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Mick, what is the name of the texture you used for the siding on the attic wall?

3 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

For that design , I think I would lower the pitch of the Garage roof to match the Front Entry's (3-4deg.? to shingle minium)  so you see less Shingle.

 

Columns are nice but in a budget Build add Costs that could make that front Room bigger instead of a Porch ...porch could be added as a Custom Addon/Upsell , by extending main roof forward and start other RH Gable higher so it picks up the front Door too perhaps.

 

Can also do something really simple , and once again add Upsells like a Nice Corner Column on porch , Shingles and a Bellyband to make the front look more "Custom"

 

Depends on the Builder's budget and Costs locally , I am guessing 6/12 Roof  is cos local Lumberyard has them in Stock , so they are Cheapest. And on 1st time Buyers expectations in your Area.....  the 1st Pic is probably tooooo Cheap   so  2nd pic and perhaps a nice column instead of railing in pic.

 

M.

Bella_Storia_Simple.plan

Btw, you were correct, 6/12 is what they are asking for  

2 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

For that design , I think I would lower the pitch of the Garage roof to match the Front Entry's (3-4deg.? to shingle minium)  so you see less Shingle.

 

Columns are nice but in a budget Build add Costs that could make that front Room bigger instead of a Porch ...porch could be added as a Custom Addon/Upsell , by extending main roof forward and start other RH Gable higher so it picks up the front Door too perhaps.

 

Can also do something really simple , and once again add Upsells like a Nice Corner Column on porch , Shingles and a Bellyband to make the front look more "Custom"

 

Depends on the Builder's budget and Costs locally , I am guessing 6/12 Roof  is cos local Lumberyard has them in Stock , so they are Cheapest. And on 1st time Buyers expectations in your Area.....  the 1st Pic is probably tooooo Cheap   so  2nd pic and perhaps a nice column instead of railing in pic.

 

M.

Bella_Storia_Simple.plan

Thank you sir, these are really nice. 

4 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

1st thought looking at image above would be to swap the roofs  , give the garage a hip and house a gable , so garage isn't so prominent in Street view or make both gables...cheaper to build too usually and a double gable looks nice ...to me at least...

 

M.

What do you think about something like this? 

Any thoughts on the roof? 

3 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

1st thought looking at image above would be to swap the roofs  , give the garage a hip and house a gable , so garage isn't so prominent in Street view or make both gables...cheaper to build too usually and a double gable looks nice ...to me at least...

 

M.

That's a good thought. would you extend the gable to be over the front door as well ?

here is the plan, if you are curious on what I did. I am open to suggestions 

Bella storia.plan.zip

This is what the front looks like. 

4 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

Quite the change ....hope he is seeing you right for the time spent so far.....

 

Well you have a Plan to use as a template , change Level 1 to 8ft stud and put a simple 6/12 gable roof on it and see what he thinks before going too far .....sort of like " you thinking something like this ? " so you don't waste too much more time....

 

M.

 

yes definitely a big change. What I did he pretty much what you suggested. Now that this design is approved so to speak, I am moving on to the next problem. 

He is asking for the ceiling to be vaulted. given that it is a gable roof I created the one sided gable with a ceiling plane. However on the door side the roof is cutting into the entrance. Any suggestions? 

Just now, GeneDavis said:

Well, that's a seismic shift, innit?

it sure is

Hello all and thank you for your help on this project. 

The developer I am working with just informed me today that he wants the roof to be a 6/12 and the ceiling no higher than 8ft. 

Also no brick, since he is planning for this plan to be more of a starter home. 

So I am thinking about re-drawing something much simpler. 

I will put this plan on hold and finish it when I have some free time, I will update this post with final pictures and possibly video when done 

1 minute ago, Kbird1 said:

I made a Room Polyline ( room under Turret), converted it to a Slab and then set each step's height and stretched each successive staircase layer out after using copy and paste in place to add the 3 steps.....

 

If you need the plan let me know....

Thank you for the explanation. I am working on it. I'll let you know if I need the plan. 

45 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

something like this quick example perhaps....

 

M.

that looks nice, thank you 

4 hours ago, GeneDavis said:

Something I might do if it were my project, and it's the front entry.  I would enlarge the entry slab platform, the one under the stoop, out beyond the stoop walls, and do the stepdowns out under the sky.  The platform top step edge would be concentric to the line of the stoop walls, maybe a foot out.  Steps would be concentric.

Hello Gene, I had a knee surgery done today and I am not sure if it is the meds but I am not understanding what you are suggesting lol. Could you directly me to any examples, photos, etc.?

5 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

If you alter your Template Plan as I mentioned so both measurements are the same , it will be that way in all plans from now on.

 

If you have all the Default Settings you like / want in this drawing you can turn it into your new Template too , so you have the Settings in all new Drawings.

 

 from the File Menu Simply do a Save As Template>(Template Name) eg: My Template Plan ,  in the CA Templates Folder and it should ask you if you want this plan to be your new Imperial Plans Template > Yes.   then in CA Check (and change if needed..shouldn't be ) the new Plan Preferences Setting is set to the New Template you just created ( My Template.plan in this case) ,  then I would then in the Template plan file delete  the Floors 1 x 1 so essentially the Plan is blank and ready to Start a new House plan on for the next Drawing. All your Defaults are still saved and ready to go , you can even setup you elevation camera etc ready in the Template Plan etc etc .....If you find a setting you want changed permanently , remember to open the NAMED Template file and change it there too , so each plan uses that setting going forward.

