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I've tried so many different options to get the floor to come back. What am I missing? Plan attached. Can someone please help? PLC ADDITION.zip

The last walkthrough I did seemed to work much easier. So I can use the mouse scroll wheel after opening the 3D view, and selecting the walkthrough option but doing it that way creates a shaky walk through. I want it to be continuous from start to finish. That is always the way I've done it before but now can't.

Hello Glenn my Ausy friend. I am in 3D view, I select the 3D view, go to walkthrough and select record walkthrough. Now I have the walkthrough option available The save option opens so I save. but I haven't created a walkthrough path or the walkthrough itself. Where do I go from here? The last walkthrough I did seemed to work much easier.

I've been trying to create a walk through, and in the process the floor in the area of the new expansion has suddenly vanished. I select the room of the existing sanctuary and open its dbx Then I select the sanctuary expansion (the room I created with a room divider: Both room dbx appear to be set the same, yet the floor in the sanctuary expansion has now vanished. With the presentation to the congrigation a little more than 24 hours away what in the sam hill is going on? Version X12. This is starting to bum me out! :-( The walls join properly because I can select each room together and independently.

Jim, I'm using X12. Here's my defaults:

(EDIT) the knowledge base directs to go to Preferences then Render and select a codec, but uless I've missed something there is no option to select or set a codec.

I am supposed to do a presentation for our church to visualize the sanctuary expansion, New Years Eve. I had a codec at one time but now cannot find it. Following the recommendations in the knowledge base I downloaded the Xvid codec at https://www.xvid.com/ Saved to my drive. I created a walkthrough path, but the option to record the walkthorugh is not available. I have the Xvid codec on my machine, but it doesn't appear to be available to record the walkthrough. Any help? Thankds

Well, it didn't work for me and I can't figure out why? I set the heights in the existing foyer the way it appears you have them set in the file you did. Then the existing santuary and set the height there..... and the same for the expansion............ but I didn't get the same results! What am I doing wrong? The floor in the area circles should be 32" higher. PLC ADDITION.plan

Stephen, this appears to be what I need. I will see if I can get it to work for me. I attempted the operation before and thought I was lowering the floor but perhaps not. My previous operations kept increasing the room height not lowering the floor. Thanks.

Drawing the ramp on the exterior is no problem but it ought to be simpler to draw the sloped floor?

Concrete on fill. With a CMU stem wall all the way around.

My idea didn't work, and lowering the floor how? I changed the stem wall to 16" but that just raised the footings in that area. I opened the structure tab but changing heights in that only raised the ceiling 16". :-(

I couldn't get that the work first go. I have an idea and will try it again.

The room is rectangular.

So. I am not able to model the sloped floor using the ramp tool. First ,setting the height to start at the height of the adjoining areas vs setting the height of the lower floor should allow me to start the ramp at the top height and draw it holding down the right button and dragging to the lower end, but that didn't give me the desired results. Some how I have to show the starting floor at the higher of the two elevations, and the sloped floor at the lower of the two elevations before drawing the ramp down. HELPPP! please

I watched the video I mentioned and it IS great for exterior ramps. It doesn't address my particular situation. So, If I am to use the ramp tool to create the sloped floor, I can't find a way in either the room default, or the edit>tools>default>rooms>floor to slope it. Before I attempt it, do I just go to the room default>floor and uncheck all tabs to do with the floor structure and then use the ramp tool inside the room to model the ramp? I can give that idea a try.

I am starting the construction drawings after we received approval by the Environmental department to proceed. I need help / advise on the best way to model the floor slope of the existing sanctuary. The main building (as built) is approximately 32" above finished grade. The area I have "X"'d in the snip is at 32" above finished grade. The area (depicted by the arrow) of the existing sanctuary is approximately 16" above finished grade. I need to model a raised platform on the end of the new addition. I'll address that later. The addition will start at that FF grade and remain level. I'm watching the Stairs and Ramps video (for exteriors & Decks) which I assume would be applicable to my build, but any additional advice is appreciated. ADDITION TO PLC.zip

Mark, thanks for the video, however there was background noise so that I could not understand what you were saying. I did attempt the changes, which seemed to make it work. After looking at results again, the wife decided she now wants the porch deeper (extending it further toward the drive) and that's fine except when I made the new changes in depth the entire porch went "wonky" and after several attempts I'm right back with a dys-functional drawing and the contractor is asking for the update for pricing.  NEW FRONT PORCH ADDITION 1256 BLOOMERY ROAD.plan

Thanks, Mark. I'd like to know the steps you took to fix it? I've tried everything I could think of.

Bob, is there a Tutorial on how to use it with Chief.

You said: First thing I did was make sure the heights are matching for the Porch / Open to Below, as well as the floor finish / structure. Uncheck Sil Plate in the railing specifications. Did you uncheck sill plate because you did a concrete slab and foundation? My build is deck construction of 2X8, 1" decking, with piers and post foundatiion.

Angela, that does look better than what I've be able to do so far. Not sure how you got it to this point, I can't open the file, as I am running X12 not worth the cost to upgrade, but thanks!

Working on adding a deck and roof to the this house. There so many little nuances trying to figure out why the deck floor and foundation doesn't show even through I did build (foundation / framing) and best I can tell told the software to auto build-rebuild and for some reason the ceiling won't generate properly even though I set the room height, and checked roof above and un-checked ceiling above. I want the steps to "inset" into the deck, so; do I create a separate deck room there and call it open below, in order to have the beam extend out to the edge of the steps? EDIT: I thought since there is a roof over the steps the software would read it that way-no. So, I added invisible walls around the steps, called that room open below (suppressed the label) and a ceiling now generates over the steps, but still appears too low. I selected the invisible wall at the top of the steps and made it a railing with balusters (checked invisible) but the post to beam still does not extend over the steps. I wouldn't think I'd have to to a 3D solid to have it generate the beam, and post on out to the corner of the deck? Help appreciated! NEW FRONT PORCH ADDITION 1256 BLOOMERY ROAD.zip

Ji- I certainly didn't expect you to do all this!!!! Looks like if I raise the roof pitch to 12/12 would fix the header over the landing. I'm calling this one solved with your gracious help and expertese with the Soft-ware.

The co wants $250 for drawings. All he needs them for is to hand over to the HOA (they want to see the esthetics, and since I'm his uncle he wanted a freebee, and I've only spent about 30 mins on the drawing thus far. I was playing around on my own time to see how hard it would be to model the typical structural support. I've done that but can't get it to insert in the floor plan. Having fun on my part that's all.