PitMan71

Would an emissive poly line work for what you are trying to do?

Been there bro. Glad I could help out.

I have run into this before. See if this is what you need. Go to "preferences" .... may be called something else on PC.

That makes sense—if this is the condition I was trying to describe. This is definitely one of those situations where a photo would’ve helped, so that’s on me. That said, your example really helps clarify what you were referring to above, and it all clicks now. I appreciate the different perspectives in how we approach things—thanks for sharing. In my condition the entire garage ceiling would be dropped 12" or so and stairs would come up from the living area that is 10' or 9'. The attached is the plan where adding the bonus above the garage gave me fits. When I added the bonus, the whole left side of the house dropped to 8' like the garage, even tho its the only space I changed. In this case I caught it and corrected it.... twice. haha. Thinking back on it I believe the cause was my haphazard approach to accomplishing this, even though I have done it several times before. This is because sometimes things are in flux as you figure out how to add and access the space.... After seeing @Joe_Carrick 's post it made me think more critically about what needs to be done for chief to behave. Before I am pretty sure I didn't create a room for the stair. setting it at the ceiling height needed for the bonus above to work. in this case 8'. My takeaway from everyone's comments is to be more deliberate and aware when adding a space above where the ceilings change ht from default....

the only room I have in the second floor is the bonus area above the garage. When I lower the garage the allow for more ceiling space in the bonus room somehow other room's ceilings are also lowered. What I am probably going to do is draw a test house and play around with it to see what's happening. I get a lot of my answers that way.

Anybody else run into an issue where Chief Architect changes multiple room ceiling heights when lowering a garage ceiling to accommodate a bonus room above? I typically design with 10' ceilings throughout. When I add a bonus room over the garage and drop the garage ceiling to 8' or 9', I’ve noticed that random rooms elsewhere in the house will also drop to 8' or 9'. It doesn’t seem consistent as to which rooms are affected. Just trying to confirm whether this is a known behavior or if I’m missing a better workflow for adding a bonus room without impacting other ceiling heights. Appreciate any insight—thanks in advance.

Gonna give this a shot. Thanks for the tip.

I am pretty sure you will find all of your folders under "Documents". You are looking for a folder called "Chief Architect Premier X16 Data" where the X16 is the version of chief you have installed. I would make sure those folders exist or didn't somehow get remapped transparently without you being aware.... In my case this happened when I set my Mac to sync with iCloud. Suddenly everything was missing. This is because in order for things to sync with iCloud, they had to be in a certain folder and therefore "documents" was remapped by macOS to the new folder. Once I reset the folder path location in Chief everything sorted itself out. If the data folders exist check the actual "documents" folder path and compare with what is in chief. if you don't know how to do that a quick google search should suffice.

This'll require manual roofs. it should be relatively easy tho.

Are you wanting the upper roof to extend down to lower roof or vice versa?

This is one of those things that frustrate me too. Would really like more control over how these walls clean up like "don't clean up this intersection!" The cleanup wall tool does help sometimes. Anyway, try this.... Step 1 - pull the end of the wall out past the intersection. Step 2 - Grab the diamond on the end of the wall to draw a new wall, just a few inches, in the direction opposite the shower wall but perpendicular to the existing wall. Step 3 - make the new wall invisible. Step 4 - move the new invisible wall back towards the original location, where you want the end of the wall. Adding the invisible wall gives the wall something to cleanup with. If you really want to get technical make a new invisible wall layer for the little wall piece and turn it off.

That's what I was thinking. I just didn't want to have to do that if there was something baked in. Thanks

Thanks for the response..... It's actually an angled bird box. The roof itself doesn't change. I attached a photo.

What is the best way to achieve a gable angled bird box like this? its kind of a French country look. Thanks

Yes.... I know you can do this with the wall display options in wall definition, I just prefer this ;look only for marketing materials. SO I used the wall hatch tool. Anyway, it's causing the gaps you are seeing at the intersection. My standard wall fill in wall def looks like yours without the gaps, only it is gray.