HumbleChief

Flush 4 X 6 beams @ 5 ft. O.C. with 2 x 6 joists hung from that flush beam. Not too complex and of course I can build it manually but was curious if Chief can do this automagically? Detail something like this.

Robert, IMO there's no way your box is too slow for Chief. I think there's something else going on and if you're current on your SSA give the tech guys a call they are very very helpful. I've called more and more lately and they always answer my questions and have solve some issues that I've needed answers to quickly. Very well worth the time and effort IMO.

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Done this a thousand times by dragging a node over another with snaps turned on and the node is deleted - most of the time. Other times I'll drag and drag and drag and snap and snap and the node gets really stubborn and won't delete itself - then it will. I was wondering if anyone else had this experience and/or if there's a setting i might change to get this to behave more consistently?

Would LOVE to have more control over elevation line weights - however CA gets there is fine by me.

Not sure this will help with your offset needs but while moving an object in Chief hit the tab key once to enter an 'X' offset and twice to enter a 'Y' offset.

I just created custom symbols for a landing railing I could not get to configure. I would love to know if there's an answer to your question - sorry I'm no help.

I thought the OP was referring to a 'flat' (looking) roof, not a roof with a visible or perceptible slope. If he was referring to a sloped roof, or a mono slope roof, then of course just slope it and be done with it. If he wants it to look flat (not be flat as that's some guaranteed future pain) then I'm not sure how to build it other than what was suggested above. I'm thinking that a monoslope roof is indeed flat - it's just not level. I think the OP wanted a FLAT AND LEVEL roof - could be wrong.

Never knew it was there either. I hate to be the only one to ask - How do you use it? Elevations? Cross sections? Can't seem to see any effect when set to different values.

From the attached picture it's really hard to say what's going on behind the fascia of the flat roof. If I were designing/building it and it truly was a flat roof or at least designed to look like a flat roof, there would actually be small parapet walls around the flat interior roof area and that flat interior roof would be filled with crickets that would channel the water to either exposed scuppers or an in-wall drain system. The crickets would be hidden by the small parapet walls and the actual roof would not be flat at all as where I live it would not pass code as we need a minimum of 1/4" per foot fall. That's probably why the picture shows such a large fascia. If you really want a truly flat roof check to see if you can build one in your area then be ready to waterproof the heck out of it and await a call in a couple years when it starts to leak. Oh, and as Michael says you can build out of any building material you choose.

I had a gap just recently from a foundation I removed. I re-built the terrain and it disappeared. Not sure that will help any but it worked the other day for me.

Very helpful you guys. Didn't know that Chief could build those automatically Dan. Thanks for the video Scott - that's the way I ended up building them pretty much step for step other than not really needing to set up the 45 as joining roof planes creates that 45 join automagically.

Thanks Kevin. I didn't find another way other than drawing the roof planes and 'wiggling' them around with baseline height etc.until thy looked good. Didn't take long.

I'm sure it has to be a custom roof plane - just wondering if there was a technique/method that was faster than choosing various baseline heights and trial and error?

Not sure what it's called and I can get it done with arbitrary base line heights and some serious customization of each little roof plane but was wondering if there was a technique out there that will make it easier/quicker? It's the little eye brow like plane on top and this plan has 7 or 8.

I had no problem creating a material with the same RGB values (your method is easier) but the same RGB values don't match colors without the same texture as the siding. Just tried your idea Glenn and ran into the same problem as in the OP. Joe's suggestion with the texture snip cured the problem. Thanks very much for the faster method to match RGB values - I'll use it again.

Brilliant Joe - Thanks!!

Yes the siding has a texture file. I'll see if I can apply that same texture to the trim. Of course that's not going to work - siding and all that. Was wondering what others do in this situation? Just adjust the color? Raytrace colors will be different? I'll check. RT colors slightly different as well. I don't have much occasion here the trim color and the siding color are the same and it seems quite the challenge to get those colors the same.

I set my siding color and then used the same setting to set the color of the windows (I want them to be the same) but the window color is darker. Tried different shading contrast settings but no change. What am I missing?

Awesome Robert Thanks so much. Now I remember why I couldn't remember. Millwork? Glass railing? Oh well. Thanks again.

Can't remember where to save my custom glass panel railing symbol so I can access it through the 'panel' dbx for a custom railing. Defaults to fixture(interior) when saving symbol but can't get to it via the railing 'panel' library browser from there. I thought there was a directory to save it to but can't seem to get the brain to locate it this morning.

I use Goggle Drive all day every day to transfer files to and from a colleague with no issues.

Just wondering.......... Oh wait let me go back to the topic, choose full editor and select follow this topic.

You can select the roof plane and using transform/replicate raise or lower the roof plane using the z axis under the 'Move" radio button. It won't change the room height, which determines the ceiling height, but your roof will be where you want it. Or you should be able to lower the ceiling height of the affected room and redraw the roof at its new baseline height.

Another short note. A lot of users (not so much on the forum) have no idea of the power underlying things like Anno Sets and Layer Sets and it's easy to forego learning those features to get going with the software. My advice is don't ignore those types of features when first learning. They are SO powerful that getting into the habit early will add immensely to your productivity. And also don't forget tech support. I rely on the forum for many many things but in a pinch the tech support is absolutely fantastic. They've helped me out of a couple of jambs when I needed quick fixes or techniques. Highly recommended.