Chrisb222

Will it though? It's a good idea and I've been playing with this, but I can't get the plate to show up if the ceiling ht is less than 2.6" which of course produces wall studs... At 1.5" the plate disappears:

Thanks Michael. Interesting how the overhang is related to the neighboring plane's baseline offset. I was just thinking that. I posted the thread right before taking lunch and that idea occured to me afterwards. I've had to do similar things to get boxed returns to look "more right" (sometimes they never look right). I agree, gonna turn it over to TS. I've been dealing with this since I started using Chief, just never bothered with trying to solve it other than correcting it manually. Thanks again.

Whenever I'm starting a design using auto roofs and I have the condition (shown) of a gable and a hip with different pitches, the gable overhang grows out for no apparent reason. Different settings in the Build > Roof dbox cause different effects but none produce the result I need, which is for all overhangs to be the same default size specified. I run into this now and then and just live with it while designing with Auto Roofs, then pull the planes back when switching to manual, but it would be nice to have it show correctly auto. Simple X15 plan attached exhibiting the issue. Gable Overhang.plan

That line shows the transition from the interior to the exterior. They can't be turned off. You can draw a tiny interior room around the line using invisible walls, and set the room to not be calculated as living space. Or you can cover it with a CAD box filled white.

Maybe a leftover aspect of the program from an older version that got superseded, but never got deprecated? Just guessing...

Out of the box, Chief will dimension to the face of the framing layer. You can change this to whatever layer you want. If you're getting ready to draw a brick building, first go into the Edit > Default Settings > Walls > Exterior Wall, and specify that wall type. Also set the Dimension To Exterior Of Layer there as well. Then everything will automatically work how you want. You should always set up all your defaults to the specific job before you start drawing, to prevent making a lot of manual adjustments afterward.

Yes. As of now. You won't be able to restart SSA if it lapses, but the version you last paid for will continue to function after SSA expires. I keep saying "as of now" because, as we have seen, policies can and will change.

I edited that post because yes, if your SSA is current you can continue with SSA indefinitely (as of now). I guess it's up to you but if you've been paying SSA all this time, I would definitely recommend X15. It has some great upgrades.

At this time, yes. At this time, no, unless you are current now. Then you can continue into the future. At this time, anyway.

I run into this a lot myself. As others mentioned, lowering the porch ceiling can correct this. Also, if you want the porch ceiling to remain where it is, try reducing the size of the gable sub fascia depth in the structure panel of that roof plane's d-box. I know, it shouldn't cause this but it does somehow.

Lol, I didn't even see that other room

Shed roof with the eave over the three windows, up to the ridge of the sunroom.

I'm not using that method. Now stop!

Make sure you're sending the correct camera:

It works for me. Maybe you sent the wrong camera when exporting the model? You can also switch cameras from within the viewer, if you sent multiples.

This is similar to my method. The "same name" method being described wouldn't work for me. I often have multiple versions of a file open and need to see a unique file name. I also extensively use File > Open Recent Files to open files, where under this convention all the file names would be the same. Plus it's one more folder level to navigate when scrolling to get to a file. In addition, I use File > Open Recent Files in other software looking for, say a PDF, and need that unique file name to appear. Attaching files to emails would entail one more folder level, with a much greater risk of sending the wrong file (for me at least). It's not too hard to Save As a layout with "XXXXX_02," do the same with the .plan, then change the referenced plan file in layout. Plus that is done while still working in the program.

Yeah if you're doing mostly ID that will be the setting you want.

1. This is not footing thickness it's wall thickness. 2. On the Structure panel of the Wall Specification Dialog, the wall between the kitchen and living room, and the short wall of the closet have Bearing Wall and Create Wall/Footing Below checked. The bedroom walls have Create Wall/Footing Below checked. Uncheck those. 3. As to the span or whether you need those bearing walls, that depends on your structural intents and goals. That's up to the designer to decide. Although it looks like you intend to use common trusses, in which case, no, 32' is not too far to span.

Ok I see now. In your General Wall Defaults, you have Resize About set to Main Layer Outside. The Main Layer in your wall definition is the framing layer, so when you click to draw a wall right next to the cabinet, the program is snapping the framing layer to the cabinet, leaving your 1/2" drywall layer overlapping. Change the setting to Outer Surface and the wall will snap to the cabinet at the drywall layer:

Not sure what you're having trouble with, I was able to place a wall against the cabinet. Is this what you want?

Folder and file paths are found in the Preferences menu: On the computer with the custom toolbars and preferences you want copied, find and copy those folders to the other computers. You might want to keep the original folders in case something goes south, but this works for me.

I would love to have user-created dropdowns, even made a suggestion for it some time back.

These tools can easily be placed anywhere you wish in your custom toolbars. This is a real problem??