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Ok, My walls were set up as pony walls for step foundation. Aligning pony walls to Main Layer Outside worked. Thank you.

Hi, What is the setting to start the framing on the outside edge of the foundation wall? Apparently, mine is set so that framing starts at 3/8" in.

Now that is just crazy that brick ledge depth would change like that. Thank you for looking into it.

My wall looks like yours. The material is falling even lower than the footing. I'm pretty confused. Kile_Office-GT06058-082317.plan

Everything was going fine until I changed the room floor to floor supplied by the foundation room below. The image i uploaded looks correct to me. I'm not sure where to find bottom height of walls at. I'm still learning Chief.

Hi, Can someone please explain to me how to correct a wall material overhang issue? Please see .jpg.

I need a balloon wall. So, I should instead of breaking the wall, add another wall definition in place of the wall that I sectioned out for balloon framing?

I am using x9. I've messed with the hatching for hours and hours and cannot find a way to fix the hatching problem. Even using hating within the wall definitions produces similar results near the wall break. I think what is happening is that Chief Architect (in plan view) miters the walls. So, near the break lines where walls intersect perpendicular, the miter is still present. There seems to be no way to choose how the walls intersect (in plan view). The interesting thing about all of this ... when I click on a wall in plan view, you can see that the miter is removed and the wall clearly shows as a normal wall. If that makes sense.

I'm thinking the wall hatch tool is good for some things, but just filling in the stud layer (wall definitions) with a hatch produces better results. Just hurts to have to create a new wall definition just to handle simple hatching. Thanks for replying.

I originally tried that. Seems like Chief's default for wall corners is to miter them together. I did find that I could select the hatch (in plan view) and pull the end nodes way from the miter. However, to pull the hatch nodes into the miter does not work. The hatch just snaps back to the miter. Is there a default setting somewhere where i can change the way corner walls connect in plan view?

I hatched another wall (that had a wall break in it) using a solid hatch and quickly realized that the blank spot might occur because the wall connections at the corners in plan view are mitered. I looked around online and help in chief architect and cannot find how to change the mitered appearance in plan view. How do i change the way miter appears in plan view?

Hi, I used "wall break" on a section of an exterior wall to make way for a balloon wall. The break occurred (on the exterior wall) where the center of interior wall intersects the exterior. There is a symbol that shows the wall break which look like a V @ the wall break. When I hatch 2x6 walls, a blank spot in the hatching is left behind where this symbol occurs. How do I fix this?

Thank you for taking the time to help me like that. You fixed the problem, I copied what you did and it worked perfectly. Now, for the next question .......

I moved the roof as Alaskan_Son suggested. What I noticed is: • the ledger is bound to the outside edge of the wall. My wall is 5 1/2" framing, 3/8" sheathing, 1/2" siding. Combined with the 1/2" gyp in the interior, the wall is a total of 6 7/8". For some reason the ledger will not move pass the exterior material (lapboard) even when I "lock" the roof framing as Gawdzira suggests. • What I'm seeing from the section cuts .. once "No special snapping" is checked for the roof and the roof is moved, Chief will add a piece of fascia to the ridge end of the rafters and the ledger still snaps to the exterior end of the 6 7/8" wall. • If the roof is moved without the framing "locked", and I rebuild the roof framing, the result is: the ledger still snapped to the exterior end of wall. • If roof "No special snapping" is checked, and the wall (that the roof is connected to) is checked for "Lower Wall Type if Split by Butting Roof", the wall will resort back to a normal wall from a ponywall and the exterior materials will display in 3D. I take that as extra materials on the cutsheets. • Turning the attic wall back into a pony wall doesn't seem to work once roof is moved. the 3D display just shows framing with exterior material towards the top of the wall. I assume that because "No special snapping" was checked, the wall does not recognize that the roof exists or vice versa. In closing ... I just want to say that I know it's my inexperience with Chief Architect. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. However, if Chief really has problems with simple structural placement such as a ledger attaching to framing or shear than I hope you (Programmers) can fix it. I expected to stay within Chief Architect as I design and frame and not have to open other CAD programs to finish work.

I want to attach the roof ledger to the shear. I'm going to try all of your suggestions on how to accomplish it later on tonight and will let you know how it works out. I'm just trying to figure out how sheet sets work in Chief ATM.

That would make sense. Hopefully, the ledger is not on top of the cladding. I'll have to check that.

Here is a .jpg to the area I help with.

Hi, I can't figure out why there is a gap between the roof ledger and the wall framing. I've only been at Chief for about a week and half and it seems like I'm running into problems that I cannot find the answers for online. Help me Obi-Wan, you're my only hope! Clearstory_Unit_w_Dining_Room.plan

Thank you. The video is awesome, and I plan on tackling rotating top plates tonight. I believe my problem with the drywall issue had to do with setting up my roof incorrectly. I specified 9 1/2" roof joists but failed to specify depth of sub fascia. They were set for default value of 5 1/2" or something like that. So, looking at the 3d framing, the roof rafters were 9 1/2" until the rafter tails connected with the 5 1/2" sub fascia and the tails ended up cutting to fit the sub fascia. However, I cannot explain why the drywall would move pass the double top plate to match the the cut in the roof joist tails up to the 5 1/2" sub fascia. The Edit Wall Layer Intersection tool worked. All is good now.

Hi, I'm having drywall and double top plate issues in a model. 1.) I broke a wall to setup some balloon framing. I notice that the drywall now runs through the cut in the wall. How do I turn off the drywall so that it stops at the perpendicular wall? 2.) I'm having issues with drywall showing pass the double top plate. The walls that I'm using are attic walls. How do I pull the drywall back to that it fits snugly under the ceiling drywall? 3.) How do I angle double top plate so that it matches roof pitch? I've provided an image along with this topic. Thank you in advance for any information to correcting the issues I'm experiencing. I need to sleep tonight.

Thank you. My eyes are tired from the long nights of learning Chief Architect.

Hi, On my Sheet template, I added client information via Insert. So it looks like this. %client.name% %client.street% etc. Now, where do I add the actual name of the client, address, etc. to have it show up on my sheets? Also, I would like to add APN # so that I can add it under the client information as well.