rockyshepheard

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  1. On 9/2/2020 at 8:40 AM, Renerabbitt said:

     

    Long time Rocky, glad to see you are still here!

    If you were to think about it long enough you would realize that we are locking more than Chief gives us direct control of in the roof .dbx. If you were to lock the ridge height and the pitch, then changing the baseline height would move the eave edge of the roof plane thus changing the overhang. The system works as it should. which points us to a user error.

     

    Things to note

    • When you draw a manual plane, the plane's adjacent edges will change a line style overlay to finely dotted, only when you have snapped to a known angle. 
    • Whatever edge you are closest to when you hover over a plane and then open the plane's dbx will report its info to the "Selected Line" panel of the dbx. You should check all edges of your planes to ensure they are correct angles. **spoiler alert is that they are not correct which is why you are having a lot of trouble.**
    • Sometimes it is easier to pull back the edges of a roof plane and snap to a correct angle to avoid snapping to another element that is an incorrect angle. To ensure your success in correcting angles you can turn off all snaps except for the "extensions" snap. Edit\snap settings\
    • After you have finished correcting your angles you can turn snaps back on and start snapping planes together. You will then see that your eaves are out of plan with one another...move edges to correct this, not vertices.

     

     

     

    Long time, true. Thanks!  and thanks for the tips!



     

  2. I've just discovered that the specs don't even need to match in order to get ridge caps. 
    Maybe the best method should be get them close as you can in the plan and the specs dbx then...use  "Join Roof Planes".
    I wold prefer not using join roof planes because I've noticed joining can move BOTH plan edges. I usually get one perfect in the plan and then try to move the other to the perfect one. You end up with ridge caps but your plan view is modified wrt all other planes. That is why I want to do it manually through the dbx.

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  3. I wish I could see why one cannot be allowed to lock two values. It works fine for modifying a cuboid volume specifications .
    cuboid settings:
    volume 500
    x 10
    y 10
    z 5
    I can lock two out of four.
    If I set y to 50 and lock x at 10 and volume at 500, then my z value changes to 1.
    Effectively locking what I want to keep first.
    Is a 3D plane so much different?

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    I would like to finally put this issue to rest. I don't wish to rely on luck to get the correct values in the fields.
    In my opinion, since I can have the above settings on the left, there is no law of physics that says I cannot have the same on the right.
    The problem is I cannot lock more than one field such that I can FORCE the software to change the field I want.
    I am aware that if I fiddle with it repeatedly for an hour, I will always get lucky and eventually the right values show up. I am missing a methodology to do this.
    see video. I apologize if it painful to watch. LOL
     

    roof attempt 019.plan

  5. Thanks Solver et al.
    In summary... 
    if you check "Roof Over Room"  that creates gable wall without  "Balloon Through Celling Above" being checked. RESULT: gable wall and roof over room
    and 
    if you do not check "Roof Over Room", you can get gable wall by checking   "Balloon Through Celling Above. RESULT: gable wall with no roof over room.
    I see. 
    Thx

     

  6. 2 hours ago, Ridge_Runner said:

    Do you have "Auto Rebuild Attic Walls" on? Found in Defaults/General Wall Defaults/Automatic Walls, toward the bottom.

     

    Should be "Defaults/Walls/General Wall Defaults/Automatic Walls, toward the bottom.

     

    1 hour ago, Chief16Designer said:

    You could open the wall check ballon through celling above 

     

    1 hour ago, solver said:

    I changed 1 thing that has nothing to do with the wall. The hint is in the image. What's different when compared to your plan?

     

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    Thanks all!
    Ridge Runner- I did have "auto rebuild attic roofs" on in the defaults.
    Chief16Designer- Checking "Ballon through ceiling above" worked! 
    Solver-The only thing I see is the window is lower in the Z direction. see attached.

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  7. This is the only way I've found that is the least clunky. 
    I extended the existing 3rd floor external walls to make box for entry (open below). The top of the box is at the 3rd floor ceiling height...good...but the bottom of the box goes to floor of the 3rd floor. Now, I have to pull up the walls on all three sides. The do some kind of cut away to get arch.

    I wish CA had a way of using sketching planes so one could specify the height at which they do sketch, like in 3D modelers. Maybe a 3D modeling mode users could enter from CA mode. In that case I could specify a sketch plane at particular height off floor, extrude to top of 3rd floor, do boolean cut for arch and bam, I'm done. Of course, yes, it would be a trade off since you would not have all wall functionality of CA mode but that would be for user to decide.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Gawdzira said:

    Rocky, I realize that you asked for technical information and I am stepping way out of line here. Feel free to flame me, cancel me or edit me out of people who you see posts from.

     

    Please do not do this (meaning that entry portico. This is really, really far out of scale and proportion for a residential setting. Get a copy of Get Your House Right to use as a guide when making these sort of decisions. Or, hire a good(or even great) designer to help you with this project.

    https://www.google.com/books/edition/Get_Your_House_Right/lovAS1e2pWMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

    Thanks for that but I am only doing 3D representation of what an architect has drawn for a customer.  I have no say in the design. :)

  9. 1 hour ago, ACADuser said:

    I used poly solids, columns, 3rd floor room divider walls with open below set.

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    I would like to do it like you did. I went to third floor, created room divider(open below type)...but there are no walls in 3D view like you have on third floor. Of course I see them in plan view. All layers are on. I don't get how you specified the height of your third floor walls. If I could actually see the walls I assume they go entire height of third floor then I need to use polyline to cut away. Can you send me this file so I could see why your walls show but mine do not? Thx

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