Doug_N

A client wants to have a 16' wide by 7' high segmented roll-up garage door with glass lites similar to the ones that are typical in auto repair garages. I have searched and haven't found any. I remember someone posted a video on custom garage door panels but I can't find it. Does anyone have a link for that video?

Mick, thanks for the spelling error note!

I downloaded the plan and had a look at it. The Ontario Building Code requires that 5% of the floor space in a bedroom be unobstructed window opening. A window at the end of a hallway, such as in the dormer depicted would not qualify. I realize that you are not in Ontario, but all building codes have some very similar elements, and I would suggest you look into code requirements before going too far down the design path. The consequences of building something not code compliant can be very severe if anything goes wrong at a later date, or if the construction is flagged by a building inspector. Doing work without a building permit often attracts court action by the municipality, if not for the contractor, certainly for the homeowner. I am not implying that this is what you are doing, just offering some advice for those who are not familiar with the constraints imposed by building code and the municipalities who administer them.

If the roof is being generated by a room spec you can delete ceiling layers in the structure dialogue, and then as Eric suggested, build the framing.

I know this is going to sound heartless but it seems clear that you are a complete neophyte to the program. We all try to help one another here in this forum but when you don't even know the basics of how the program works you are going to have to spend a bit of time going through the beginner video tutorials to learn some basics. If then you have some problems I am sure there are a lot of us that will leap to your assistance. In the meantime, if this is something that you need urgently, I would suggest you hire someone to do the drawings that you need.

The material region behaviour is related to how windows work in X11. For the first time, you can move a copy of a window installed on the first floor to the second floor. The window itself, however, is still a first-floor window even if now installed on the second floor. If you do a window schedule, you will see that the window is listed as a first-floor window. What is more, if you use a material dropper on a window that was actually installed on the second floor to move object properties to the first floor copied window, the window will drop to the first floor leaving the window casing, and the opening in the wall in place. The "moved" target window will be embedded in the first-floor wall with no frame and no opening. So if you create a material region over the second floor that covers both of the natively installed window and the copied window, in some cases, only the natively installed window will be cut in the material region. This behaviour does not seem to be consistent, so what is going on is somewhat obscured.

I discovered a strange behaviour in Chief Architect that happens when you need to create a bump out on an exterior wall. In my experience, a bump out is a bay window with sides that are ninety degrees to the wall. When the bump out is shallow there are no side windows in the bump out. The bump out that I needed to model has a raised floor and if the offset distance for the front wall is not more than 14" the side walls extend to the room's floor level while the offset wall is trimmed to the correct shelf height. I have reported this to Tech Support, they duplicated the problem and so they are working on it. Bumpout Problem.zip - Support Answer - Josh M Friday, May 24, 2019 - 04:03 PM PDT Hi Doug, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I have submitted this issue to our software development team so that it can be addressed. As you mentioned, there seems to be a correlation to the overall depth of the window when it has a raised floor platform. It appears that having a foundation directly below the window is also a factor. Until this is resolved, I would recommend either adjusting the depth to be slightly larger (A value of 15" seems to work ok) so that this oddity doesn't present itself, disabling the raised floor for the window, or build the boxed bumpout manually by adjusting the walls on Floor 1. Thank you again, and we apologize for any inconvenience that this caused. Kind Regards, Josh Chief Architect Technical Services Doug Norton Friday, May 24, 2019 - 11:17 AM PDT Side walls of window bumpout are not trimmed to raised floor level, This seems to be related to the size of the offset of the bumpout wall. This only seems to happen of the offeset distance if 14" or less

Eric. Your answer is the most elegant! Thank you for that.

Well thank you Mick. I tried turning off all the layers except the terrain layers to see if there was a remnant of the terrain left somehow, but that didn't work either. I am going to try the pink trick and see how that works

Perhaps it is something that I did earlier, but I can't create a terrain. So this is what happened, I created a terrain on the 2nd floor by accident. Since I had set the boundaries I thought, why not copy it and then go to the first floor, and paste-hold position. So I did that. Then I went back to the 2nd Floor and deleted the offending terrain. The new terrain wasn't a terrain at all, it was just a polyline. So I tried to turn it into a terrain perimeter, no luck So then I deleted it and went back to the menu to recreate a new terrain. Nope it is greyed out. Curious. Any suggestions. See the file attached if you think you may have a solution. Thanks Doug Model One.plan

OK thanks I missed that.

There was a new update that I downloaded and installed today, anyone know what this update changes or improves?

Is the SSA program automated?

So if new purchases are fully automated, what is preventing CA loyal customers from getting the same great service? I would think it only good business to treat those of us who regularly support the product with annual subscription fees, or those wanting to catch up, with the same as someone out of the blue.

This is a great workaround to placing the railing where you want it. For example, I recently had a very wide staircase that needed a railing in the center and one on each side. Three railings. I did it with two staircase tools, but Steve adding a really skinny staircase to the outside of the railing.... genius! Well done.

I am getting there, put in manual posts, but now have to align them with the lower posts. (Not a problem just saying.) Added some silhouettes from the library, and now have a reasonable presentation file for a client. I LOVE Chief Architect. It is both a great design tool and presentation tool. Now if the lighting worked nearly the same way in PBR and Render, that would be great.

In my experience, this style of roof has been referred to as a shed roof, and if the roof intersects or abuts a wall then it is often called a lean-to roof. Some colleagues have called it a mono-pitch roof.

Oh yeah, one more thing. I had never heard of a skillion roof before this post. Something new every time I visit.

Well, that does it then, manually create the posts. Thanks everyone.

In this project I have created a balcony and want the newel posts to support the roof structure. The generated posts only go where a flat ceiling would exist. Looking through the videos of the topic, I can't seem to find one that addresses this topic. Any suggestions? Laneway_House_Design.plan

Thanks for that Scott

I agree with Eric, there is a learning curve where everything seems like it should work, but it just doesn't, then you learn a few techniques and you wonder whatever was the problem. If you post your file, I will take a look at it and see if I can sort it out for you and let you know what I did to make the changes.

The use of another plan as a reference overlay is really quite powerful. I am struggling to get a firm grip on it, but there is nothing stopping a person from preparing a "special" copy with details and views that are just the details that you want to contrast and compare. This was absolutely a huge leap forward in the ability to do presentations. WELL DONE CHIEF ARCHITECT development team. My hat is off to you all.

So it is misleading!