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I am assuming that I remove the funny frieze boards (ends) and add my own profile using moldings ???

That worked!! I have a little clean up to do, but Thank you!.

ok, giving that a try

Hello, I have been learning a lot about building porches, both manually and using Railings. I used a Room Divider to make the concrete pad. Then a molding profile to add 4" around it. I made a 1x1 sq profile and made my beam, and added in my columns. I built several porches trying different roofs, but end up with no gable end wall. I tried added an exterior wall and making it an attic wall, which added some frieze boards, but the wall just covered my porch from concrete up. Not finding much on videos for porches. Thank you

Thank you guys! The more I get into the roofs the more I like them - and yes, I'm going to admit even better than ADT. A lot more flexible and so far I haven't been stumped. You can even see I made a room divider and made the rear wall taller and put my roof back together! This is exciting! I'm really enjoying this! Now I need to get back to ADT and start my next job

Garrazzay - Yes, the french in me was coming out - again! I deleted my facebook account a few months ago after having it for like 10 years. I find this place far more fun and relatable!

I thought I would give a shot at uploading a video to YouTube and share it here to ask a question. Some times I can get wordy trying to explain some things with images, and maybe a video will be easier for some things. Here we go... This is about putting frieze boards on one gable end but not on the other gable end. I made two roofs on the same plane and removed the frieze boards from one gable end. Is there another way of doing this? Ok, the iframe link I added from YouTube did not work in the text - I will figure that out. So I uploaded my mp4 zoom video into the upload area. I think it worked... It was a bad recording - trying again in a moment... zoom_0.mp4

I know. I found it and went back through and corrected them all. Thank you

I think I just found them in the garage doors included - all good

I should of also checked how these look on the elevation view. Is this normal for it not to show the detail? Maybe its a layer thing - checking that... Not that I can tell. Thoughts?

I have downloaded the three garage door catalogs from the Library, and non of them have a standard wide paneled garage door. They also do not have a wide paneled 8' high door (5 panels high) What they have is 5 panel high flush doors - so this can be stretched - cool But there are no standard paneled, wide (16' and 18') 4 or 5 high garage doors. Does someone have access to such doors? The long panel door comes in both 4 panel wide and 2 panel wide - very good. The door with the 4 panels across come should also come with 8 panels for wider doors. Am I missing it somewhere? It's like the most common door used from Menards and Lowes. Starter doors. Thank you

That was it!! Wow! Thank you so much!

In plan (foundation) view I open the layers and what I change seem to work just fine. When I send it to the layout, it retains the colors, line weights and dashed line look. Even when I print to PDF. But in elevation view, (I made a copy of Section View Layer Set, renamed it to Elevation View Layer Set) and make my changes, it works fine for lines above the foundation, but for the foundation, the lines remain black when I change the color to gray, and I can change the line style to solid, and that works. But changing to the dashed line, second option down, it has these very small dashed line style. In the PDF (red arrow image), the dashes are even much finer. Ideas? Thank you SND_D_Residential Template.plan SND_D_Residential Template_2.layout

Ah! I was hoping there would be direct height values to mess with - Thank you

I used the wall above and dragged the ledge up and then dragged the all over the one on the house foundation - that worked. So maybe a room height issue

I think I have a height issue

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