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Welcome Longroadahead Turn your wall layers on, look closely your top dimension string is attached to the framing layer.

Raise the roof planes 50mm, they are too low for the roof framing to sit on the 3rd floor framing.

Hi, Here is a cad block I made of a BMW 3 series. Used search for the spec online and made it in Chief X14. I do have the added BMW Library from Chief. I used that to get the cad block of the car. Bmw 3 series-turning-radius.calibz

The dormer walls are actually attic walls, set to roof cuts off at bottom. Found in the wall dbx roof category, roof options area, bottom of list. Have a look at this copy. existing-dormer-fix.plan

It appears the walls are 2nd floor walls that are being cut off by the roof planes. You need to move the walls in from the sides. If you look on first floor you will see the ceiling break lines. This should be the exterior of the 2nd floor walls. I made a sample for you to look at the settings. Also my build sequence was, 1- Place exterior walls, edit room ceiling to 48". 2- Set up roof pitch desired and structure to actual material sizes to be used. IE. rafters are set to 2x12 at16 on center. 3- build roofs. 4-open room dbx and set ceiling height to 8 or 9' or what ever you want under the loft area. 5- build 2nd floor 6-add walls to sides of window and door openings. 7-manualy build roof over door opening, adjust fascia height to desired height above door. 8 - copy over window. 9- put railing on 2nd floor to create open below room area have a look at the sample, link here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/9yqsrtveidv9zfn/A-frame-sample-x12.plan?dl=0

Thank you Larry.

I have to chime in here, I've been using Chief since 1997. Prior to that 25 years in the field building what others designed. IMHO It is the top residential software for doing residential design. Yes it has some bugs, problems, tools that could be better. But still worth the price! No software is perfect at everything. Change and improvement is what we are paying for. With the help of other users on the forum over the years and a lot of time using the software, I have been able to make the plans and models of the end design shown here. This PBR although not perfect turned out pretty good. The model has approx. 2,780,000 faces in the scene. 1500 sample rate caped. took under 2 minutes on my machine. Settings page attached, also the default glass has been changed to a general material. See screen grab. Also another trick to minimize the fire fly's is to turn off refraction in the pbr settings dialog.

Hi Mark, It appears the windows are to close to the ceiling to have room for the header to build. I lowered the windows 12" and it builds correctly.

Hi Larry, I just thought of another option, it maybe more work than Val's method. 1. Convert the roof plane to a symbol, place and adjust elevation. 2. Pull the wall tops down, 3. Turn off the ceiling in the room. 4. Make 2 poly solids for the 2 triangle pieces under the balcony walls. roofdeck-4.plan

If you didn't get an error when you uploaded your plan, then I would look at turning off some applications, pdf's and browser windows to free up memory. Try logging out and back in too. just guessing, hth Adam

Hi Felix, Have a look at these setting.

Please post the plan and version x_ you are using. Sent pm as well.

you need to "force truss rebuild" to get it to update the framing.

Hi, You need to make the wall different in some way, Select the wall and open the wall dbx after you break it. go to the wall type category on the left of your screen. in the middle of the screen click "define" make a copy of the wall. Change the plan view fill of the framing layer to visually differentiate it from you other wall type. Now you wall will not rejoin.

Sounds like you have the samples limit unchecked and your card is getting hot. Take a peak in the case and make sure its clean. oh and the card fans too.

Hi Drew, If you download the sample you will see how they did it. That sample uses a picture (jpg) of the materials blocks. I would suggest you make picture of your materials. Start a new plan, Use the poly solid tool to make your squares and apply the desired materials then take a 3d view (overhead) export as picture with transparent background. Import to your layout as picture and apply your text and labels in/on the layout sheet. An optional way to get a copy of your materials your using is to do a full plan backup, including used textures. Then go to the folder and use the thumb nails images for the materials in your layout.

sent pm

that looks like it should work, I get 7' + to the under side of the landing framing( 2x6 with your main floor 1 1/8"decking). check section thru stairs https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqcq4y5n32m55a0/Nutella3rdD23e-stairs fixB.plan?dl=0

the 42 stairs from basement were to give enough room for the first step on main floor to the attic. see pic for delete selections

I have the same problem/ behavior in section views. What's with the dim snapping to some unknown point in space? It seams its easier to just place cad lines to dim to.

Walls are behaving badly, not sure what the problem is. It appears the main floor was originally a pony wall default and the footing was turned on when created. I tried to correct it but it appears to be stuck to the original default settings. I would send a copy of this plan to chief support to get some idea of why it will not obey command changes. Oh and sorry for looting the house! The trick to reduce the size is strip out all the interior stuff, lights included. (missed checking that off in ( file, edit, delete objects) Then save the plan, close it and open again, save and close. For some reason it seams to take this method to get it to size down.

I would send a copy to support if you think its corrupt. I'm guessing its something your doing causing the problems. Need a copy to look at.

I would suggest getting your basement stairs sized and located first. Then build walls in the basement to stack under the entry walls above. This keeps your stack straight. Then use a room divider wall to create an unspecified room over your lower landing. Then draw your stairs going to 2nd floor/ attic. Nutella3rdD23e-stairs fix.zip

Hi I can help you with your stairs. Send me a pm with your email. Thx Michael

How about the wall settings