PitMan71

Alright. I found a solution. For the pony walls that bisect the rooms creating the return above, just create a pony wall with the change occurring at the ceiling, 109.125. brick above and interior below. Then create the front wall as a pony wall at the same height with brick 4 above and below. this will allow you to move the upper and lower parts f of that wall independently. the get close to what you want to accomplish. Then using the edit wall layer extents tool to pull the drywall from the bisecting wall forward to cover the face of the brick coming through the wall from the front wall. this should be done after pulling that lower portion of the front facing wall out of the room as much as you can. clear as mud, right. Things should not be this mysterious to fix. There must be a better way. Even though I fixed this, the chances of me remembering these exact steps the next time its encountered is unlikely. Lewis.plan.zip

I have never had any success at getting the stairs to look right when protruding through the floor like that. they seem to be bugs in the software. The only thing I know to do would be to use 3d solids instead of wall objects to close it up. Having said that I never have even wasted my time on it. As far as turning the brick like you are wanting to do, because there are two roofs over there that you must trim around, you will manually need to adjust the roof planes (be sure to turn off special snapping in the roof plane objects) and then adjust the bottom and top of the pony wall to be where you want. these little details can be a head ache. I will say that you might want to adjust your roof to where you only have one roof edge to connect with on the sides of that return. Not sure you want that small dead valley there. only other thing is you have the brick of the front facing wall extent ending into the bedroom which is not desirable. The wall object is just following the intersection directive which in this case is not what you want. This is where I wish we had a bit more control over wall object intersections. There is probably a work around that I am unaware of, but nothing comes to mind right now. I will keep looking at it to see if I can come up with a solution. Shane

Delete the gutter from the roof object and that will take care of the gutters.

You will need to draw walls in the attic manually above those gables and contour them manually. In the elevation add a break point in the middle. Then pull the middle and the sides down.

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.

Anybody have any success with wall hatching for making a handout or presentation style floor plan? I have tried the wall hatching, but it covers the entire wall and I would prefer it only cover the main layer and let brick hatching be what it is. Not only that but it leaves gaps at 3 and 4 way intersections. It would be nice to have control over wall display and hatching in different views which help streamline things. I am also open to a better way to accomplish this. Im sure someone has encountered this before.

Yes.... Fan/Light combos. So that both switches don't report three way.

This is the response from Chief Support. Hi Shane,I have tried to reproduce this condition without any success. While we have not been able to determine how the connections got into this state, I have found a faster solution than replacing all of those connections. I was able to use the marquee select tool to select all of the electrical connections at once, use open object, then click OK. Doing so restored the connections when testing on Mac and PC here. See if that works for you as well.Kind Regards,Brian What he suggested to fix this condition worked BTW.

Me too. And thanks @Chrisb222for the "Tips and tricks file" tip.

Here is the plan that I was having issues with when I made the post. Some of the devices are connected, but most are not. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4bpqkpyasf9xzkn3whi91/260011-24B.plan.zip?rlkey=73f9y4vgdokeuqskxxm9xr6gd&dl=0 Thanks for having a look.

I worked in another one of my plans yesterday and it didn't have any issues. Im going pay more attention to see if I can find what's going on and then report it to chief.