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Perry - thanks. That makes sense...

Thank you Eric...that worked. One more question...does the gable end wall above the porch ceiling (roof cuts wall at bottom) have to be a separate wall from the main gable end wall? I had it as one long wall...and selected roof cuts at bottom...and it messed up the entire wall. Thanks again...

Attached is a test plan that closely represents the plan I'm working on...I got the same result. I think I'm doing something wrong...but, not sure what. Thanks for looking... GABLE END WALL ISSUE - PLAN.plan

Can anyone tell me why when I create this gable end wall which extend over a porch room that has a sloped ceiling plane...why the ceiling plane cuts off the gable end and it ends up sticking down below the sloped ceiling plane? I thought if I selected "roof cuts wall at bottom"...that might help...but it didn't. In PIC #1 you can see the gable end wall sticking down below the porch sloped ceiling. In PIC #2...I tried pulling the roof all the wall into the building and using "roof cuts wall at bottom"...but that didn't work either. In PIC #3...I pulled the roof back to the face of the gable end wall. Same result. I'm hoping someone can help just by looking at some pics...as the file is large. If not...I'll try to simplify the plan and upload. Thanks

Use the "Floor Overview" command button...

Good tip Eric...I have never thought of using the. FMR.

I gave it a shot... I created the gable on the front...just tried to make it look like the house. I used attic walls on level #3...but allowed them to have "room definition"...this helped create the wide soffit. The soffit and the "floor" of the attic room don't exactly line up...you will have to make some small adjustment...but, it works somewhat. Someone with more experience may chime in with a better solution... Home-fix1.plan Home-fix1.plan

Use the "room divider" wall type to create an invisible division between two adjacent spaces... The pic of the plan shows the "room divider" wall...I placed carpet on one side and hardwood flooring on the other.

Go to YouTube and look for DSHALL videos on Chief. Some may be a bit to difficult at this point...but he has a number of videos that go through some basic stuff too. here's a link to his YouTube page...https://www.youtube.com/user/dshall44

I'm in the camp of less regulation is better for everyone. Yes..there will be bad designers...but, with all the regulations Architects face I still see some bad architecture. Let's face it. The large publicly traded home builders such as Pulte, David Weekley, D R Horton, CalAtlantic...etc have the cash to hire the best architects to design their homes. Have you seen some of their subdivisions? The homes are mostly out of scale behemoths. Floor plans that don't work for the owner...but, the plans are big boxes that are easy to construct. And...they fit nicely on their tiny little square plots of land. In Indy...we have some of these builders throwing up houses by the hundreds. All I see is "cookie cutter" when driving through these subdivisions. Who am I to comment...these builders sell these homes everyday - all day. Is the architecture any good...well, not to me but obviously I'm in the minority. The public has voted...they want their house to look a lot like their neighbors house. Unique is defined by the exterior paint color. As far as regulating designers...I think if the AIBD did a better job of selling their certification to the general public it might help. If potential clients knew the value of having an AIBD certification this could be a reason for designers to join AIBD and get certified. As it is right now...the only people that know about AIBD are designers that join in order to get certified. The general public has no clue what AIBD is.

Well...I got the barrel roof to work. (even a blind squirrel can find a nut now and then...) Used a single roof plane and set the pitch to zero. I started by locking the baseline at the same elevation as the 12/12 hip roof...but found that I had to use transform/replicate to move the roof down a bit so that it looked correct. I then adjusted the curved roof "Angle at ridge" number to -60.0 degrees. The funny thing is...if I adjusted this number higher than -60 degrees...the roof trim got funky. -60.0 degrees seemed to be the max I could use if I wanted this curved roof to work. Maybe it has something to do with it's relationship to the adjacent hip roof...who knows. It's all trial and error. here's my settings;

I guess my question still stands...why is the fascia of the curved roof extending to the ground? I used two roofs...curved them. I tried to get them to sit on top of the hip roof...not sure I actually accomplished this. Let me ask this...does the ceiling (or lack of a ceiling) in the room have anything to do with the funky nature of the barrel roof?

Eric, thanks for making an attempt. I think because you placed a single roof segment "flat"...it is cutting off the top of the window and not allowing the stone above the window. Also...you used a molding polyline for the fascia...which works...but, this is an extra step I for one do not want to do...unless of course there's no other way. Gotta be a way....

Can someone take a look at the attached plan and tell me why the fascia on the curved roof extends almost to the ground? I've never really attempted a curved roof...and really have no idea what I'm doing...either right or wrong. I'm sure it's user error... Thanks! RANCH PLAN 1.plan

Thanks Johnny...the porch room idea did the trick. Now...if I could only get all the trim to auto generate correctly. It's always something. Sample plan attached. PORCH - ROOF EXT.plan

Wondering how to create a roof overhang extension...and control the overhang. If I drag the roof 36" from the face of the wall just where the garage doors are...and make the overhang 36" deep...then, the upper roof also has a 36" soffit...which I don't want. I tried to use a separate roof and made them coplanar...but, then I couldn't get a flat soffit. Maybe I was doing something wrong. This should be simple to accomplish...yes? Here's a picture of what I'm trying to do....this pic is just an example. I want to create a longer overhang segement above my garage doors with a flat soffit back to the wall. Here is a pic of my plan...shows the roof extension with a 12" overhang.

See pics attached. Designated porch as a "Garage" room type. Auto rebuild foundation is "on". Made walls invisible...BOOM...foundation disappears. Chief needs to fix this....or give us the option to have a foundation under the porch slab. Yes...you can manually draw in the foundation but is 2017...and it's a foundation wall. Please...

Not in Indiana...all porches that carry some load...and even some that don’t have foundation walls/footings. Unless the home is slab on grade.

I always draw the foundation manually also...because CA refuses to create the automatically. In Indiana if a porch has a roof over it the porch slab will have a continuous foundation wall/footing under it. We we experience deep frost (aka frozen) ground in winter.

When creating a porch and using a railing wall type...why does CA not automatically create a foundation under the porch? I've tried to trick the software by drawing a room using a standard exterior wall, then create the foundation....then change the wall type to "Railing". The foundation disappears. If the porch has a roof over it...some type of a foundation will generally be required. Seems crazy to me...I think CA needs to either fix this...or give us the option to select "foundation required". If I'm missing something...let me know. In the pic below...(2) simple porches. I have automatically rebuild foundations turned on. As you can see...as soon as the wall type is changed to "railing"...the foundation disappears. Why?

Perry - would you post a PDF view of your typical live sections to show us how well this works. A picture is worth...well, you know. Thanks!

Try recreating in a simple plan?

Joey Martin used all "live" sections...which, if you look at a set of his plans were very comprehensive. For me...if I'm only including some basic sections I'd use CDFV (cad detail from view)

Very clear Michael...thanks! I do find it incredible that a software as powerful and fully developed as CA is...that this is the best and only way to accomplish this task.

I watched...but it doesn't look automatic to me.