stevenyhof

That was too easy! It didn't work right last time, but I pulled the wall back past the roof opening - that was the key

Will do. Thank you

I have watched the video of ChiefSkills by Steve Nestor, "DORMERS - Auto and Manual Types"

Trying to use the idea there to cut my walls out of the living space. I think you called it "Cheek Walls".

See the real picture and the angled ceiling. That is what I am trying to do.

Any thoughts?

SND1823 Klinke Residence.plan

Ah! I found it

Thank you - I did find that description. However, I have numerous exterior wall types. Is there a way to give a description to each of my wall types in my User folders?

When I update the defaults, it keeps my last change only.

On the wall schedule there is a Description on the right - by default.

Where is this value located so I can modify it for each wall type?

Thank you

Just now, Alaskan_Son said:

 

Ah,  I must have missed that requirement.  I personally think that looks kinda funny and run the kick plate from outside to outside but to each his own.  For that, I would likely just turn off exterior casing, use a 3D molding polyline, and then block that to make it easier to position as a single object.  The symbol method works too but is less flexible with regard to changing things later (changing molding profile, adding or removing lintel, etc.).

Yes, that makes perfect sense! Kind of where my mind was going to get away from the break in the casing to extend below the 0 floor - Thank you again!

I have a lot to go on now. I know I can pull off what I want. Thank you for all the ideas!

1 minute ago, Kbird1 said:

I did it above for the whole door but my guess is it would be easy enough to just make plinth blocks and the board between and set it to install below an opening too.

7 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

A lot of ways to do this kind of stuff, but I think for most situations is best to just keep it simple...

 

You are right, multiple ways to pull this off. But what I am really looking for is the casing to extend down. I guess if we wanted some fancy wide casing on some base blocks, we would want it resting on the floor/porch with the kick plate between.

5 minutes ago, rgardner said:

It is a door  that is set to fixed swing out, slab style, same casing as main door color set to casing color and at the end mulled together with the main door.  You would have to change the auto label to the door is the only problem since once it is mulled it shows the combination information.  The reason it needs to be mulled is to get the casing to show all the way down to the deck and to remove the casing that is in between the two doors.  Like I said you would still need to setup the sill itself but maybe someone else has the idea now that we figured out the double door gets it close.

 

Spitballing as I am in the middle of a job maybe making a zero height lintel may help with the non-mulling issue???

Thank you - I will mess with this

1 hour ago, rgardner said:

So I spent like 2 minutes on this and didn't add the metal sill and it has casing below it but for modeling purposes this might work?  I think this was the look you were going for?

 

That is exactly what I am looking for! So are you adding the casing from the door dialog? Is the kick plate - "has casing below" - how did you do that?

10 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

Here's the Plan and symbol etc to Play with..... add them and the textures ( Fascia and Alum. sill ) to your library for re-use....

Thank you! 

3 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

 A Door Symbol with the Trim, won't work as expected but if you make the Trim a Symbol ( Millwork )  and then set No Ext. Casing and No Threshold/Sill in the Exterior Door DBX ( or Defaults) you can add the symbol for the Trim from the Library, center it on the Door and then the Wall ( or adjust as needed) ......it is fairly quick, once you've made the Symbol of course ...... this Door is also set 1" off the Floor as mentioned in my post above.

 

M.

 

 

Thank you! I haven’t gotten into symbols yet, but it won’t take me long. 

16 minutes ago, solver said:

 

Why a molding? Is there a profile? Is it like the casing -- the siding butts into it?

Yes, the siding butts into it. Typically there is a 1x8 trim board (cut to fit) added below the door, the width of the door with the casing running past to the porch floor top. We never run the siding under the door.

Hello,

Is there a setting to add a kick board? This seems like a simple check box option but I cannot find it.

I added a molding which works.

Thoughts?

Thank you,

Steve

That's what I did - worked perfectly - added now to how I build a porch

I did it! 

Thank you!

2 minutes ago, solver said:

 

Best practice is to start a new Topic instead of adding on to an older thread.

 

I'm unsure of your problem, but guessing you don't have a hole in the roof. You need to make your own when you manually build a dormer.

You are right! I continued to watch the video and noticed that his walls disappeared under the roof inside, and then Steve said the walls don't come through until you add a hole. I should of kept watching. I watched once before and was stepping through it. My bad!

Thank you Eric!

I took the wall from the auto dormer and copied it to the new position and it cut it down.

I'll do some more digging

Or, maybe not! Still doing the same thing... hmmm

I found it! Balloon Through Ceiling Above.

I added an Auto Dormer, exploded it and looked at it's specs.

On 6/3/2020 at 11:22 PM, SNestor said:

I’ve done a few videos on dormers - check out my YouTube page. 
 

 

Hi Steve, I was hoping I would find this video in the forum, Really great BTW! I viewed it on your YouTube channel.

When I add my exterior wall (manually creating), my exterior wall gets cut at the roof. It is not extending out of the roof as you show. I am looking into my wall options to see if there is an option to cut it but not finding it. I will keep trying but wanted to get my question out there in case I don't find it. I'm caught up with my work and so busy learning these things.

Thank you

43 minutes ago, SNestor said:

@stevenyhof 

 

you can mess around all day trying to get Chief to build a porch just the way you want it - and never reach utopia.  
 

Ive decided my time is to valuable. So - most of the time I create a basic porch - either lower the floor by an additional 1/8” or just make it a room without a floor.  The I use the room molding polyline and convert it to a countertop-add a beveled edge molding-make the top 8” thick and change the material to concrete.  I set  the top elevation using the absolute elevation.  Done.  Then I move on to other things that make me crazy - like the stairs.  

Thank you so much! That makes a lot of sense! I seen some things using counter tops, so will give that a try. I did not think about a room without a floor - that is a great idea. While I do like if the system can auto create something, and therefore trying to find out, I feel very comfortable manually creating things and placing them in the model. In a sense I feel more in control that way. But, that being said, I love what Chief does to automate the process, I'm going to find and use that to my advantage.

I just like systems, or processes that can be replicated and become part of the "standard" method to designing a house plan. Outside the "standard process" the sky's the limit - but that just takes more time and I would guess you guys continually run into something that requires additional time spent on a plan. Before I feel comfortable using Chief to design plans, I need to get my "standards" down first and then try out other "far-out" things we all run into. 

So I do see that in 3D that the conc. is 4" larger. The section does not show this nor the plan view. Is there something to show this change in the section or plan?