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I'm far from even proficient with this program, but with three specified roof pitches, I would go through the effort of setting up roof info in the wall dialog boxes and use the autobuild function. Ignore the main body of the house, and the hip instead of shed at the garage doors, this is how I attempted it. Seems to have built out correctly. EDIT: Deleted my attachment. Renerabbits is the same thing, but better

KBird, yeah, I frequently find odd behavior in my program. After your post I even went in again attempting to select and get some sort of grip handle to pull down. Nothing. However, Alaskan_Son, the half wall worked great with the behavior I was looking for. Thank you

Oddly enough a search of this term yielded no results in the forum. Is there a method to add deadmen anchors to a foundation system using foundation wall tools instead of just drawing cad lines? Just in case, a deadman is a return wall generally three feet to the exterior of the foundation and 2'-3' below the top of the wall where there is a long straight foundation wall exceeding (here) 16 feet. Currently, I'm trying to select the origin point on the foundation and extend a deadman 3' sticking out at a right angle. However, this then extends that wall up to the floor level or up to the soffit level. Previously I have been successful in looking at the wall in elevation, selecting the top and dragging it down to the elevation desired. However, this didn't always work, and is clearly not the correct way to go about it, and isn't working in my current plan. deadman.plan

@AlaskanSon replied to this same question I had a bit back. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/20623-change-height-of-single-room/?tab=comments#comment-167777 I don't know how to quote posts on other threads, but here is what his response had been; it solved the issue I had: "Your problem is that you have an attic room defined over the top of that area. When you change the ceiling height in one room below, Chief thinks that it needs to push the whole floor system up to accommodate the attic floor system...and therefore moves the entire ceiling up. Not sure why you have it there, but one way or another, all you need to do is break that attic room definition and you should be good to go. "

OP, have you tried a standalone PDF Printer? I've used PDFCreator v1.7.3 (I like the performance of this old version). It is a lightweight program that seems to be very effective at virtual printing. Even in layout pages with a bunch of copy/pasted images I have never waited more than a minute. if you want me to test it, and you can post the file, I would do so.

I did see your post Solver, and had tried the layer control. Somehow when I performed this action, it seemed the layer control-> "Rooms, Interior Dimensions" turned off the default label as well as my macro label for room dimensions. Have repeated this morning more thoroughly, labels are now functioning as intended. Thanks all.

This isn't smoothly done, but it demonstrates my issue. When I add macros, they insert between the room label that's already there. If I try to control the labels that always show up with layer controls it grabs the "always on" labels as well as referenced macros. Recording #2.mp4

There are several people here that post very helpful video snippets of their on-screen actions. What software is used for this? I think it would be very handy to demonstrate some questions that are difficult to word properly.

Solver, thanks for the reply. When I place those three macros in that text area, it results in a label that generates this: <Room Label><Room Label> <Room Dimensions> <Ceiling Height> <Room Dimensions> What I'm trying to do is simply place the <Room Height> label below the <Room Dimensions> in the default room label. As is, using that default text area, placing those macros inserts them between the Room Label and Room Dimension in the default label.

Where is the default information for the Room Label located? When I go into default settings->Floors and Rooms->Room Label I can add a macro (Room Height in particular), but cannot see the "Room Type" or "Room Dimensions" macros. When I place the Height macro in the "Text" area, it places this information on the same line after the "type" label <Room Type><Room Height> <Room Dimensions> If I place the height on the second line, it places the information below the label, but above the dimensions. <Room Type> <Room Height> <Room Dimensions> I am trying to place the Room Height at the bottom of the label. How can this be accomplished? A follow-up question: is it possible to "refresh" the existing labels on the drawing to have them display the new label data without opening the dbx, turning off "show label", closing, re-opening, reselecting "show label"? I'm not having any luck with CA KB or Forum search. Thank you.

Kbird, that Jintu stuff is certainly amazing. Is that what CA is capable of in the hands of an advanced user, or are there a lot of custom blocks/items in their designs (if you know)?

Drumming up work is an age-old problem. What is the manufactured home market like in your area? Here it is a fairly significant market, a largely rural area. I know of a local dealer has elevations made up for each of their sales for the final plan to the client, a thing also required by building codes. The manufacturer does not provide the elevations, just the plan layout. The particular dealer pays a local draftsman to draw up elevations in a some cad program, as far as I can tell not a "smart" cad program for $150 a pop. I raced one day and was able to successfully create the elevation outputs in CA in about an hour. Now, mfg. homes dealers are notoriously cheap, and the $150 is probably the most those guys would go, and they might not want or need the 3D rendering stuff. However, the homes are also no longer the piddly sticks they used to be, they are a quality better than code item, and people are becoming more "demanding" of realistic drawings to help them visualize the final product. There might be a there there. And what if... Say you become a well-known name and lots of people want the renderings. Maybe climb that ladder and talk to some of the actual manufacturers. They have drafting departments, but their focus is on the building output, not visual. Maybe you offer them an added value of providing quick, effective (and customizable for down-stream clients) models at some bulk rate. You'd have access to a CAD file to quickly import, trace, drop in items and auto build a fairly basic roof. /ideas off EDIT: as a volume comparison, I believe that local dealer is running through 80-100 units a year. It is definitely a high time for them, and nothing to make a living off of, but certainly walking cash.

