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Thanks for this post, I learned a little tidbit I had not come across yet, it is good info to know about the different materials and makes sense why chief models it that way. Just curious as to why you are using polyline solids to frame that instead of actual framing materials?

Try F1 for help on this there is several selection on what the area is.

Although there are some similarities between the two versions with this particular part of the software they are done differently. It is highly recommended to look for your answer in the home talk forum so you are not spending your time with answers that don’t work for home designer pro.

Slight tweak is to use a saved plan view with the railing turned off after taking a cad detail from view, copy and paste the adjusted section of railing you want in place on the view with no railing.

I do lots of them and everybody has a different style. mostly if I have a double stack closest to the house is bottom and upper is farther away. If three or more the lowest goes on the inside of the wall and the uppers are stacked on the outside.

Could be that on the page information tab the include in schedule is not selected? If that is not the issue this is your best bet to get help.

It has to have been manually adjusted (dragged in a 3d or elevation view. As Erick wrote let chief work for you. 99.9% of the time the walls do not need to be adjusted manually.

Try clicking on and opening the wall and go to structure tab and make sure default wall top and default wall bottom are clicked. Looks like it was manually adjusted in an elevation mode.

Is it by chance your window was manually moved over and is barely sitting on the laptop screen as well as the monitor? Try full screen or fit to size window adjustment???

It almost looks like the Frieze board trim may be causing the issue in the first pic... Is the settings for it normal?

True as well as when using pdf takeoff software such as bluebeam’s REVU it is “clickable” in that it is easily measurable from different points.

Not at computer but try raising your rake wall slightly so the wall caps align.

I saw this on a clients file yesterday where there was some glitch that was not allowing it to show properly either even with setting elevations level correctly. He had started the drawing way away from x/y so I te entered the house model and I suspect that has something to do with the glitch. Didn’t have time to Reconstruct the whole terrain but a quick fix was making the center section a garden bed feature changed the elevation by half an inch and made it grass. It worked in that situation. As @Chopsaw mentions usually it is not an issue but something in this clients template I believe had it messed up. (There was something like 35 errant dormers between the four levels on the project so not sure what he did with the terrain.

Jared is highly recommended!

By chance did you adjust the shape of those manually drawn attic walls in an elevation view? If you manually edited them you may have pulled them up above the lowest layer of the roof system cutting it off? Hard to tell exactly what the problem is without seeing your plan.

You can save these in a couple of ways so that they are not filing up your template plan file and bogging it down. Method 1: Block them and save them individually in your user library and place appropriate notes in each plan. Method 2: Save a Misc. notes template plan with them in Cad Details (not the same as your regular plan file) and then reference them to your final layout file. These two methods help you keep your file size small in your plan. BTW nice easy to read plans.

I did get it to behave finally. It was cutting off my exterior walls before but I think the key was the no floor part. I had already removed the ceiling. It still showed a couple more glitches with some molding lines and corbels I had on mine but even though I didn't have a flat ceiling selected it was causing a weird gap so when I deleted the flat ceiling definition it took care of it. Figured there must be a way to make it work correctly. Thanks for the mental exercise everyone!

So did you do them as an attic wall? or just on the 2nd level? Maybe that was my issue as I think I tried it on the first level.

Care to explain? Did you do the roof baseline first?

Are you able to keep the auto roof feature on somehow? I know how to make the roof but am trying to get it to automatically create after manually adjusting that roof baseline.

I tried but was unable to get them to work correctly as it would mess with the exterior wall corners on the house. But I see what Mark is talking about and that is what I was looking for if it is automatic roofs. I know how to do it manually. Just trying to get it to do it automatically. when I try that option it does not work the same for me unless I manually adjusted the roof baseline, and still you have to manually rebuild the roofs every time to get it to be automatic as the automatic feature doesn't seem to work even though it is still checked. You have to force build the roof planes again. Which is where I was at. Am I missing something?

That was my thought as well. Just thought someone smarter than me may have an auto way of doing it. That is what I did for now. Just curious if it was possible.

I know how to accomplish this by manually changing the roof plane and setting it to size. But this is the only thing that I can't get this roof line to do automatically. Anyone know how to set this so that it would auto build to be A V shaped overhang instead of straight? Tried doing a patio room with railings and room dividers with no floor/foundation out there at an angle but as its only 30" additional overhang in the center the patio walls screwed things up. Any ideas?

Hope the economy goes up then on your return cruise from alaska you can swing by down here in Panama after you go through the panama canal...

Nice tub. Although it comes in REALLY LARGE in size: