Residential Design Using Chief Architect X10
This book is fully updated for the release of Chief Architect X10.
$89.90(Softcover) / $84.95 (Digital) Digital version includes the Working file
This step-by-step tutorial is fun and easy to grasp as you are guided through the design process using Chief Architect home design software, from setting up your drawing, creating walls, doors, windows, foundation, and roof, to creating finished construction documents. By the time you have finished the tutorials you will have drawn a modern 2-story residence, complete with a walk-out basement, decks, and landscaping. You will also become proficient with specifying a water table or cap for a pony wall (pony walls can even have a railing as the upper wall). You will learn how to turn your 2D design into a 3D model, using Chief Architect’s rendering tools, including the physically based rendering tool (Chief Architect’s most photo realistic 3D rendering technique). All this is presented in step-bystep tutorials. The book is loaded with concise explanations with step-by-step tutorials that will give you a hands-on experience in developing a real home design project from start to f inish. Other features that are covered in this book include backdrops that can now be specified on a per camera basis as well as for each rendering technique, layout view boxes (used to develop the construction plans) that now give you the ability to edit a layout box into any shape. You will learn how to apply labels to many of the objects displayed in the plan. You will be shown how to show framing, to include selecting a default fill style for joists, rafters, general framing, and headers, in floor plan views. Plus, you will have handson-experience with many other capabilities and easy to use tools that will make your home design work more proficient and professional. A DVD is included with the book. The DVD contains files needed to complete the step-by-step exercises in the book. A PDF version of Home Design Using Chief Architect X17 is included on the DVD. The book and the X17 PDF will take you step by step in finding your way around the Chief Architect interface, and how to manage your drawing projects. During the course of the tutorials, you will develop and work with stairs, roofs, and decks. You will work with the development of modern bath and kitchen designs. You will develop the skills necessary to design successful interior designs to include working with electrical layouts and lighting. You will learn about adding structural elements, such as framing, foundations (to include stepping a foundation, and monolithic slabs). You will be shown how to add dormers to your design. The X17 PDF, included on the DVD, will include additional features, such as learning how to add wainscotting to stairways, and using style palettes, plus you will learn how to use the new Project Management system to develop templates and plan files. You also will be shown, step-by-step, how to use saved plan views, use and develop default sets, use and develop layers and layer sets, use and develop default dimensions. All of this will make you more skillful and proficient in developing your design and later creating the necessary construction documents.