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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?

51 minutes ago, solver said:

Read about Edit Area.

Try F1 for help on this

there is several selection on what the area is.

2 hours ago, mariodajti said:

Home Designer Pro 2021. 

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.

26 minutes ago, robdyck said:

 

You can do that, you just gotta think out of the box.

Use more than one elevation type sent to layout. Copy you layer set for the elevation view and turn off the railing. Crop the layout boxes as desired and add CAD break lines in layout. Drawing Order tools to place the cropped view on top.

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.

1 hour ago, Treehouse2339 said:

I am having an issue with my layout page table.  Maybe a macro issue.  The sheet title and page number will not populate to the layout page table.  In my project browser the page number and title will not show either.

Could be that on the page information tab the include in schedule is not selected?

1 hour ago, solver said:

It might help someone to have a simple plan and layout showing the problem.

If that is not the issue this is your best bet to get help.

24 minutes ago, MichaelJerome said:

Thanks Ryan - Nice and easy - How does that get unchecked without me physically doing that? 

It has to have been manually adjusted (dragged in a 3d or elevation view.

23 minutes ago, solver said:

Try to not manually adjust wall top and bottom heights.

 

When you do so, the program turns ownership over to you and will not change them to as changes to structure happen.

 

In general, try to keep everything using defaults. Like the floor structure settings from yesterday.

 

 

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?

1 hour ago, Chopsaw said:

 

Yes that is the idea as I understand it, vector PDF will define a line by it's beginning and end points while a "raster" PDF defines a line by a series of pixels which can degrade the quality significantly especially on angled lines.

 

   vector

 

  raster

 

 

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.

9 minutes ago, jgauntz said:

I am new the Chief Architect and learning my mapping my house.  I am having a minor issue.  As the title states, I have a stair rake wall from a landing to the second floor that intersects with the railing from the loft on the second floor.  I cannot for the life of me get the stair rake rail from the landing to align with the railing from the loft (see attached picture).  I know this is minor but I am somewhat of a perfectionist and hoping there is a trick that can be used.  Hoping someone can help.  Have attached image and my plan.

3679RivervailDrive_New_FirstFloorplan.plan

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.

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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. 

33 minutes ago, BILL88 said:

Another is I have accumulated hundreds of notes that I cut and paste into the cad details.

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! 

3 minutes ago, solver said:

What you see above is 2 room divider walls forming an Open Below room.

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.

23 minutes ago, solver said:

 

Auto roof built that roof.

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

1 hour ago, solver said:

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.

1 hour ago, DzinEye said:

What I'm suggesting does just that.  If I understand correctly, Ryan said he used a patio room with railing for the angled walls to define that roof shape.

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?

1 hour ago, DzinEye said:

Am I misunderstanding?

1 minute ago, Renerabbitt said:

He's referring to a hay hood, ducks beak, bonnet, widows peak, crows beak I believe.

No way to do this in CA, extend it manually and turn auto back on with retain manually edited roofs

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?

5 hours ago, dshall said:

I remember back in 1981-1983 recession,  I told a guy I would work for free,  it got me in the door,  did some work for pay and somehow I managed to get through that recession.  And then there was the 89-95 recession,  no work except for helping my client frame a remodel I drew for him.  I did learn how to play bridge since there was no work.   And then the 2008-2013 recession,  that was not too bad.   Which leads us to the possible 2020 recession.  I say it will be over soon.

 

That guy in the big house will turn this around and get us to our retirement years........  and then we will jump in a plane and visit the Great Glenn Woodward in Australia.  Or maybe take a cruise up to Alaska and visit The Alaskan Son.  But if the guy in the big house does not turn this around,  I will jump in the car and visit Perry in Corona California,  a mere 90 minute drive.

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...

25 minutes ago, ACADuser said:

Not sure where I got this one.

 

R Tub.calibz

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