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Cool looking house BTW!

Shane, I changed the offending wall to have a brick pony wall below and then manipulated the pony wall heights in 3D elevation. Here's the result below. Give it a try. Jim

That's because 50 mm in fact is 1.968503937 inches, so Chief is correct. You may be wanting 2" nominal but what Chief shows is actual dimensions. I think if your project uses products based on imperial sizes (North American / Canada?), then you use imperial template with secondary units showing metric conversion. For example, 3/4" plywood would be 19 mm converted. Or, a 48" wide sheet of plywood is actual 1219 mm. However, if your project is elsewhere (e.g. Europe, Oceania, etc.), you'd want a pure metric template. The products you'd be using would be primarily metric based with slightly different sizing. For example, 20mm plywood. Or, you'd use 1200 mm wide plywood which is smaller than 48" plywood. Hope my thinking is clear. I bet there are others who could add to this. Jim PS: earlier in my career I worked in metric. Far easier to use IMO. Imperial is a big pain.

Damon, Here's a video of what I did, attached. Just a simple toggle. I could not get the beam to follow the sloped ceiling, but I don't have too much experience with soffits. But, it appears it should be doable according to help: BTW, I'm on X16. Your signature says your on X15. I wonder if that's the difference? Jim Untitled video - Made with Clipchamp (1).mp4

Damon, I got the two ceiling planes to appear by going into the Room dialog and toggling the "Roof Over this Room" setting on/off. Is that what you're after? Jim

Yes - the change was brought up in the X17 introductory video posted a few days ago. The rationale being it better reflects how dishwashers are actually installed in the field -- between base cabinets in an empty space with countertop spanning across rather than the dishwasher as part of a base cabinet. Jim

Thanks

I have. I was just wondering if it allows entry of a whole number while maintaining the slope of the window head. I thought I might be missing something obvious

I generally have trouble fine-tuning the sides of my sloped clerestory windows after I have hit the Match Roof button. For instance in this example I want the left side to be an exact 4 inches. But, entering this value affects the top slope of the window so that it no longer matches the roof slope. Is there easy technique for this without resorting to a CAD line in elevation or math in the input box? (I sort of wish there was a "lock" button on one side to keep the value you want while recalculating the other side and maintaining window slope to match the roof at the same time) Hope that makes sense. Thanks, Jim

If you want the house ridge to align with that of the garage ridge in terms of height, you will need to lessen the roof slope of the house roof planes. This will bring the ridge down, with the house ridge intersecting the garage ridge as a "T" in plan. To do this manually, turn off auto roofs. You can then query the height of the garage roof ridge. Copy that number. Then open the adjacent house roof planes. Paste that number over to their ridge heights while making sure the roof wall plate height is locked. You should see the roof planes adjust and the ridge heights align. Hope that helps, Jim

Well dangnabbit! Thanks for doing the research. I appreciate it. Jim

Reposting with the hope somebody has some insight into this. Thanks, Jim

Okay, I have a feeling this is related to my previous post. There's something about Reference Display items and camera view output that I clearly do not understand. Anyways, I have a site plan model with 5 "tiny house" referenced in to the plan using the Reference Display feature: Everything looks great with the with model: I then exported the site plan model as a Chief 3D Viewer File. And, the 5 units were not part of the model: Any ideas what's going on? Thanks again, Jim

Good morning, I've created a site plan with various tiny house units populating my site terrain model using the reference display (they are all separate PLAN files): I then created a site section and sent this section view to a layout sheet. My problem -- the units do not show up in the section view. The Camera View Option is set to Plot Lines. However, when I set the Camera to Live View, the units show up: I prefer Plot Lines. Is Chief unable to generate any lines from Reference Display object? Your insight appreciated. Thanks, Jim

I have a 3080. There are newer drivers available. You might try those. Jim

I don't want to. I am duplicating topo lines from a survey drawing and I want them to closely match, so hence the manual input. I found that the auto-generated terrain contour lines don't match close enough for my purposes. Jim

Just out of the box output. I don't know anything about macros, but your second suggestion works perfectly. Thanks for that fix! Jim

Good morning, How do I change how my elevation line labels read? I'd like decimal feet with no decimal point and units for example 88 as opposed to 88.00 ft. Note that what's shown are manual terrain elevation lines and not contours. Thanks again, Jim

I suppose a solution for Ed would be to turn off the callout option in the Camera and just use a "dumb" callout. Maybe not the most elegant...

I think this is for a simple callout only. But, I don't think it's available for the callout option of the Cross Section / Elevation Specification.

Confirmed your original understanding, right? Glad it worked out.

Thanks for the tip!

thank you!

Thanks! Jim

What's the best way to do a swimming pool (simple rectangular / one depth)? First time sticking my toe in the pool. Thanks, Jim