Hey folks. I did get an opportunity to check out the sample files with the CA 360 app on the S9. Was never able to login in and view the files I exported to the cloud, but the sample ones worked great. Allen, I'd say the pupillary distance in the non adjustable google cardboard is the issue. That is an adjustable setting on my goggles and when I purposely take it out of adjustment it does just what you described in your original post. It's difficult for me to use long term as my eyes do not have the same prescription and it makes me dizzy after more than a couple minutes. The generated files are reasonably sized (<1MB for mine, low on features though). If you're looking to use the feature going forward, I would invest in a good pair of goggles. As an FYI, having experimented with some high def 3D environment scenes in "VR" goggles last year, its pretty neat. EDIT: my S9+ has a bulky case that the goggles squished pretty well, but no issues properly fitting it.

I now see that the original image is the exported file. I'll look at it tonight in my goggles. EDIT: I am for some reason unable to log in to my CA account through the viewer, even though it is logged in on the actual phone. Even when I put it in my dropbox file, and log in through the app, the CA account pops up with a browser error message.

How large is the file? Do you have the ability to publicly post it or share a downloadable link? I too have an S9+, and have a nice viewer that I would try it on. My experience with cardboard was poor because I have a melon sized head and naturally poor eyesight, but S9+ does well with the drone FPV viewer.

Kervin, per you suggestion, I spent a little time this morning and drew the roof from scratch with manual planes throughout, which, with a lot of help from this forum, I consider myself reasonably adept at. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the solution for the problem. As soon as the room height is changed in the room spec DBX, it changes them throughout.

Thank you for the replies, plan posted below. I have made quite an effort learning not only manual manipulation of roofs but also properly setting up wall controls for automatic roof construction. There are a variety of responses, so I'll try to generally address. Roof was set up and built with autoroof, but it was turned off after, no manual edits since. I want to keep the perimeter wall height at 9', and the rest of the house at 9' ceiling, just the living area at 12'. When I manually change this room height in the Room Spec DBX, it accomplishes what I want from the interior (ceiling at the base of the rafters until the room height is reached). However, this change is applied through all rooms on the floor. I do not believe this to be a lack of understanding on roof manipulation manually or automatically, but rather in the way the program addresses room height change. I did draw invisible walls within the area where a 12' ceiling height would be built flat without any interaction with the rafters. Same thing happens when I try to define this room at 12', it changes the entire story to 12'. Thank you everyone, Merry Christmas Cherokee Sketch.plan

Is it possible to change the height of a single room using automatic tools and not reverting to custom ceiling planes? The main structure is 9' ceilings, the living room needs to be 12' clipped in to the rafters on one side. I feel certain I've successfully accomplished this before but completely in the interior of the house (not at exterior wall). Is the exterior wall causing the whole floor to be built at the living room height? Can this be specified with roof build, or does it need to be "tricked" with an invisible wall and ceiling plane? Thanks folks and Merry Christmas, there isn't a rush, just learning.

I build all of my rigs, generally piece by piece doing the compatibility research myself. The newegg builder is a new one on me but should have all components suited for each other. Another guy in the office has the link I posted on order to arrive next week. I enjoy building and recommend it, especially as you've done it before. I did check out an AMD build in the same link, with a 1070 card, 32GB ram; its still only $1,500. However, I'm also a heretic with 2 licenses of Win7 left and will keep building those systems until the hardware is no longer compatible (becoming an issue already with drivers and chip sets).

What's your ability on assembling a computer yourself? I'd check out Newegg system builder: https://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/pc-build-kits/v40/builder/main.html#two If not, any gaming computer mfg. would be what I would look for.

I'm sure by now OPs problem is solved, and thread is "dead", but for future lookups... I'll add a program to DJPs list, "IrfanView" for converting between image types. It is not an editor per se, it will trim, clip, etc images but no markup tools. It is a very lightweight program that starts as freeware or an inexpensive license for commercial license. It is more effective than MS Paint, less demanding costly than the Adobe products and very speedy. It will also convert PDF to other image formats (which I just discovered and successfully explored in posting this). It has been my favorite for quick screen capture->clip->save for a variety of projects (generally GIS mapping systems and their clunky export/virtual print processes).

I posted a plan with 3-d hollow text I imported from AutoCad at this link after trying to create lettering for a store front, will work for the glass at least. What I do not know if if the text could be rotated to fit "flat" to your awning. On the logo, in the same post, I believe AlaskanSon had also mentioned using Google Sketchup to create the text. I'm not at all familiar with sketchup, but if it can create text, maybe you could use it to create your logo then import to Chief from an imported jpeg..

Very succinct video. Thanks BrownTiger. I was unaware of the term gull-wing roof and hadn't thought to use the options in the wall dialog.

Solver, I can't find an option in the roof dialog that will allow me to specify a secondary pitch over the soffit only. I do know I could manually create roof planes on the perimeter. I have already had to start manually modifying roof (per your instructional video) so the option may be gone now. Temp00002.PDF

Does CA autobuild a roof with 12:12 pitch, but outside of the wall line it drops to 8:12 to the fascia? Attempting to recreate an architectural plan in CA to show two room additions and how they will tie in over all. It is not crucial, but more of a curiosity.