CanadaChristine

For some reason my elevation view (and perspective views) have some funny things going on at the top of the foundation wall.  The floor plate is ghosting through the view, and the side wall doesn't seem to come all the way up to the brick.  it only occurs on one section of the house, the rest is normal.  I've compared settings, and don't see what the matter is.  Help!

Hi.  I'm working on a renovation which requires a new bearing wall to be framed immediately outside of an existing exterior wall which currently has a 4" brick veneer on it.  The brick will be removed and a 2x4 wall framed up an inch or so away from the original stud wall, which remains in place.  A new stone veneer will then be placed in front of the new 2x4 wall, finishing the outside off again.

Any ideas on how best to handle this in Chief?

Ahh, I understand now.  Thank you for clarifying both of those items for me Chris, especially the matter of "solution".  I did indeed misunderstand the purpose of that.  Thanks for your patience with a "newby". 

I am trying to increase roof framing members from 5 1/2" to 7 1/2" but it's not working for me.  I'm pretty sure I have all defaults set, but I seem to be missing something

I'm using X15 on a Mac

Thanks

Thank you Chris.  I did play with those settings, but for some reason they did not seem to take effect before.

Can anyone help me find the settings necessary to change dimensioning from dimensioning to the centreline of openings instead of the edges/jambs?

I'm using X 15 on a Mac laptop

Thanks Ryan.  Your second post gave me the clue that got me started on getting this resolved.  

Hi all.  I have a garage wall that has a higher footing level than the rest of the house.  The bottom of footing level difference is 3'10, but I can't have such a large step according to Ontario code.  I turned the affected wall into a pony wall, with brick wall above the foundation level.  I used the break tool to separate the foundation wall into segments, to drag each to the proper positions.  Now my wall intersections with perpendicular walls are not cooperating.  The perpendicular walls have extended past the changed foundation wall for some reason.  On the main floor level, things still seem to be fine.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help

Edit to initial post:

The level 1 garage wall is actually not showing correctly either.  Corners are off, and windows don't display in 3 D view

Got it figured out.   Thanks for the help, Y'all

ok, so I'm not sure where to start with manual roofs. The current roof structure is actually rafters, with the main front roof bearing on the wall between porch and living space (brick veneer wall), and the lower sloped roof bearing on a hidden beam supported by the iron porch posts.

Awesome Glenn!  Thanks you so much.  I didn't have auto roofs turned on   Told you I'm an old newby.  I'll play with it from here on, but if there are any quick suggestions on how to clean up the front of this roof, I'd be much obliged.  The front fascia is continuous all the way along.  In other words, porch fascia matches that of the porch in plane and elevation.

I guess I should have specified that I'm using X15 on a Mac.  Last time I used Chief was the 2006 version 10

Thanks again, Christine

I tried that, but it didn't work for me.  It just generated a single slope roof in line with the garage fascia again

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Hi all

I was hoping for some help and/or suggestions on how to best produce the multi-pitch roof set between 2 hip roof planes on this as-built. I've tried using the auto functions, and doing things manually, with no success yet. I'm returning to Chief after a 15 year absence, so I'm essentially a newby on the program.

The attached photo shows the house I'm working with.  It's not obvious on the picture, but the front roof plane is double pitch.  Lower pitch is 3/12, upper pitch is 5/12. 

Thanks so much in advance!

Koster 1.1.plan