stevenyhof

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  1. 17 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

    Just FYI,  there should be no reason you have to reduce the ceiling height in those 2 attic areas.  That's actually the source of your unusual wall issues.

    That was simple! I love when defaults work.

    I think in the video tutorial, she set the wall height to 12" to start the roof from. I got the strange results, but changing the walls AFTER the roof was on back to the defaults seemed to do the trick. I will also remember what "Renerabbitt" showed in the video.

    Thank you guys!

  2. 10 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

     

    No sound, I simply change the two unconditioned rooms to default height and change your gable end wall to balloon framed

    thank you for this!! Seems so simple -perhaps the training video was trying to show options - maybe to get the roof to start from a lower starting point so it was not placed on the second floor top plate.

  3. 11 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

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    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.

     

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    You can also go to your own Profile and click the "See My Activity" button.

    I did see my activity but did not know there was a button - maybe that shows them all
     

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    Open your profile by clicking on your picture in the top right hand corner.

    On the right hand side of the title bar there is a button - See My Activity.

    That should take you to all your posts.

     

    PS You have to be quick around here!!

     

    Checking it out now 

    Thank you all!!

  4. 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

  5. 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.

    1. is there a setting I can click to prevent this?
    2. can things like this (unwanted lines, etc.) be removed from the elevations?

    Thank you

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  6. 20 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

    And then there is manual roof building.  And editing.  And figuring out how to do curved roofs.  And crickets.  Rafter tails.  Shadowboards.  

     

    And the interior side of things.  Pitched ceilings.  Curved ceiling planes to form groin vaults.  

     

    So much to learn.

    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!

  7. 12 hours ago, solver said:

    See the Build Roof dialog. You need to build, or have Auto Rebuild checked to see changes.

    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. 

  8. 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

  9. 52 minutes ago, Chrisb222 said:

    I have a "Working Plan View" that displays all kinds of stuff I don't want on my docs, and  "___ Floor ConDocs" "Foundation ConDocs" "Basement ConDocs" etc plan views that appear the way I want on the finished docs.

     

    That way I don't have to turn layers on and off, just switch out plan views.

    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!

  10. 1 minute ago, Chrisb222 said:

     

    The Open Below "dashed lines" are the actual invisible walls defining the space. By default those reside on the "Walls, Invisible" layer. If you don't want to see them, uncheck "Display" of that layer.

     

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

  11. I'm getting this figured out...

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

    Now I am confident that this can be done and quickly :)

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  12. So here is what I found... (It's working! Its's working!!!)

    1. I made the main floor and made 2 rooms - one for house and one for the garage
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. 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

  13. 2 minutes ago, robdyck said:

    For a garage (for example) on a bi-level home, you may want to at least experiment with dragging the room heights, for both the main floor and the foundation. 

    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!