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A couple of reasons: kPa of slabs is not as high as that of foundation concrete (building code) Project Timing: Cribbers, Framers, Plumbers, Flatwork. This is especially true for the crappy half of the year when it's freezing and it's much easier to provide heat for plumbing ground work and placing slabs after the structure is framed.

I use a lot of wood-frame load bearing walls on the foundation level. These are typically constructed with the wall framing sitting on top of a footing which is located directly under the basement slab. When I check "Balloon Through Floor Below" the bottom plate remains on the basement slab instead of going through it. From reading Help, I gather that this setting really only works when there is another wall directly below, which would mean there'd be no effect when the wall is on the lowest level. I'm curious about other Chiefer's experiences, has anyone figured out a way to achieve the desired framing automatically? Is it possible? I know I had one plan where it worked on one or more, but not all of the bearing walls. I could not figure out why or how it happened and changed the rest of them manually.

Yes, I have it permanently stopped. My experience has been that the crashes are unpredictable and random. I've been able to make some great RTRT renders with no issue, then at other times, Chief will crash repeatedly when selecting an electrical outlet from the library or generating a standard render. I appreciate the advice though, and your consistent posts about driver updates!

My quickest suggestions: build foundation foundation walls > balloon through ceiling change deck room type to balcony. Edit floor structure layers using a plank-type material for the sheathing.

Post the plan.

Hmmm, with this new driver I wonder if I'll be able to consistently use a rendering technique other than Vector View? Perhaps the SSA price increase will provide Chief with the resources for improvements! I was actually expecting Chief to release X14 as a complimentary upgrade for all users with Alienware / Nvidia 3080 systems.

100% matches my experience. Not to mention the additional hassle of accounting. I'll gladly email the plans to the printshop and cc the client.

It is always easier to include a typical exterior type of door at the bottom of the stairs. Then the separation at the stairwell is simply the wall around the stairs; a typical garage-to-house wall. I insist on this when discussing these scenarios with the client! If it's difficult for you to draw and detail and get through permitting, then it'll be even more difficult for the trades on site! In the example you provided, you shouldn't need to do any detailing to the underside of the stairs; the fire / insulated separation should be the walls around the stairwell and furnace room.

I handle this type of thing with a p-solid or a 3d molding drawn in that section view. Very simple to edit if some height changes are required. And I always start with a basic CAD mockup to ensure I have the correct layers / depths assigned. My p-solid would only be a single layer, just to show the finished depth. Actual drawing of all layers would all be cad and only in a detail of 1" scale or greater, not in a general section view. In the section view and in plan view, I would include a heavy, colored dashed line to clearly illustrate the location of separation of compartments, whether that's for fire or for conditioned space.

A simple way to clean that up visually (3d) is to draw an invisible wall aligned with the basement frost wall. Then you'll have a small room over that area which will provide a floor structure and finish. You could create a default room type specifically for this purpose if you wanted a shallower structure depth, with different finish materials and moldings.

Once those are 'broken' they rarely can be repaired. I'd suggest you try to resend that view to layout using your desired settings and see if the new view in layout has the same issues. I'd experiment on a new layout page before I replaced that one.

You may be referring to 1 of 2 things: • Default Settings / CAD / General Cad or •Polyline Specification / Line Style / Show Length & Show Angle

@Chopsaw It only works using tab and you need to be zoomed in to pretty tight to the grid, about 24" seems to do the trick. edit... turning off grid snaps makes no difference to this function, at least not in my chair.

Sorry, what doesn't work? Using Tab?

When the 1" snap grid is on, drawing a line will (obviously) snap to the grid and segments will want to be in 1" increments. To draw a shorter segment, start to draw the line, then press tab. You can then enter the desired length. Another simple way to draw a small u-channel is to draw a 1x1 polyline, then resize by using the temp dimensions, transform / replicate, or adjusting by snapping to line segment center points.

Single click on the property line, then click Object Layer Properties. You can then select or edit the Text Style.

The text size for a displayed line length is controlled by the Text Style for the actual polyline. For a property line in a site plan I use a text size that will be about .125" when printed. For most of my site plans that ends up at about 20"-30" depending on the scale of course. TIP: a much simpler way to control text style (than Chief's OOB settings) is to name your text styles based on the font / text size / bold / underline / uppercase, etc. For the bearing angles, I use the azimuth bearing (just because the angle display is typical in my region) which requires an accurately placed north arrow.

Unfortunately Plant Images will not cast a shadow in PBRT, only in CPU RT.

Living Area is controlled by the Room Specifications. Certain room types contribute to the Living Area and others do not. And like many things in Chief, these defaults can be customized or controlled manually on a per-room basis. To see what is included in the Living Area calculation, single click about 1 foot outside of the building. The Exterior Room will be highlighted and the Make Living Area Polyline tool will become active. Single click this tool to create the polyline. Note that changing the shape of this polyline will not affect how the Living Area is calculated.

Those particular Room Labels have their default layer changed to the Rooms, Interior Dimension layer. Select all Room Labels and reset the layers to "Default"

I guess Chief would need to answer that one. But the intent of that tool is to create a view of a single wall and the items that are hosted on that wall.

From Help: "The Wall Elevation tool creates an interior elevation of a single wall defining the room that the camera is drawn in." I guess that's just how that tool works.

What type of camera did you initially use? Wall Elevation?

I haven't used this product but if I were I'd set it up as a single layer in the wall spec. and I'd show it as a single layer in cross sections, and both layers in details. And then I'd probably change my mind after finding a reason to show it as 2 layers, and then I'd change my mind again and go back to a single layer.

Edit Camera / uncheck Clip to Room