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Perhaps this will help.

Is your client an engineer? Your question, and the design of long span structural elements are why we have structural engineers.

Post the plan and see if anyone else can work with it.

Draw the roof planes and adjust the heights to where you want them to be. In the roof dbx click the button to hold the roof slope and change one of the others to move up or down.

JC, this sounds like a complete waste of your time to just draw walls with Chief and then port to ACAD. Why are you not drawing in ACAD from the start? Chiefs power is in that it is a 3d based program. And the question must come to the table, why not just use Chief to do it all?

"I'm a little teapot..."

Thanks Micheal.

Grapes for everyone!

Joe to the rescue.

Thanks.

Does anyone know if one of the CA fence panels comes anywhere close to this?

I am using the bamboo as a stand in but probably need to be closer to this for my final render.

Is Fence Panel one of the options for importing a symbol?

Text box with Rich Text.

I think this was started in X8 beta.

Joe, I close the plan with the text as shown in the last picture. When I reopen, the text drops off at the end and then the text box has to be resized to get the tail end of the text to reappear.

Am I alone in this? I am seeing this a lot after reopening files.

I would add something similar to this:

"Design" has some side effects, as is common in most Designs, and these side effects could include drowsiness, dizziness, dry mouth, blurred vision, swelling of the feet or hands, increase in weight gain and problems with concentration. It is important that you refrain from operating a vehicle or any other heavy machinery when beginning Design. Other side effects could include a feeling of being "high" as well.

Good enough for Lyrica, good enough for me.

It would be nice to be able to tweak the angle of the blocking on a per roof basis. I am not sure how many times I would run into that situation but probably once the ability was there it would get used a lot.

We can change it. It is just that it must be changed in the defaults. After the rebuild the blocking reoriented to the default setting. At least the is the behavior in X8.

Thanks. I changed the default to have vertical blocking and the rebuild changed accordingly. Jerry (and Chieftalk) saves the day.

In my plan the option for vertical is grayed out (unavailable). What is the secret handshake to get that live again?

I am trying to install simple rafter tails that are 5.5" tails cut from the 9.25" rafter. A pretty standard sort of overhang detail. The soffit will be closed. The problem shows up with the blocking. The framing is set to plumb but the blocking is running perpendicular to the roof slope. Not good for the shear transfer. Is there a simple way to correct this?

LEH VIZ PLN V2B.zip

Thanks for the offer Scott. The fabulous Mr. Potter is going to kick this one out for me. I will take you up on the offer soon when I am breathing stress free air.

I am working a project and need some help building the terrain. See attached images. It does not have to be perfect to the contours but I need a good representation rather than the hack poly solids I threw in to make is suck less. The Hardscape will not be changing at this time but I am working on the file for some roof changes. The building footprint is very close to the PDF file and I am almost done with those refinements. You would work on my current file and I would copy the terrain elements into my later file after the building tweaks are finished. I am trying to (re)submit this early next week. I have the file in X8. I also have the survey data in CA and ACAD files. The exact contours are not needed and often will be too complex of polylines to get good terrain but that is something we can discuss. If available and qualified to build some decent terrain, call me at 831-747-4718 Don't send me a private message through Chieftalk, I won't notice it for a few months.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/81yxqv39ad8jvs6/AABmrLZOAEZ-pLJ3fEYoEbeBa?dl=0

LEH Viz PLN V1E.pdf

I also convert any image imported into CA to jpg. The pdf imports bump up the file size too much.

I am not getting results like that. I believe that CA defaults to 600 dpi. I always drop that down to 144.

Since your wife is an artist, maybe you can get her to draw a picture of what you wanting to do? While the possible combinations are not endless, there are quite a few ways to configure 2 different roofs. Also, is your question about carpentry or how to draw this in Chief?

My misinformation was not correct (double, triple negative that!). Actually, for misinformation it was correct. Either way, I have been experimenting and the floor level shown on the tool bar seems to not impact the floor level of the p solid. The location in relation to the floor level that you draw it does. At least in my test plan.