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thanks all, @solver, @levisL , I'll be taking a look tommorow at this, hopefully for the final time in preparation for the development permit submittal. The framing will be interesting on that one wall, as the floor will need to rest higher above the current top plate by 12"(they want a 9' floor where exisitng is 8'). Maybe hang the floor, or block under it the exisiting wall. ...for the engineer to figure out

@Mark3D is there a simple way you see this? I spend a significant amount of time trying to pull the corner to get it to match both the vertical and horizontal lines of the plane, where it has to be exactly correct when I let go of the mouse.

thanks a lot, yes I do seem to have the precision issue a lot (but that expand the decimals will help me troubleshoot better). I have not managed to figure out how to properly get the roof planes to line up on a consistent basis, especially when doing the hip. I will admit I knew the 3:12 little roof were off, but as it is being stick built and I did not really know how to find that specific elevation point on the lower side, I left it as the guestimate. Basically I sat there moving it up and down on the one side until it looked ok it elevation. There must be a better way to do that.... I found the top point by using the temp cad marker and pref setting for intersecting roof planes. that worked well. The gap above was me fiddling around trying to get the wall to look proper as i noticed if I have the roof too close to the wall, the siding will not show, so i figured I'd back it right off and see, and then fiddle with the walls

oh and I did have the opposite problem where the facia only drew part way on the right side (maybe only 4 feet from the right). not sure how i fixed that to end up with this. It might have been that be the eave widths were close but not the same

interesting what the truss looks like in the truss dbx, but looks different in the framing overview. must have exceeded my limit, cant post any more pictures

here it is. It is two gables, the addition is 2 9' ceilings, so the addition gable is higher. and there is a sloping roof in between to direct water to front and back. Thanks allbrIan wong addtion3 SIMPLE ROOFS 2.zip I also noticed my ridge cap looks different between the lower and upper roofs. Makes me think something is going on there. For the upper roof I checked the roof ridge height to ensure both planes matched, and they are the same

no, flat cieling only found a few of those and deleted, and tried moving them around. also tried moving the roof plane closer to wall, away from wall for the lower roofs. I never know where is it suppose to land (at the stud, at the sheathing, at the siding(doesnt look like it snaps to that)). but it is the eave, what might an attic wall have to do with an eave? I'll post the plan. this is an addition on an existing house which is why you will see both 2x4 and 2x6 walls

must be a bad day for roofs. the fascia will not join at the top, but if I shorten one eave from say 2' to 1'6" it will work. You probably noticed the wall on the right, I gave up in trying to get the right corner wall working properly after an hour. Any ideas on the fascia? I find it ironic if the eaves widths do not match, the fascia will show correctly, but when I match them they wont. I almost suspect it maybe it is off angle but I checked it is 2' eave at the ridge and at the wall bandicam 2021-09-02 20-20-40-616.mp4

one question I do have, what elevation do you want at the top plate on the left shed wall? I would start from there and then adjust the room structure, and then the roof plane to match

well there is still something odd going on with the wall framing. I put in a flat ceiling over the room to see, and the wall is still framing too high. i tried to reproduce what I did above, but now cannot. You will probably need to wait for the more experienced people. sorry

if i delete the attic wall on the tall side, it regernerates under the roof. I also moved your baseline to outside of wall, the roof dialog now shows a number now for top plate

for the soffit not flush, i think this is because you have the eave set to build below the sub fascia, and the fascia and sub fascia are the same depth(7-1/4) if I set the sub fascia to 7-1/4 and facia to 9-1/4 i do not see that problem

i moved your attic wall and removed the truss and now it shows properly. my guess is because that wall is 2x6, that was affecting it. normally for me, I have the roof baseline at top of plate, then I lock the roof plane to be that elevation. I notice you are locking the baseline but it is not top of plate from the room structure->ceiling elevation). That might be causing this

you have a truss there it looks like it framed from top of roof deck. but not sure what you are looking for what is interesting is the roof framing cuts through the high shed wall but not the lower shed wall what is properly?

so I'm playing around with style palettes(nice feature) and found out the partitions are not supported ( , seems odd but ok. but what does one do to get around this in the most efficient way possible, material eye dropper for every time one uses the palette? I mean it works, but is that what people are doing?

Did you try it to do an interior floor plan

That is odd, I assume floor walls line up? Might need to post the plan

if you are using "CA save as PDF" in the destination, it is greyed out as well in the print dialog. They appear to be exactly the same dialog either by using the export or the print functions, IF using CA save as PDF as the destination

'i try and do this, but I'll admit, I'm more likely to start a new similar project using the latest plan/layout file which is similar to my last one (especially if it is for the same customer). Although I will admit it gets annoying to keep adding the same things, eventually they will all get there, but probably not the most efficient

how is it going? I watched the intro video and ironically the guy scans the windows, and it is supposed to auto find the type, but you can see it finds the wrong type. Here, it is important to know the type for egress fire rules. It also does not seem to be able to do plumbing walls or flue walls, as it only measures room by room. I also notice none of their rooms have closets. Any feedback? I am skeptical after watching their video

Just tried to send a large file(and failed), and remembered the other reason I send images to layout... size. One 3D camera view seems to take ~3MB more than an image for the same perspective

Thanks gentleman I typically do the send image to show the client what it will look like, because it is fast to do, close to the right size for layout, and chances are they will move things around and then they want a different angle so i will need to do it again. It, for me, does not form part of the final package, or if it does it is at the end of layout, un-named. I consider it more of a bonus I am giving them. The only 3d camera I give them is on the front project overview like michael has above and a doll house, but those are typically cameras, not images (I used to do images and got tired of the moving around) so I think the quickest way is probably the rescale with the factor, and program that into one of my mouse buttons

that did it thanks, in the windows default, under general still a bit of a PITA as even if you do unmull you cannot resize the middle one bigger, until you move one of the other ones. But now that it is at zero, as long as do the math correctly I should get it right the first time

soooo, how does one adjust the width of a window within a mulled unit? joey indicated to hit the tab key. so i did this to move from the mulled unit to the window, but then the width is greyed out. see below The problem is I want a 77wide unit total with 16" single hung on the sides, but if I create a 45" picture for the middle, and mull all three I get a 81" mulled unit, 4" difference. I could go back and unmull and resize my picture, but it would be nice if I could resize the picture within the mulled unit thanks

I'm constantly doing this as well. If you put it in the suggestions, I'll upvote it