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@solver as always spot on. The manual roof plane did the trick. Thanks.

Hi all, I am doing a plan for modifications to an existing structure that has a combination of a gable/hip roof (60's house in central Florida) over the core structure married to a flat roof that was custom built at one time. I need to capture the current state to show demolition and future state. The roof planes in the diagram attached are pretty close and good enough and I did that with hip/gable settings and wall breaks per the tutorial. I am struggling with how to show the existing flat roof of a slab patio, which forms the Veranda on the rear of the house. I looked at the "shed wall/gable" combo but it would not work right. I attached a pic of the floorplan and the 3D. Thanks in advance.

Watching this thread it is interesting how you can control the birdsmouth cut, etc. But how many of you actually do this type of work these days, or is it simply to produce the design? Curious how you are delivering engineered truss layouts on your construction drawings. In FL, just about every truss company uses Alpine Engineering, and then the firms are superimposing the truss drawings/cad on the foundation plan for the stamp set of drawings. What is the process that is most popular?

I see what happened here, many hours spent on a small topic but its burned in now. The key was only one wall showed the alignment tool, the other was aligned. So I kept looking at the wrong wall and not seeing the tool. Looked this AM, selected the other wall, and presto, it was there and functioned perfectly. @Kbird1this goes back to your post. The only thing I can not still do is set the stem wall height as described on page 118. The "room" is not selectable on Level 0, only in Level 1 (noted as a room type of Porch). But the stem wall piece is grayed out. I am sure it is me :-), so far all the documentation has been spot on. I just can't see it.

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New to Windows clip, let's see if this works. Pic of L0 and L1.

I took all the suggestions and learned several things. Per the tutorial, I went back and in my half wall selection on the lower part and I missed the part about Stone-6. After that, the reference lines show up on Floor 0. However, when I draw the foundation walls, I never get the "Align to wall above" button to show. In Floor 1 it shows it as porch, so that is good, but even though the reference lines are there, it can not find it, nor can I select on the room to set the stem wall defaults. This is very specific to page 117 of the tutorial so I understand if its hard to see this in action.

I am doing the porch tutorial and I draw the porch with the half wall, all good. But when I go to level 0 to put the foundation walls in I see no room. The porch has the room type of porch, the 4" slab floor, and renders in the 3D, so that part seems normal. I can not see the red ref line and attach the foundation wall to the wall above. I know its a setting somewhere, maybe I messed up the half wall defaults but I checked and it looks good. Thanks in advance.

Robotic total station, what is that? Sounds cool. I am looking at drones for some applications.

Hi Joey, No worries. I was talking about the C/L dimension tool and the particulars on how to use it via defaults and or extension lines. This was not about the object centering tool. But I appreciate your willingness and diligence in getting it answered :-). I started with SmartDraw, actually liked it quite a bit, but I outgrew it fast. That is fine for doing simple stuff. Then I moved to CA HD Pro for about 10 days, then moved to CA Premier about a week ago. So I am caught between a rock and a hard place regarding the learning curve, and getting things out the door. But so far the clients seem to be happy. I understand the concepts well, but my learning curve regarding proficiency has been fairly steep, many ways and parameters to learn. But, I am getting faster every day thanks to guys like you that are on this forum.

The help matches the video I posted very closely. "Cabinet, fixture and appliance, furniture, and wall opening centers are only located as a dimension line is drawn when Centers is selected for these object types. See Locate Objects Panel." - this is consistent with the video. Maybe I missed it in the video, but the help points how to mark an extension line with the C/L aspect without all that which is what I was looking for. Thank you for all for the help, this case is now closed :-). Great forum :-)

I heard the "default change" piece here. in X12 it works exactly as the video says. The CL tool did not produce until I hit the default as it states. I posted to validate if there was something I was missing. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/12/manual-dimension-tools.html?playlist=92 I attached a pic of some experimentation for giggles just to let 'yall know I am not lazy :-) Untitled 3.pdf

If you only could see my experimentation...like a mad scientist... The permutations are many.... 1/4 scale, 1/2 scale... etc.,. I did not ask my question correctly. My question is if there was a global policy for behavior for such as this. For example, I can change the default for 1/4 to "centers", but it looks like I would have to change the 1/2 scale seperately. From what I can tell, the CL tool will not function unless you set the default, which is counter to minimzing default changes just to get a tool to position properly. As I learn the details it will flush out, and I suppose one does not really change scales often, or framing defaults, so probably not an issue. A table of defaults on which defaults cascade, or don't would be very helpful for a newbie.

I get the value of the C/L measurement tool, but I am confused as to why I have to change the defaults, will this cause other dimension behavior to change?

I have glass pony walls and a glass shower door in a design. It all looks great except I would like to make the glass slightly more visible via the tempered glass selection (which looks greenish). Right now I can only see the hinges and door handle. I was looking for an opacity setting or something like that. I want the glass clear, but slightly visible. Is this doable? Thanks in advance.

That will work. I started with HD Pro about 10 days ago, and move to CA-P this week. Love the tooling. I will add this to my setup process.

I was thinking that making the block wider would do it, and remove the layer. But that is a way better idea. Thank you.

Here in FL we do mainly CBS type of construction. I copied the default CBS wall type and created a "Std FL CBS" wall type that adds a 3/4" rigid insulation board as well as the 3/4" fir strip the interior. I have seen countless slab misses in the field when the plumber/electrician does not realize the extra 3/4' for the foam. So I am looking to create a way to have interior dimensions that are taken off exterior walls on the plan take this into account. I guess I could change the block width, or make the interior dimension defaults point to the surface. But this is only for measurements off exterior walls. Most framing crews here want to go off the block to the wall dimension layer versus the surface. How do 'yall handle this?

Can CA to be able to specify horizontal layers as well as vertical layers. Am I missing something? Meaning, having a tie-beam as part fo the mix. I was sent this great article by support on how to add a tiebeam into a standard CBS wall. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00495/creating-walls-with-a-block-and-tie-beam-cbs.html That is fine, it's great. But, if it looks like there is only one Pony wall default, and that will change with each build do to height. Any other ideas on how to capture this detail?

Been a builder a long time, adding design services into the mix. New to CA and wondering if there is a user group in Brevard County Florida?