CharlesVolz

Hey, hey, hey. I just saw this. Billy paid for 20 hours. I worked 12.6 hours. I terminated our agreement and refunded 7.4 hours. My agreement has the right to terminate by either party. I terminated (for reasons I will not air out here) and refunded the unused portion per our agreement. Fair and square. If anyone really cares, just call me. Best, Charles

Look at default sets.

Use 3D solids in elevation.

I put the terrain on Floor 0 or Floor 1, depending on the plan: basements, cantilevers, etc. Placing the terrain on Floor 0 prevents cantilevered building areas like boxed windows on Floor 1 from cutting a hole in the terrain. Then only your foundation walls will then influence the terrain cut out. Also, in CA the terrain is moved up and down as needed, not the floor elevations.

Always put everything in plans...if: You really want it to happen. You want it to happen a certain way. You don't want to pay for it (as a designer). I never want a subcontractor or their employees as a co-designer. Not just because they are probably not qualified, but because they usually have a conflict of interest. They may profit more by building less and building wrong. A detailed note may be sufficient, depending on what it is. It is probably not a small inexpensive detail, if you are talking about a rectangular channel drain with a grating cover, thickened slab, additional reinforcing, etc. Best, Charles

From CA X16 Help searching "scissor truss": Roof Truss Placement The shape of a roof truss is defined by the space between the roof above and flat ceiling platform or manually drawn Ceiling Plane ../../Resources/img/btn/customceiling.png below. . . If the bottom chords of trusses are defined by a sloped ceiling plane, a Scissor Truss will be created. See Scissors Trusses. If the program either does not find both roof planes and a ceiling, or if there is not enough room between them to model a truss, a warning message will report that this is the case if you position one at that location. The problem truss may still display in plan view with a label of the form “TR-*”. If it does, it should be either moved or deleted. See Editing Trusses.

It is always best to post the plan, since it could be several things. My top guesses since it is so consistent, are: 1. the “Build Platform to Exterior of Layer” setting in the Wall Type Definition DBX> Wall Properties being set to the exterior wall layer (instead of the Main Layer) which make no siding or exterior surface cover the floor platform, 2. the exterior wall layer set as a “Main Layer” in the Wall Type Definition DBX, 3. the exterior wall layer set as a “Framing” layer in the Wall Type Definition DBX, Try those first. Good luck, Charles

Create PDF and DWG and start over in X14. If you have a "finished" model and have to rebuild it in an earlier version of CA, export a DWG file and import that into the earlier version of CA to trace. Here is a rough step-by-step I put together for others. Using DWG Files to redraw model in an earlier version of Chief Architect.pdf

PTP aka post the plan

Why is that crazy? Indoor gyms, swimming pools, basketball courts, gun range...

Post the plan/symbol.

Exactly.

Use 2 roof planes. Curve the bottom one.

The ceiling outside of the room (walled area) is a soffit. Look at the settings in your roof plane.