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Atlanta requires all risers closed or prevent a 4" sphere yadda yadda. When the "OPEN RISERS" is unchecked in Chief, it looks like the attached images. Chief adds a solid object to the bottom of the stringers, which is wrong. Any idea how to fix this. I did not catch this before and now I have to send a new drawing to a contractor so the inspector will not make him add plywood to the bottom of the exterior stairs.

Now that I understand the issue and how Chief works, I see that as the only option.

Thanks for that, just when I thought I had it figured out...

This becomes an issue when I am doing a porch or covered deck addition. The entire existing house is a 12:12 pitch and then when I get around to playing with the new roof, I draw it in using the previous settings and then change the pitch to maybe a 2:12 pitch to avoid 2nd story window sills. Now we are talking inches not sixteenths. However, this whole thread and other people's input, I now understand better how this works. Messed around with it last night and a real quick fix t get the rafter sitting back where it needs to be. Now that I know you can display a baseline, can somebody explain to me a situation where you would move it....

Yes,....but for most situations, it is the case. Either way, I started a spreadsheet that will give me baseline above my entered top of wall height, and stud size and rafter size. Four years of calculus and I only use trig! I appreciate you making me think. And at the end of the day, being a little off will never be noticed when they build it, but it bugs me.

Correct, but then you need to determine the vertical distance the roof needs to be raised or lowered. Not a big deal, just a pain. Not sure who came up with the idea of where Chief has put the baseline, but the 100% most logical place would be on the inside of the stud wall at the top of the double top plate. That point generally will not move when a pitch is changed or if a larger rafter is used.

Awesome! I did not know you could place the profile.

But you now have extra horizontal lines between vertical and top casing. I know I cannot have everything I want. Mulling a window in Chief changes its appearance graphically. I do appreciate your help though. Thanks.

That is what I was afraid of. Unfortunately, when I mull 2 windows I get a bunch of extra vertical lines where the lintels overlap. I think I need to stick to the molding polyline.

Yep, that is where it is, the problem is that if you have built a complex roof manually and the client wants to go to a higher pitch, you have to start ALL OVER or it will be incorrect.

Great, perfect, although it still does not give me a clue how to make it work or do it. When I use a lintel it gets rid of the top casing.

A lintel replaces the top piece of casing.

Trying to add this piece of crown to the top of the windows. I come across this quite a bit in historic Atlanta and usually end up drawing a piece of molding using a polyline and adjust for each window. I just tried creating a symbol into millwork using a piece of crown. This seemed to work well, but does not wrap on each side.

Apparently I will need to take the long road. I do manual roofs also and in some cases such as this house, I have to create a substantial addition on the back and get all the water to drain off and also make it look good from the street and also make the historic commission happy. So I end up changing roof pitches quite a bit sometimes. This explains why when I get near the end of putting the plans together and start generating sections they are always wrong.

I tried that and that must work for auto roofs as it did not affect anything when I changed it.

Locking the fascia or shadow board will also change the wall height.

I have also just noticed that if later I need to change the rafter depths, it lowers the wall height, it does not move the roof up. The walls heights should be a constant.

I have had this issue before, and I do not understand why this happens. I manually place a roof plane on a wall and Chief uses the settings under "Build Roof" and everything is fine. If I then decide to change the pitch of the roof, it apparently pivots around the baseline, not the bearing point where rafters sit. This causes the exterior wall height to change which is incorrect. Is there way to fix this? In my opinion, the "baseline" should be on the inside of the stud at the rough ceiling height.

Yep...that is what it does!

I have always had this issue and it is a real pain....

Perfect, thank you...

General Notes..

This has occurred for me since day 1 on Chief. I copy text (ctrl-C) and open a new rich text box and paste (ctrl-V) it always just inserts an "A". I have to hit OK, go back to my text, recopy and then repaste. Anyone else have this issue or know a fix?

I have searched and I did get a result saying I can now save notes to my library in X11, however, I can not find any documentation. I have been doing this by adding a line, blocking it and then adding, but hope there is a better way. Anyone have the secret handshake to do this?

Thank you, what I was looking for...!!