PitMan71

The finish schedule. My apologies. I thought I mentioned that.

In this picture it looks like someone levitating inside the house.

I have done it a few different ways. 1. You can remove the ceiling in the room dbx and draw a roof plane for your ceiling. 2. I have created invisible pony walls, the bottom of which extends out enough to create my porch edge and the other face pulled back enough to hide that ceiling edge. This can be a pain because while you solve one problem you can create others such as a lot of dashed lines on your porches. 3. I have created it with railing post to beam, but I don't like how it terminates the beam at the ceiling line. I wish there were a more straight-forward way to do this. Seems like us users could settle on a method and let chief engineers look into and create a solution for it. Even if for option 2 with a single invisible wall, just having a room directive in the room dbx to stop the ceiling on the inside edge of the invisible wall which would solve this problem.

For some reason rooms under or around stairs where the lower space is underneath the "open to below" for the stair, the ceiling height reports the ceiling height AND the floor height above.. Is there a way to force it to just report the first floor ceiling height? Thanks

I would call support. They are very responsive.

This thread might be shed some light on this subject.

I have X16 so I can't open the drawing you posted. BUT have you tried the break command, the "3" key?

That's awesome! So glad you got what you needed. Please mark whichever response above was the solution for anyone else who runs into this issue. Also, when you can update your signature to have what eversion of chief you are using..... Currently it shows X14. Have a great day!

Edit Area tool is awesome. Thanks for the tips all. Shane

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/sysreq.html This may help.

Thanks for the help everyone. Rob's solution seemed to be the cleanest, most direct way to accomplish this.

A couple things I noticed when opening file.... The wall that has the man door and windows is marked as a foundation wall. ALSO, the lower part of the pony wall w/stone is set to generate foundation to the outside of the stone (This is in the wall type settings under the "properties" tab.) which may be contributing to the behavior you're experiencing when generating the foundation. When I corrected those two things and generated the foundation using a stem wall the foundation generated correctly. I have X16 so I can't save to X15 or at least I don't know how. Good luck.

Thanks all.

Morning guys... How can I create this porch with Chief, specifically the arched stone above the columns? I have tried multiple methods but I am not able to get the look I am looking for. I would like to do it all on the ground floor.

I will give that a shot. Thanks

I think I figured it out. There was a piece of moulding that was creating the headache or so it seems.

Hey guys.... Is there some secret to rotating many objects at one time? In this case it's a detached garage. I have spent too much time trying to demystify the code. Seems like there are some items that when selected they make the rotate handle disappear. Anyway, any tips on that process? Thanks in advance.

Following.

Add a ceiling and roof over the deck. Open the room dialogue box (dbx) for the deck. On the left navigate to the "Structure" panel.... Under the ceiling heading click "Flat ceiling over this room"... doing this should activate the "Roof Over This Room" box as well. Once you do that you will need to set the sides of the deck to gables. Click the long wall/rail of the deck and open the dbx. Navigate to the "roof" panel. Under the "pitch" you have the option of adding an "Upper Pitch". Select that box and change the upper pitch to 8 and the main pitch to 4. You will have to jigger with the "in from baseline" or "Starts a height" value to get the look you want. You might even cut a live section through it so you can see how things are lining up and change the values mentioned so you can see the resulting affect under the roof, if that makes sense.

Hey, foundations can be complicated at first because there are so many settings. I assume what you mean is a block up raised slab filled with sand?

Thanks all for the responses..... I had moved on to other things. I will give these options a shot and report back.

I wonder if there is a border around the text and a border for the layout box and both are on for some reason in that layout view.

Hey guys How do I fill in this gap open to the attic where my ceiling plane is? I know I have solved this issue before I just can't remember what I did. This is at the top of the stairs looking toward the rear of the home. Thanks in advance for the assistance. Lake Home (Hampschire).plan.zip

Agreed.

That's a way shorter version..... It worked for me. inches are in decimal format though.