PitMan71

No magic. Just grit ..... A combination of wall and roof intersections. First you have to identify why you are getting the behavior you are getting. Chief is just responding to its objects directives. Sometimes I delete things to see what specifically is causing the behavior. After finding the offending object and undeleting it I adjust it to get the outcome I am looking for. When you work with roofs and walls intersecting the directives are pretty basic, but sometimes like in your case there are multiple walls and scenarios creating a complex situation requiring a multifaceted solution. In your case it wasn't one thing. It was multiple things that I needed addressing.

Attach Garage 6-2.plan.zipi was able to get it looking a bit better.

I am trying to export jpg images straight from chief floor plan. Anybody got any suggestions to make the image sharp? No matter what resolution I export to the image is grainy.... I am able to get a sharper image by exporting to PDF first and then using preview to export to jpg. Seems like there should be a more direct way. Thanks

No problem bro. Happy to help.... I have been where you are.

Yes... I saw that before. More than anything I wanted to make sure I understood your request. Regarding the pieces of wall poking through, that will be a bit tricky. There is combination of moves here that will yield the desired results. Figuring that out will take some finagling. I will take another look at when I have a minute.

Is the what yo are trying to accomplish?Attach Garage.plan.zip

I will say 42" feels safer to me, but only on second story and above.

That's strange. It's almost as if the railing doesn't exist when the dimension is outside the railing wall. It may have something to do with the fact that you can't snap to any of the objects in a rail wall on plan or in elevation view. I played around with it on my end and its does the exact same thing.

Is there a stretch plane in the railing panel? I looked into chiefs railing and I noticed that it would only stretch those panels that had a stretch plane.

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