Doug_N

Here is a video that I did on dormers and other tricky roof planes. For your case, skip forward to 2:29 in the video.

The truth is that the Charles Mansard family launched an attack on building design slaying Greek and Roman influences in wall and roof designs based on the Golden Ratio. Several designs were killed in an inky slaughter that haunts and horrifies not only designers but also builders' dreams. This clearly demonstrates the danger of design cults and evil practices. Pictured below is a photo of Charles Mansard attempting to start a new, but failed cult of the "mini police cap" .

Thanks Gene, I sure hope so.

Here is how I am going to approach this. I will post the plan file when I get it close.

I am going back to the site today to take a few more pictures of the roof. The top of the roof meets as a hip roof with shallow pitch planes. We "Mansard" part is sort of like sloped walls. with vertical planes for the windows. Very strange indeed.

Any idea how to approach this as build design?

What I am thinking is that this device lets a user zoom in and out, something that you can't do with pen and paper. So you can focus on getting the details of a room, then zoom out to add the next room. Many times, I wish I had started with a bigger piece of paper. The other problem that I run into when working on an open building or taking outside measurements is that of wind when using a notebook. Loose paper and clipboards are ok, but there is always the chance of paper getting away from you if it becomes detached.

Just wondering if anyone is using Remarkable https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2 for sketching building plan views etc when on site instead of a pen and paper?

You make a very good point in your post.

My practice is on Ontario Canada. Most of my work is Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Here you must be a certified designer, architect or an engineer, do design work, be incorporated if you deal with the public (including builders) and be responsible for the design. Because of that, I would never allow a builder to take my design and use it for more than one building unless the builder retained me to certify each copy for each building. No two buildings get built the same way, there are room changes, differences in grade and slope and so on. My designs are also insured to make sure that if I am in error, the resulting costs to cover the blow back is covered (subject to a deductible of course) On every page of each drawing is the following text: © MEASURITE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, DUPLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THIS PLAN WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED In the Scope of Work Agreement the following paragraph is included: 19. Proprietary Information. The work done by the Designer is for the use of the Client for one building in a specific location. This agreement does not transfer the copyright of the design to the Client beyond the use for construction or renovation of the building or buildings at one specific location. The Client may make sufficient copies of the documents to convey information to contractors, suppliers and the municipality as required for the project. The use of design information on any other structure or in any other location is a direct violation of the copyright.

I do like the anti-gravity foundation.

I use the matterport system, a Leica Disto 920 laser, a 25' tape and a notebook. The matterport is incredibly useful for creating the floor layouts, door locations, window sizes, and finding void spaces that a person might miss with just a tape and paper. The matterport has saved me from making second visits when the tape and paper doesn't work out when making the CA model. I have tried doing the laptop and creating CA drawings on site, but then I get asked so many questions from people at as built locations, that it becomes distracting and I end up missing things, or taking way too long.

Nice website! Just getting this before the eyes of the clients will do lots for you. Well done. I looked at this on Aug 31, is that the updated site? In any case, well done indeed.

What I especially like about this solution is the ability to increase the footing footprint, very important for the increased load of the pilaster. Although technically that isn't a pilaster, it is a column at the end of a wall.

Having a CA certificate is certainly an accomplishment, but that certification is not a requirement for anything in the construction or architectural markets. It would help if you were teaching CA to others, that is for sure. I just can't see how that would help you in marketing your business.

Michael makes a good point, although it does sound a little harsh. You only need to update if you want to use the full potential of real time rendering. I did, but for a myriad of reasons other than CA, but CA was the straw that pushed me over the decision hump. Now that I did, I am glad I did. There were some early memory problems using dd5 and RTX 3080Ti but in the end it was worth it for me. My new computer is very fast, not just for CA but for AutoCAD as well. The problem with being on the bleeding edge is that you might just bleed. Just out of curiosity your signature says that have the following system. Lenovo ThinkStation D30 MS Widows 8/7 pro x64 Intel Xeon E5-2637 v2 @ 3.5GHz NVIDIA Quadro K2000D 2G; Dual Dell 24" Monitors 256GB SATA SSD x 2; 32GB RAM Chief Versions 2.0 - X11 Is that correct?

Shanek. I suspect at least part of the problem may be your computer. I run X 14 on a laptop and a desktop and have not experienced problems anywhere near the severity that you are experiencing. If can get some diagnostic software chech memory and drives for problems. Just a suggestion.

I had changed to daily saves before the patch and now I am running hourly saves. So far no problems.

Your welcome, and glad to help.

There is a different connection between the client window and the content displayed in Teamviewer. This can lead to the program being displayed but not what the program is running. Try displaying the whole screen and not just sharing the CA window. If that works, then there is a problem with Teamviewer itself. By the way, a similar thing happens with the program OBS for streaming or recording tutorials, and the work around there is to display the whole screen with tweeks to resolution and cutting what is displayed. I am not an expert with this but if Rene reads this, I bet he could explain it much better than I.

Kevin, I suspect that you attempted to create the dormer more than once because there was also a roof hole polyline floating out in front of the house (which meant maybe 3 attempts). In any case it is so easy for a dormer to get messed up because CA creates a new roof hole, even if the dormer can't be built. This leads to unseen potential problems for a successful dormer creation with artifacts from previous attempts. I can't tell you how many times my projects have suffered from these. Especially if the layer where the roof hole polyline resides is turned off by accident. Thanks for the follow up note as well. I would have done a video to show the steps, but I was away on vacation and only had my laptop with me, and unfortunately didn't have the video software installed on it.

Just a comment on Eric's fix and my fix. Eric's copy and reflect clearly fixes the problems from the faulty dormer, and my fix explains what went wrong and how to correct it. Both methods will work of course and Eric gets to the right result much faster. My fix teaches you about what went wrong and what to look for in a similar situation. In production I would definitely use Eric's solution.

This problem is the result of two roof openings overlapping. Delete one of the roof openings and then edit it by stretching to match the correct opening. The problem inside will correct itself.

Here is the solution to your problem. Click on the dormer wall that has an artifact opening it. Then click on structure and then set height to default. The artifact will disappear.

While the dormers look identical from a plan view it can be seen in this section that they are not. Look at the details in the wall sections to see what I mean. Posting the plan file would be a good place to start. Also here is a short video that I did on dormer artifacts. They can be tricky.