I have been swamped the past few days or I would have jumped in sooner but getting back to the original question:Quote:
Originally posted by Wolfgang Richter
Has any of your Chief users designed post and beam homes? I am asked by contractors to do it. How about the time it takes to design a post and beam home vs. regular stick built? Is Chief sufficiently equipped to do it or does it take supplemental software like sketch-up?
Thanks for your attention
I don't have any problems depicting post and beam or timber frame structures in Chief. I'll admit that I haven't done a timber frame lately... more like adding timber elements to a design.
I believe my first attempt at timber frame in Chief goes back to version 6 or 7 and I was able to use some tricks to make it work. It would be much easier today with the tools that have been added to Chief since then.
I assume the program Jim Rodgers mentioned does engineering and auto detailing. At least for $7,000.00 US it should. ;) If that is the case it is probably worth every penny... if timber frame is what you do.