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good job......I fought with manual planes and joining them.

Thumbs up to solver! It worked alot easier than the dutch gable command.

That thought crossed my mind but haven't tried it yet.

Hello All, Is this type of roof manual roof planes for the attic gable or Dutch gable command?

I've often wondered this myself. Autocad architectural is what I used before Chief. Chief blows it out of the water in my opinion. It would be nice to do large commercial buildings, however, as a residential designer and not a licensed architect or engineer, there is a lot more that goes into that. You won't be stick framing a church, school or hospital. It's all metal structure and that's where my experience comes to a halt. I have 20 years of shipbuilding experience with I-beams, angles etc. but no clue on how commercial buildings are put together. I looked at revit before I bought chief and was still drawn to chief, so here I am.

I went ahead and made some changes and slid the dutch gable back over the front exterior wall and it actually looks decent. Too much of a headache the other way.

Yes, I just asked about this the other day. I deleted all my fixtures and furniture on a plan file and still couldn't get the file size low enough to upload.

Yeah I see what you are saying. It's a dutch gable so if I line up the attic wall with the front exterior wall the roof won't leave any space for the exposed gable with a 9:12 pitch. I need those windows in the gable too. How do they build this in the field? It's like floating attic wall??

I literally just had this same situation. I made chamfered walls and labeled the spaces unfinished, no floors. Mine is a bonus room for kids. Give it a try.

Plan file is too big to upload. But why does chief auto generate incomplete attic walls. When you pull the grips to extend, it goes nuts. This is one thing I haven't mastered in the software yet. The roof is auto built as well.

Bummer, luckily I figured out my roof issue and don't need to load the file now. I even deleted all the unnecessary things to get the file size down and it still stuck around 15MB.

lol, yes sir.........I do my best work with several glasses of merlot.

Hey guys, has the limit always been 14MB plan file size to up load on here? I've never surpassed that limit until now and its a smaller home. Just wondering.

If your PC is old upgrade. Once you purchase one over the requirements to run the program you will be more than happy. Believe me, I used to fight modeling on an old pc. It's worth the upgrade.

I agree, I just like to add that extra kick to the renderings when I send to clients. I will stick with what I already have.

dang, that's awesome AND $200!! lol

No, sometimes I will throw in one of chief's vehicles from the library as a reference to garage sizes and such but they are kind of boring. Alot of people down here like to shelter their lifted pickups so showing them in the garage helps them visualize the room availability. It's not a big deal really but in today's internet anything is available if you know where to look.

Different question, does anyone use or know of a website other than sketchup free library for these type of symbols?

haha, nope, it was taken in a parked car then background blurred. more up to date. and thanks on the file.......it will be used for sure!

thanks guys!

Hello! I'm thinking chief doesn't offer these type brackets (in black) in the library since pitches can be different? You guys draw these manually? I like the bolt heads and how it adds detail.

I'm surprised chief hasn't made a fix for this as advanced as the program already is. It seems to be the norm around here lately. Everybody wants soffit lights (which I totally understand) and outlets in the soffits for Christmas lights. I just hate faking things.

Whewww! That what i was doing except manually drawing the symbol and then using the arc command for my electrical connections. If this is the way to go then it wasnt cheating it after all. Thanks.

Hey guys, how do you place your soffit lights and even soffit outlets? I cant get it to accept the symbols.

Dude, this will be a time saver. It will help on my elevations as well, always having to turn on the layers I want it to show and such.