PitMan71

No worries. Maybe support could weigh in on it. I will open a ticket and see. Thanks for having a look.

Yes. I have reviewed this panel in my dimension setup. BUT I can't find where I can set it to go to center of door to center of wall like it did in X16. As you can see the dim goes to the face of the wall to center. This even though under Wall Options Interior is set to Centers and nothing else. I can and will adapt. I just didn't know if there was a setting I was missing somewhere. Might be worth a support ticket to Chief to just ask. Thanks

I just changed over to X17. When click on a door or opening, I noticed that my temp dimensions now go to face of wall. Before they were in the center of the wall. I know temp dimension settings are in the dimension style now. If there is a setting for this behavior, I am not finding it..... Note: when I click on a wall, the temp dimensions are to the center of interior wall so I am unsure what is different when click on a doorway. Thanks in advance.

I do this by keeping the main floor of the house at 0" elevation. In the garage I would set it to minus 12 if I wanted a 12" drop. The grade would be set at -16" such that the grade was 4" below the garage floor. It's hard for me to determine what's causing your issue without being able to look at the plan. I suggest sharing it here so some of us can have a look and help you.

This video may helpful.

Following.

Try stretching the roof hole out to the edge. The only issue is there will be separate walls (Dormer wall on top of the first floor wall) and I don't think that is your ultimate intention. Anyway, hope you get it. This is a cool looking small house.

Same here.... I bet that has something to do with project management turned on.

I looked into this.... I see what you are referring to... The only way that I can find to do this is to do the math and make the adjustment or explode the dormer. If not exploded you can't dimension to the dimension layer of the walls in it. The only way I could find to dimension it was to drag grips to it and that wasn't attached to the wall dimension layer. The dormer tool is really nice. These improvements would make it better and more useful, IMO.

Totally get that..... I wonder if it's something Chief fixed in a later version?

I had this come up a week or so ago. In a section view, drag the bottom of the joist more toward the roof and it should clip it. Also, there might need to be a railing wall or beam there for it to recognize that there is something to bear on. In my case, there was an exterior wall. I just drug the joist toward the roof and the system clipped it. You can always just turn off framing layer in that view AND you might be able to apply a profile to those ends if the above doesn't work. That ways my backup plan. Just remember you can only scarf cut a joist so much before its structural integrity is compromised.

it is.... As Chris mentioned. Occasionally, I will change the display to different floors depending on where I need to see it at the time. Generally tho I show the roof on the first floor OR on the floor where it mostly bears. I have moments like that too. BUT, I just remind myself that I had way more of those moments when I used SoftPlan. AND a lot of those moments are self imposed.

Once you get the walls showing you will probably need to change them to rail walls so you can set the height. Under railing style panel check specify railing, select "Solid". Then on newels/Balusters panel set height.

"Roof over this room" is the only thing that should be checked.