misterwiley

I've got a project where we are going to be building a 100' +/- retaining wall off the back of a house in order to back fill the yard to create a level pad for the client to play soccer on. I currently have a pretty accurate 3D model of the existing terrain that I got using a normal rotary laser and flags placed on the ground in a 5'x5' grid in order to gather around 100 elevation points at the flag locations. This worked well. My question now is can chief some how tell me the fill volume of the back yard if I go out level from the house say 15-20'? It seems like maybe one could convert the as-built terrain into a p-solid, then create another p-solid over that terrain and use the subtraction tool to remove the existing terrain from the new p-solid. This would then in theory leave you with a p-solid that represents the negative of the existing terrain/ or in other words....the fill volume. I'm not 100% sure how to go about this and was wondering if anyone here as done something similar or sees a reason why this would not work in chief.

oh duh, thank you Eric.

I'm wondering if any of you chief gurus know how to slope a floor so that I can get my head room for the stair below? I would like the floor of my closet to follow the pitch of my stairs below. Any thoughts? I was able to to create a invisible room above and change the floor height but that is not ideal for me since I know a carpenter can frame the floor at a slope which would maximize head room and closet space.

Or perhaps this might be a easier solution that someone knows off the top of their head. I've given up on framing and just want the finished 3D look now. I have the exterior looking the way I want here but I can't get the interior attic wall to cut to the curve of the roof. See the two attached photos. Any thoughts?

Hey y'all first time posting here. I've run into a little issue with trying to get my framing to generate correctly when I check the options "Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom" and "Stop at Ceiling Above" on a Attic wall. The framing seems to still bollon on up through the ceiling plane that I've created and into the bottom of the roof plane. See attached image (I highlighted the problem framing in gray). Is there a setting or a ceiling/roof plane location that I'm simply over looking to allow the framing to stop on the bottom of the truss like the two attic walls on either side? Or do I just need to fix all this framing manually? The attached pictures and plan are a quick representation of the problem I'm describing. Thanks for any help. Plan file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EEbqfnu_oxFnarijfaYnJ30i7gcpVKck