HumbleChief

Different pitches will not line up in the 'center' of a room and will be offset as your pic shows. It is expected behavior and Chief is most likely building the roofs correctly but without a plan we might review it's just guess work.

I just built a similar plan and it framed correctly so I would suspect that Mick's observations are a good place to look. 1588783834_BASELINES.plan

Yeah pretty darn confusing.

I've had "some sort of workflow problems or something" with Chief for many years. Just now really understanding (after 20 years) the proper defaults to set up and where and how they effect the plan. Super powerful once understood but have had me flummoxed for most of my Chief career. Glad you got it figured out.

Apologies as I did not mean that as a criticism, only an observation. Did the help offered above solve the problem for you? I think Michael Long found the issue no?

BTW Floor 1 looks a little messed up as well. A 3" concrete slab floor over a crawl space? Not sure that's what you want but maybe? Just a bit strange and probably nothing to do with those weird 5/8" OBS floor joists but maybe worth a look?

That's really weird and something I haven't seen. Here's pics of the section without the default box checked and then with it checked. Nothing in the spec's change but it then builds correctly. Weird.

In the Second Floor Room Spec Tab>Structure>Floor Structure select 'Default' and it seems to work OK. Do not understand why the spec's shown don't work.

Fixed...

One of the first things I learned as a contractor (in a previous life) reading plans was never to scale drawings. If the dimensions are not clear enough to read or missing or couldn't be figured out through deduction, then a call to the architect/designer was in order. I also never scale details because that can only lead someone to think it's wise practice to scale them in order to figure out a dimension. IMO it's just bad practice to scale a drawing in the field. And what if the printer got it wrong and the printed dimension says 14' - 8" but at 1/4" scale it scales out to 14' - 0" are you working with a builder who is building to the drawing as scaled or to the printed dimension?

Of course no problem Glenn, always appreciate your input...

Just to be accurate - 10 hours ago, HumbleChief DID NOT say: Glenn's post above, but I was wondering the same thing. It's one thing to disagree with Chief's approach to software design, but to fight it for 20 years is another kettle of fish. How do I know? Because I've been fighting it for 20 years as well but have learned how Chief works and learned to work within that paradigm. Either way best of luck to the OP.

Apologies as I saw the trial version on one video and thought you might have been a new user. Not sure what the problem was you were having but hope it got worked out. Also, as I remember, wishing Chief worked in a way it does not was always a sure formula for frustration.

Great advice from Mick - Alternate - 2. as above, move components in desired direction. While holding down the left mouse button, hit the tab key and enter desired 'X' and/or 'Y' distances.

Oh joy, tried it a couple more times and it's behaving as I expected. Sigh...

I have 'matched properties in 2 different rooms and when those rooms are 'joined those new properties are ignored and they revert to the default room/ceiling/floor heights. Is that expected behavior? THANKS https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtk50nfupogd3l4/MATCH PROPERTIES 1.plan?dl=0

Lots of good help here Lane as you've seen and another 2 cents. Simple note and hope it's not too obvious or repetitive but roofs will not build to 'wall heights' but they will build to 'room heights'. The 'room' is most likely defined at the 97 1/8 that the roof is building to. If you have "several walls in a certain model that are not standard 97-1/8" tall" they can only get there if you manually pull them up, or the 'room' is defined at that taller height. Pulling the walls up is never a very good practice with Chief, even though it can be intuitive to do so. Defining a 'room' to be taller is the paradigm Chief works with. If you can use that paradigm and always remember Chief is 'room' centric or 'room' dependent the program starts to make sense.

THANKS RYAN!! Glass louver - nice. Never knew it was there.

Thought Chief had a symbol or window? Did a search but am not succeeding. Any help appreciated. THANKS

Mick, Do you add the 2 x 6 to the 'Surface' (as I show) or the 'Structure in the dbx? Thanks

You can frame your ceiling/roof structure with 4 x 6 Beams @ 48" O.C. spec'd in the 'Structure' of the roof then add the T & G in the 'Surface' under the shingles. Is that what you are looking for? How did you 'add' the beams? Manually?

OMG Jon, How did you channel 'me' from 20 years ago? Stick with it and with all the help here you'll be fine. Good luck.

I just used a 'glass wall' and in my Chief it defaults to 'partition wall'. Tried it with other walls and it seems to partition on one end but not both. Either way, learned something new today... Redefined an individual wall to partition and it behaves as defined in help. Cool.

Interesting, never knew that about 'partition walls.'

Curious too. Did you check 'help' for a clue?