stevenyhof

3 minutes ago, rgardner said:

Your roof heights are adjusted manually so it is conflicting.  Didn't have much time to play with it but setting auto roof back on fixed it instantly but then you have an issue with your roof over your garage intruding into the upper windows.  I believe the issue is you are lowering that attic roof over the garage so it doesn't hit the windows which we know can be done in real life but chief works as boxes so it is saying these boxes are this high and that is why the roof goes there.  I believe you will need to change your floor system for that part of the second floor and then lower your ceiling height on the garage so the trusses go over the top of the plate.

Ah! Very good. Thank you so much! I will keep an eye on this. I have been used to moving things regardless of these spaces - and I do keep running into things like this.

I did find that these two walls have the siding going up past the top plate

Here is the plan...

MPI1840 Mitchell Residence - Balsam Waters Lot 38.plan

Hello,

I am trying to get my frieze boards to show up on two roofs. This is one of my more simple rooflines I have drawn, but even putting a new roof on is not working. Maybe a conflict with the wall, but I even drew over the wall with the end wall that has a frieze board. Thoughts? And as always, I very much appreciate all the help everyone has offered!!
Plan link in next post...

Thank you,

Steve

6 minutes ago, solver said:

 

Yes, that is what I am finding. So it is from a corner/end that something changes.

12 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Something is getting lost in translation. To do as previously mentioned using what Rob and Eric advised, you would need to set your General Wall Defaults to Resize About Main Layer Inside and then you would need to select your foundation walls and open them up. In the wall dbx Wall Types\ replace the foundation wall with the wall type from your library. This will replace your wall with the proposed wall and aligh at the inside main layer

To change to a pony wall means I would need to select both walls in the dbx, adding a pony wall. Then I would need to set up my heights. I have my setting as Main layer and as it shows in the video, it works differently depending on if you start from the middle or end - which I think it messed up. So I will chalk this up as - it is what it is. It really is not a big deal - was just bringing it up as what I see is some program issue. I'm just saying that I will spend more time messing with these settings that are defaulted for most of what I draw and so this is really a small thing. Thank you.

26 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Look at the arrows, he is illustrating the various resize about settings. If you were to select Main Layer Inside and then select your two walls and change to your proposed wall it would do what you want it to.

Here is what I find. If I place my pony wall in the center of the existing stem wall, it works as expected. Both main layers of the stem wall and the pony wall line up perfectly. If I start my pony wall on an end of the stem wall, it starts in a different place...

3 hours ago, solver said:

Experiment with these settings. May also depend on the Pony Wall?

 

That is my settings

1 hour ago, Renerabbitt said:

This won't help with continuous draw^
@solver and @stevenyhof Continuous draw pivots on the center of the main wall layer.

@robdyck^ This would only work with @solver method

 

Bigger question for me is why are you drawing over foundation walls? If you are drawing a wall that will be aligned with a wall above, why not copy the wall above and paste-hold-position below? Or simple use the Align With Above Tool. If you use both solver and robs suggestion together it will work as you intend it to, but not with continuous draw mode.

I will try the align option - that may work fast. I generate me foundation wall from my main floor. For daylight and walkout, I draw over the wall with a pony wall all set up with the conc. and siding walls with my daylight height set perfectly. This works very nice. Typically I only have one or two walls like this so it is fast. This home just happened to have a number of walls and I noticed it will not remain lined up.

Just wondering if this is normal or how things work in Chief. It would be nice to be able to just trace over my wall with the new wall and it be placed correctly. I guess I could try changing the walltype and see how that goes. No, I am using a pony wall that is all set up with heights. So done when I am done tracing over the original.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I am doing something wrong, but I cannot have these buttons (see image) open at the some time in two separate windows. When I click on a button on one window, the same button turns off on the other window.

Thank you!

I will check fur wall option. Did not think of that

17 hours ago, DzinEye said:

Definitely the material region or one of various ways of making solids seems the way to go (countertops is yet another)... but FYI there is a little trick to keeping walls from connecting in some cases where it's causing problems.. (often encountered where railings meet other wall types) and that is to use a short section of invisible room divider wall perpendicular to the two wall types you're trying to keep separated.

Very cool! I will remember this. Thank you!

1 hour ago, justmejerry said:

Have you tried a material region on that portion of wall?

Learning about the material region - kind of like a solid with layers - very nice!

45 minutes ago, solver said:

Walls like to interact with other walls often in ways we don't want. Sometimes making a wall No Room Definition helps, but unless you need those to be walls with framing or some other reason, I might use solids placed manually as required. 

Very good. So far I got it working by not bumping it. But this is all helpful as I move forward. Thank you

No - I don't know what that is - so I will look into that - Thank you

Maybe I could just use a 3D molding line - add stone for the material

For now I am just holding the column away a little more than an 1". I just want to get this to the client - I can figure out other better ways later.

So I made a wall type that is only a stone wall - inside and out. I have a thin wall on my screen and placed this 4" wall on each side - worked fine. Then I wanted to copy the wall and base to the rear house wall as shown. But when it connects to the siding wall, it changes my stone wall to match the siding.

I guess I can make a stone wall, but I do not want stone over the doors - I want columns. Thoughts?

3 minutes ago, solver said:

Your roof planes have Use Room Ceiling Finish unchecked. Look in the attic with a camera and all your roof planes show a ceiling finish material, and that's showing at the vent. No idea why only this one.

 

Check that setting and see what happens.

 

 

 

Got it - Thought is looked like a ceiling plane

I found it. I had my Structure set to 9.25 for rafters. I had changed that from 3.5 when messing with some rafters that I later decided against.

Didn't work - Ugh! After I sized the vent to match the others, the cut line (whatever) shows up.

I just remade my main floor wall and that worked. Must of been a setting in there. Thank you for all your help guys!

19 minutes ago, stevenyhof said:

Inside wall is cutting differently - I'll figure it out - must be something in structure

The attic rebuild cleaned things up nicely! Thank you Eric. I am still trying to figure this gable out. I even put a new roof on and it still is cutting like I have rafters or something.