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Thank Rich. Here are some examples. windows with curved lites.calibz

Mick, you are right. situations like this we should tease on behalf of chief. Like when teasers of revit try to disturb. He refused to post the plan, so he didn't need help, I swear he was searching forums when I posted my attempt to help him, but he wasn't responding. So I was not mistaken the guy was teasing on the tool of the gentlemen like Mick, Any way, you know me!! I never hesitate to post test plans if some one asks me to do so.... Here is it sir. roof.plan

My friend, this is pretty simple in chief.I think this is what you were asking, took no time to do this.

Scott, sure it should be so. constructibility? But you must be creating even highly decorated domes in ca, though size of the symbol could be relatively large in such symbols. dome ceiling.calibz

I think you can make any kind of dome from the ceiling it self, am I missing some thing?

Shane nice ones! I don't have x7, I couldn't open your attachments, but how did you do it? Hope using the roof tool, very powerful. Thanks

I have a machine that can do this job for you, It is for rent. one thing you need to know in advance is that, it doesn't know about your codes and other local factors, so it can't suggest or comment nor can tell the goodness or badness of your work, but simply build it in chief "accurate chief models" Contact me by yhassen333@gmail.com

Dennis that is very nice.Me too, I use movie maker in most of the videos I make including those " how to ones" I some times post in the forum. Conversion of video to various different formats is very good using the movie maker. Here are two short examples of my ones, I am not expert on video production tips but I just do some concept presentations for projects using walk through in chief and making movies from raytraced images. Walk thru in chief(campus site concept design) Movie maker short presentation( commercial project)

Mick here is the plan, the left one shows the procedure, I mean it seems complicated first shot but, the trick is how you commonly use roof planes with cad poly lines by intersecting, subtracting and union. you get a lot of capabilities that any other tool in chief can't do. The one on the right side is the finished one. Thank you very much! Welcome my friend purlin 1.plan

It depends, most times for residential homes, the purlins are nailed. but for steel ones we use bolts and it varies generally.

This is common way we construct hones in our area, I use roofs as purlins, it takes no time.

The roof tool in chief is one of it's amazing tools, this is quite simple. And I don't think it needs a video to...... acrylic skylite roun and rectangular.plan

Thanks joe, here is the plan containing both. Perry, well I think they provided... You can make your symbol now. acrylic skylite roun and rectangular.plan

Am I missing some thing???? This is just as simple as drawing a rectangular room and auto building roofs!!

Glenn, what about this one? I dont think is we added.

With Chief's roof tool we can do this round ones, and I don't think the rectangular one be impossible using chiefs roof and some poisonous tactics, not sure actually.

OK the above method works fine, but I found it appropriate for this specific case to use two rails, one normal and the other is no locate no room definition. The later one represents the level adjustable post to beam. Hope it helps post to beam using 2 rails.plan

Try ramps(horizontal) aligned with the porch rail, use the ramp railing dimensioned as your beam, no balesters, so you can make the ramp railing hieght to be the level required for the beam. Hint:- -Draw streight ramp with small width -Rails on ether left or right(it depends) -Curve it and change the curve to number of segments = to porch edges -Allign it with your railing wall Outputs:- -You should get the newels of the rail and ramp alligned auto, after snapping corners with the ramp breaks -you should have your beam at required level or the main beams and intermediate ones as required(if you need top& intermediate beam, use it both at a time) Expected limitation You may not get sharp connection of beams at bents, a little tweak may be needed.I am a bit far from my PC but this method allows us to create extra fancy railings in chief. Thanks

Mick, thanks for your help. And Glenn I doubt, what you said has too much steps and following your method say you set it once and again you needed to change the height, you are about to repeat a cycle of redefining, drag and drop process in section, while you can just control accurately by simple dvx. Any way it depends on what method some one likes to use and not some body else's choise.Thanks Glenn.

Glenn what I mean is, I seen your video you have done a very nice tip that show a horizontal structural member in floor, and you have made it easy to control the spacing of a kind of footings using the rail as your basic tool to manipulate it and just one of the problems arises were the floor level limiting that elements not to pass through the foundation floor, if I am not mistaken some sort of railing z axis is not controllable. So Glenn If I didn't miss some thing on your proposed concept. My comment is, just draw a straight ramp some were out of your workspace, open the ramp dbx and make it no railing left and right, again adjust the ramp top and bottom heights to be the same value and in your case the level you want the footings to be(probably you needed it to go some depth bellow level that stops it). Take this ramp strips and align it with your beams and make the rail representing your structural member to follow that ramp and then adjust the top level. It is just a thought may be I am missing some thing but sure this concept solves some of the number of issues raised here. Thanks glenn

Thanks for the tip Glenn, very nice one. But I would add a concept that I already said in many topics, use Broken ramps as an independent railing height virtual control platform and enjoy the z freedom irrigardless of floor levels, in this case the ramp it self can be used or if it doesn't solve make rails to follow. Horizontal ramps broken as a polylines can be put to run along with wall perimeter and adjust z. It solves the other questions related to fencings you don't want them to follow terrains and you don't want them to be limited by platforms or any custom patterns like stepped fences that we actually build to compensate for the falling grades, so that building stepped fence in intervals.

You must export it in to thier version or earlier and send it without opening in your PC.

Or create cad polyline( probably rectangle) on the area you want to cut, select the roof and click on the command "substract p lines" from the bottom menu that appears after selection, then click on the rectangular p line. You will find that portion of roof cut, just an other way to go with it.

Yes, I agree he has that quality and more. Perry, you have that ability also, I bet that is why you are chosen as the master panelist by chief incorporation!

Mick, thanks.I was attempting Yusuf's approach, but missed the Ray Count. I don't even know what Ray Count is for. Me too, I was not aware of this ray count, it is just a timing issue, you have got it the DH idea and probably would have seen it also. It was the only trial you would try next. it has been I while I realized that, looking at every thing in a chief dbx is important and may lead to a BIG help for all of us. Chief is unpredictable amazing software