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Wow. Thank you, thank you, thank you. EXPLODE - that's what I forgot. Makes a world of difference.

No, everything I've done so far has been using manual roofs. This is probably the toughest one I've tried so far with all of the swoops and multiple pitches, etc. Just can't figure out how to get the dormer directly over the front porch area. The other 3 up in the attic will be easy.

Good afternoon all. Long time Chief user but have only posted on forum a couple of times. I am trying to replicate this elevation because owner has made some changes to floor plan. Having a bogger of a time trying to figure out the little barrel roof dormer just over the front porch. Tried using the auto dormer but it seems you can only make so many modifications to it before everything gets jacked up. And since there is no upper floor in that location, when I pull back the roof I just have a blank space where the floor would normally be. But if you look at the picture the window is recessed down into the roofline area. Any suggestions by you experts would be greatly appreciated. I've been fiddling with this for hours with no luck.

Thank you so much. This worked well and solved my issue. I know that no software is perfect, and Chief seems to have the least amount of quirks of any of the residential design software I have used. But it seems like such an unnecessary work around and something Chief could easily fix.

Thanks for your video on this topic. This has baffled me for some time now. Question though - is there any way of doing this where the actual wall extends below the first few treads instead of just unchecking "Open Underneath"? This is the closest video I've found to being accurate but doesn't really depict how we would build that wall under the open portion of the stairs.

Thanks everyone for your input. I guess it will just take some getting used to. Hopefully all of the features that make it easier than Revit will offset this one inconvenience. I will say that in general I am impressed with the short learning curve. And it seemed that with Revit everything was a workaround to get it to do something that Revit was never really intended to do.

Wow, that's disappointing. I just assumed this was a basic feature of any design software. Time is money and that seems to be a lot of time adjusting walls that might have been able to have been placed accurately the first time. Wish I would have known that before I purchased the software or I never would have bought it. My fault for not checking I guess. Thanks for your assistance.

Thanks for your response. I tried that but it does not seem to do what I am needing. Let's say I have an exterior wall that I want to use as a reference point and I want to place an interior wall 12' to the interior side of that exterior wall. There is no way that I can see to track down from that inside wall edge and place the new wall.

So, I'm new to Chief Architect. Been using Revit for years. While it seems that Chief makes many things easier when designing residential structures, I am finding one thing a little troubling. Maybe its just because I haven't figured the software out yet, but it appears that there is no way to get exact wall placement when an interior wall is first placed. All videos I have watched show a wall getting placed in close proximity and then adjusted after placement by overwriting temporary or permanent dimensions. This seems like a lot of extra work to get a wall placed. Revit has temporary dimensions that track from an existing wall and assist in the placement of new walls. Does Chief not have this feature? This seems like a basic feature that every design software should have. Am I missing something here? Seems like a lot of extra work. Thank you in advance to anyone who can assist.