rockyshepheard

4 minutes ago, rockyshepheard said:

Thanks Joey, found it!

 

Tried your method. Chief said dormer too close to another dormer...but there were no other dormers. I checked in all layers. No other dormers. I will have to try manual.

Thanks Joey, found it!

1 minute ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

No.  But if you read up on the tools and adhere to the rules and recommendations Chief supplies then you can make them work.  For example, don't make them so tall...

 

I tried modifying the dormer defaults but didn't see a height or width entry box.

Thanks Joey, I'm sure I'll be doing it manually but I'd like to try your method. Can you plez direct me to auto gen for attic walls?

I'd like to know how to fudge  two dormers on the roof over the front porch. I'd like them moveable no matter what is under the roof.

One method complains there's no wall so cannot create. Other method says cannot create because of a wall in the way.

Can someone easily add two dormers using some kind of magic?

Thanks!

front roof done.plan

I apologise, but I cannot today. Maybe tomorrow evening?

I’m actually have trouble even following this thread. So many posts and sometimes I’m not sure wh is talking to whom? Did y’all catch that proper grammar? 

I apologise it seems that I have missed a response. 

56 minutes ago, glennw said:

Rocky,

If you would like another Skype session to run through auto roofs on that project, let me know.

Why do it manually and go though all that when you could do it auto.

Thank you Glen. Yes. That would be great. Please let me know when you have some time.

I will stop posting questions on this forum as I can never know if my question is too remedial for everyone's taste. Going to try Chrisb22's method from now on.

1 hour ago, GeneDavis said:

I just reopened the Ashley Close plan the OP posted, and the snaps are not turned off.  Here is a screenshot of his preference settings.

 

Seems to me it would take some mouseclick gymnastics to draw roof planes as he did with baselines not orthagonal, or not snapped to his walls.

 

Mr Shepheard, I'm sorry I offended you with my earlier post.  Is your dyslexia such that you can only read forum posts, but not watch training videos?

 

 

I can read forum posts and watch lots of videos just fine. Ocassionally I turn off snaps when I need a finer gradient of moving objects. The whole baseline thing is NOT because I think baselines at angles are cool...I just didn't notice they got shifted because I am not the greatest as setting my plan view up so baseline stand out against all the other lines. 

2 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

To Rockys defense, there have been some very curt and albeit rude responses to his queries.

We are all here helping him voluntarily-key word there, if you don't like his learning methods, don't read his posts...don't volunteer.

A challenging student makes for a better teacher. I've already learned a trick or two in attempting to explain a method to Rocky. Rocky's challenging because he is brand new yet possesses some core understanding from a similar software.

 

I struggled through CA, and I wish I had asked more questions- it can be extremely cumbersome going through video after video without true reference.

When I get some time I'll clean up my anno sets and load some up for you Rocky so you can take a look.

Thanks for that! Much appreciated. 

30 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

I was in second year engineering school long long ago, and the core curriculum required all of us to take a course called "Numerical Methods."  Each week we were posed a problem that required a solution requiring the computer.  The machine, the only one on campus, took up half the first floor of the computer center building.  It was a Univac 1107, and all program entry was via punched cards.  The language we used was Algol, a variant of Cobol.

 

We were not taught to code in the class, but expected to learn it via the manual available at the bookstore, page-format in size and one inch thick.  You figured out what you wanted the computer to do, and then wrote a program to solve the problem and print the results.  We punched our cards at keypunch machines and stacked our decks, then stood in line at the card reader to run our decks, then again in line at the printer, to get our results.  You had to be pretty good to get a successful run the first time.  Precise editing of the code was required, and good skills at the keypunch desks.

 

The computer science grad students were in charge of the whole shebang, and they wrote the error messages, one of which came at you in all caps if you failed to get a run in six attempts.  It read "Do not attempt to learn Algol by monte-carlo methods.  Read your manual."

 

We've got an OP here named Rocky intent on learning Chief by monte-carlo methods.  It is entertaining, but the process is getting a little wearisome.

That’s a shitty thing to say to someone who is dyslexic. Reading is a momentous challenge for me so I opt to watching videos and Q&A.

Got it! Thanks

I actually have. And I've never seen one that said you should not draw a plant that could intersect another plane that is at a different height because it will make original plane take on the height of the plane it overlaps (even though they are drawn on different floors. There may be lots of nuances that these videos don't cover.

15 hours ago, glennw said:

When using auto roofs, if the roof is not correct after the first build, don't give up and go to manual.

I find it is good practice to persevere with the auto roof build.

Instead of trying to manually edit the auto roof planes, leave auto build on, tile a 3D view and floor plan, and edit the building structure or roof settings and see what they do to the auto roof build.

More often that not, it just requires a change to either the Roof panel of the Wall Specification dbx or the Build Roof dbx, to get the correct roof to build.

It should not take long at all to build an auto roof on a plan like that and you will have no problems with joining roof angles, rotated roof planes, baselines in the wrong location, etc...

Thanks. What did you mean by 'tile the 3D view and floor plan"?

All layers are on and it is an object I copied from another CA file (which shows in that plan view).

Any thoughts?

Plan attached.

Thanks

ashley_progress.plan

1 minute ago, robdyck said:

So what does the architect do?? That explains the autodesk reference file you had open. Looks like Michael will take care of you. Good luck.

He only does 2D. Thanks!

Thanks all!

Just now, robdyck said:

I hear you. Curious...if there's an architect...what are you doing? Do you work for him/her?

I create 3D exterior views.

Just now, robdyck said:

And maybe a gable over the middle garage door? The roof sloping down over it doesn't leave space for a header, and it doesn't make much sense to have a roof eave extending lower than the top of a garage door right?

I'm just doing what the architect asked for.

Anyone willing to TeamView and help for $25?

I did that and it blipped and looked exactly the same as before I did it.

54 minutes ago, robdyck said:

Like this?

 

How did you do that? My roof planes go way up on the 2nd floor?

51 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

It's already done in the other (1st ) plan so now you have me totally confused...

 

 

I had it correct in my first file. But someone helped with another issue using auto build and this also auto built and I cannot remember how I did it. I attached thw wrong file at first bur reattached the correcrt file.

51 minutes ago, robdyck said:

Like this?

 

Yeppir.

Just now, Kbird1 said:

 

I don't see any text anywhere....the bumpout on the garage?

 

Why are the red and Blue Roof planes a couple of feet apart ?

Sorrry wrong file

Ashley reener.plan