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Hey Marshal, do as you just stated. On the lower section, grab the roof plan, you'll see a grip. Pull that to your raised attic wall, it should snap right at it. That will automatically put your soffits in...

See if your working on a Friday night... :-) I am aware of the auto fill and use it all the time, that's not my question. My question is that when using the auto fill, it always comes in with the "batt insulation" symbol. About 70% of my houses use closed cell as their insulation of choice. Forcing me to delete the batt symbol and replace with right insul. symbol. So I was wondering where is the insulation type controlled from and if there is a location, does that also set the fill hatch pattern? I am not seeing it in the wall dbx, and looked elsewhere as well.

Can you upload the plan as it is hard to see what is going on

Post the plan.

Maybe make that entrance a room with all room dividers, then uncheck "ceiling above?"

Anybody got any thoughts on this? Or is this one of those situations where there is no good answer?

I know I've done this before with auto-roof on...but the technique is eluding me today. Can someone remind me how to get the soffit on the upper gable walls to show and the lower gable roof plane to extend to the attic wall? Thanks!

My floor plans are drawn on chief architect pro, I'm looking to connect with someone who would be interested in building out the roof together with me/ for me. jim@BetterRemodelingGA.com

Awesome! Thank you!

To support @robdyck post. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/709/compound-curved-roof.html?playlist=95

I agree. even I learned some things.:D

Thank you everyone; this has been very helpful!

That's perfect - thanks so much !

dish machine.calibz Here's one I got from 3D warehouse a few years ago.

Yep I like to use the same method as Chris & Gene. Sometimes for basic prelim versions I will toggle off all the patterns in elevation views when we aren't sure of materials yet.

Does anyone know where I can find a symbol for an upright (tall) commercial dishwasher? Doing some plans for a kitchen remodel for my church and they would like to incorporate one of these, I downloaded the commercial restaurant catalog from the bonus cats but nothing in there. The manufacturers site does not supply 3d symbols either

Yes, you can use curved roof planes. In elevation view, first establish the geometry using CAD tools. You can also use construction lines to identify the transition points across multiple views. Take note of your CAD radius and use that information to create the roof planes. You only need to draw the roof planes on one side, then copy & reflect about the center line. Keep in mind that the length and radius are most important to begin with. In elevation view, you can adjust the height using the transform / replicate tool, or the point-to-point move tool.

Glad I could help!

That seems to have worked perfectly @robdyck. Thank you for that tip!

I prefer elevations sent to layout as plot lines and then when in layout, the pattern lines set to 1 and color gray not black.

Anyway to draw an eyebrow roof line? I see you can do an eyebrow dormer but I can't seem to position it at the wall or make it small enough.

If you're talking about how your elevations look in layout, personally I prefer using plot lines and setting the edge lines to black, and the pattern lines to a thinner gray.

You can also toggle all the material patterns on or off in 3D views.

Hey skip How I would do this.... Copy the material definition to your user catalog and rename it something to dilineate it from the original. Once this is done you can then open nd edit the material definition. Once in the editor, the top panel is "Pattern". Under the pattern section, change it from hatch (or whatever it is set to) to "no pattern". This should keep the image in the 3d viewer while suppressing the hatch texture. Give this a go and see if its what you were needing.

How you tried converting the elevation to CAD using the "CAD Detail from View" command? Then you can delete anything you'd like. Alternately, you could create walls or roofs without the surfaces.