Chrisb222

That would be fairly easy to model in Chief, so no you don't "need" another software, unless you already know how to model it there. Look around online, you might find it, or something close enough. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com

Very nice!

Every time I read updates to this thread I'm thankful that I use a Mac! 7 years of using Chief, never a single issue with graphics display. Sure, I can't do RTRT, but never had an issue with video drivers. Oh, except with my PC laptop. (No offense intended.)

Yes, just as Glenn said. I built a house that was designed by the homeowner in HD and we collaborated back and forth, and I produced all the final elements using his work as a starting point. Works great.

You can convert the existing molding to a molding polyline, then extend it around the missing spaces of the room and it will line up.

First option is to make the shower pony wall "no room definition" but that can cause other issues. As previously stated it depends on your goals.

To my reading, this offer is simply a discount on the subscription price. If you stop paying, it stops working. This is not an offer to sell an upgraded perpetual license. They don't do that anymore.

Just to expand on the solution, after drawing the CAD line you can also simply use the "Make Parallel" tool to set the new wall at the proper angle.

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!