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Hi Amy, Delete the pattern from the geometry and then re-apply it. By the way it is a good idea to create a signature for your posts so that others have some idea of what version of the software you are using, and what jurisdiction that you are in if a post may be subject to some answer that is building code related, or climate related. It is a good idea to include the hardware you use as well.

Then there are the problems inside of the dormer.

I am working on a new build cottage and in this design, there are dormers that are misbehaving (or maybe I just don't know how to use this feature) in that the auto return doesn't seem to work right. Both of these dormers have the exact same dormer roof settings. The dormer on the left is moved 1' behind the plane of the exterior wall, and the one on the right has the front wall of the dormer in the same plane as the exterior wall below. The other thing is a gable roof over a sunroom has a strange artifact in the window cut out. The bottom of the window does is not correct. The area behind the window is an open to below area on the second floor. Anyone have any thoughts about this? I have sent this to tech support as well, because I suspect the dormer issue is a bug. Rice Lake Cottage.zip

Just to join in, yes, I am experiencing the black screen during copy to layout, and if I refresh the layout portal. Sometimes it lasts quite a while and the odd time the program will abend.

Michael, Thank you for your post. You were on the right track. The actual answer came from Vincent BennettTechnical Support AnalystChief Architect I put in a trouble ticket because I thought this was a bug of some sort. Vincent pointed out that the interior framing should have been moved to the main layer. That solved the problem. Thanks Vincent for pointing out the problem with the wall assembly definition.

That solves one problem but then the stairs don't show in the first floor plan. The reason for making the railing wall defining is so that the room can be open to below.

Worth a try. I will see how that goes.

I know that the wall can be fixed by manually dragging the top of the basement wall up, but is there some automatic way to prevent this? Below Grade Entrance.zip

John_charles. John, calm down. Your response to Richard is a pretty vitriolic post. I am sure that you have lots of experience with roof builds. I am also sure that Richard is a qualified architect. In many cases there are more solutions to a design problem than one unique design. Citing other people's opinions either stands or it doesn't, please don't take a wrecking hammer to someone else's post. There are kinder and gentler ways to point out another's error, if you believe them to be off base somehow. One of the people that Richard cited was Jordan Truesdall. Jordan is a structural engineer who specializes in architectural structural design. Here is a link to his Linkedin page. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-truesdell-ab43aa9/ The article cited IS a low pitch roof, and for that roof he is absolutely correct. Please be thoughtful before flaming someone (the irony of my posting this comment is not lost on me by the way.) I am just saying, be thoughtful with your criticism, please. We all enjoy the helpful advice of others in this professional forum. I certainly have gained lots of help from others, and it has helped me to be a better designer.

I think you are referring to:

9.23.13.7. Intermediate Support For Rafters And Joists (1) Ceiling joists and collar ties of not less than 38 mm by 89 mm lumber are permitted to be assumed to provide intermediate support to reduce the span for rafters and joists where the roof slope is 1 in 3 or greater. (2) Collar ties referred to in Sentence (1) more than 2.4 m long shall be laterally supported near their centres by not less than 19 mm by 89 mm continuous members at right angles to the collar ties.

There is another benefit to collar ties in that they reduce that span of the rafters if there is a collar tie for each opposed rafter set.

Thanks Dermot, great suggestion!

Me too. My card is an Nvidia GTX 970.

I have been watching this thread with interest. I do a lot of basement apartments. (With real-estate prices becoming stratospheric, there is often the need for the basement apartment income to actually afford a house, especially for young first-time buyers.) In the design of the apartment, quite often there is a split-level entrance that is somewhere between the basement floor elevation and the first-floor elevation. That split level door is awkward to display because it only shows up on either the plan view of the basement or the plan view of the first floor. Not an ideal situation. Using a reference display, the door could be seen in both plan views if that door is on a separate layer set (for the door, door label...) This can be quite time consuming if you had to do this for several different classes of objects.

Here is the plan file5 Sided Stairs.zip

I can't see a way of putting a wall there

Oh oh. LOL

The other thing is that the end railings have to be 180 Degrees apart as well

Chopsaw, How did you do that??? Amazing.

Hi Ryan, The problem is a bit more complicated than that. Here is the architect's ask. CA's generated solution. Also I have the problem of putting a center railing in this plan

This is actually a problem I am having. The image on the left is cad work, and the one on the right is CA generated stairs. Can the one on the left be generated using CA? I can't seem to do it.

Mick, I can't use a default solution because there is a section of joists that are cantilevered over a beam. Those joists and only those joists are not lapped as they cross a load bearing beam.

The other problem that I had was that the joists would lap themselves over the beam. I turned off bearing beam to stop that from happening. Thanks Rob for figuring this out, it was driving me crazy. I don't know why I couldn't see that.