glennw

Just a wild guess In Preferences>Appearance>Toolbars, you have Child Tool Palette checked and the palette is opening off screen and/or behind another window.

Try this Assuming you are using auto roofs, trusses and auto framing Build a second floor In the Build Roof dbx check Ignore Top (2nd Floor) Build a room on the second floor the size you need for your platform (probably with invisible walls) Here is a very quick one I haven't got time now but read up on Attic Trusses which may do what you want

Gene, You can't use horizontal framing to do that. Although a bit more tedious, you can use the Wall Blocking tool. You can only specify a single row of blocking automatically though (in Framing Defaults). You can manually place more rows of blocking by opening the Wall Detail and drag across the wall with the Wall Blocking tool. Or you can copy and paste, etc.

It looks like you have only one elevation region. You need at least two pieces of elevation data of different heights to build a slope in the terrain.

Are you still using X14 as X16 handles this editing much better. Make sure you have unlocked the Roos, Trim layer in the layer set that you are using. Try using Tab to select the polyline. Otherwise post. your plan.

I don't see an auto way to do that. If there is no easier way you can edit the molding polyline that holds the frieze molding.

You can get 2 point perspective (vertical corners) if you set your camera Tilt Angle to zero.

I think you are going to do a lot of those with solids after laying out as many walls as you can easily. I would'd even attempt to do them all with walls.

You have a second floor over the main house - any particular reason? Chief won't draw a vaulted ceiling because the floor above is stopping it.

Take a cross section/elevation view and edit the wall polyline as needed.

Are you saying this is crude?

It looks like you may have set the Bottom Run Elevation to 24" and the Stud Spacing to something larger than the wall height. With Horizontal Framing, you need to set the Bottom Run Elevation and the Stud Spacing (even though they are not studs) for girt spacing. If that is not the answer, then post a plan.

I just did this really quick one for proof of concept using a Polyline Distribution Region and a Flush-Mount Light. I will leave it to you to twig it with the appropriate light, spacing, sizes, etc. It only took a minute or do to nock this one up. If you really don't want lights, use a 3D object like a sphere or cylinder, etc., with an emissive material instead of the lights.

You need to rebuild the framing AFTER you place the windows and doors.

You can set the defaults for roof trusses which sets the sizing and spacing of the truss members. The shape of the trusses is determined by the slope of ceiling and roof planes - the trusses fill in the space between the ceiling and roof. So the easiest way is to draw your model with the appropriate roof and ceiling planes, specify trusses as the framing method and auto build the roof framing. This is all auto once you have set the defaults.

You can't build a room over a roof because the walls build up to the roof. You will need to use another way to build your second floor. Best way is to build a room with it's own floor.

Can you post the plan.

The beauty of using a Road or Driveway is that you then get access to the Median, Cul-de-sac, Road Marking and Road Stripe tools.

You can draw one road section and then just drag a new road section off the end of that one. The 2 road sections will join smoothly. Only problem is this will result in a sharp junction between the 2 road sections. I am guessing you want a curved join between the 2 road sections? In that case, draw a straight road section. Curve it using the Change Line/Arc tool on the Edit menu and then shape it as needed. You can then add new straight road sections to each end of the curved section.

Are you trying to maintain the same plate height, overhang and pitch for all roof planes?

Have you tried auto roofs: Or, from my old hand drawing days I think there is another way to do it with the ridge as you show, but I would have to put my thinking cap on to remember how to do it.

Can you explain in a bit more about what you are needing. I will have a guess. My first thought is to use a sphere which would be visible in both 2D and 3D. You can locate it in XYZ and give it a label.

I have an insulation fill like this if it fills the bill. You can shape the polyline and have all the normal fill parameters available so that you can play around with the scale to make it fit full height in the polyline. The sloping bit will always cut the fill though.

Select the wall. Match Properties from the Edit toolbar. Select All in the Match Properties dbx - OK. Marquee Select from the Edit toolbar. Select All Similar from the Edit toolbar - no need to draw a marquee.

Hi Jason Try toggling off the "Walls, Through Wall Lines" layer