 

Also get in the Habit of as soon as you open a new Plan,  to Save it with a NAME ....if you don't the Autosave feature does not work and if you have a crash or something , you can lose all your work  ( been there done that...) as there will be no Archive Folder made.

 

These may help too :

 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00463/creating-and-using-a-plan-template.html

 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00333/restoring-the-default-template-plan.html

 

M.

thank you very much

13 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

Yes, when you Built the Front entry you made it with two rooms so you will need to adjust both, that in this case can be done in each Room's Specification DBX at the bottom , see the included Pics.

 

You can either do As i did as an exqample for you and have a landing by the door and two stepss down to th elower area  or make them both the same and configure the stairs differently but you have 26-27" approx between the Front Door height and the Driveway to make up somehow.

 

here is my plan too so you can look at it...

Bella_Storia_high_ceiling__MHD_2.plan

M.

 

 

 

 

Thank you Mick, this is truly helpful. 

So will this happen to me every time I create a plan? 

I guess it depends on the terrain and city requirements?

37 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

See my reply above Joe.....

 

it is because your Template Plan used for New Plans must have the default foundation setup to do the house at 37 1/2" minimum and the Garage at 24" minimum change that in your Template Plan as explained above and all Drawings from now on will have the garage and house at the same level.  This height is usually set at the default Frost-line height where-ever you are , if your jurisdiction has one ? for some that might be 48" and for others there may not be one set by the City/State.

 

you will need to rebuild the Foundation in any current Plans as Auto-build is Off currently.

 

Mick.

Thank you Mick. How do I set both rooms to monolithic slab foundation?

2 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

Lumion is too expensive for most to own but if you really need a Movie Walkthrough then an Option would be to have one of the people like Jintu (Chiefer) who does this for a living Render it for you.

 

@Chiefer

 

M.

Thank you, good to know.

2 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

your 1st pictures above have green lap siding and now just above blue Fiber so I am a bit confused as to what the issue is?

 

are you referring to the fact the garage foundation is not as deep as the rest of the house ? that is controlled in the Build Floor>Foundation>Garage Options  DBX , your garage settings must be different from the house ?   

 

They are I just looked 24" vs 37.5" , make them both 37.5" and let it rebuild.  You will lose the foundation at the front entry doing this as it is setup incorrectly , set both rooms to monolithic slab foundation and lower the floors.... one by the door to say -2"  ( porch floor and house floor should not be at the same level due to possible water infiltration issues) and the outer room to -20" and add a few steps  or lower both to -2 and have the steps wrap around the whole thing ....  that would mean a different foundation though at the garage wall.

 

pic only shows one step but you get the idea.....

Mick sorry for the confusion. Out of the first plan, I created another plan, everything pretty much the same, I had just changed the roof, aside from that all the settings are the same.

With my question, I was referring to the fact that the garage foundation is not as deep as the rest of the house. My foundation was created automatically by Chief. Is there a reason it would create the foundation this way? I’m trying to figure out what I did to cause so that I can prevent it next time.

3 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

You may also want to take a look at the possibilities of the new 360 deg. raytraces and maybe even screen capture video of several of those could be edited into a video if you are on a tight budget.

 

Don't forget to post your results if you come up with something good.

I'd definitely give it a try 

13 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

 

Here it is: 

 

This looks pretty good. Definitely a good, affordable solution. Thank you 

12 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

 

I believe that the answer is yes but the time and computing power involved would make it impractical for the majority of clients to be able to afford unless there was a Hollywood budget available.  If you have lots of time or two or three high end Xeon workstations at your disposal it would be possible to use Chief's precision camera controls to produce thousands of high quality ray traces and stitch them together into a movie with editing software.

 

One of the guys did a short clip just in Movie Maker a while back using the zoom and pan features of the software and a few raytraces and it was quite effective, so depending on your level of perfection there are lots of choices when heading in this direction.

 

Also Chief did reveal some significant rendering improvements at the UGM this year for the upcoming version, so there is that to look forward to.

Thank you 

Nothing wrong with it, it looks great. But for Mac ?

19 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Post the plan again Joe , cos it doesn't like like that in my Plan ...did you fix the terrain height?

 

Did you decide to change the siding?  you haven't opened an old copy of the plan by accident have you?

Hello Mick, same home, just different elevations. what I did was copy one piece at a time into a new plan to see where if any setting was off and I noticed the garage. 

3 hours ago, rlackore said:

No, only Rendering techniques are available for walkthroughs.

Thank you for your reply. 

Do you know of any options?

something that works with MAC?

3 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

First, I prefer K-Bird’s 3-gable front, but would adorn the large upper one with a false hayloft door and the smaller left one with a false louvered vent.  

 

I don’t like doing windows as adornments.

 

The garage looke raised because its floor structure is slab and not a thicker wood frame assembly.

Thank you Gene, I appreciate your input. 

About the garage, I want to make sure I am understanding you correctly. It is normal? Or is it something wrong with my settings?