robdyck

To properly model and display the mitered detail of the roof edge, fascia, trim, and soffit, I'd suggest using a 3D molding and assign a molding for each component.

Depending on what will be used and how accurate it needs to be, you can simply use a general framing member set to a c-channel to represent the girts. The first one you use can be set to its own layer, adjust its schedule settings, material, and then copy and/or transform replicate as needed. You can do a whole building quite quickly this way.

Jarid, did Mom give you permission to take her radio to work?!

At the minimum I'd be using the partition tool to add a flat panel to each end, but not filler. That will result in a closed toe kick. If you want the open toe kick, use a base cabinet: Or for something more detailed:

This will be the quickest.

I'd love to apply but golden oak doesn't work for me:) Now if the office was decked out in pickled oak, my resume would be on the way! And I'd need forest green countertops...with a full jar of caramels, a bigger boombox and armrests on both sides! This post belongs in the Seeking Services section BTW.

There's no reason that you can't use a wall type with a single layer using a material with a log wall texture.

Just like the actual construction!

I should have checked before answering!

I will look into that...not sure I've ever used stepping stones!

That's what it was. I had use a polyline solid converted to a shape in order to quickly model a thickened edge sidewalk. I placed that solid / shape on a separate layer and BOOM! Chief has been beaten into submission once again! Tech support may want to take note of this because when I submitted the plan to them, they weren't able to find the problem or provide a solution. But that may also be because they wouldn't admit there was a problem. Thanks to Michael again...re-watching the video he made helped me hone in on the issue.

@Alaskan_Son Do you remember this weird line weight issue I had awhile back? This beast has popped up again! If you'll remember, resizing the layout box is what seemed to randomly trigger whether or not layout line scaling was in effect. And in my site plan, which is at a 1:200 scale, it is layout line scaling is NOT being used. But Chief forces it on. In the view below, I have 3 layout boxes of the same view which I'm cropping to try to isolate problem. Notice the bottom left is the dirty one. I think it might be caused by an object in the plan...

Has anyone ever experienced a situation where the Use Layout Line Scaling option remains stuck in the checked position? That is to say that a layout box display it's line weights as though it is checked, despite it not being checked. Toggling it makes no difference. If so, I'd love to hear how it was resolved.

One can also use a general framing member for this application. Framing members wrap wood grain correctly automatically. Adjust schedule controls as needed and same with layers and labels.

That particular condition showed in the OP can also be the cause of a sill plate being spec'd in the foundation wall dbx. This would not apply to a pony wall.

What is the best way to build/ model a shallower floor depth in a portion of a stairwell where the floor platform needs to be reduced in order to maintain headroom? If I build a small room on the main floor in order to spec. a shallower floor depth, I get all sorts of issues. But I can't think of a single way within Chief to accomplish this without plenty of manual adjustments. I'm curious how as to how others handle this situation. I've made a small room on the main floor and used a 2x6 floor depth On the main floor, a cabinet gets cut off in plan view, crown molding gets cutoff in 3d.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/detail/770

Hey Rob, You probably shouldn't use a 3d molding there. I'd find the correct crown molding in the library and then when you draw a molding, it will use that molding automatically. Then you can open the molding dbx and adjust it's height.

Can't say it would have occurred to me to use the %height% macro in plan view.

Thank-you Eric! I've watched your video, but seeing this (combined with the info in your video) is helping to make sense of how the NF works. I had something very similar but was getting an eval.. error and that's because I was inserting the room macro in those brackets. I appreciate your help. What NOT to use: %room.elevation.ceiling% %room.elevation.floor%

I know this has been discussed a lot, but I'm wondering if there's a simple method to get an elevation marker in plan view to display a room's floor elevation in the format shown in the image? I can figure out a bit of the number formatter thing, but I can't get it to return a floor or ceiling elevation. The automatic macro returns this value in inches and the same thing is true for the data in a schedule.

Just gotta make sure the top view (just lines) doesn't have the shadows turned on! Hmmm, not too sure about this...I think it might defeat the purpose. What should be black is of course now gray. And that's a lotta paint to get wrong, despite all the labelling!

Does anyone have some layout tips or suggestions for printing exterior elevations, where the house is a very dark color. It's one of these all-black farmhouse styles! And I don't need to print in color, but if I could....! What I'd really like is a tool to fade the colors in Vector View, but not the lines. I'm thinking of a layout box sandwich...color for the bottom bun, cad mask of partial white for the middle, and lines w/ no color for the top bun.