Alaskan_Son

^^^^This^^^^, although even 5-1/2" ceiling structure would just about work, and you could also just change your side walls from "Interior-4" to "Frame-3 1/2" or some other wall type wih no exterior layers. That gap is just being generated by the exterior finish layer of the wall.

If I'm understanding correctly, what you need to do is break your wall and include one very short section of Hip wall in the middle...

Exactly the method I posted above except I didn't hold back 1/2" in my example. I went tight to the corner. A few other notes regarding this general method for anyone wanting to use it: If you want to get a super sharp transition between your wall and soffit materials, snap the ceiling plane to the outside of your gable wall and break that wall in half. If you want to see the exposed edge of your soffit, drag the ceiling planes back from the surface a very small amount (I always use 0.01"). You can use Room Ceiling Finish but depending on your gable position as it relates to the floor below, doing so may not allow the ceiling finish to extend far enough. The one big potential benefit to using Room Ceiling finish is that if you are having notable issues with the ceiling snapping to an unwanted position, that setting will allow you to pull the ceiling plane well outside the room--completely avoiding the snap problems. If you want the surface material to continue down below the surface of your soffit, then your best bet is to add a Solid and drag it down the appropriate amount. This can be achieved super fast though if you already have the wall in place. Just open an elevation view, make sure you're up on the attic level, click on your attic the wall with the Wall Material Region tool, select the Material Region, and use the Convert Polyline tool and convert to a Solid. You can then reshape as desired and snap the solid to your wall surface in plan view if its not already there.

Sorry, maybe I should have been more clear. I wasn't looking for design alternatives. Just looking for the most automated and intuitive way to fill in that gable end with the vaulted underside.

As I mentioned in my last post, this is very similar to what I ultimately did except that I used a ceiling plane. Yeah, that is always my backup approach. Its nice to be able to use a wall if possible though.

For the record, here's what I actually did: Ceiling plane with zero thickness structural layer pulled past the attic wall's main layer, and attic wall set to Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom... Example Plan 2.plan This works, but its hard to dial in the wall placement in some situations since the ceiling planes want to snap to main layers. Can be a little frustrating depending on the plan.

Curious how the rest of you guys would model an exterior vaulted gable end like this one... I have attached a quick example plan if you want to give it a play. I don't know of any really easy or intuitive ways of getting that gable end wall to automatically fill in. Its a surprisingly annoying and difficult detail to model. Example Plan.plan

Use a Materials List Polyline instead.

I feel like Chief has more capability in this regard than they're generally given credit for. We already can essentially import effective point cloud type data for site measurements using a number of different approaches and file formats including: Using the Import Drawing tool which allows for the Import of various dwg and dxf files (both of which can contain a whole slew of 2D vector data as well as elevation data) Using the Import Terrain Data tool which will allow for importing text based point data in a number of different file formats including txt, csv, xyz, dwg, dxf and others. This point data can include x, y, and z coordinates and can be used to automatically import and generate terrain elevation data. Using the Import GPS data tool which can also import both vector, point, and elevation data using the gpx file format The key to making it all work is really just exporting or converting the point cloud data into a usable file type which is oftentimes very easy, particularly considering some of the hardware/software combinations aren't technically producing a strictly defined "point cloud" anyway and are actually already just being natively generated in one of the aforementioned formats.

Oh, you're good, you're very good!.

A couple options: Use Mark's method and just create a custom symbol for that side panel Use the method I posted but change all the Separations and/or Blank Areas on that one side to Inset Side Panels.

You essentially have 4 options: You leave the ridge sloped like you have it now. You make the ridge level and slope the eves by simply making the baselines parallel with the ridge. You square up the roof without changing the walls below... You model the roof in its current plan view shape with both the ridge and eves level. This however would require some very complex and time consuming modeling and would cost a lot more to build. In order to have both the eve and ridge level when the they are not parallel, you essentially end up with an infinitely variable roof pitch (which is why you aren't getting a simple answer). It would look somewhat like the roof planes posted in the following thread except that in your case the ridge and eve in plan view are non-parallel whereas in the referenced plans, the ridge and ever are non-parallel in elevation view:

This is how you snap to those newel posts:

Not true. Edit>Delete Objects Set to All Pages, and select just Revision Entries

I don’t think he realized that you could link the entire layout all at once. I think he was doing one page or view at a time.