Wall thickness

[Designer1]

Michael thats very tricky to do the barrel vault with the closet in between.  I usually avoid making the closet door within the arch because of the limitations with chief and go make a closet on the other side of the arch to avoid design complications.  What method did you use to achieve this?  I have X9. 

 

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2 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is.  In that particular situation I wouldn't personally be building that with the 2 short walls anyway.  It would just get built as 2 framed walls with a drywall (and maybe plywood) wrap and I think a single wall definition suits that situation just fine...

 

I think at most in some circumstances I might add a couple CAD lines to show the plywood and/or drywall wrapping the opening...

 

 

I think the problem I found with the custom wall that has the double wall is its more then just adding the one line representing the sheetrock, youd have to add the framing layer as well with fill.  Its these types of time consuming steps that I wonder why it has to be this way.  With everything chief being so user friendly, these small but time consuming tasks  dont give us a completely satisfactory outcome either in 2d, 3d or in CD methods.

 

If we circle back to include exterior walls like I started with in this thread, I think the single custom walls have less issues when you thicken the composition of the wall.  For some reason even though the interior walls are much less complicated they seem to be more problematic.

[ChiefGrego]

5 hours ago, solver said:

Two walls, back to back. One with a doorway, one with a door.

I thought of that but did not try it because assumed Chief would not wrap the sheet rock at any gap created between the two walls

 

5 hours ago, solver said:

 

And my version of the roof.

Nice, I'll offer  option to the Builder. but then I feel like I need a room above the front porch .   Plan gets a bedroom bath and closet over garage.    

Thanks again solver....I'm still working on the other but put on hold til I finish this one.  

[Alaskan_Son]

1 hour ago, solver said:

This is what I was thinking of -- closets in the wall. Defined as Michael shows above, the through door works easily, but what if you don't want the doors to not go through?

 

There seems to be no control as Chief sees a single wall, not two.

 

 

Okay, I see what you're talking about.  I misunderstood.  Ya, that situation is tough, and also something I've never needed or wanted to model before.  This example isn't perfect but it's not too terrible either...

Example for Eric.plan

 

I don't know though...It depends on what I needed to draw that up for.  If I needed something really accurate I'd probably end up doing a lot of that manually.

[Designer1]

I wanted to check back in to see if anyone has come up with any solutions for interior and exterior thicker walls?  I wrote in to tech support and they agree chief doesnt have this worked out but I still wanted to see if anyone has found any good solutions over the last year.