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The site is a site full of very helpful individuals who respond best when asked a simple clear question about the programs operation and/or how to solve a specific problem. Most forum posters don't know the history of every forum poster so it's hard to tell how much experience each has but not so hard to tell when someone posts with an attitude that's hard to give a helpful answer for. I agree the whole up vote down vote thing is childish but don't hesitate to post a clear concise question about any feature of Chief and many people will chime in to help solve your question.

Yeah sorry you do not want to change defaults as it won't help on both houses.

Hey Kelly, feel you on this but there's an order of steps outlined above that works but the order at least for me is important. If the post above is not clear what I did was raise the foundation floor by 36" (leaving the original house at 0" elevation). This made the first floor above too short. To raise that ceiling I went to the second floor above and raised that floor and it seemed to work OK. To lower the floors perhaps the same steps might work in reverse. Foundation first to desired height, then second floor to adjust first floor ceiling height.

I believe you are correct, but you can change the default heights/properties and apply that default for every room on that floor.

The door is in fact cutting the foundation wall because the second floor levels are -3/4" dropping the door sill in to the foundation wall below. Try raising the second floor level to 0" and that cut will disappear.

Brandt, check your gable fascia setting, the width and depth might be reversed for what you want.

I had a similar reaction to today's prices per NewEgg or Partspicker versus a pre-configured system. $375 is not worth the time for me to build the system myself but $900 gets a lot more interesting. I do seem to remember more substantial savings through NewEgg etc. in the past but maybe I didn't consider my time quite as valuable back then. BTW Rod, your NewEgg price had (2) CPU's listed in the total. Just a head's up.

...of course, tired of trying and may never use the textures anyway, just wanted to play Did you register Mick?

Tried to register and it's been a day and no e-mail verification to try their textures - just a heads up.

Have built quite a few systems myself and am actually surprised at the true cost of components only. Top of the line Vid cards for $1000 and CPU's for $500 eats up $1500 just to get started. Throw in a nice MoBo for $250 ish M2 hard drive for another $250 and you're at $2000 really quickly. Have no idea about today's machine's performance but last time I upgraded my vid card and dual Xeon CPU's I saw zero REAL WORLD performance increase in Chief. Probably the Xeons but still, very hesitant to upgrade or at least will keep expectations very low if when the time comes. Newegg.ca - 8700 WISH LIST.pdf

Still curious, anyone tried it? I tried it but cannot quite understand the translation between the Normal Map settings and the resultant texture.

Need to pay more attention and a belated thanks for posting the info before.

THX....

Please excuse my ignorance but is it the normal map from "CA's most current sheet metal material library" or Chief's current standing seam normal map? ...and where is

Anyone tried this software?

Curious, here's the current normal map for standing seam roofs. Is there an easy way to change this map to get a better look? Bump map?

Is there any way to tell if Chief is crashing, or if your computer is crashing? I once had a power supply that was going bad and it wreaked all kinds of havoc but tracking down hardware problems like that can be an expensive crap shoot. I got lucky and I think there were indications it was the computer and not Chief but can't remember what those indicators were. ...and fans running on overdrive? Could be a heat problem which will cause the computer to just blink out if it gets too hot. Re-seat CPU cooler? Make sure it's working properly? Get some diagnostic software and check temps? Chief has been incredibly stable and I'm thinking a hardware problem but no easy task tracking that down.

Great thread you guys. Thanks for the info, video and help.

Really curious/bad behavior. It's a bug of some kind and really don't know how to get that long thin roof plane drawn in correctly AND have the trusses draw in correctly above. Weird...

Good find Kyle. I pulled back that long, thin roof piece that was joined to lower side roof in your drawing and the trusses drew in fine on the floor above. The plan should NOT behave this way from my experience with Chief. Maybe try 2 planes instead of one long one? Curious as to how auto roofing can get you 2 different base lines. Are the rooms the same height?

Hope this helps...

...or do what I suggested above. Works fine.

Check this file and see if it works... 1311_Hamburg_Rd_-_Pricing_Set(temp)_3_(2).zip

Can't attach the ZIP file for some reason but try this. Save as a new plan and auto build the roofs getting hips and gables set up correctly. Go to original file and clean up second floor roofs. Copy those roof planes. Go to the new plan and delete the roof planes that auto build incorrectly, and paste hold position correct, cleaned up roofs from original plan. I'll try and get plan posted.

Kyle, Any reason you can't auto build those roof planes? Seems to clean thing up and the trusses work as well.