HumbleChief

Thinking about dropping one of these in but haven't decided on a Mother Board yet....

VERY interesting, thanks for clarifying that. If the shadow board is in the front and set to both eave and gable, zero offsets, it will wrap around that lower portion of the box and give you your double fascia there, if that's the look you're after?

Good luck, let us know how you solve it.

I must be missing something. I set the eave fascia to 10 13/16 and it closed up the box with no further adjustments or change to the shadow gable fascia look..

You also might have your gable fascia and shadow boards reversed. The 5 1/2" gable fascia is acting like a shadow board and your shadow board is behind it. Nice look actually and maybe what you want. Here's what it looks like with these settings.

Try setting your eave fascia to 10 13/16. Seems to work OK here, shadow boards and all.

Adjust your eave fascia and your eave sub fascia the same. You're seeing the difference between those two settings.

I don't think Xeon processors are a tough call at all. The ones I bought were inexpensive and were purchased for their 24 core RayTrace abilities at least 5 years ago. Today's Chief does not benefit at all as you've illustrated. Anyone else reading this might be tempted but they are not a good processor for Chief. Maybe the highest end most expensive Xeon? But who would even be tempted at the cost? Dunno.

This seems to be the case here. Must be missing something...

Trying to understand but I don't think I get that behavior here. Whichever way the plan is rotated that seems to be the way it gets sent to Layout. Are you saying it's inconsistent? Isn't it easier to rotate the plan in plan view, instead of the sheet? Might be missing something....

Yeah, because of this not sure what I would buy tomorrow, but would probably go for as much tech as I could afford and stay away from the Xeons that I currently have.

Very important point in my opinion. You may have the latest and greatest but is it actually faster real world Chief? And it is worth $700 for a system you may not be able to tell the difference in speed using Chief? Not the easiest choice....

Play around for a few minutes Damon and see what happens with each move. Pull the roof away, pull it close, cross over, see what happens...

The first rule of Chief's roofs is they cut walls...and ChopSaw above knew the fix but may not have understood the question...

With the '3' key or the break roof plane tool, place a break in the roof plane at the wall and drag the roof up along the wall.

All right - so far so good

Thanks Rene, I think that if we raise the existing floor (ceiling height I'm assuming) that will create a floor for the second floor above and the small pony wall can be detailed in. The dummy second floor, which in reality isn't really a dummy at all the more I think about it. It's not living space but it could be considered a genuine second floor. The roof has to go because nothing will build/frame on top of a 'Chief roof' so a ceiling plane with manual framing may be in order no matter the decision. It's a small second floor so no big to manually frame. Still thinking but leaning again towards the dummy second floor. Done this (air space between floors) numerous times over older structures and it saves a TON of work if you want to preserve electrical plumbing HVAC in an an older ceiling cavity but never tried it with a sloped roof that we want to keep.

We have a 21 ft. span and it looks like we can get a 14" TJI to play at that distance, then about 12 ft from the outside wall we'll change joist direction so we can cantilever out for a 6 ft. deep deck. There's a stairway as well so a series of beams will most likely be employed as well, determined by the structural engineer. Hope that answers?

We are adding a second floor to a mid century modern home and the builder wants to preserve the existing roof framing and interior finishes and place the second floor entirely above the existing roof structure. The building process is quite easy by building pony walls on the exterior walls and interior beams etc. raising the second floor structure above the first floor roof. The question is, "How would you proceed with Chief to create that dead space between the first floor roof and the second floor floor?" In the past I've used an air gap under the second floor framing and/or a dummy second floor (which is where I'm leaning) to create the space between structures and was wondering if there's another technique out there I might try? The roof will be tricky because of what Chief does with roof but a ceiling plane may work there. Any ideas? Thanks SECOND_FLOOR_FRAMING_QUESTION.plan

You can get that to happen by either defining your room height lower than your roof's baseline height. or raising the roof above your room heights. Is the room height correct? Do you have auto rebuild wall framing on?

Just started watching but expect to learn something new...

Perhaps a custom lintel as a symbol in your library?

THANK YOU GLENN, MICHAEL!! Roof is a very shallow pitched gable and yeah lots of problems as you said Michael but this will move me along. Thanks for taking the time to look at the plan.

Every wall a roof plane traverses, disappears. Weird...