stevenyhof

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?

10 hours ago, glennw said:

Go to the Wall Definition dbx and enter -4" in the Foundation Offset.

I was wondering if a negative 4 would do something - but I thought it would only push out the foundation and not the footing so I didn't try. Ugh! Going to test that now.

Steve, I think I just watched your screen porch videos. At one point you changed the thickness of the wall to increase the size of the porch conc. Maybe I’ll have to mess with that to add the 4” I like outside my columns. But then I guess it will push out on the roof also???

Thank you Steve - I just drew a new porch following your video - worked perfectly! 5 mins! I also added my 4" to the conc pad, the beam and columns.

Not too bad for a newbie! Must be in the name  Oh! Please ignore the second floor windows 

2 hours ago, SNestor said:

@stevenyhof - I made this quickie "loom" video just the other day for someone else asking about porches.  It doesn't cover every topic...but, it does show how to use railing walls for your porch walls...which is the easy way to get your posts and a beam right where you need them. 

 

Here's a link to the video:  https://www.loom.com/share/a2dba97a4f2947c4a81c0d21a5b104a6

 

Wow! You did in 1 minute what took me at least 3 hours! That was too simple! Now mind you, I did add an extra 4" all around my conc. floor and spent time learning moldings and profiles, and also built a beam  

I would guess that after you built that porch, you could add the 4" to the concrete, the columns and the beam(s).

Nice work!

2 hours ago, SNestor said:

@stevenyhof - I made this quickie "loom" video just the other day for someone else asking about porches.  It doesn't cover every topic...but, it does show how to use railing walls for your porch walls...which is the easy way to get your posts and a beam right where you need them. 

 

Here's a link to the video:  https://www.loom.com/share/a2dba97a4f2947c4a81c0d21a5b104a6

 

Thank you! Looking into it now

3 minutes ago, stevenyhof said:

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

 

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...

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!