Mackenzie

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That wad great to get me on the right path, here is the drawing I'm trying to copy for the framing/foundation layout. Addition Foundation.pdf

using the build foundation tool is the only way I know right now.

yes, same thing but different wording. I should have caught that but used my phrasing the first time then the wording chief has for what I'm looking the second. It looks like that will work though, currently it's defaulting to a footing instead of beam on pier but I'll look over it and expect that will be an option.

there's gotta be something I'm missing, whether that box is checked or not It deletes my basement foundation when generating the new and I'm not seeing the manual foundation building tools anywhere.

That's what I'm trying to do but I don't know how to do that.

Hello, I am working on an addition to a home and we have a full design already but I am trying to get a technical drawing put together for the city and builders we'll be bringing in. The current building is a standard full basement but the addition will be a post and pier foundation and I'm having trouble getting the rest of the homes foundation to remain when I build the grade beam on piers option, how do I represent both at the same time on this print? You may notice the siding on the inside of the house, that is from the original/current home shape and the membrane roof portion is new. I'm working on setting new layer defaults so that I can better show the current layout vs planned build but that will take some time and hopefully that is the correct first step but not the issue I really need help with now. Thanks again for taking the time to look over my question. Exterior 2.plan

Plan file Attic 2 copy.plan.zip

Hello, I'm working on an attic render and am looking for some additional help. My current problem is not knowing how to slope a cabinet to fit nicely against a sloped roof, I will attach two images as well as the plan file if helpful. The first image shows about where I want the cabinet and the roof line cutting through it, I'm using full height cabinets as that seemed the closest first. Second photo is just the cabinet pulled forward to give more context. The compressed plan file was still too large so I will try posting that in a comment below

Thank you, this project is definitely going to have a permit for the work, on top of being a rather difficult layout it is also in a Historic district that adds a bit of extra complication. A beautiful neighborhood to work in but not a convenient one.

Thank you! I wasn't aware I had that resource as an option. I think it would be very helpful for me to setup at least an hour training package for someone to guide me through some of the more confusing aspects in place of sorting through a lot of long videos to find the small bits of relevant info. The videos are all very helpful but the roof relevant ones have a lot to learn in them.

Thank you for all the help, I will be starting on the flat roof portion soon and your file will be an awesome reference for me on how to do it correctly. Unfortunately our ceiling joist from the floor below (attic floor joist) are old full size 2x6 but we dont have them spanning over 10'. is there an easy way to change the flat portion to be a flat roof instead of a soffit under the roof line? I dont think this difference will matter for the purpose of this print but I'm just trying to do more things correctly as I learn to make future projects easier.

Thank you! that solved my issue and the walls are rendering how I need them to know, I messed with too many settings I didn't understand when trying to get the roof line down into the room and the video cleared it up. Also the wall that you selected to move to 48" was the correct wall and measurement, I just had it at 46" when I took the screenshot and probably should have moved it to represent my question more accurately.

Hi Doug and thank you for taking the time to try and help me solve this. I went back and checked the slope of the roof again and it looks to be a 12-12 when I measured off of a level but closer to a 7' rise over 6' when I measured from where the rafters meet the exterior wall to the flat portion of roof, I will attach some photos of the space as well since drawing it is an issue for me before I learn a bit more. First photo is me trying to measure and show the slope one handed, the second is taken from about where the bathroom wall is drawn and facing the bedroom space, the third is facing the bath alcove while standing to the right of where I had the top of the stairs drawn and the final photo is a rough sketch of the flat roof size 97"x178" with a note that it is about 7' away from the west wall. I think my main problem that I can identify at least right now is that wall not generating in the bathroom, I didn't follow what Eric was saying since the wall will work if it's below 43" or over 52" but just doesn't work at the 48" I needed. I only started learning the program middle of 2023 so understand I have plenty left to learn, particularly in the technical framing portions of the program but would happily watch some training videos if you could recommend one/some that would cover most of this. I'm trying to convey a lot of confusion at once so please let me know if there's anything I need to elaborate on and thanks again for your time.

