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1 hour ago, robdyck said:

I can confirm that this is indeed a zoning bylaw. The definition of the terminology can usually be found in the Land Use Bylaw and I can also confirm that there are slight variations from one jurisdiction to another. If the OP can tell me where this project is located, I can help them find the exact information they need.

East Aurora, NY

I am confused by this requirement by a client. Can anyone help pls. It's about a simple hip roof garage.

"Our building code requires the mean of the top and gutters be 15 feet max"

"the mean of the roof top and the top of plate needs to be 15 feet - not 15 feet max height".

Is the 15 ft mid-way between max height and wall plate??

I am modelling a house with low pitch roof ( 0.5/12). As far as i know, asphalt shingles don't work on such low pitch. Anyone knows the surface layers i can use for such roof?

Thanks

Does anyone have a door symbol similar to the one in the pic to share. Preferably both single and double doors.

Thanks in advance

I'm trying to make a house with rafters as in the pic. The rafters seem not sitting on the top plates but in a pocket in the wall. Anyone has information about how to make this in Chief?

Many Thanks

Hello everyone,

Can Chief do this kind of gable truss? I've tried but it keeps placing rafters instead...

You can use the attached bracket

Knee Bracket.dae

It was the carport. I used invisible walls to turn it into a room. I removed the invisible walls, the wall cut disappeared!

Pls see pics. The right elevation shows this cut on the wall...i cant get rid of it. The 3D model looks good...

Thanks!

Just wondering if anyone has a ready to use symbol of a 6x6 post bracket (pic below) that he can kindly share.

Thanks

Just an update on this. I have found the cause of this issue after all these months. It has to do with power saving mode. I used to tilt the screen of my home laptop down...this puts it in some power saving mode causing the X14 issue when remotely accessed via teamviewer. I have stopped tilting the screen and now it works fine!!!!

Hello,

A rookie question that I can't answer. See pic. Highest Ridge shows as 14 1/2' when using Auto Story Pole Dimensions but adding 9' + 5' 5 5/8" doesn't add up to 14 1/2' ??

see pic. I have opened a plan in X14 from teamviewer....nothing shows on the screen....

The workspace area is completely blank...see pic.

No display when opening X14 from teamviewer. But on X13 it works fine.

P.M. Sent

Indeed it was the attic space. Room type was set to Attic for both, which was causing the issue. But when I changed it Unspecified, the wall framed correctly!!! But why?? Those two spaces are supposed to be Attic room type....

See pics. This is a 1.5 story garage. I set upper wall on both gable ends to balloon frame...but they not being framed correctly.

Any idea how to fix this (other than manually editing the wall detail)

38 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

 

As Gene is suggesting it may well be possible to auto generate that condition but I have not tried.  When manually editing trusses you can't use a "General Framing Member" as a structural component of the truss.  You need to copy and modify an existing "Roof Truss Member" from the same truss envelope. General framing members can be used to trim with but will not show in your framing view even if the layer is turned on.

Thanks, i'll try that

57 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

Dif you build the attic room before generating trusses?

Yes.

Hello

I made a saltbox garage, with roof pitches 5/12 and 12/12. I need attic trusses but it seems attic trusses can't be automatically generated for this type of roof. Hence I tried to manually edit the webbing of the truss to create an attic space. However the custom webbing doesn't show in 3D Framing view but just the envelope.

Saltbox Garage.plan

On 3/9/2022 at 6:59 PM, Dermot said:

When you make a copy (or "duplicate") of a saved plan view, the program will not automatically make copies of the layer set or any of the other defaults that your saved plan view is using. 

 

So when you copied the Electrical Plan View and called it Plumbing Plan View it was still using the Electrical Layer Set.  If you then went and turned layers on/off and modified the settings, you were changing the way both views looked.  It was also still using the Electrical Dimension Defaults so if you made changes to them you would also affect how the dimensions work in both views.  The same with any of the other defaults.

 

So if you actually want to create a new saved plan view that is not sharing any layer settings or other defaults, you would also need to make copies of all of them.  One way to do this is to right-click on the new Plumbing Plan View you created and then use the Edit View tool.  If you go to the Selected Defaults panel, you will see that everything in your plumbing view is still using the electrical stuff.

 

You will find lots more information in this video series:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/#playlist-100

 

 

Things such as label, dimension etc. are still duplicated to the new saved plan view, even if you change the layer set settings etc. You cannot place a label and a new dimension just on the duplicated saved view, without it being replicated to the original saved plan view. There should be a setting to make this possible.

2 hours ago, tommy1 said:

As you have found out, you need to have a roof to use ceiling planes. Also, ceiling planes do not create attic walls, only a roof.

The deck already has a 8/12 roof

4 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

So something like this with a scissor truss ?  Completely possible.

 

 

Maybe post your plan file or your room settings and someone will be able to help.

 

 

Yes that's one way. Thanks!