CA for future home builder/owner

[tompapa]

By the way Preston, it took me a couple of months to learn the program well enough to do my first set of plans. It was a very custom house though, so if yours is easy to build it will be easy to draw. The program is really simple to learn, it's just that there's a lot to learn. I'm a builder with 35 years experience so that may have given me a leg up but if you look at a set of plans that has all the necessary information on them for guidance you'll be able to accomplish this easily. You probably don't really need chief though if the design is straightforward. Doing construction documents is pretty basic whereas a big part of chief is the rendering and such, which is helpful when dealing with clients. Not really necessary in your case.

[lbuttery]

I know for a fact that you can do this in California. It is neither illegal or unethical

the key is the level of supervision

Lew

[perryh]

I've been doing it for almost 40 years now and every plan I do, uses a structural engineer.