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copy and paste in place roof plane. Slide the two planes to connect at the pitch break and then manipulate the lower portion to the pitch desired. If I am understanding you right. Kind of similar to how I do a flared eave but opposite.

Thanks guys.

How many of you guys use all 4-6" LED ceiling lights everywhere in the house instead of the cheap dome lights? How about garages, are the fluorescent tubes an out of date type of thing and do you use LED's in there as well? Just trying to keep up with the times and get feedback. I personally use the round LED's everywhere, maybe some chandelier's and pendants in special areas.

Hey guys, I found this from a while back and it worked pretty good. Posted August 29, 2016 Draw your 3 stair sections all separate from each other, but at the correct angles. Don't worry about the overall heights, just get the goings and risers for each section correct. Use point to point move to join them up. You can then use the Landing tool to click between the stairs and the landing will auto build to join the 2 stair sections. You can then edit the stairs and landings as needed for fine tuning.

Hey guys, what the easiest way to make a set of stairs like this in X17? I keep getting crappy railing transitions and weird winders. Thanks

My change order fees cover 100% cleanup work on mirrored homes. Huge mess on elevations and cross sections.

Projects I started in X15 and then continued in X17 went nuts with electrical. All wiring detached from the switches.

I have found with roofs that if anything happens like you have listed there is an error somewhere. Once that gets fixed everything falls into place. From making sure all roof plans are joined to wall placement CA roofs are very sensitive. Might even be a box needing checked or unchecked. I fixed a boxed eave this morning after a search and found a 10 year old thread that showed me what to do. It worked great.

10 years later and this really help my situation today.

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I am thinking the same thing as yall. Take out the colors and render in clay or technical lines. Use colored renderings for my portfolio on website, google and IG. Thanks! I may scrap the interior videos all together but keep doing the exterior walk arounds. Now I just gotta hope my returning builders and clients don't get too disappointed with one less file. Or maybe even have a video file charge for the headache they bring.

Sounds like we work the same. The interior videos are black and white BUT on special areas, like this current home I am working, I wanted a shot of the kitchen, dining and loft space (open concept) rendered and I use physically based. Looks cool with my video card I have. That's where the problems begin, visuals on the interior video and colors on the renderings.

After using Chief Architect for 8 years now I think it may be time to change the way I present my plans. Before Chief, I used 2D AutoCad for the prior 14 years. Here is what I send for my preliminaries for 8 years now: Exterior video walk around, Interior video flyover, colored exterior renderings and a plan set consisting of the same 3D renderings (non color on title page), site plan, survey and parcel info on sheet 2, floorplan(s) with door, window and cabinet schedules and sq ft breakdown on sheet 3, roof plan and details on sheet 4 and finally exterior elevations on sheets 5 & 6. That being said, what I am finding more and more is the interior videos are really becoming a hassle with too much focus on them by the client. They know my design process focuses mainly on getting construction plans done to build the home and getting the exterior color and material ideas incorporated so they can at least see that as well as the Builder, doors and windows correctly sized also. What I do not focus on or charge for is interior design. I use the same cabinets, doors, moldings, backsplashes etc, on all homes. The interior videos are causing clients to get hung up on colors, cabinet door styles and other things that do not pertain to house plans, more of the stuff they sit down with their builder or even interior designer to pick out materials at the build phase. Most builders send my plans to their cabinet guys anyway and tell me not to spend too much time on cabinet design. Do you guys bother with presenting interior videos??

Thanks guys, very helpful.

Howdy Chiefers, is there a way to chamfer a door like shown below. Would be cool if so instead making a note for the builder to custom cut it.