MikeJG

You can make the foundation wall in the front a Pony Wall in the Wall Specification dbx Wall Types tab. You'll want the lower type to be your 8" Concrete Stem Wall and the upper section to be Siding-6. You're going to have to Define the Siding-6 wall type and change the layer material for your exterior layer from the green siding to the brick texture you're using for the rest of the front. (If you paint the texture on a pony wall both the top and bottom walls get painted). If need be you can adjust the heights of each part of the pony wall in an elevation view. To get rid of the rails, open the Staircase Specification dbx Newels/Balusters tab and check off where it says Railing On Left. To get the door on the landing correctly, you can drop the Floor in the Open Below area above the stairs to -52 1/2" (the height of the platform). Hope that helps.

I hope you haven't already uninstalled/reinstalled. If you right-click on the toolbar and select 'Customize Toolbars', the select the 'Toolbar' section, there's a button to 'Reset Toolbars'.

This has happened to me a couple of times before. If you're on a Mac I can't help but If you're on windows, you can find the User_Library.calib in the 'Chief Architect Premier X_ Data/Database Libraries' folder. You can select 'Restore Previous Versions' in the File menu or by right-clicking. That worked for me. Good luck.

That did it. The door is centered now. Thanks!

Thanks for the response! I figured out a work-around. I shortened the 3" wall to the right by about 18", then extended the 6" wall to the right about 12" so they wouldn't connect. Then I put a break in the 6" wall at the perpendicular wall and defined the right section as full gable (which is irrelevant on an interior wall) so it wouldn't merge with the left wall. Then I dragged the end of the right wall back to the CAD line at 3' 8 1/2" and then reconnected the 3" wall. As you said, I wasn't able to place a door and re-size it to 36", however I could size the door elsewhere and cut and paste it into position. It's not centered and it won't move, but it's there. My next question is, why wouldn't the door fit? The door opening is 3'-2 1/2", plus a jack and stud on each side (1 1/2" each) comes out to 3'-8 1/2". It should just fit (and it did; this is an existing building). What am I missing?

Is there a way to override the wall snaps? The picture with the black background is from an Autocad plan I'm trying to duplicate. The white background picture is from my Chief (X6) plan. I'm trying to get the 2x6 wall from behind the sink to go the 3 1/4" past the perpendicular wall, then transition to a 2x3 wall. I've tried turning off object snaps and removing the perpendicular wall, but when I replace it, it keeps snapping back. I thought there was a setting somewhere for this, but I can't seem to find it.

Go to the layer display dbx and turn off (un-check 'Disp') next to "Walls, Attic".

You may need to rebuild your roofs if you dropped the ceiling height in the room spec./structure tab and nothing happened. If you manually drew the roof planes, and just want them 10" lower, you can open both roof planes, lock the pitch and subtract 10" from the baseline, fascia top, or ridge numbers. Another thing you can do is select the roof planes then use the "Transform/Replicate Object' tool on the bottom toolbar and putting -10 in the Z Delta box. Hope that helps.

Sorry this is a bit off topic but how do you explode a bay? I know you can explode a dormer, but I don't see a similar option for bays.

You could also try playing with the 'Edit Wall Layer Intersections' tool. It allows you to 'drag' the sheetrock around the unfinished part of the wall. I've not had 100% success with it though. You can get to it by right-clicking on the wall.

I don't have v. 9 anymore but I still have X1. Hopefully this worked the same on both. Grab the higher roof plane. Select the 'Break Line' tool. Put a break as shown here. Grab the handle at the ridge of the lower planes. Drag that handle down and to the right to make a straight line along the outside of the wall The edges of the lower roof planes may still show through the ceiling. If so, you can drag the valleys in 3/4" or so. That will clean up the interior view, however the gap will show on the exterior view. As was said before, don't rebuild your roofs or you will have to do this all over. Hope that helps. Mike

After sending the file to TS, they discovered that I was using a non-framing material for my deck framing in the Deck Room Defaults under Structure. It works great now. Thanks again.

Curt, I tried building a deck with two of the chief sample plans and it worked fine both times. It must be the profile. I will send it on to TS as you suggested. Thanks again.

Thanks again. I did everything you said and nothing happens when I hit the deck framing tool. All framing layers are displayed. Do you think my profile is corrupt? The deck framing works fine on plans drawn with someone else's profile.

Thanks for the response. I didn't know I couldn't do a deck on floor 0. I put it there because the railing needs to go under the cantilever and that seemed to be the cleanest way to do it. Although I also have a deck in the rear on floor 1 and the framing isn't working for that one either.

For some reason I can't get chief to generate the deck framing in this plan. I have 'Automatically regenerate deck framing' checked in both the deck room default and each of the decks I have drawn and it just doesn't do it. I've compared settings from other plans where this function works and it seems as though all of the settings are the same. I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but it's driving me crazy. Any help would be appreciated. The plan is attached. Thanks! Bucello RR 111314.plan

This has happened to me before when opening a plan drawn on an earlier version of chief. I've been able to fix it by doing a Cut (Control-X) and a Paste Hold Position (Control-Alt-V) on each of the roof planes. There may be a better solution though.

These are great. Thanks!