HumbleChief

You could also create a note schedule showing wall types. Not a fan but doable. Also show Walls, labels with each type noted as a label.

I hear that, same here, double ughh...that's why I'm posting, trying to avoid the pain....

For me it's not worth the time because the bonehead kicks in far too early but I was challenged by the task. It's a sloping roof with a parapet, not a sloping floor, if that matters, and is doable by raising the roof plane to make room for the trusses, setting the structure of the roof to '0' and ballooning the framing through second floor. Also needed/wanted to show the slope of the roof for the section, the Truss manufacturer, and the builder. Did you try it? Maybe not as hard as I tend to make things?

Interesting. With a floor truss the truss depth is determined by the floor depth above, makes sense. With a roof truss inset on the first floor the roof has to raised until a truss will draw or the height of the low side of the roof truss in this case 12". Raise the roof 12" and a truss will draw. There's a minimum where the ceiling and roof plane are too close together but don't know what that is... Also the second floor need the floors (has floor/no) deleted then all ballooned thru etc. Still never got all the views correct....like no ceiling on first floor. May be too simple for me but never really got it.

Seems as though it "should work perfectly" and be that straight forward but I believe there are a few additional steps needed and perhaps it's because there's a roof not a floor truss? Need a 1/4 per foot roof not a floor truss. I got it done but never got the first floor ceiling to show, which might actually be the floor above?.

Thanks. Roof truss as there is a 1/4 per foot slope on the errr roof.... Ended up figuring it out using the first floor roof truss and raising the roof to match the lowest point of the truss. Added second floor to rep the parapet walls. Never did get the ceiling to show on the first floor however. INSET_TRUSS_1.plan

Yeah did the same thing, probably won't use it after I added it to the tool bar lol.

Ah that makes sense as I almost never used it until today as I wanted to check on some 'floor' views.

Is there a way to add it back to the child menu as it appears in X10?

I did and found it as a separate icon instead of part of the Camera child tools as it's been in the past. Am I missing something? What are you seeing?

...instead of part of the child camera menu?

The design is possible but I tried for at least an hour chasing trusses that would not build and floors that would not show and...you know the drill in Chief...and decided it was time to fold 'em and get on with the job. Of course it only took 20 minutes to detail the section by hand but live and learn...

Thanks for taking your time to respond Curt but have a very different condition. Gave up and am drawing the sections by hand.

...and for some reason the truss frames to the floor instead of the roof cavity? truss_frame_2.plan

We want to drop the trusses down inside of a ballooned framed parapet wall EDIT: with a 1/4" / 12 slope. No need to get exact with inside ledgers but the basics would be nice for a section cut that looks correct. Tried dropping the roof plane down but needed to raise the floor to get the walls up high enough. Should I put on another floor above?

+1

As I mentioned, same here, but any new elevation or cross section requires you remember to change Anno Sets or Active defaults instead of being able to set the defaults in errr...defaults?

Oh wait you asked about spreadsheets and perhaps macros in Chief?

Hmmm...deciding if I should take the bait...

Spread sheets can be imported/pasted but lose their functionality...

That's pretty cool me thinks Joe. I simply show the results in a text box but a spreadsheet is a good idea. Not sure how to avoid the cut and paste which I guess is the only down side?

Which is the entire idea of any efficient GUI.

Ouch...

Yes annotations, notes etc. only live on a cross section or elevation and those in my case are almost all sent to Layout in some form but you've got me thinking...does it matter which Anno Set or active defaults are used? I think it does as you can then determine all of those settings in active defaults to control dimensions text etc. in your drawing. The confusing part to me is why there's no way to set up a default Anno Set (only default Layer Set) and the active defaults cannot be set up as defaults either?