Chrisb222

The label is referencing the drywall layer, 1/2" each side. It drives me nuts.

Try moving the camera around or hit refresh screen.

Yes. You have "Color" turned off, I can see it is unchecked on your right-side toolbar.

Just guessing from the wording of the ref manual that the parent object for the framing of a wall is the wall. Similar with roof planes.

Looks like you have different ceiling heights there? Vector views will show that. Try balloon framing as Mick suggests.

I always print in color, but I don't use the out of box colors, I think they look amateurish. I use a lot of color in my plans.

I didn't see it first either, because: The soffit offset is still there, just not nearly as pronounced as in the images in the OP. I couldn't find the problem.

Since your walls, floor and ceiling heights are the same, I would model it all in one plan. One advantage is if you're doing a site plan, you can situate the two buildings as they will be built and keep your property line, site plan dimensions, setbacks, etc all organized and together.

I try to stick to whole inches but it's not practical for everything. My primary default is set for 1/2" but I dimension to the whole inch as much as possible. Very rarely, but now and then I need something dimensioned at 1/4" My work is strictly new homes, no remodel or commercial. 1/16" dims on a residential framing plan sounds like a good way to get a hammer to the back of the head when leaving the jobsite.

Wall insulation doesn't even appear in the wall specs until you enclose a conditioned room, so there doesn't seem to be any way to customize what is used for wall insulation until after the room is created. Floor and ceiling insulation are also automatic although they can be controlled somewhat in each room's default settings.... but only individually, which is not very convenient either.

Ah, yes thanks.

Whew okay, learned some stuff today. I had already added an insulation layer to the wall definition, but didn't realize I had to also go into the Components tab of the Wall Specifications dialog and specify the ID of the custom insulation as Insulation. Thanks for the bread crumb... I'm just doing this as an exercise too. To the original question in the OP, yes, a custom insulation material could be created to report custom batt sizes or even bag quantities, but then you have redundant wall insulation being reported. I was able to "delete" the default wall insulation component, sort of.... by just blanking out the information in the components tab, or changing its ID to something else. But I don't see how to remove it, or anywhere in the program to specify the default wall insulation....

Funny you say that, I played around with that idea after seeing this thread and could not get the material list to recognize a custom insulation material. I was able to fool it into reporting a custom insulation material, but only by making the program think it was either a wallboard or a framing material type, which made it report the material under either the Wall Board category or the Framing category, respectively. I had the idea because I already use multiple wall types with custom drywall materials that do report the various sizes I use, but I couldn't get it to work with insulation. I would be interested to see your technique.

And you were right! The last one we did had a different curve to the sides versus the front. And that was before my master framer passed away, so I don't think there will be any more of those. It was a real head scratcher! And yes, the copper material alone for that 3x9 awning was about two grand

I assume you mean "generate framing" in Chief. No, it won't build framing for that symbol, and if you make one from roof planes the framing will be a little wonky, but it will work. I threw this one in together a couple minutes to show: :

That's done by creating a custom Template Plan. Once you set all your defaults, go to File > Templates > Save As Template, and save the file as your custom template plan. You can then open it as a new plan by going to File > Templates > New Plan from Template, and the new plan will include all of your custom defaults. You can also choose to make this plan the default template plan when saving it, and new plans created with the New Plan command will use this template. This will only work with new plans. All existing plans will retain their default settings.

Great news, Scott!

You're welcome! Glad that helped.

Yes it will. Draw the new railing wall off to the side first and set it to "No Room Definition" I had to add an invisible room divider, perpendicular to the railing wall at the "top" end to keep if from breaking back downward.

I would just turn off the railing on the stairs, draw a separate railing over the stairs set to "follow stairs" and adjust as needed.

As Robert and Gene said, use the Elevation camera to draw the 3D molding polyline and they will automatically stick to the surface drawn on. You can also accurately dimension the polyline to other objects in this type of view.

So perpetual licenses could be renewed for only five years after they stopped selling them. Interesting. My concern has been whether perpetual licenses of older and current versions of CA will still function down the road. It appears that legacy perpetual Autodesk licenses will run indefinitely, but only on the hardware system it was originally activated on. From the Autodesk website: If you have a perpetual license for a version that has reached end of support, you still have rights to use the license for as long as you want. However, for unsupported versions, you can't get a new activation code to reactivate that version for any device. https://www.autodesk.com/support/account/manage/versions/support-lifecycle# If CA follows this model and eventually discontinues allowing perpetual license renewal, I suppose our current license will run indefinitely, but only on the last system it was activated on...

GAHH!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I finally had enough with having to resize the PB docked window every session, and searched and found this thread. OMG I was ready to break something valuable. Give yourself a "Solved" for that one, you deserve it!

You can get it by watching videos, searching the forum, and asking questions as they arise. Rather than purchasing templates, I think you're better off gaining the understanding of how the program is designed to function, so you can modify your own templates as your needs change. But that's just my opinion, as I prefer to develop my own working style and flow; others may prefer to follow someone else's flow and that's ok too. One of the main things you want to focus on is Saved Plan Views (SPVs). This is the core engine that controls your plan development workflow. As you develop Saved Plan Views for your workflow, you will also create specific Custom Layers (including SPV-specific CAD layers), Layer Sets, Saved Dimension Defaults, Saved Text Styles, and possibly Default Sets although those are somewhat of a leftover from versions before SPVs (some still use them as they can make things a little simpler when multiple Saved Plan Views utilize the same Default Set), and more, depending on the requirements to properly execute the view. It's fairly complex but also powerful. It's a lot to explain, and to digest. Check out this video to get started: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2421/saved-plan-views.html?playlist=100

EXCELLENT ANALOGY! Although I'm sure someone won't agree, and hit me with a reddie.