick turn around job. Link to work sample..... https://www.dropbox.com/s/83lzkad9n9zki4w/Plan%20Set%206_8_16_PROOF%20SET.pdf?dl=0

This is the watercolor w/ line overlay technique. Good for presentations.

Then the problem must be on the import end. I have never experienced this issue. Make sure the import is into model space and not paper space?

If you are exporting from plan view, then the site plan HAS to be 1 to 1. You cant have a 1/4" plan while in plan view.

I haven't looked at the plan, but you need to open the room spec box and turn off the ceiling for that room, then create the manual ceiling planes to the desired specs.

Yes. And fill the basement framed walls (if you choose to fill them) with the WALL FILL tool rather than in the wall type setup, so that the fill can be controlled by a layer as well, separate from the fill of the retaining/stem walls.

Another reason...and the most important to me for keeping those basement wall as 2, is the ability to control the walls for construction docs. I want the ability to control the line type and color of that framed portion so that I can show it on both the basement floor plan, and the foundation plan with the appropriate line.

Somewhere in your template, you have set basement/crawl rooms to be monoslabs, or as you said, its an old template and somehow the info was changed. Remember, Chief reads rooms first. If you have the "foundation room" set as a monoslab, Chief will override the default until it's changed to match. I had a couple odd occurrences with my template when moving to X8 as well. Made a new template and no more problems. In my opinion, Chief was doing exactly as expected based on the settings.

Go to the FOUNDATION LEVEL and select the "room". You will see that somewhere along the line, maybe this is a SAVE AS from another project....anyway, if you select the room from the foundation level, you will see that it is still set to monoslab. Uncheck those and turn auto back on and there you go.

If you change the defaults after the plan is started you have to set the rebuild(s) to auto the get the new defaults to take over.

Rebuild the foundation. Set the foundation to AUTO and leave it there.

I created a ROOF LABEL TEXT STYLE so that I could better control the size of the text.

The switch is a switch. In the library under electrical you can select a 3-way switch. You don't have to use the switches from the tool bar. The light is also from the library. Everything is fine in 3D. Only the secondary connection is a line w/ arrow. Just like on the floor below the primary connection from the switch is a connection, then a line w/ arrow to signify the connection to the floor above.

Try using floor material regions rather than just polylines and see if that gives you the desired result.

It's simply a 3-Way switch from the library connected to a light from the library. The line with the arrow is simply that, a line with an arrow placed on the ELECTRICAL, CONNECTIONS layer, and a note. Nothing more than that.

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The work the engineer does in AutoCAD cannot be "brought back" into Chief. They do not play together like that. Best bet would be to simply give the engineer what he needs, let him create what he needs to create, and then simply add his pages to your layout set. DO NOT save his dwg over top the Chief file, you are asking for trouble. Another option, and one that I use with my engineer, is to simply send him/her a PDF and have them redline the pages as needed and send back to me for inclusion/revision in my Chief file.