Doug_N

Actually I agree with Richard. Guards are across windows, at the edge of parapets and in wall openings where the distance to the next lower surface is greater than 600mm

Construct the chimney with polyline solids and apply whatever surface finish that you want to the exterior. This chimney is constructed of four solids, one for the chimney, one for the central hole, one for the cap and one for the hole in the cap. The roof is restored to have the original boundary for the gable to prevent the gable wall from crossing upwards through the roof. Hope this helps Chimney wall.plan

The Ontario Building Code defines a guard as: "A guard means a protective barrier, with or without openings through it, that is around openings in floors or at the open sides of stairs, landings, balconies, mezzanines, galleries, raised walkways or other locations to prevent accidental falls from one level to another." While a handrail is used to guide a person's path of travel and to assist them to stay upright in the event of a trip or stumble its primary purpose is different than that of a guard. Handrails and guards may happily coincide if the height restrictions for them are both the same, but often the requirement for a guard is at an elevation that exceeds the maximum height of a handrail. Hence the need for both in many circumstances. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the Noun Guard this way: for the noun a person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person formally assigned to protect a person or to control access to a place. "a security guard" synonyms: sentry, sentinel, security guard, watchman, night watchman; More a device worn or fitted to prevent injury or damage. "a retractable blade guard" synonyms: safety guard, safety device, protective device, shield, screen, fender; bumper, buffer "a metal guard"

The odd time I run into this I cheat and make a screen capture of the plan view using snagit and then paste the picture in the layout. Works pretty good actually. Of course any connectivity is lost.

Not that this has much to do with this thread, but I have a story about using plans over and over. I have no idea if the builder made a deal with the designer or not. However.... There was a subdivision up near Gravenhurst Ontario where a builder paid for one house plane them built 20 or so houses with the one plan. Each house identical to its neighbour, not even mirror builds. He had one hell of a time selling them. I bet the designer is laughing to this day. It looked ridiculous. I wish I had taken a picture of the street.

If the design allows it you could also stretch to roof plane to cover the offending wall.

Here it is When you do that, the foundation and footings have to be stepped to show the symbol just as Eric said.

After changing all to flat ceiling over room I still have the notches. Aaarrrgggg!!

What is going on with this? The little downward part in the circle is how the whole rafter should look. Why the notches out of the rafter above and below the circled part? Alternate Three - Column.plan

That isn't his little one, that is him. He just looks younger than he is. Getting into a bar would be a great u tube video.

I would like to use this area for OBC questions. Like for example, how come there is no LVL table in part 9 of the code? How come there are no tables for beams on exterior walls except for lintels?

I am a BCIN small buildings designer in Whitby. I have clients throughout the GTA, Mississauga, Brampton and the Durham Region. Count me in.

Thanks Eric.

Scott, thanks for the reply, but the problem was not fixed. Raising the roof partly covered the second story window, which is why the roof was at the elevation that I had in my posted file. in this image see the void at the corner of the building? This is caused by the porch. If the porch is deleted then the problem at the corner of the building goes away. Very strange.

I have a strange situation with a porch that I am adding to the front of a house. The walls go completely wonky. If you delete the porch the walls heal themselves. Another thing, ceilings won't generate, although that is not related to the porch. Somewhere I have messed this up. Strange. Porch Test.plan

Yup, good point Eric.

I know this is going to sound stupid to you guys, but, how do I just get area labels to round to something useful, like 2 decimal places?

Hi Perry, Yeah I get that concept, and it works too for some clients. The ones that I do the full on truss simulation is to show just how hard it is to get into the attic space once the roof is installed. Some of them imagine a place where they can store furniture and lots of memorabilia like in nostalgic movies. When they see the reality, I get to design storage space somewhere else, like in the garage, or in the basement.

No permit drawings are part of the design process where you are explaining design features to your client. In the submittal set pf drawings, the trusses are deleted and the truss drawings from the truss manufacturer are included. Getting the designs past the client, now that is indeed an elusive animal that can haunt all designer's dreams.

Don't forget to report this, with info about your setup etc. to nvidia so they can fix their driver.

Anyhow the problem was that the stairs have to be in a closed room. All walls have to intersect.

No, damn, i was trying to edit it and goofed up.

For some reason the stairs won't tuck into the corner where the walls intersect. Strangely the winder option => works at other locations in the building. I suspect that there is something wrong with the intersection of the two walls, or there is something wrong with the room.

So here I am trying to make some winder stairs. I create the stairs, move them into a corner, turn off the railings and click on the stairs to open them, then click on the winder check mark. Nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Renovation Plan Original House.plan

David, Far be it for me to blame the tools. This reminds me of a story about an apprentice carpenter who was complaining about the quality of his saw. He said that he had cut a board 3 times and it was still too short. If only he had a better saw. I realize my shortcomings with CA because I have been using it now for just short of a year. Every time I use it new methods are discovered that make me think, I wish I had known this on the last project. But I disagree that CA is just a tool. It is an intelligent tool. It completes a great number of tasks in the background as you go about the work of defining space to live or work in. Overall on a scale of one to ten, I would rate this program as an 8. It does nearly everything that most jobs required. That being said, there are also some things that CA are really quite poor at. When you need to do something that doesn't fit the "rules" that make it smart, it is hard to turn them off. It is hard to do railings for example, and I have run into that problem on nearly every project that I have worked on so far. Chief Architects creates roof details amazingly well and like magic, can join them together, making ridges and fascia details pop up like nobody's business. Roof and wall intersections. Not so much. Most can be fixed with a few tweaks of the surface material planes with the editing tools. But sometimes the planes decide to fly, and off they go and you end up with a punk rock version of the building with really bad spiky hair. Do I plan to go to some other software? Not a chance. I LOVE this application. For any of the frustration, it makes my job a complete joy. I can hardly wait to start the next project! And the next, and the next. One other small wish, and this is for the support people. Autodesk will try and walk you though something. If they can't they do a remote session on your computer to see first hand what is going on. That is amazing support, and often with amazing results. Just saying. Well enough for now. I am so happy to be a user, and really happy with the group of users who are so willing to support one another. One other small point. I am really really happy that most of my competition are not using this software. (I hope the Chief Architect guys are not listening to this last one.) Regards from the not so frozen north. Hotter than Miami today. Doug.