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Old 07-19-2008, 01:23 PM   #1
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Quick Way To Draw Wall Frame Detail Plans

Hey . I drew some plans for a customer on a oversized garage with a loft on top, the customer wants to build it himself and would like a wall detail planshowing the studs, headers, cripplers etc.. measurements and windows..

I was just wondering if anyone knows of any software that could help me draw this out or if i should just spend a night drafting it all out. thanks

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Old 07-19-2008, 01:50 PM   #2
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Hey . I drew some plans for a customer on a oversized garage with a loft on top, the customer wants to build it himself and would like a wall detail planshowing the studs, headers, cripplers etc.. measurements and windows..

I was just wondering if anyone knows of any software that could help me draw this out or if i should just spend a night drafting it all out. thanks
Make the customer that wants the detailed plans draw it? When are they going to come out with a do it yourself tumor removal plan?
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Thats easy for a program like softplan or chief architect. Are you ready to spend $3,000????
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Googlr SketchUp is a free download.
I hope you are charging for your work.
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Will you be leaveing him your truck and tool to.
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Will you be leaveing him your truck and tool to.
Ok....that was funny.....How about the dog???
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Definally charging. Aint using up my free time for nothing.

I've played around with Google Sketchup, Id love to able to build models of all my work . I've tried teaching myself a few times but i didn't catch up on fast enough and quit
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I seem to never quite grasp sketchup. I will get it to work on a few trys and then go blank. Must be an age thing.
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I seem to never quite grasp sketchup. I will get it to work on a few trys and then go blank. Must be an age thing.
I can't figure out either I am always stumped <---- this is how I look after messing with it
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Re: Quick Way To Draw Wall Frame Detail Plans

There are free details all over the internet in AutoCAD format. Just have to find them, maybe modify them to suit your needs. This is all that an architect does. Well, they have their won, but they use their detais over and over.

Many CAD programs already have some details included, just have to modify.
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There are free details all over the internet in AutoCAD format. Just have to find them, maybe modify them to suit your needs. This is all that an architect does. Well, they have their won, but they use their detais over and over.

Many CAD programs already have some details included, just have to modify.
Easy for you to say
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Like This?

I have ACad and SolidBuilder

Once modeled, SB will crank out some very nice and ACCURATE production dwgs.

PM me with your plans and I'll show you.

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I have access to chief architect but its out of my league. Google sketchup would be nice to learn, we will have to find a tutuorial.

I'm downloading a trial of Softplan it looks promising, tried searching google sketchup for wall detail plans didn't find any
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Wow, Wallmaxx thats awesome. Something like that is exactly what I'm looking for (alot better actually). I got a trial of SoftPlan that I'm going to play around with. I don't have SolidBuilder. Is it complicated to use it to get wall details like that?
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I can't figure out either I am always stumped <---- this is how I look after messing with it
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
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Re: Quick Way To Draw Wall Frame Detail Plans

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Hey . I drew some plans for a customer on a oversized garage with a loft on top, the customer wants to build it himself and would like a wall detail planshowing the studs, headers, cripplers etc.. measurements and windows..

I was just wondering if anyone knows of any software that could help me draw this out or if i should just spend a night drafting it all out. thanks
Better Homes & Gardens Designer Suite. It's a scaled down version of Chief Architect. It does way more than I know how to do, but that isn't much. On Ebay for as low as $20. Current price is $30 for V6 and $70 for V7. Don't know whatz new in v7.

You can knock out a quick & dirty floorplan in 5 minutes. Another 5 to add windows and doors. I can never build a roof though. Someday I'll read the instructions.

Has 3D overview and doll house view. Camera view is cool to play with and show customers the rooms. (Kinda)
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Re: Quick Way To Draw Wall Frame Detail Plans

I started playing around with SoftPlan last night. I got some wall detail plans, but I'm not sure if SoftPlan will show materials list and cut measurements
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Funny thing is I use Chief architect which people say is a difficult program and It seems so easy to me. Yet google sketch up is the dark side for me
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Like any software....its all what you put into it. Chief was confusing to me, wereas I picked up softplan really fast. I tried to play with sketchup for a few hours and said the heck with it!!! Take time to learn one of them and they become and invaluable tool.

Things have been rather slow here where I am at so I have been just drawing lots of plans so when things do pick up I will have a large inventory of plans to show clients and can hopefully make some money selling plans as well as building homes. I've done about 10 new plans in the last few weeks and hope to do 10-15 more by the end of the summer.


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I started playing around with SoftPlan last night. I got some wall detail plans, but I'm not sure if SoftPlan will show materials list and cut measurements
I went with SoftPlan for my initial investment and I'll tell you right now, don't bother buying it. Find something that has community support. AutoCAD, SketchUp, ArchiCAD. Either of those 3 you will not go wrong without a doubt in my mind.
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