Here it is, did the first plan file not come across correctly due to me having chief open still? Attic.plan

I seem to keep having the same issues with my walls rendering, It will show fine when drawn within 43" of the roof edge or more than 53" away but my problem is that I need the wall positioned at 48" and I only get the base moulding and missing drywall in that range. do you know why that is happening?

Hello, I'm currently drawing up an attic remodel and looking for help with some problems or even just a starting direction on what tutorials I could watch to learn myself. We're trying to fit a bathroom and bedroom in this attic and I keep running into issues that I think come from not having my floor levels set properly or maybe the structural settings and I'm snappingg to the wrong floors. It seemed to be working better when I just had the one floor but was concerned the stairs I'm adding wouldn't look right without a floor below. My current problem is that some of the walls I'm trying to draw will display only the base molding and then a portion of cut out drywall above but no wall in between. To get the roof line in the attic I set the second floor ceiling height to 1" so that the rafters would start at floor level, unchecked the flat ceiling over this room box and then went around the exterior to shift + select all the roofs and set the pitch to be 12-12 so this step may be where most of my problems come from. Additionally this home has a neat ~10'x10' flat portion of roof in the middle that you can climb up to, this is less pressing but what would be the proper start to changing part of my roof to be flat like that? Attic.plan

Thank you all so much for all the help and examples, I'm going to go over this all more carefully later and expect I'll be able to learn even more than I expected when asking the question!

Hello, I've been struggling to recreate this vanity and have solved most of my issues but am stuck on the lower portion. My biggest issue is recreating the open back and side brass supports for the bottom of the vanity. I tried removing the toe kick then splitting the bottom open portion horizontally but then I run into issue with opening the sides and back as well as getting the brass finish applied without too much of the vanity also converting to brass. Here is a photo of where I'm at along with what I'm trying to match. thank you for your time helping me learn this.

Thank you, I'll give that method a shot next time around. Would that give me trouble with a jamb above the glass? also curious If the jamb would extend all the way to the ceiling or would it just stop at the height of the shower door? we usually leave about 12" gap between the door and ceiling and I'm concerned that portion wouldn't display the tile/jamb.

No problem, it can be hard to explain sometimes, my goal was to have wainscot tile around the whole room and tile to the ceiling in the shower and on the 4.5" width portion of the shower opening. I was able to make it look like that with wall material region tool selecting the space to be drywall, then deleting all but the backboard layer and setting it's thickness to 1/32" after unchecking the "cut finish layer" box. It seems like there would be an easier way but that's how I got here.

I just finished trying your suggestion, It looks like It mostly works but wants to wrap around that narrow portion of the wall to the point where the glass meets, I had forgotten about the wall covering tool from a tile video though and might be missing a step.

1) I didn't understand this suggestion at first, but your saying just draw a rectangle with the 3D solid tool and position it carefully? 2) I was able to get this one to work after selecting that and then just leaving it as one layer of backer board that I painted to match the rest of the walls. a bit of extra work but I'm very happy to have a working solution, thank you. 3) once I switched to a pony wall I was able to control the upper and lower portions independently but they would both wrap around the corners respectively, is there a step or box I missed with this solution? Option 2 is very much appreciated, just trying to learn as much as possible. thank you!

Hello, I'm trying to get my tile to apply to the inside opening of a shower without it being applied to the rest of the wall above the tile wainscot. I've tried the custom backsplash tool and that won't register to the narrow portion of the wall, I also attempted applying the tile to the entire wall by selecting the narrow section and then defining a custom wall material region but that ends up removing wallboard from the opening entirely. I'm surprised I haven't encountered this before but any help would be thoroughly appreciated. my plan file was too large to share so I'm hoping these photos will help enough to understand my problem.

I'm definetly still struggling a bit with exactly how this is all working but after your 2 helpful videos I was able to get this which is going to have to be close enough, thank you for the help.