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Ok. Thanks. This seems what I need. I have not played with mansards in CA yet. And definitely not with this kind of roof cut-out.

Hello, How would one go about doing this part on the picture? Can I make a cut out from the roof plane and show a wall with siding in it? I do not have a plan yet started for this project, but I need to recreate this house in Chief and make drawings. Started thinking about it and cannot imagine how to show this wall through a roof plane. It is not exactly a dormer. The two most vertical sides of the roof are also at a small degree. One side of the house is like on the picture and on the other side there are windows inside the metal sheeted roof without this wooden siding cut out. Any tools that can make this or suggestions? Is it easily doable in a model or it is faster to just draw this wall part with windows in 2D? I don't actually need the whole model just 2D drawings.

I am actually inclined to use your suggestion as I do not need to do framing here. I have been using 3D solids to cover up messes all along. Chief Premier kind of has a lot of tools that seem pretty and convenient on videos, but in reality, in a lot of situations I cannot get them to work as I need or there are not enough options to customize properly. 3D solid tool seems to be one of the most useful tools. You can model things with it and to cover up things that Chief messes up or are too time consuming to fix in a model.

Thanks, for the replies. I hoped that Chief is able to do these with dedicated roof tools. But I will try your suggestions then. I am in Estonia. We use only metric units here and all construction stuff is mostly in mm. I mean drawings, models and documentation is in mm, but of course in reality you don't build so precisely that it is on point with the exact dimension. Even factory-made building parts or materials have its own tolerances. But yeah, the consensus here is that drawings and dimensions are mostly in mm.

Hello, I attached a picture that explains what it has to look like and a plan file that I started. Can anyone help me get the result as it is on the picture. How do you create an open roof over a deck like this? I tried using invisible walls and building roof automatically. And then tried to draw manual roof. I cannot get these two roofs to connect properly. Especially at eaves. It just creates a broken mess. Beams and columns and materials are not a problem. I just need to make a similarly shaped roof to work with. PLAN.plan

Hi, Sharing a link to onedrive with a plan: https://projektmaja-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/info_projektmaja_ee/EaMGxsM5oTVCrG5hN4SbCacBcHx7hUVKT2MbPdM24X5waw?e=E3z9wF This colliding soffit is still visible just a bit behind quoins that I started to add. Would be good to know why this is happening so I can fix if I have similar situation next time. If I pull roof plane a bit away from stucco, then it does not link with the wall.

Hey, Thanks. The roof plane is actually right beside the outside of the stucco. The only thing that seems to help is if I make a 20 mm gap between stucco and closest roof plane line. If I move it closer than 20 mm, then soffit for some reason becomes linked automatically with the wall and rams into it.

Hi, Can anyone tell from the picture what might be happening here? Why soffit wants to ram into my wall? Cannot edit this line. These weird collisions between roofs, walls, railings, room dividers and attic walls are sometimes such a headache to understand what Chief is trying to do and how to fix it. I am running premier x14 latest update.

Oops. It really does. I had just deck layers turned off. I thought I had them on in my template and did not check. Then the only thing that does not work for me this way are 3D solid objects. I mostly do not use deck tools so overlooked this. It shows up for me too. Just needed to turn on layers. Thanks!

Thank you. It is actually a good idea. If I get the time I might save some objects to library myself. I don't really like Chiefs decking and railing tools anyway. They just break stuff or are not flexible enough. This time it was an easy deck so I chose built in tools for speed. And on that note stair tools could be also a bit less forceful. Sometimes I need to make a stair that is not "best fit" or most comfortable build/angle. I do all low decks that are on the ground with 3D solid (when I don't need framing details). Just place a chunk on the ground. Shape it how I need and apply deck texture on it. Not amazing, but is easy, fast and does not collide with anything.

The sentence you quoted is about balcony not stairs. Stairs are mostly not an issue. If I do auto stairwell or manual open below room then it shows properly on all needed floor plans. When I have this balcony like on the picture. If I do floor plans then on first floor I need to show posts and main beams, on second floor I show an actual balcony/deck and on foundation plan I show foundation columns. Same structure just different level. Different elements of structure need to be shown on different levels. But Chief only shows those things on a single story where it was placed. And yes I know about reference display and CAD drawing. Basically this is what I was doing all along. It is just not very good. It would be much better if Chief would be able to cut through those objects in a plan view on a specific height and show it on all levels. Floor plan is after all a horizontal section of a building. Another example is when I do a chimney with 3D solid. It goes through all levels to the roof. But I see it only on the level I placed it. Would be great if I changed the location of chimney it could change on all levels. If I redraw chimney on other levels with CAD lines then I have to remember to move CAD lines also. So it is half way like drafting in AutoCAD for example. And by levels and stories I mean "floors/floor plans". But thank you for the info. I guess I will just be using CAD drawing and reference display as I was doing.

Thank you. This works. Was doing all sort of other things to stairs, but apparently not that.

Hey, Have two questions. 1. On picture red arrows. Is there a way to make Chief to do stairs where beams connect at a proper height. Right now every stair I do seems to attach to second floor or landing just below it. If you think in reality you cannot connect those beams. It is in the air and looks weird/unreal. There should be one more tread at the top, but if I make this additional tread it just changes angle and hangs the stair back in the air. Basically you cannot actually build this stair. 2. I modelled my balcony and stairs on the second floor. Can I display them on second floor as balcony and on first floor as post and beams? Or I just have to redraw those details on first floor with CAD objects to be able to see them there? This is one thing that I do not like in Chief that it shows objects only on floors where it was drawn. Even if the object goes through all floors. Like chimneys. Or is there a fix for that? Right now I have been using cad lines on objects. Then copying them, going to another floor and pasting them in place.

Nice! Thank you. This helps a lot. Views are much faster. I would not thought of that clipping might slow the view down. I don't think it was so problematic in x13. I have done this for a year on x13 and only now it started to really bother me and slow me down. Good tip for fill window button. I probably need to brush up my knowledge on functionality in Chief. As many of the buttons and functions are not used every day. So some buttons get overlooked. Thanks again.

Hello, Can anyone help me please a bit. I posted a plan file and an image. For some reason all elevation views are very slow. Opening them takes about 15 seconds. Switching between opened elevation tabs is also very slow. Drawing and doing other things is mostly ok, but some operations with elevations view are very slow. And my computer is not slow. It worked much better in x13. I worked a year on x13 and did not notice that elevations are so slow. I think this change in speed came with x14 update. And I cannot shake it. I don't know if it is something with settings that changed with the update, but I cannot find the issue. I used vector view also in x13. Its sometimes impossible to work. In posted plan file there is just a small shed and why does it take so long to open and render a view. Second thing that happened in x14 and x13 is that opening elevation and its sometimes empty. For some reason it randomly loses focus and cannot figure it out why. Mostly I am able to find the drawing by scrolling out in a view. But sometimes like on the picture I am not able to find it anymore. Is there some autofocus button? Something like in AutoCAD. A command that finds all the details in a view and focuses screen on them? I have the latest patch for x14 installed. SHED.plan