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After adding shadow boards to a gable roof the perspective view shows them extending past the peak and into infinity. See attached image. I have checked the roof edge and peak alignment and this is only occurring at one location. Please advise.

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Thanks to all responses. The "Dimension to" setting is exactly what I was looking for. I am setting wall defaults, and that is not my issue. If I have structure with more than one wall type such as some walls with brick facing and others with siding, the requires a thicker foundation wall than the siding wall. I see I can set the foundation wall default thickness, but for only one thickness. When I use the build a foundation tool, all foundation walls are built using the default foundation thickness. Is there a setting to automatically increase the foundation thickness to match the 1st floor wall type?

My use of Chief always involves creating an as built drawing of an existing house. The starting point is almost always a plat of survey in which the the footprint of a house is dimensioned to the face of the exterior foundation walls, or from my measurement of the face of the foundation wall. It looks like Chief builds walls from the exterior side of the framing dimension. Since this almost always aligns with the face of the foundation, this is not a problem with some walls. With brick, the foundation face is aligned with the the face of the brick, but Chief is still building the wall to the face of the framing. I can adjust my drawing's actual dimension of an existing structure by doing the math of the brick facing, or creating a point to point dimension to the brick face corners/ends and adjusting the wall location by entering the actual dimension on the point to point. This is an extra step I would prefer not to spend time on. Is there a setting that applies wall length drawing or temporary dimensions to the face of the brick? Also, is there a setting to automatically build the brick foundation wall with the correct wall type and not what is defaulted for a standard siding wall? Seems like auto foundation build would automatically increase the the thickness of a brick foundation wall and it's corresponding footer dimension. I'm have to manually adjust this also.

That is definitely the problem. When I created the pony walls for the foundation step downs, it must have created the upper wall all all the way up to the roof. I'm not sure why that happened, but I do recall selecting an alignment setting to get the face of the brick flush with the face of the foundation wall. I will mess around with adjusting the pony walls and wall alignment. Thanks!

Hi Eric, Thanks for your quick response. I have attached my Chief Plan file and an image of the issue I am having with the box window. While waiting for your response, I deleted the box window and the manually created roof planes, re-added the box window, and then tried the roof builder tool. By doing so, the roof builder tool added a roof over the box window and without the setback of the second floor wall. Even though I had boxes checked not to modify manually adjusted and built roof plans, the roof builder tool created unwanted roof planes and created more work. I would prefer to just add manual roof planes for certain situations like adding a box window. Please advise Smith, Mandy 1.0.plan

I am drawing an as built of a house with brick on both the first and second floor exterior walls. When I add a box window with manually placed roof plans (I have auto roof off because I had to modify other roof portions), the second floor brick wall appears setback in perspective view (not setback in second level plan view). Please advise.