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Robert, Success! I added a finish layer to the underside of the floor assembly to patch things up like you suggested. Thanks! Jim

Good morning, I have an exterior balcony (1) over a framed pop-out fireplace (2) with a manual roof plane that is affecting the balcony's soffit finish (3). Pretty sure this is because I'm building a room over a roof plane, which I believe Chief does not like judging by the forums. Any setting I can use to fix this, or should I just patch it with a 3D solid for example? Thanks again, Jim

Follow-up to this... Chief responded and said they would review: Hi Jim, Thank you for contacting Chief Architect Support. I tested it a bit myself, and it does look like custom muntins load in a bit inconsistently based on their position/angle. I'll go ahead and report this to our developers, and let you know what they say, or whether this is something they end up needing to fix.

Thanks Robert for looking at this. I sent this in yesterday to tech support. To me it seems like it should just build to the centerline. If Chief has a follow-up, I'll post the reply. Jim

Thanks for quick response. I will do so. - Jim

Does anybody know why the load CAD block / custom muntin tool you use on window lites does not build the custom muntins to the centerline of the linework? Is there a workaround for this or am I doing something wrong? Pics below. Thanks, Jim Before: After loading CAD block to window:

Gene, You can edit the material names directly. Just go to edit material and rename it. Below, I revised "drywall" to "gypsum board":

Lisa, My first guess is make a copy of your wall type and then apply the wall siding extension to that new wall type. Use the new wall type only where you want this condition. Jim

Thanks for your input. - Jim

I think you might be looking for Depth Cue?

I have a pretty complex basement foundation wall with existing masonry below and stud framing above. In addition, there's new interior full height furring. A lot going on: I show the upper wall in plan, but I wanted to also clarify in plan what's going on below. Then, it occurred to me I can just break the wall for a short length and switch that pony wall section to "Display in Plan View" to show the lower wall. A couple of CAD break lines and I'll wrap up by adding a plan note to clarify... Nothing earth shattering, but I thought pretty nifty. Jim

Similar card, newer driver. No problems.

Who said I was working?

Michael, My first thought is I might try to do this with Layout boxes on the wall section sheet, each a box partial section (slice) of the full wall section. I've done this a number of time in Autocad (Viewports) and always works pretty well. Jim

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