javatom

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  1. I usually make a polyline shape and convert it to "hole in roof". It's the same button you would use to convert it to a p solid. By the way, they may want some collar ties in that turret roof. Without them, the walls will begin to spread outward at the top.
  2. The height of the chimneys in your pictures would not pass code in MOST building departments (too low).
  3. I did not have time to trouble shoot the whole plan. I deleted your second floor and re-did the dormer. I pulled a triangle of the attic wall down to cover that part. Re doing your 2nd floor eliminated all the mis-alignments. I can still see the bottom of the framing at that part. Maybe someone will know a way to eliminate that problem.
  4. I just did a quick look but I noticed a few things. On floor 1 - define the floor default to be the structure you want. It is a garage so you need a slab not a crawl space. Check your wall definitions. There is some gray default walls but they generate as tan attic walls. You have a lot of mis-alignment of walls. They are close but make sure the invisible walls are snapping to align with the normal walls. Also check the alignment from floor to floor. The missing triangle might require editing the attic wall and pulling a section of wall into that area. Sometimes a p-solid patch can be used to cover minor unwanted items.
  5. You can always lock the roof planes if they looked good at one point before they started the odd behavior.
  6. You might want to check the top of window settings for the two corner windows. They look different but maybe its just how the cam view is displaying it.
  7. Perhaps you could watch some training videos.
  8. If you cut a section there, you will see that the roof plane is almost touching the top of the wall. There has to be some space for the rafters.
  9. You also need to raise the roof of the curved portion.
  10. Open the level 2 wall. Go to the structure tab. Check "go through floor below".
  11. yes, you are doing something wrong. They have edit handles. Maybe you created it by some other means than the dedicated icon for revision bubbles.
  12. You can confirm wall alignment by clicking on the wall and hitting the align below button.
  13. Make it two different roof plans and set the pitch manually.
  14. Just make a roof plane, open the dbx and set the pitch to what you want. You can then take a section view and adjust the roof plane until is looks in the section view like what you want. Parapet can be a wall on a separate floor or a polyline solid or even a wall below with the roof pulled back to allow it to pass through. It might take some manual wall adjusting.
  15. I did not look at the plan but the usual culprit is room definitions. Make sure everything is set to default in the structure tab for the rooms and check that the default settings for rooms is set to what you want. I suspect that disconnecting the wall is causing the rooms to change to a different room type.
  16. your posting this in the wrong part of the forum.
  17. Just re-shoot it and move the mouse around until it is in the same general area.
  18. Sink may have been placed and then cab size made to small to work with that sink.
  19. Probably something to do with your wall definitions or even the default room definition. It may think you have created a new room between the 2 walls.
  20. You can also place cad lines perpendicular to the wall and dimension to those instead of the wall layer. I snap the line to the wall intersection point then move it to the closest 1/8" increment. You still need to use the parallel tool for the dimension line.
  21. You guys can't really be suggesting that it is ok to build a wall 11' tall with a hinge point at 9'. You might want to ask an engineer about that. Forget about weather ca can do it. Is it a good idea in the real world?
  22. You may have manually defined the ceiling plane of a room that is higher than the default for the floor. Just a guess though with the info you provided.
  23. Turn all layers on and look at the array of curved attic walls that show up. These are preventing your normal walls on level 2 from connecting. Delete the offending attic walls and it will work.
  24. How on earth would a crew know how to build a house without the weatherstripping showing up on a plan?