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I thought to make a "Hole in Ceiling Platform Polyline" but this is the message that keeps popping up. (I did that in your plan Eric) (The customer wants to have the front entry open to the dormer)

Thanks a lot for that. That fixed the living room dormer but the dormer by the entry isn't open to below anymore when I take that back wall out. Is there another way to have a dormer open to below without creating another floor? Thanks!!

This is the plan, Thank for anyone's help!! Untitled 3.plan

Hello, Can someone tell me how to fix this. Every time I get close but not close enough. I needed to have these dormers open to the floor below so I added a second story and did open to below but now everywhere else in the house it added height to the main floor (I think the floor height of the second floor). What should I have done differently? I only need a 8' ceiling. Also, I still struggle to get the dormer roof planes to tie in nicely with the main roof. I watched the videos and am trying the join roof planes function for both the hole in roof and actual ceiling planes. The plan is to big to add to this post, so will add separate post

Thanks, yes makes sense. I will go for a 12" overhang on the shed roof and 18" on the other one. Thanks both for the input. Chief Talk (with people on there like yourselves) is very valuable!!

Thank you very much Eric, I cleaned it up and it worked. I did see that the back still has the lines going through. I offset the roof planes slightly which made the lines disappear. Is there a better solution, because I would rather not do it that way?

Hello Experts, Is it possible to have these roof lines join seamlessly? What I mean is that on the 3d viewer the roof shows how it needs to be however on a elevation view there are extra lines in the fascia which to me seem like they are from the roof planes "remaining individual". I don't like it how the elevation views show up on my construction drawings with the additional lines and was wondering if there would be a solution? Many thanks! Untitled 2.plan

Thank you very much!!, sorry for the late response

Yes this plan was started in X10. I'm not sure if you were asking me but in case you were, feel free to send it on to CA for fixing. I like your changes. The garage is an addition so I have to work with the house as it is but your version sure looks very attractive. Wouldn't mind if you posted the plan so I could learn how you did some of those features . Thanks for your help again!!

Thank you very much, that worked!! This is for a customer that is still in the preliminary stages. Since they are still making changes I was using the auto roof build function to make fast changes. Now that I have edited the roof, if I use this function again it will remove those roof edits (if I'm correct.) What advise would you have for this situation? I don't want to spend a lot of time making new models in terms of customizing the roof till they are more certain. Is that the only possibility or is there a function that can freeze or block a part of the house and nothing changes to it? This would also be helpful in any renovation or addition when the model of the existing house is made. Appreciate the help!

I'm having difficulty with this garage addition. I want the garage wall and the gable wall of the dormer to be one wall so that the roof is broken up or away in front of the dormer but I can't get it to do that. I tried with both making an automatic dormer and a manual dormer. Would it have to do with the fact that I have selected "Ignore Top (2nd) Floor"? Thanks in advance for your reply! Dormer Plan.plan

Yes I did at the beginning unless it switched again.... You design all your houses prescriptive? Do you also fill out the paperwork for the builder/homeowner to go with you plan?

Mick, I just recently got this computer from a computer company (Nuvex Solutions) who custom built it. I can't say I'm completely happy with the graphics yet because it still slows down some times (just now the program completely quit on me as I was doing a ray trace). Having said that I'm not a computer tech guy so there could easily something else wrong with the program or computer however I would get a higher one if I had to redo the purchase.

No offense at all, but I live in the same province as you and the inspectors in our area now require that every house has the documentation to ensure the house is prescriptive or trade off etc. with the new energy code. I figured he would have the square footage also of the wall.

Yes completely agree! I decided for now to send it off to the energy evaluation guy and he will give me the data. When I have a more in depth knowledge of the program I will make an attempt at figuring out those things. Appreciate all the feedback!

Thank you for your reply! I will give it a try and check it out

Hello again, In our area it is necessary to show on the plan how many square feet the outside wall area is together with the square footage of the windows. This then gets converted into percentages to see if it complies with the fire code. Is this achievable in Chief Architect? Appreciate any help on this!!

In my door schedule it shows for a double door the following: 1x (for quantity) 60" x 80". I would like it to show 2x 30" x 80" and still have the rough opening show as 62" x 82 1/2". Is this possible?

Thanks for the help!! It worked but I'm not sure if I will use it for the final product.

yes I did that for the floor plan but was hoping to have something available to distinguish the new from the old on the elevation views also with still keeping the colors for the exterior finishing but only having it reduced.

Would you also do this on an elevation view? Sorry, forgot to mention for which view.

Hello again, I'm working on a drawing that is for a renovation job and I was wondering if it would be possible to have the new addition distinguished from the already existing part of the house by having the materials faded significantly. I want to keep all the colors but just showing them at 50%. I tried to copy materials and change the color but that doesn't have the right affect. Thanks to whoever can help me out!! Gerard

Thanks a lot for your help!! Could not have done it without your guidance!! I will keep that last post in mind as well. Amazing how that adding the roof on top made it come together. I find that is often the case with CA; if one link is missing the whole chain disappears. That's why this Chief Talk is so nice that it enables to connect with people like yourself that know the program inside out. Can't wait to get there. Much appreciated! Gerard

Sorry but I can't get it. I did as you said but the walls just won' go on top of the roof. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have re-attached the plan if I can still be helped but otherwise I can call technical support next week. Thanks Untitled 2.plan

Thanks for your help, yes I tried to tell the customer to make it bigger as well but no luck so far yet. I got the hole but how do I get it so that the walls go on top of the roof and not below? Thanks again!