Steve_Nyhof

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.

I have been setting up all my defaults and preferences, and also working with walls and setting up my User defaults, etc. Today I wanted to begin to learn about roofs. However, watching the video(s) where I am shown where I can change roof options, like Full Gable, nothing happens. Is there another settings that I somehow turned off? ~Thank you

Love it!! I need to learn about the layers in Chief which I know from what I seen so far is vary versatile. Thank you!

Perfect! was just thinking about that. And I would want to turn them off for printing only

I'm getting this figured out... On the main floor I am cutting the Foyer with a Divider Wall Then change the floor to Foyer and its height to -4'6 Then I added a second Divider Wall where the stairs are placed and made that Open Below So I have a Foyer, an Open space and then my main floor 0 height Go to level 0 - Put my stairs in from the basement to the Foyer Go to level 1 - Put my stairs in from the foyer to the main floor Add my halfwalls - no funny results this time with the walls. Now I am confident that this can be done and quickly

So here is what I found... (It's working! Its's working!!!) I made the main floor and made 2 rooms - one for house and one for the garage I found that when I made the garage room specs with the wall height as I wanted it to end up (9'), I failed to bring it down later after moving the floor down. So I undo, and this time made the ceiling of the garage where I wanted it to end up based on the 0 point of the main house floor - and only made that change and OK. Then I created the foundation. Broke the walls between the house and garage, and set the Wall Type heights for the floor and wall top. Then opened up the garage room and made my height adjustments. My typical plans do not show a stud wall on the foundation document, but I think this is fine, unless there is a way to hide the garage stud walls only. Bilevel test.plan Bilevel garage to house.pdf

I would like to see the section lines on my section. The layers for Section show on. But I have been using my ADT to figure out the heights

I have tried this in elevation view, and the snaps do not work, or work often. And I am always left with 2 lines where it was that I cannot get rid of. I feel I am making some progress and will upload what I have at some point - Thank you!

I have already messed a lot with daylight and walkout foundations with Pony walls and am very pleased with my results. I found a specific order, but I do not get the vertical footing but exactly what I was hoping in a stepped footing. I think I have since deleted these test plans, but as I move forward I will upload my results.

This is very good to know. I will also give this a try. All of this is helpful in learning how Chief likes to play

I will look into this - I do have a section open all the time so I can see my results.

Not a problem at all! If anything, I am enjoying and gleaning from the info you guys are sharing

I completely understand this and working within this. When I drag the heights I know I am working against the system per say with a more traditional CAD approach. I am not even fighting Chief's design but trying my best to understand and find use and of it's relationships. I am drawing my plan over and over, working through what chief might like me to draw first so that other things fit instead of fight. I currently have a 2-5/8" discrepancy in my garage wall height that I cannot get rid of. This 2-5/8" is often related to the difference between 11-7/8 and 9-1/4" floor joist - defaults I am finding. So deleted everything and starting again by making sure to change my Floor/Ceiling defaults first to 10" floor. Working on the plan again now. I realize that traditional CAD allows me to do as a please, but it does not then have any real relationship to the model like Chief does. I am building a model whereas traditional CAD has you design lines and blocks and objects, etc. in space.