AndyGump

Have you found anyone to help you with this yet? Andy.

I am running 10 but I don't know if I have the Update you referenced. Andy.

I should have responded a bit earlier than this but anyway... I downloaded the video driver for my system, which is an HP All-in-one, i7 Intel, 16 Gig RAM, with the Nvidia 930 MX card and now all is well. Thank you all for responses. Andy.

Has anyone else experienced or is experiencing Chief freezing up while working? When it freezes, I can see the cursor and move it around in the tools section at the top and in the docked windows on the right side of the screen but not in the workspace. It disappears in the workspace. Very strange. The weird thing is, Chief will allow me to save the plan and the layout when it decides to freeze so only some of the functionality stops. Thanks for any and all help in this matter. And before you say anything Lew, I will contact customer support tomorrow. Andy.

I find Chief's 2D tools to be more than adequate for my needs and I draw a lot of prescriptive and engineered structural details with it. It is not near as powerful as AutoCAD or even TurboCAD but I don't need all that other horsepower from the other apps. Andy.

I for one, could not imagine showing the placement of ABs on my plans. I call them out of course and note that the ends of plates should have one AB 12" or less from ends or splices and call out the needed distance between them but, calling out the exact position seems like way too much work for no gain. The contractor should be knowledgeable enough to be able to place them on his build. And to know the best place to start his framing. Do they seriously not know enough about building that they need their hands held like that? Andy.

You split the 144 sq. in. 50/50 high and low. So 72 sq. in. high and 72 sq. in. low. Andy.

I never realized there was such a thing. Andy.

Is it the AIBD exam? Andy.

I have no idea what you are looking for in this post. Andy.

You may be looking for fire rated assemblies. Try this link. http://www.usg.com/content/dam/USG_Marketing_Communications/united_states/product_promotional_materials/finished_assets/usg-fire-resistant-assemblies-catalog-en-SA100.pdf

Go to Structure tab and click on the "Default Wall Top Height" button and the exterior layer will come back. I don't know why it set like that but it is. Andy.

The unincorporated areas of Yavapai County adhere to the 2015 IRC. The type of construction you are requiring is not covered under the 2015 IRC so you will need engineering for that for sure. I always thought that Prescott would be a nice to place to live. Andy.

Try printing it in color. Andy.

One can only enter the Master Bedroom from the back porch? Andy.

What a weird thing...I PM'd Walsh and I get a response from Kellykellykelly about a house in Costa Rica. I think the CA forum PM is messed up. Andy.

If it is anywhere near the SF area then the seismic zone is D-sub-whatever, and if it is a balcony that means the second floor at least. If so then engineering is required and prescriptive is out. The engineer needs to design, calculate and stamp his/her structural plans. The balcony was probably designed for 50 lbs live load and if the room is a bedroom then the live load only needs to be 40 lbs. if I remember correctly (maybe 30 for bedroom and 40 for other rooms). Andy.

This looks like a bug. If you turn on the Auto Dormers Layer then click on the dormer and explode it and change the layer of the walls for dormer to a new layer (call it "Normal Walls 2" or something) then you can turn off that layer in the plans view. Andy.

That is an attic wall., Do what Eric said. Andy.

Thank god I am not the only one experiencing this stupid cr@p. It has been driving me nuts that I get these slow downs in certain situations involving elevations and layouts and section views etc. It has been very frustrating to try and pin down. Andy.

Hi Alex, if I understand the question correctly then my answer is that Chief does it this way by default. You may need to set the default width of the sill before building the framing for the first floor first though. Andy.

Well thank you sir. Andy.

I am using the very latest version of Chief X-8, all up to date. As to the crashes, I will wipe my drive and start all over again with a fresh install of both Windows and Chief. Chief dropped my User Library for no apparent that I can discern and when I go to re-install the saved library from My Documents this is the message that I get. How can it be that my library items can not be read by this version if they were saved in this version? WTF? Andy.

Not only crashing but it recently tossed out my User Library which really ticks me off. I have been using the frickin software for seven years or more, I know what not to touch and what not to do and Chief throws out my most important library. Thanks a lot, just freaking great. Andy.

I do lot of as-builts for contractors and home owners for plans for their remodels and additions. I don't think I have ever done one for a Realtor for any reason. We have a service here in So. Cal. that provides the very basic floor plans for many of the tract style homes (and we have a lot of them). The plans are taken from the brochures and such that builders used to hawk their models and tracts. It costs about $7.00 a plan and I have used it a few times to do as-builts from. Andy.