TeaTime

Let me be the first to say: I think there's more going on here than just an ornery elevation...

This led me to deleting your roof - which fixed it. Odd that an Elevation dimension would care about a ROOF!!

Why would that be?
Well let's see what these elevation dimensions care about!

OH.

Well hello there.

Much better.

I've seen this happen when there's a room down below on Floor 1 that's set to have a Roof over it, but Auto Roof is Off.

If there's a porch or deck down there, make sure its not trying to build a roof.

I'm curious if anyone else has any clever solutions to this but I don't think there's a good solution unfortunately.

Overall the good news is that manually flipping every piece of text on the plan, while arduous, is a lot easier than redrawing the whole thing again!

The only tip I know to give here is: Edit Area effectively selects the Rooms, so room specs are retained.

And while Room Labels also flop, they auto correct when they're hidden and shown again. If you select a room and use the Marquee Select Same tool you can select and open all rooms, hide labels, open them again and show them again and they'll all be good. Then you just have to rotate the actual text objects. Might just hide all layers but the Text so you can more easily see them all. The All Layers Off layerset is handy for that sorta thing.

ANY icon??

the only thing I can figure is Esc cancels out of dialogs, so maybe dialogs are opening off-screen and you just can't see it. Esc would close it allowing you to get back to the main program. Maybe try Reset Dialog Size/Position in Preferences.

Otherwise that sounds like a Tech Support call to me!

Just now, DBCooper said:

Open the deck room.  

Edit the floor structure.

Mark the joists as framing.

Turn auto rebuild deck framing back on (or manually rebuild the deck faming every time you make a change).

OH So quick! But I got pictures so I win!!  

Almost always "lost deck planking/framing" is due to it just not being set to regenerate framing.

But it doesn't build even after your framing is set to regenerate.

So, look at the deck framing:

Joist layer has to be set to generate as Framing for it to .. well, generate as framing.

Seems obvious except that it totally isn't.

Pretty sure that's a No - remember the old Library Browser had a Preview and Selection panes or panels or whatever? The Selection was always just a static CAD image of the object. No way to change it. Unlike the Preview where you could change between Vector or Standard, color on/off.

Maybe submit a request, 'cause its not like that pane can't display color, it just doesn't for symbol objects it seems. Materials show colors fine, and if you create a Style Palette, its items display as vector view with color! Ought to be a toggle for that.

But Help states that "When this box is checked, the room label’s display will be enabled when the Room Type is changed from “Unspecified”.", but the common theme is that room names that were previously set and visible seemingly magically all get Show Room Label unchecked for no good reason.

Fingers crossed it hasnt' happened to me yet, it seems rather pervasive.

Just a thought though, if it's only happening with a certain type of wall, then it's a wall type issue.

Open your 6" Brick wall's definition and make sure the Brick layer doesn't have "Air Gap" checked, very bottom option.

That literally makes that layer not build anything in 3D.

plan file is 0mb, try reattaching it - make sure it's not open in Chief when you zip it.

22 minutes ago, Drew-PRH said:

Why would Chief display in the Window Schedule an image of a 2040 Skylight that looks a bit odd - see image

It's doing very literally what it's told to do, showing the "3D Exterior Elevation" view of that skylight.

Makes sense for Windows.

8 minutes ago, Drew-PRH said:

Is there a way to change the Header Category Title on any Schedule?

Sure, open up the schedule and select the column name in the Columns to Include section and press Rename. Or double-click.

I usually just delete the "symbol" header names, they're not useful.

I've not noticed this before either, but it looks like its a difference between the built in door types vs symbol doors.

one on the left is the generic "slab", one on the right is from the library, E01.

Prob send it in for the engineers to look at.

Your invisible walls are bisecting your exterior walls.

Break the invisible, join the visible.

 instead of 

Ah. Well I suppose I stand corrected!

Sitting down now!

6 minutes ago, KristjanM said:

The custom object fields do not even though they are using the same area number (a formatted version). This would lead me to think that a custom object field cannot be a number (float or integer) but rather is defined as a string. Correct?

While we're waiting for the macro whizzes to show up, I think the issue is that formatted values can only be stored as a string. I don't know that custom fields have a limitation on how they're stored.

Under the Boxed Eaves options in the roof plane spec there's a Length you can play with - gotta uncheck Default to Overhang, but this can be used to custom set the box depth past the wall.

Dang, I almost assumed as much given "railing" in the title but second guessed.

1 minute ago, Chopsaw said:

Wall Schedule

^ This.

Total Lengths, Group Similar.

Be mindful that wall schedules include based on wall type so you'll need to set the Categories to Include to only include that one type of wall.

1 hour ago, GParker said:

total terrain lengths

I'm not sure what you're asking for.

2 hours ago, KnotSquare said:

I managed to correct my model,  but if I draw new walls off of this .plan, the issue will repeat. Since it is grayed out in defaults, how do I uncheck it?

Check your Exterior Wall Defaults

On 9/12/2023 at 9:00 AM, TeaTime said:

on the Structure panel, look under the Double Wall settings and set it to Frame Through.

The main thing to remember with Auto Roofs is that the roofs are built over Rooms, and their heights are set off ceilings.

Temporarily setting ceiling heights is often the key to get the auto roofs to work right.

The most simple example of what you're aiming for though is simply this:

All exterior walls w/ siding facing outward, all four vertical walls set to Full Gable roof.

Raise the middle room's ceiling and Auto build roof. The inner walls build up to create the inset gables.

Simple!

Kind of.

There's more that needs to be done, but there's a lot of resources on roofs, both manual and automatic.

Looking at this pic I'd think that would be essentially a giant manual dormer, sort of. It's a pretty specific style so I doubt Chief will have anything on exactly that but you could certainly use a lot of the same Manual Dormer techniques. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1521/manually-drawing-dormers.html?playlist=95

I find most dormer tutorials talk about using roof Holes, but because the raised roof appears to straddle the lower one, you'd want to break and pull the larger, lower roof plane's ridge edge down to create a large opening where you could then draw the Exterior walls inside of, then manually draw roof planes as needed.

For anyone else who can't natively view HEICs:

(it's good to use PNG or JPG - also ppl like plans to work with too)

13 minutes ago, KendallDesign said:

How do I make that tile appear... That area is a doorway.

Pretty sure they just don't work in doorways. It'd probably work fine if the doorway and wall were removed and the header area were a soffit or something.

Otherwise, slip in a 3D Solid of the same thickness as the backsplash - those things can exist anywhere they please.

I don't use that dialog (I prefer just navigating in the Project Browser, don't need to remember which page number is which), but when I tested it just now it seems fine.

Different layouts, closed and reopened the program.

I assume you have the general Preference Save Dialog Position set to Always or Session?

Maybe set it to Never, close and relaunch and set it back.