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I think you are right about it choosing due to it being set for wall. It seems like it moves everything to one side of the wall, almost like it's defaulting to a side after being flipped and everything just gets stacked there. It's not a huge time sink changing them manually and it it's a good time to double check any changes as well. Thanks for your help. I love your videos on YouTube and have learned quite a bit from them. Thanks again, Ben

I work for a production builder and do a lot of flipping existing plans to garage left or garage right. I do this by Edit -> Edit Area ->Edit Area (All Floors) ->Transform/Replicate ->Reflect Horizontally (Change Left <-->Right) . It seems that lately some of my electrical items swap which side of the wall they are placed on and often end up stacked on top of one another (mainly switches, TV outlets, Wall mounted lights). I have looked for a setting to change because it seems like maybe they are set to snap to a default wall side, but I do not see anything like that. Has anyone run into this or have an idea how I can keep this from happening? I have attached the plan file as it stands right after using the reflect command in case it helps. Thank you, Ben Bozeman Plan.zip

I would like to thank everyone for your help and suggestions and update on the final solution. I was finally able to track down the person who did the original plans and, as a few of you have pointed out, it is impossible because he intended the angled part to be stick framed in the field to basically join 2 gable truss ends together. A fine gentleman named Stephen at Chief introduced me to the rotate roof plane around 'z' ability and we were able to come up with a good workable solution. Thank you again for everyones assistance. When I was able to get in touch with the original creator of the plans he was able to provide a link so we could view more than just the front elevations and I have included it for those that were interested if there were other views. https://softplan.com/web3d/display_model.php?id=4051&c=940e8ff49ec3738990b1012af6938984

Hello Mark, unfortunately those are the only 3 PDF's provided. I have sent a request to see if any other information is available but nothing yet.

Thank you Eric. I think the PDF you are asking for is the LEAH LANE ROOF PLAN attachment. That shows the roof I am trying to recreate.

I have been tasked with recreating a townhome plan and I have run into an issue with the rear gabled roof plane. Where the planes taper down into the main roof I am having a problem manually breaking the plane and having it change angle and direction (where the off angle bend occurs). It's almost like I need an extra wall section to create a seperate roof plane and am at a loss as to how to proceed. Has anyone had experience working with a roof such as this and has time to lend some knowledge? Thank you in advance for your time. I attempted to back up the entire plan with attachments and it was 17MB so I can only attach the plan by itself as well as the few PDF's I have from the original plans showing the roof planes and front elevation. Thank you, Ben LEAH LANE FINAL ROOF PLAN 6.17.22.pdf Townhome.zip LEAH LANE FINAL FLOOR PLAN 6.17.22.pdf LEAH LANE FINAL ELEVATION 6.17.22.pdf

My company is moving to rely on BuilderTrend heavily and they are wanting to be able to import material lists from Chief. Does anyone have experience with this and if so, can you point me in a good direction to find a knowledge base on doing this myself? I have searched Chief videos on Producing Material Lists, but they leave so many unanswered questions. Thank you,

I started by trying to put the dormer there and adjusting the roof around it and found that the brick was automatically filling into the roof plane and it was blocking the front of the dormer so I then deleted the dormer front wall and adjusted the height of the shed roof until I got it where I needed it allowing the brick to fill in space. I'm not sure if I explained that clearly, I hope so.

I would just like to heartily thank all of you for the guidance and for helping me figure this out. I really appreciate it and I think it turned out pretty nice.

Thank you for the suggestions. I will give this a try and see how it goes. I have auto-built the roof and I was manually trying to add the floating dormer to it. My problem was the area I was trying to fit the dormer was too small to fit the dormer I was attempting to place there. I will try placing it on a larger plane and shrinking it down as you suggested. Thank you.

I'm not sure what this type of roof is called, but I have a client who saw this entry and wants their porch entry to look similar. It looks like it would be a floating dormer because they want a false window and this is only a single story home they are building, not the 2 stories seen in this picture. I can not get the dormer to work due to not having enough roof real estate to place it and I am not sure if a dormer is even the correct way to tell Chief what I want. I am totally flustered on this one and would appreciate any ideas on how I would go about doing something like this where a window cuts a roof plane. Thank you in advance for any ideas.

Steve, Eric and Dzin, I can't thank you all enough for all of your help on this. My situation is I just started learning Chief a few months ago when I started working here and I inherited all of these production plans that were supposedly perfect and so far they have been anything but. I guess the last person who worked with these didn't care to learn Chief, hence why I am here LOL, and I have no idea what all they did. Every plan is a new adventure. As you saw by the countertop trim outside LOL. Thank you all so much for the help and all the tips I am picking up along the way. Your time is greatly appreciated Ben

Wow, thank you so much, Eric. I appreciate your taking the time in demonstrating how to create that Gable Dormer. Very clear and straight forward and I even learned a few commands I did not know about. Thank you again, Ben

Fantastic. Thank you so much for your assistance and the links Dzin. I will definitely check those areas and see if I can get them straightened out first.

Dzin, thank you for the attachment. What you provided is what I am trying to figure out how to make. Did you create that using the dormer tool and if so what options did you change to have only the front plane visible? or how did you go about making that ?

That roof is the original roof from the plan I am working on. I did not adjust anything because I wanted to provide the untouched version and the part that I am trying to recreate should look exactly as the gable/dormer with the single window in looks in your render. I have attached the job file with the roof redone, but I do not know how to go about creating that dormer/gable which I need to center over the front door. Sanibel_Hips.zip

I am currently working on the attached plan and, as you will see, it has an almost Dutch Gable but it's more of an A-frame cut into a hip. I had to widen the plan and make other changes for the customer and I am now having trouble recreating that A-frame roof section centered over the double entry door. I can use auto-roof and everything comes out ok for the rest of the home, but I have no idea how to get the A-framed section drawn once that is finished. Any idea on what I am missing? Thank you for any assistance. Sanibel_Roof.zip

Thank you all so much for your assistance.

Thank you for the tutorial Solver. Looks like I got the signature part figured out. So for the glass pocket, I can just start with a normal pocket, change the door style to the glass panel, then (I totally missed this section) Options Tab and under Door Panels choose custom to denote the number of panels? Is that correct? Are there any other settings I need to adjust? Will Chief determine the thickness of the installation wall? Thank you again for all the assistance. This is my 3rd month of using Chief and I am finding it has a lot of great features, I just have to learn to speak its language lol.

I am in need of an exterior glass pocket door, between 10-12 feet wide probably 4 panels. I can not find anything on how to create one and I am having no luck finding a catalog download either. Does anyone have an available link or idea for my best course to finding/creating one? Thank you, Ben

OMG, thank you so much. I feel ridiculous not even paying attention to the color difference from the other plans I have been working in. I appreciate your help.

I am trying to find out how to fix the walls in this plan. This was probably created in an older version of Chief, but I am using the current X11. The lines are so heavy that I can not differentiate between the drywall and the stud. This particular plan is the only one that I have come across that has this issue and I am trying to see what I can do to remedy it. It doesn't seem to matter if I change the thickness under the wall definition or not. I am thinking whoever worked here before did something to it and I have no idea how to undo it. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Ben Zent Thick Walls.zip