robdyck

Rebar in a cross section or in a section detail? To show rebar in a drawing less than 1" scale would just be silly. However, if you did indeed use a cylinder from the library of geometric shapes, it will not generate a fill pattern in section view. No symbol does. It will not even generate cross section lines. A 3d solid or a molding line will at least generate cross section lines.

That's what I would have suggested as well. Attic walls don't always rebuild perfectly especially if they have been moved.

It is not checked in the plan you posted. Checking it fixes the heights. Change this material in the window defaults.

dropbox or google drive link. Or make a copy of the file, strip unnecessary items and then zip it up.

I think you used a short segment of wall for your pilaster and changed the wall width. Try using a slab for the pilaster / footing instead. You will end up with a line where the pilaster and wall meet, but the footing controls will be separated.

Depending on what info you want included, you could use these 2 columns to drop the library symbol name.

As an experiment add the following 2 columns to your schedule: Type and Style. Together those form most of the automatic description. And your right, the description takes the name of the Library symbol.

Hey Bruce, you gotta help us to help you! Simply make a copy of the plan file, and strip it down, then zip it up. Or use a dropbox or google drive link. The plan file is pretty important to seeing what's going on...in the plan file!

You can mess around with the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool or you can use a material region for the black wall cladding, set to Cut Finish Layers...

Hi Gene, select that wall and uncheck Pony Wall. It will then rebuild correctly and Chief will rebuild it as a Pony Wall.

Absolutely. But where are these rectangular properties? I see one of those every two years:)

A bit more trickery that's super fast: adjust corner board settings to 1/16 x 1/16 and auto-place corner boards on foundation. If the grade is flat, you can select them all and adjust the bottom elevation all at once. Another option: use a really small solid and save it to your library. Set it's elevation relative to the terrain, make it tall enough for all conditions and place them manually at every outside corner. They'll always be at the right elevation (the top will be buried inside the upper wall's cladding). Drawback is they don't 'stick' to the wall so if you move a wall, it's not going along for the ride. So the question is: what will stick to the wall corner and have an elevation relative to the terrain? If only we had all elevation options (with locks) for all objects! Then the corner board would work nicely to solve this.

@jasonn1234 You would need to use plot lines with Pattern Line Defaults unchecked (set color by material). Even then, in layout, the terrain pattern lines are placed behind the foundation wall lines. In the image below I made them blue so they'd be more obvious. If I needed such a mask, I would already have that cad polyline in each elevation camera, saved in my template plan. It would be faster to adjust the polyline than all the materials and layout box settings. Or the opposite, you could set the foundation as dashed, then draw a solid line above grade.

They are used to help locate major portions of a structure. I would never use them on a residential plan set unless it is quite large and/or complex and they are needed to help builders with layout and to communicate where something is located. On a very large building, it can really make it simple to discuss the plan set with other plan readers (for example: Please refer to the linen closet that is to the left of grid line 3 and above grid line C). For smaller plans, you're simply wasting your own time, cluttering the drawing and probably confusing the trades (unless it is a common practice in your region).

This is a regular go-to for me. Does Chief ever model the railing in the correct position?

For the 2nd Floor Bath cheek wall, you'll need to use a 2x6 interior wall for the lower portion because Chief will extend the floor platform out to the exterior of the 2x6 Siding wall (so it will show through from the main floor. Again, 2nd floor cheek wall should stop at the ceiling break line. This wall should NOT be cut by the roof. And, on the main floor, you'll need to pull the ceiling plane back so it does not cut that exterior cheek wall.

In Chief, try to model it how it will be built. For the area to the left of the Unspecified (Bedroom?), you want the 2nd floor exterior cheek wall to extend inward to the ceiling break line. This means the interior partition should be split at that junction and then reverse layers of one of those portion to prevent re-joining. Then decide if the cheek wall will be cut by the roof OR if it will be a pony wall, split by the roof. If the latter, then select the lower wall type in the Roof tab of the Wall Spec. dialog. If the former, the uncheck Lower Wall Type. For the attic wall, I would uncheck 'Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom' and manually drag the wall into position in Elevation view. Chief will automatically build this wall wrong unless you split it into 2 portions (one for above the cheek wall and one that extends from the end of cheek wall to the ridge).

No offense, but how neatly would you expect the model to display when it's laid out like this? The whole building is completely random. I would expect random results.

You are not laying things out accurately enough. If you zoom tightly in on these corners, you'll notice the interior wall doesn't align with the inside of the exterior wall. That will need to be fixed on both floor levels. After the correction:

You are correct!

Hi everyone, I thought I'd raise a topic before submitting a feature request to Chief. I'd like to hear the thoughts of others on this topic: For larger windows and doors, I often need to spec. the header on the floor plan. Currently I'm using a cad line with a label to show this in plan view. But, because I actually change the framing for these openings in the Framing tab of the door / window dialog, I thought it might be a nice feature to be able to change the layer and the material of the header in the Framing tab, without affecting automatic wall framing. We can already change the header label layer so this would seem like a logical addition of function. This would neatly enable us to display those headers (that are outside the norm) while we're making those changes to the model. This would also enable us to set this up in our default plans which should ultimately become a bit of a time saver. One example: a 16' wide garage door. In almost every plan, I need to show these with an LVL header. It would be great to be able to control its material and layer without affecting automatic wall framing, all from the Framing tab of the Door Specification dialog.

You probably need to update the Cactus Stone catalog. That 'Drfit' folder no longer exists. Also, you'll need to replace that material in any plan using it, or simply assign a texture file. You can do this by copying the file path from a similar material. That particular material should be in a different folder...see image below.

And obviously I'd have a different set of dimensions for cabinet plans / elevations.

Quick example Rob, I don't really need to dimensions most of these items in a floor plan, certainly not very often. So when I drag a dimension it picks up what I want it to. I can still manually drag an extension to a cabinet if I have the need.

Double click the Interior Dimension tool to open the active dimension defaults. Select 'Locate Interior'. You'll see that Wal Options has different settings available than Locate Manual or Locate End to End. If I were you, I'd use the Locate Manual or Locate End to End tool instead and customize it's Locate Objects properties.