rgardner

I am sorry but I have read this 4 times now and still am unsure of what you are looking for. I might be dense but possibly it's not obvious to others as well?

Is there a reason not to use glass walls and shower enclosures that are native in chief? You can also use Kohler and other manufacturers catalogs and build your own glass doors as you want them.

Mac you can do this within preview. I am sure there is something similar for PC. I know that you can also do it with Bluebeam Revu which is available in PC obviously.

Try changing your room height to 1.5” high (sill plate) and set non flat ceiling.

This is not a parquet look. Parquet is a pattern of 6 pieces of 1x6 or 8 pieces of 1x8 small wood pieces together in square blocks quarter turned each time. What you are looking for is a large width plank pattern which is available in chiefs bonus catalogs under patterns.

Ben from Canvas will be along shortly to say it is perfect and challenge the ones that do not agree... I am sure others may disagree, but with my previous personal experience (caveat I have not tried again in the last 6-9 months) the scan to cad was not good, and if you look on the specifications the percentage of variation allowed is too much for most remodel jobs. Honestly I have not found any that are perfect but if you have the budget to allow for an eagle eye scan, a matterport Scan of interior, and a Hover.to scan of the exterior you have lots of references you can pull from and be pretty close. That coupled with some key physical measurement checks and it will handle most cases.

Walls set to cut by roof and a ceiling plane placed under the stairs.

Just an fyi if this is the case and you are thinking it is a huge deal to manually edit the planking. Here is a trick, use cad lines and the extend to and cut tools to quickly extend all of the planks at once. With such a small change you may need to use two lines one quite a bit longer than you need to extend to, then another at the point you want to cut to in the right place.

Pull that section tight to the wall. You have a gap there.

Sounds like possibly you are using Home Designer Pro and not Chief Architect Premiere?

You might check out LP Smartside (their premium pre-finished product). They have a stigma due to failures years ago but from what I have seen they have fixed the issues. https://lpcorp.com/products/exterior/siding-trim

What are you seeing? Are all of your rooms properly defined as in closed with room defining walls instead of attic walls? Do you have a room on an attic level? Is the roof not showing up anywhere? Some screenshots with a snipping tool and a plan file would help get you some results I am sure.

What is the difference you are seeing? It's not obvious at least to me from your photo or description what is different.

It is not usually a defective 3d model (sometimes it is) but rather workflow difference. Some appliances are made to place into a cabinet and if you try to place it outside of the cabinet and move it into place the x,y coordinates are set to offset into the cabinet so that is typically the difference.

As Eric mentions there is lots of results for this same item. I happened to have a second so look at this:

Pretty sure that is the issue to some degree or another because you can see you moved them as the other two do not align. Make sure you hit the default wrench to reset them. but if that doesn’t fix it upload the plan.

Reset the window label to default or same as others. You will get this behavior sometimes if you change where the label shows in 2d by manually moving the label.

Can you figure out how to make the top into a diamond shape? If so look slightly lower in the box to a little button that says reflect vertically (or something like that, not at my comp.)

So a portion of that second story would have no ceiling but effectively be at about 4’ tall??? So a room that has no flat ceiling and a 48” wall height…. just gotta figure out where the wall would be where it would be a 48” plate height on both sides. Should be able to autoroof it.

Look at the shape panel (arch) of the window dbx.

Sorry I usually do those plans in a stripped down template but had a slip in memory and did it in my regular template. Time is valuable right now. the method you described at the end (above) is basically it and can be done very quickly with the right tools.

Place your mouse cursor over the edge of the window where it touches your drawing window panel.

Sorry I don't have time to strip down my template plan and send it right now. But if you follow what I wrote in my description with this picture you will be able to recreate it. Dont think about it as not being a two story building, in chief it is. Make the second story room open to below and you will see right through to the bottom room and set it to 36" or so with the 5/8" single layer wall type you will create out of a tongue and groove material.

In chief architect this is accomplished by placing a short second story with the room specified as open below.

1 layer wall (5/8" T&G),3 1/2" posts placed manually, and 1 molding polyline with three moldings. I lowered the terrain 6" here so you could see the bottom "sill" made with a molding polyline.