DavidJames

thanks for your help, it was driving me nuts !

No problem.

Using "Ceiling Elevation" and "Floor Elevation" within the "match properties" command is an immense help. 

The "Match Properties Command" is your friend

Revised: 

1670 15TH ST ADDITION CURRENT 2 20.1 rev2.plan

Set your left and right walls of the washroom as siding-4/6, and then hit the reverse layer button so the siding is on the outside. 

Set the two rooms on either side of the bathroom to "attic". 

 

Outline the walls above with invisible walls. This will create a room within the kitchen. Open up the room spec dbx for that newly created room and then drop down the ceiling height. Once the ceiling height is corrected, you can delete those invisible walls. See below:

Here is one using a 2nd floor. lh 1.jpg

 

WALLS 1 (eric).zip

I think this is a much cleaner approach. 

THX again

I'm sure that's probably not the best way to achieve it (or even the right way), but that's the first thing that came to mind. 

Either way, glad I could help 

That would be awesome thx

Here you go

Walls.plan

THX I'll that a try

NP. Let me know if you need me to post the plan (I started a blank one). 

Thanks David, How?

Half-height and full-height walls as well as p/l solids. 

A bit of a challenge, but here's my attempt: 

 

If you want to raise you're entire first floor, go to your second floor and then go to your default floor heights in the default settings dbx (edit>default settings>floor). 
 

In that section, "ceiling below" will be your first floor ceiling height. Adjusting that height will effectively adjust the entire first floor ceiling height. 

What I would do in this situation is select the garage roof planes and then Ctrl+C and then rebuild all roof planes. 

Once you have the house the way you want it, delete the new garage roof planes and then do a ctrl+alt+v. 

This will effectively paste your old (4/12) roof planes back on top of your garage. 

Anytime! 

Floor heights have always been a headache for me. 

However, I think in your case, the solution is simple. If you go down to your foundation level, you'll notice that your foundation is just one big room. So when you adjust the floor heights, it's adjusting everything. 

If you outline the garage walls with the foundation below, this should solve your problem. Going forward, I think if you assign the room definition before you build your foundation, or have autobuild on, it'll automatically add those walls for you.

While in a floor plan, hit Shift+J, draw a line from where you want your perspective to be, then click on the camera icon (see below). 

Please realize there are a multitude of options within the rendering options screen that can vastly improve/worsen your renders. I'd suggest reading up on the advanced options. 

Yes David James,  UNCHECK the boxes.  Nice job DJ.

 

But if I did not want to uncheck,  isn't there a way to fix via the dvx,  and how did Alan get in this position in the first place.

 

What I am getting at is,  I did not fix DJ's way......  but then maybe with DJ's solution we can have 2 ceiling heights in the garage.....  one defined by the floor above and the other defined by .....  errrrr....  something.

 

Interesting issue.

I have no idea how he ended up with two ceiling heights in the garage. Very interesting. 

Also, to fix the initial issue without removing the roof/ceiling in the garage, you can also outline the walls above with the "room divider" tool. Once the new room is created, you can adjust your ceiling height to match the other part of the garage, then delete the room divider lines. 

I opened the plan in X8,  yes,  X8,  I think Alan did it in X7.  When I opened the plan,  select garage,  open dvx,  I said some magic words,  I then closed the dvx and I saw the attached warning.  If I clicked OK,  all was well.

That's very strange. I also opened it in X8 and didn't receive any errors. I simply opened up the room specification menu, removed roof and ceiling, clicked okay and everything appeared to be fine. 

This should solve your issue: 

 

Is this a work around?  I don't understand why it wouldn't automatically build to the ceiling height?  Thank you for your response

Is there a reason you're manually drawing the roof planes instead of letting the program auto generate it? 

When manually drawing the roof plane, is your starting point the exterior of the wall? If it is, there should be no reason why it's generating the planes lower like in your attachment. 

Glad I could assist you. Enjoy 

When trying to create custom roofs, I always find it helpful using the roof baseline polyline tool. 

I fooled around with your room heights to achieve what I think you were trying to do. 

See attached. 

 

Garner_9688 SE Sharon St_New Plan_High Patios.plan

Not a problem! Glad I could help. 

Not a problem. Glad we could help! 

I think that computer will be more than enough   

Solid choice. Congrats on the purchase. 

Try drawing the polyline, converting it to a hole, saving the plan and then posting the plan file here. I'm interested to see exactly what's going on.

Here's a recording of how I acheived it: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ez15v91tDmZUlvWkxQQ1JoUmM/view?usp=sharing