Chief Glossary

Chief has a glossary of architectural (and other) terms. Most are familiar, with the definition you would expect, but there were these outliers:

• AFCI - another term for a GFCI outlet or circuit (arc fault circuit interrupter)
• belly band - decorative siding running around the building. Not clear if it's the "chair rail" I have on my house, or something between two floors, or something else.
• floating dormer - a dormer that rests only on the roof plane, not on walls in the living space below (except for the front, which may bear on the exterior wall)
• frieze - a molding to hide where the wall meets the soffit
• hip - sloped ridge line
• light rail - not a trolley. It is molding under cabinets to hide under-cabinet lighting
• marquee selection - dragging a box in the UI to select the objects inside it.
• marriage walls - walls built side by side, often called Double Walls
• plenum - the space between floor/ceiling platform and a suspended ceiling
• plinth block - trim at the base of door casing
• pony wall - two wall types, one over the other
• skillion roof - a shed roof (I've never heard this before)
• transom - the header between a door and the transom window above
• tray ceiling - often incorrectly spelled "trey" in Chief

My list of Chief-isms:

• callouts - This is a detail reference, an interior elevation bubble, and so on. Not just a note with an arrow.
• floor - This can refer to the floor platform or to a building level (Floor 1 is the main floor; Floor 0 is the foundation; Floor A is the attic)
• half-wall - Not a pony wall, more like a solid railing
• layer - This refers to layers on the drawing (Walls, Normal and so on) or to the components of a wall type, platform, or roof assembly.
• pony wall - one wall type over another--you specify the height of the lower and two walls. You have a wood stud wall over a concrete retaining wall? That's a pony wall. Full-height studs but the siding changes halfway up--that's a pony wall. Same with brick veneer exterior wainscoting. Don't confuse with half-wall.