Mark3D

13 hours ago, glennw said:

We have been able to get terrain volumes in Chief since about X11.

That picture of the terrain dbx must be from an earlier version.

It now contains a lot more information including volume.

The area and volume is the same so there is no volume calculated

Have a look at this it might get you moving in the right direction maybe, i had to use some polyline solids and a sofit to make it look better witch maybe no good for working drawings.

One more thing i don't think your landing is not the write height looking at photos

New Plan.zip

Can you share your plan

I always use a keyboard shortcut key to build terrain and i don't use auto build, so it seems chief does not auto build terrain until a camera view is used, and auto build does not show in plan view until camera is opened then floorplan is updated with auto build on.

I hope there is clue in there to help with what is going on

You need to have more than one elevation region for height data that gives you a flat terrain try adding some more elevation data at different heights

Sorry i rushed this reply edit with more infomation

Both elevation heights are the same elevation region and line are the same heights when i correct it  then even with auto build terrain does not seem to kick in straight away so i used a shortcut key command to build terrain that fixed it not sure what is going on just seems a bit slow to auto build

This forum is for chief architect premier try this forum Forums - HomeTalk Forum if you want to upload your plan file I can take a look

Here is a possible way of doing it not sure if it could be made to work in real world situation the more expert chief users will have better idea of it being buildable

roof ship front1.plan

To get a real world example if knows a house address i can look at on google or apple street view or can he show something on the internet that would help me 

It would be good to see a real-world example of the desired outcome, maybe you use a small roof plane that buts the into the zero degrees roof plane

You can give the baselines a angle

3 hours ago, HowdyYall said:

In some way I have no way of understanding, x17 took an open 2 story space made up of an entry and living room with a balcony crossing it to connect the upstairs and made the balcony have no floor. I just want the downstairs rooms to have regular floors without stem walls coming into the picture and I want to be able to have a balcony with a floor. Can you help me?

 

Plan file link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrutBfC7KAtPX3-8YIBYHp5JLewMaEBA/view?usp=sharing

See if this file has it fixed you have selected floor supplied by foundation below instead of floor under this room

Jerica Mason edit mark.zip

On 12/31/2025 at 1:25 AM, Mitchellopolis said:

Thanks Garybills - switching back to rafters did it.  Next question - I did something to my gable walls and they are now appearing as dashed lines on my second floor.  Any ideas?

They are now invisible  maybe you tried to delete them  change them back to visible

Not sure what you mean try un selecting shelf ceiling over drum pits that was a guess that I thought you wanted but I might have guessed wrong

See if that is what you want

PLC ADDITION.plan

just manual edit roof plains with auto roof turned off.

Is that what you want

21 hours ago, Mark3D said:

I did a bit more it maybe helpful  do your own checks for accuracy

 

Pratt Outdoor.plan 9.95 MB · 0 downloads

I re uploaded that plan file it now has that gable window detail as a way to do it

I did a bit more it maybe helpful  do your own checks for accuracy

Pratt Outdoor.plan

I had a real quick go at it you need to check accuracy but show how to get basic shape of roof it might be helpful.

Pratt Outdoor.plan

I had a look at your file, you need to look at that video most of the issues are talked about in that video, the problems I saw auto roof not turned on roof, auto deck framing not turned on for deck and roof not turned on for deck rooms

1234272422_NEWFRONTPORCHADDITION1256BLOOMERYROAD.plan

I replayed the video there is no background noise try watching on a different on a different computer or phone  as for trouble simplifying the model just remove stairs draw a square deck tha get that right then add back  the stairs also don’t turn off auto deck framing.

Just select an move them maybe if understand your needs

Here is a video showing its different than original file

NEW FRONT PORCH ADDITION 1256 BLOOMERY ROAD mark edit.plan

See if this file helps it may get you moving in the right direction

NEW FRONT PORCH ADDITION 1256 BLOOMERY ROAD.plan

The floor plans don’t show the roof plains ask the client if the have a more detailed set of drawings you never know they may have given you the wrong set of drawings.