bdammeyer

Hello, 

I run into homes with flared roof trim on the barge rafter quite a bit. I often draw in a 3D solid as shown here: 

Is there away to join my 3D solid piece to the roof trim (barge rafter) in order to make it look seamless? 

I suppose I could draw a 3D solid for the whole assembly and hide the trim on the roof. Anybody have a better approach? 

Thanks!

X15 

win 11 pro

geforce card

breaking the walls where they intersect the dormer fixed the issue. Thanks Coop

Thanks for taking a look... valuable tips. I will see if I can get it fixed.

250206 Ames - Existing.zip

Here you go. 

Thanks DB - I will try using the auto roofs more - I abandoned that approach long ago because it seemed easier to achieve the desired results manually. Guess I need to relook at that feature.

Unfortunately, my plan is a few MBs over the 14MB limit.

Hello, 

Wondering if anybody has a tutorial or a cheat sheet - or could just briefly explain how these options work? I've messed around with them over the years but don't think I've ever fully understood them. When do you use them and what exactly do they do? 

(I know what include frieze does. I also know that some of them are used in Auto roof generation- which is a feature i don't use much.) 

One reason I'm looking into this is because I'm trying to figure out how to eliminate these wall intersections on the outside wall of this dormer. I think these options are part of the solution. 

Thanks

I'm working in X15 and X16 currently. Windows 11 - Geforce RTX 3080

Thank you DBCooper - You tha man. 

sorry VHampton - just seeing your response. 

That is ultimately what i did. Resend the view to sheet. That fixed the issue - but it would be nice if we could just refresh the shadows in the view already on the sheet. I think this issue comes from sending the view to the sheet and then scaling up the view while on the layout page. 

Thanks for your help

Can anybody tell me how to make a staircase that starts out straight and then widens at the bottom? See attached picture. The flared stairs tool gets me close but I need the flared sections to be straight lines (not curves).  Found a few people on this forum asking about this but couldn't find any solutions.

Thanks

x15 

windows 11 Pro

Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU

Hello, 

I was wondering if anybody has run into this issue. 

When producing a 3D view w/ shadows, I often need to scale up or down the 3d view to fit the proper viewing window on a layout. 

Once the image is scaled up or down the shadows reload at the original size and not at the new size. SEE image below. 

I'm wondering if there is a way to force the 3d view to recreate the shadows for the new view size without having to pull a new perspective camera? 

Hope that makes sense. 

X15

Windows 11 

Geforce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU

Can anyone tell me why this one window wants to orient itself backwards (i.e. the exterior is facing the interior)? 

I've got 2 windows in this wall that are identical - for some reason the one is correct while the other is not. 

Thanks!

x14

windows11

RTX3080

Dropbox link to file: 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yscci4wxkwunrshkzucu7/230821-Dreibelbis-Proposed-1.plan?rlkey=q9a5qffkn3lrawhp353zjfcop&dl=0

thanks 

I did notice the roof was slightly off center after posting.  I have fixed that and removed the extra node. 

Still getting the same problem though. 

Were you able to get it to work on your end? 

partial file.plan

Hello, 

x14 roof issue. I am joining a 9/12 gable roof to a 6:12 hipped roof. 

Both roofs are square cut and both fascia top heights and shadow board top heights are set to 119 5/8". 

Can anyone help me figure out why the fascia and shadow boards just disappear as shown here:  

partial file.plan

Thank You!

X14 - windows 11 - NVidia Geforce RTX3080

I figured it out - I had the room that was bounded by the railings set to "no floor below room". 

When i went in to the room dialogue and deleted the 4" floor structure, the problem was fixed. 

Thanks for all your help

I dont have a material just called "framing" so i chose "fir framing 1". that didnt work. 

Then i tried making it "opening (no Material)". Its showing the outline still but no material applied to the faces.  I can live with that.

Here is the plan file in case anybody wants to look into it further.  (had to zip it to get it under the file size limit)

230919 Freeman - Existing.zip

Thanks - it was a multi layer railing - I tried to make it a single layer wall (railing) but it wont let me delete the interior layer and it still shows something below the rail itself. 

Hello - 

Can someone tell me how to remove this unwanted framing below a exterior railing? 

Im on X14. 

Thanks

Thank You Rosco - 

That worked!

\I would have never thought that a setting in an adjacent room would control that. 

My soffit extends out too far. Is there a way to trim my soffit back so that it butts into the fascia? 

I copied the room and roof off to the side and it appears correctly for the most part - still has issues with the frieze and the soffit appears to be trimmed a little too much but i could live with that. Anyone have any ideas what setting is causing this?  File attached. 

Thanks!

X14 - Windows 

230509 Baeder - Existing.plan

I tried that but it didn't work for me. I think you are right about it being an adobe thing though. When i open the PDF in Chrome, the lines are gone. 

Thanks for confirming that. I was afraid that was going to be the answer. Seems so easy for CA to clean up simple graphical bugs like this. 

I should clarify:

The gray area is a cad object filled solid with 80% transparency. It looks great in Chief but when i print to PDF, I get those lines.

Hi - 

When i put a gray cad object over a portion of a plan, i end up with these distracting lines when I go to print. Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks,

X14 Windows RTX 3080

thank you - yes i did add it manually. I will try adding from the wall dialog.