Steve_Nyhof

I have a pony wall type with a 12" dropped brick ledge. This is used often in our foundation design to line up the main floor walls. After setting up the main floor and generating the foundation, I used my brick ledge wall type to replace the area in the circle - which works great on the level 0 floor, but does not show up on the elevation - like I didn't even add it. Would anyone like to look and see if you can figure this out? I had it working several days ago when I made it. Here is a previous post Thank you SND_D_Residential Template.plan

Very good - I may try the transparent tip - but I am liking what it looks like. And I use End to End to add the header dims, and the 8'0 foundation height. As long as I find solid ways to do things I want to keep learning and move forward. If I am happy (enough) to where I know I can draw a nice looking and easy reading plan, I will begin sooner. As I move forward I will continue to learn more of these little tricks and tips, thanks to many of you guys who are very helpful in this new adventure. Today I just draw several two story homes and ranch homes, over and over - fine tune some defaults - erase all the floor, update my template, start again, learned a lot about rooms today and then got side tracked into these sections lines. All that to say, I can see that on more straight forward homes, a lot can be done in an hour! Roofs were another thing I messed with but lost interest with so much to them, but learned a lot about joining - will keep going on this tomorrow. When I was drawing on the board and learning about ACAD, every job that came in made me antsy to try the CAD. I think it was over a year before I forced myself to just jump! I remember it well, back when things were 2D yet, but I was drawing the railing on a large front porch, copy, paste, click, click (I still did not learn the array). Then my 2 year old son was playing under my desk and pulled the plug out of the wall. I learned real quick that saving your plan constantly was also very important! Well, that is the way I feel now. I thought I had a pretty amazing set up with ADT and the years of work I put into that, and now working with Chief, I am feeling that same antsy push to jump! Soon Steve, soon! Anyway, thank you and all you guys for all your help!

Very good! Thank you

The header solution is perfect! For the smaller dims, I know I can drag them, and I will - But, while dragging them works - just wondering if there is a setting for the dims that do not fit between their extension lines - like so they are not overlapping the other dims. Thank you again - Enjoy your weekend!

Thank you Michael!

Here it is - Thank you SND_D_Residential Template.plan

First question, see image, is there a way to add header dims as shown? Not cut into the wall height. The dims that do not fit between their extension lines, is there an offset somewhere so they do not cut into the other dims? (see 1-1/2" and 10")

That is good to know! That makes more sense to me

Its things like knowing others like yourself can take this and modify it and end up looking amazing that keeps me excited about Chief when I get frustrated. But I am only like 3 weeks in, so feel like I have come a long way. Thank you

That was simple! I love when defaults work. I think in the video tutorial, she set the wall height to 12" to start the roof from. I got the strange results, but changing the walls AFTER the roof was on back to the defaults seemed to do the trick. I will also remember what "Renerabbitt" showed in the video. Thank you guys!

Will do

thank you for this!! Seems so simple -perhaps the training video was trying to show options - maybe to get the roof to start from a lower starting point so it was not placed on the second floor top plate.

I'll come back to this tutorial. I have messed with a lot of roof examples now from multiple videos and doing quite well - just got stuck here

I'm trying to figure out where this is located

Yes, I must be misunderstanding

That was too simple!!

I used this, but get 0 results for that I was looking for. So when I enter Thank You (no quotes) plenty come up - everyone seems to be thankful! When I entered ~Thank you into one of my posts to test, I tested by entering ~Thank into the search and 0 comes up. I did see my activity but did not know there was a button - maybe that shows them all Checking it out now Thank you all!!

We typically set attic trusses on top of the main floor top plate. We do not balloon frame around here.

Thank you! I will look into that

I see in my profile the latest posts - so that is handy if you need to go back a bit. But how do I locate ALL my posts, or in some way find older posts not in the profile? I tried to include a marker - like "~Thank you" in the body - OR - (sn) in the Title - but these do not show up when I search. Thoughts? Thank you

I got this funny result once before - the knee wall issue from above (showing on the elevation) seems to be gone! .plan included Thank you! cape code test.plan

ok- I'm starting over just to see if I missed something. If it fails again I will post the .plan - thank you

I am working though the video on building a cape code roof - doing it step by step. However, I get the knee wall showing through on the elevation. I deleted the wall and mirrored the other knee wall, but that did the same thing. is there a setting I can click to prevent this? can things like this (unwanted lines, etc.) be removed from the elevations? Thank you

I'm excited to learn it! I feel more confident with walls and foundations now that I have messed with them in challenging situations, lowered, daylight and walkout, and roofs are the next challenge as everyone knows there is a lot you can do with roofs in the real world. I know I should spend more time learning the basics - and I am working through the tutorial, but I need to know that the Chief and I will become good friends. Even the best of friends can give you a hard time now and then Thank you for your support here in the forums!

That was it! Thank you Sir! Even though I read about this stuff, some times my mind does not connect the dots - quite literally! - So now I understand that that dialog is for roof defaults, not only to build the roof initially.