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You can always turn off the Floor Surfaces layer in the cross section. That way, you get an accurate model.

Steve, Great video as usual, but probably MUCH easier to do a simple roof like that using the auto roof tool. Build a zero height second floor and control the dormer with a room on the second floor. The big advantage of doing auto is that the model is very easy to change if you want to see how variations will look - or, if in a very unusual circumstance, the client changes their mind and wants some changes! I realise that it was an older video not necessarily made for this particular situation.

In the 2 end walls dbx, go to the Roof panel and use the Dutch Gable Wall option. Auto build roofs. Or..it looks like there may be a double pitch. In which case, in addition to the above, open the walls dbx for the 2 long walls and enter the Upper Pitch options. Auto build roofs. Here is a very quick one:

Tony, I am based in Sydney. Let me know the scope of work with maybe an example of what you want. I may have some spare time during Covid to help.

Rob, You may already know that you can easily record a spin around the model with fairly good results - but I will run through it on case you aren't aware of a couple of things. Set up your 3D view and in the camera dbx, make sure the Incremental Move Distance and Incremental Rotate Angle are set to small values like 4" and 1deg respectively. The smaller these settings, the smoother the movie. In the popup Walkthrough Options you get some additional options. You may want a higher frame rate or less compression. You can then Save Video As and change the recording format - .mp4, .mpv, iTunes .mp4). You can now use the left and right arrow keys or Spin to record a movie. This has to be better than recording the screen with a phone. Here is a very basic quick one you demonstrate the smoothness in a flyaround using Spin. It is about 7MB. The beauty of this method is that it is all done quickly right in Chief - no toolbars, no clipping....... Don't forget that Walkthroughs have their own default settings. Spin movie.mp4

Auto roof builds OK if you make the Segment angle At Curved Wall about 14 deg or more. The auto roof on the left hand side of the curved wall needs to be fixed by selecting the curved wall and using the Make Arc Tangent tool to fix up the walls and build the roof over the bottom left corner.

Kevin, I think you answered your own question in your first post. Either make the roof overhang smaller or make the small step in the wall a bit larger. You should probably do that anyway so that it can be built properly without a very small bit of the roof that would need to be sealed where it projects past the adjoining small wall. Chief doesn't want to build it the way you have it drawn, and you probably shouldn't build it that way in real life.

You could start by posting a plan.

As Michael said, the technique described in the video has been superseded by Chief's bifold door tool.

Select all the existing roof planes and open the dbx. General panel>Measurements>Mark As edited. Build Roof>Roof panel>Build>Build Roof Planes>Retain Edited Automatic Roof Planes.

I am just saying that you don't HAVE to have matching layer sets/default sets/saved plan views. It makes a lot of sense to have them all named the same so that they are easy to keep track of. It's just that over the years i have seen a lot of users do things like have identical layersets for each floor when the same layerset can be used for different floors. The result is a lot of layersets that make things more complicated. Whatever works for the user is fine - it is good that we have the flexibility to use these tools as we want.

I don't think this is 100% correct - there are some exceptions where having all 3 is not necessary. Say I am on the level 1 plan and want to use my "Level 2 Bedroom" Saved Plan View to change to level 2 and zoom in to the Bedroom area. I don't need a Default Set called "Level 2 Bedroom". My normal Default Set for drawing in plan view (the one I use on level 1 plan) at that particular print scale will fit the bill just fine. Under normal circumstances, we don't need different default sets (or layer sets) for different floor levels (or different zoom levels unless we are working on a different drawing scale detail).

You can do it quickly yourself with the Polygon Shape Deck tool or the Regular Polygon cad tool, auto roof, steps that transform/replicate around the centre point. define the rail, tidy up..... This one took about 10 - 15 minutes.

I see the Multiple Copy tool technique - I forgot about that one. It certainly has some problems when used with roof planes.

OK, I figured out what happened. In trying to select your small roof sections, I selected another roof by mistake and then selected the correct small roof section. This auto places a temporary point where the 2 roofs meet. This is then the Current Point. Lesson - deselect the incorrect roof before selecting the correct roof.

I would not expect it to work with Multiple Copy. Multiple Copy does not have the necessary settings to copy and rotate.

The roof will Revolve around the Current point which is located down below the plan. That point in the centre of the circle is not the current point. Use Delete Temporary Points and then place a "Place Point" in the centre and it will become the Current Point. You also do not need to check Move in the Transform/Replicate dbx.

I think you can do what you want in the material list. I did this very quickly to see if it could be done, but it may help. I have not done this before, so it's all on the fly. Instead of calculating the wallboard as # of sheets, calculate it as area. Generate a material list - you will get a square area for the wallboard. In the Comment column, use a formula like "=count/your sheet area" - in this case I used 32 sq ft. This will give you a result of the number of sheets. You can also set the number formatting as required (units, decimal places, etc). It is still pretty restricted as you can only use sheet size per wall - which is really no different than the normal way of doing things.

What tool did you use to rotate the plan? Rotate Plan View? As strange as it sounds, Rotate Plan View does no really rotate the plan. Better to use Edit Area (All Floors) or another method.

If I make any changes to any of the cupboards, the tiles on the bullnose section jump around. PS. It's not the edits to the cupboards that cause the material jumping. All I have to do to get the material to jump around is rebuild the model either with Rebuild 3D or Rebuild Walls/Floors/Ceilings.

My guess is that some of your cabinets are using the default material and some are not using the default material - ie, you have edited the material on some cabinets. You can always select all the cabinets and change the materials to use the defaults.

Thanks, not my best day!

I am still not 100% clear about what you want to achieve. It sounds like you want to use an old plan, but use all your new defaults. Here is another guess. Open the plan in X12. File>Import Default Settings Import the defaults from your template plan - you can select the defaults that you want to import.

What are you trying to do - your post is a bit confusing. Edit area (All Floors) Defaults are saved with the plan file.

Just to make sure, did you check the Preference setting?