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Chrisb, You were 100% correct. I needed to turn of that setting. It is labeled a little different in x7 but I found it under the General Camera default settings. Thats for the help!

I'm creating some shelving details for this projecct that I'm working on and I'm using the cross section function. I like this feature because I can just modify the shelving and dimension it and without having to do it a line at a time like with a CAD detail. The problem that I'm experiencing is that the section callout is showing up on all my layer sets even if I have the layer which is "Camera" turned off for that layer set. This is a problem because it is cluttering up my electrical layer set. Is there a way turn these off for certain layer sets or do I have to just create a CAD Detail from the view? I'm atttaching some screenshots to illustrate. Also I am using X7. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thank you for the feedback. I will manually draw them in as you suggest DJP. Thank you

I'm having issues with my walls not returning over a lower roof plane on a raised section of my home. When I try to extend the walls it shows up on my floorplan inside with brick which is not accurate. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Eric, Thank you for the video. That worked to solve my problem. Thank you for the roof tip for the back patio as well. That was very helpful.

Eric, I have made sure not to have Ignore Top Floor checked and it still creates the roof like the image that I provided. Do you think that it is because I am still using X7?

Thanks for the advice Glenn. Regardless of whether I do trusses or not shouldn't the auto roof generate accurate roof planes without them going through my second floor?

Glenn, I am using the auto-build roof function . I custom built the back patio and don't want it deleted so I check the following boxes in the image below. Eric, I am not manually drawing trusses. I am just selecting the Trusses box under the specifications section in the dialog box. Is that what you mean? As an FYI it does this whether I select trusses or not. Like I said I spent several hours last night systematically trying all the checkboxes to see if I was missing something but every time it builds the roof through my second floor.

Hello, I want to add roof trusses to my plan and leave my manual roof but when I do it builds the wrap around porch roof through the 2nd floor as seen in the images. Is there a way around this or is there a setting I'm missing? I spent several hours yester testing different settings but could not come up with anything that would not build the roof through the 2nd floor. I am using X7. Thanks for your help. PJ_&_Krisha.plan

Thanks, everyone. Sounds like I either need to do everything manually or just hide the attic walls. I appreciate you help on this issue.

Thank you for your answer Dermot. I don't think David understood the question because he was messing with the unfinished roof for some reason in his video. I figured the walls popping up had something to do with the roof and after doing some research found out that it was indeed creating attic walls in certain locations. Just as an FYI I am using X7 Do you happen to know if there is a way to turn off the function that auto-generates those walls or at least a way to be selective about it? There were only 2 gable walls that needed to be created and the rest were all under the roof where the trusses would be and definitely aren't needed structurally. I'll attach the image of the 2nd level layout to show you the walls. Besides the walls that are created automatically, I am getting those few walls from the main floor that I showed in my original post that are extending up and jogging in weird spots. Would that be caused by the roof as well or is something else causing that? I use the dollhouse view to present layouts to clients and so I would like it to represent correctly. When I open up the properties of that closet on the main I get a message in the structure tab that says that the ceiling values may not be changed because the floor above has varying heights. I am not sure what is causing the error though.

Hey, I need some help. Last night I autogenerated a roof to be able to show a client what the home would roughly look like with the roof on it. From doing so I now have 2 issues: issue 1 is that it autogenerated a bund of walls that I don't want or need inside the roof (I noticed this when I went to delete the roof to make some more adjustments). Issue 2 is when I tried to delete the roof to continue working on the plan, certain walls have now grown taller in certain areas and I can't get them to be normal walls again. I've tried deleting them and redrawing them but as soon as I put a wall back in that spot it extends up in those areas. I am sure I am probably just lacking some fundamental knowledge of how the roofs work and how it affects the walls. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks, PJ_&_Krisha.plan

That was it Solver! Thanks for the easy fix!

Here is the plan file. PJ_&_Krisha.plan

Hello! I need some help. I am using X7 and I now have 2 plans where my ceiling is missing. I having the ceiling turned on in the properties but for some reason what I see when I do a camera view is just the underside of the sheathing for the 2nd floor. If you have any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong please help! Thanks!

Thanks Solver

Thanks for the response everyone! I didn't know that there was a "Hide Terrain Intersected By Building" box to check so thank you glennw! also Thanks jtcapa1 for the video. you make a valid point and creating a hole using a polyline was very helpful.

Hey there! I'm having an issue with getting my terrain to show underneath my cantilever in my plan. any suggestions on how to fix this? I've searched through the chief tutorials and forums but could not find an answer to this problem.

Thank you Chopsaw. I'll go ahead and do that. Thank you for your help!

THANK YOU glennw!!!!! that was what the issue was. My drawing was thousands of feet away from the origin. I brought it back and now everything works great!!! I appreciate the help

Hey thanks Chopsaw! Thank you for the advice. When I figure out how to do my signature I will make sure to add those items in haha. I am running windows 10 as far as the video drivers, looks like my laptop is running the program off of the NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics card but my displays are running off of a separate driver which is the Intel HD Graphics 630. here is a copy of the plan file as well. Isaac Reeder.plan

I am struggling to get my 3D view to look correct. Honestly it looks horrible like it is glitching out but I can't figure out how to fix it. When I zoom in and out the 3D image changes and morphs and jumps around. I am not sure what is causing it. It also does it with cross sections. Is there any way to optimize the 3D view to look correct? The image that I am attaching is supposed to be a square column with a round spot footing. Also notice above the window and the roof plane coming down in the top right of the image. Just as an fyi the following are the specs of my laptop: Chief Architect Premier X7 Dell XPS 15 9560 Intel i7-7700HQ CPU 2.8 GHz 32 Gigs of Ram Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card Messed up 3D.pdf