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yes I did

Ok I fixed it but just dragging the drywall up or down to close in the sides which worked.(still don't know where my framing is) but in this next pic it shows the white ceiling wrapping up the floor. This I can't get rid of. Totally confused as to why this happens to me.

Hello, I consistently run into this issue. Notice my second floor is open to the stairwell. I used the open floor platform From second-floor working plan view....I also put an invisible wall at top of steps first so I can delete base molding before opening the floor or installing stairs. This always happens to me. Went back and repeated this process from first floor by using open ceiling platform... The same thing happens. Then I went and check to make sure all floor framing is on. It still shows zero framing! As a matter of fact, I turned all framing on and I have no framing showing up from ground-up which is weird. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I can delete the steps and it has no effect on this so I know the steps are irrelevant. Help please

Ah! Thanks

ok I see it. I was able to use the tool and select all floors and window around what needs to move but I froze because...how do I tell chief to move 5ft in a specified direction?

Hello, Is there a way to stretch a plan. I have a two-level house and I need to stretch both floors 5ft in one direction. Not sure how to approach this task. would like to do both floors at the same time so I don't have to go back and fix things. I'm used to windowing around objects in AutoCad and just stretching it. I can't find anything like this in Chief which is supprising. Any advice would be great on how this is done. I have attached the plan so you can see what I'm dealing with. In the plan on the main level floor plan view, you will see a line I drew through the house from front to back. (its in the living area by the garage. I need the house stretched 5ft making the living and loft above wider towards the garage. Garage and everything above the garage can't change just moved over along with the stretching. How do I do this? stretched plan.plan stretched plan.plan

nvm I found it

Hello, Is there a way to adjust the drawing sheet background color in plan view while I'm working? I noticed a drawing sheet icon off to the side and clicked it and the color went from white to grey but I want to adjust it to black and set the dims and text colors to a different color as well. Got a headache and this bright white screen is killing my brain...

"You can build these automatically.Designate the 2 end walls as Gable. DoneOn the wall's Roof tab, tick "Upper Pitch".DoneFill in the "Starts at Height" (or "In From Baseline") and Pitch. To what? they are already filled in and it does not matter what I enter I get no roof changeAuto build roof. This option is not available while in this roof tab window. I see auto-build return but that is not what I need. Tried it already

Not sure what I'm doing here. There is no auto build roof option while I am in the wall roof tab checking the "upper pitch" and adjusting anything in said roof tab box. I tried to set it up the way I assumed it is supposed to then exit this tab and auto build roofs but that changed every roof on the house so that was not right. When I edit a wall and click roof tab I see upper pitch and lower pitch?, I also see the "starts at height" and "from the baseline" settings but I have entered many different figures in all of these boxes and nothing changes. I am sorry but I do not understand what I am doing here, unfortunately.

Hello, I am having difficulties creating this roof. I read a post addressing this issue and according to the responses its "easy as pie"....Not for me! As you can see I can get it to this point building it myself. I read a post that says it can automatically build, quote below. My "upper Pitch box is checked so I'm not sure what these instructions are telling me.2581 H-F.plan "You can build these automatically.Designate the 2 end walls as Gable.On the wall's Roof tab, tick "Upper Pitch".Fill in the "Starts at Height" (or "In From Baseline") and Pitch.Auto build roof. 2581 H-F.plan

Thanks, I was able to fix this by pulling the gable roof forward about 1". It seemed to work. Not sure what you mean by "Baseline" and "main layer" in your instructions. I will study what this means....

Hello, I need advice or help with this plan attached. Probably a very quick fix but I keep getting weird results. I will need to do this periodically so if you are able to fix this and explain to me step by step how you did it that would be awesome. The problem I keep running into is the gable I am trying to create here(which should be easy as pie because I have done way more complicated roofs than this) well every time I try to do this exact thing with two different roof pitches coming together at a corner @facia/gutter, it will never make the boxed eave correctly on both sides. I have the boxed eave box selected(may have turned it back off in this plan.) but it will not work. Any help would be very appreciated and MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL! Thanks 2581 H-D.plan

Nice Thanks, you sir!

In AutoCAD, I can grab an object or objects, pull my cursor with the object in tow, and type in a specific measurement (1in., 2ft. etc.) hit enter and the object snaps into the position in the direction I want. I understand the point to point command chief has, but that is not what I need because that doesn't allow me to move the object the way I just explained. To be specific: I am trying to move a complete second floor 1/2" to line up with the first floor(it is off) I do not want to move wall by wall into position. Also on a side note: Is there an offset command in chief? Any help would be great! Thanks...

yes, I use corner boards but they work the corners only. They don't take a 90degree turn and then turn back again to return to the gable frieze board. I was able to copy the corner board and move that one over and adjust the size by stretching it up. That worked. I just figured this would be something that would auto-generate.

How do I get my frieze board to auto-generate all the way around the bird boxes? (connecting the eave frieze to the gable frieze). It seems to always just stop which is not how it should look. Do I need to turn something on? I have looked everywhere.

Well as I was waiting I did figure something out. I never "built a foundation" I just labeled rooms as Monolithic slab foundation. So I "built the foundation as monolithic slab and bam! There it was already dropping the garage floor 3.5". But not on the plan I sent, I will have a slab covered front porch dropped as well(same as garage) Do I need to start over as solver suggested? I can open Rm Spec for the porch and it shows stem wall at 4", Floor to SWT 0", SWT to ceiling at 109 1/8" What is SWT?

I am working with a plan that will have a monolithic slab foundation. The garage floor will be all poured at the same time but dropped 3 1/2" below the main slab. How do I do this? Here is what I did. Drew the main floor plan(including the garage) build terrain perimeter, went room by room and in Rm Specification/Structure and checked the monolithic slab foundation box. In the garage, I did the same but the stem wall box is not on and will not let me adjust it. Am I approaching this wrong? I just got started so there is not much going on with this yet. Attach is the file. 2282.plan

Thank you!!!! That was it! Not sure how that gets turned off

Does anybody ever experience this? This is a physically-based render. For the life of me, I can't get it to reflect like a mirror. I had this problem once before and eventually, It just started to work in a Physically-based mode. I can't remember what I did to fix it.

ok I will study that and work on this

ok

House1726 plan.plan Attached is the plan file House1726 plan.plan

Ok