javatom

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  1. You can also import saved plan views from different plan.  Use the template you sent the plan to but import the other sets of plan views so you can make it look right.

  2. Gene,

    I got something that looks close but has many strange things going on to get it to work.  Chief will not seam this together.  I did it by manually pulling edges together until the seam looked right.  The strange thing is that this had to be done while in plan view.  Moving the curved planes in 3d made it all explode.  I know this is not the eave edges you are looking for but maybe you can use some parts of it to get what you want.

    javatom1119935922_Curvedroofedgestudy.plan

    curved roof.jpg

  3. I did not have time to look closely but I did notice something on the plan.  You have the roof planes set to degrees of pitch instead of the "in:12" setting"  Open the roof plans and change those settings.  The 11.25 pitch they are talking about will make sense then.  Your plan shows it in the other setting which would be the same as a 2 3/8:12.

  4. You might have to create them.  Draw cad lines where you want them.  Block the lines to together and make a cad block.  Click on the window and look at the bottom of the page for an icon that looks like the letter E.  This is the "load muntins" button.  It will turn the cad lines into muntins for that window.

  5. Let Chief create automatic roof framing.  Open the original roof plane.  This would be the one UNDER the one you have built over the top.  Open the dbx and check "retain roof framing".  Drag the original roof plane up to where the intersecting point is with the new roof.  That will make the new roof regenerate the framing while keeping the old framing in tact.

  6. I would strongly recommend against letting a client "manipulate" your floor plan.  In my experience, they will mess up the plan and it will take you hours to figure out everything they did wrong.  They will think they help with the process.  In reality, they may have ruined the model.  Let them know that they will be working on a work copy of the plan and that you will have to repeat what they did no the real plan.  I do a lot of work for other designers fixing the plans that got messed up.  You can't even imagine the dumb stuff that can be done to a model by the uninformed.

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  7. While in a perspective view, click on the adjust material definition button (it looks like a rainbow).  Rotate the pattern and texture 90 degree.

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