Alaskan_Son

Hey now...I'm thankful for all the posters who help out. You should know...I donate about as much time as almost anyone here. Thank you for sending those things in though. Its a huge help for all of us.

Please send it in yourself as well. The more reports they have of problems like this, the better. They may ask you some questions about things you have done that help get to the bottom of it.

No its not but it was definitely similar. Attic walls not behaving for no apparent reason...open the wall and simply click okay and they build fine. Perry, thank you for trying, but with all due respect you're not fixing the problem. Not in this thread or in that last one. Your suggested solution doesn't offer any improvement over simply opening the dbx and clicking okay. Go ahead and test it out. And besides, even if it did, its still not an actual solution. There is obviously a problem that needs to be addressed within Chief and chalking it up to user error isn't the answer in either case.

Here's a link to a thread with a plan that had a similar problem. I can only hope the OP sent that one into tech support as well... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10105-gable-ends-missing/page-2?hl=+attic%20+wall

You can change any number of different things and they will come back. Its really just opening and closing the dbx that's doing it.

It might have been something you did and it might not be, but just because one of your actions initiates buggy behavior doesn't mean its on you or your plan. CA still needs to address it. Have you sent in a report? If not, please do. I saw a similar behavior recently in a plan from another user where attic walls were building with a slope across the bottom and the only fix was to open them and click okay. In that particular plan the attic walls also wouldn't easily delete even after the roof was removed. The program shouldn't behave that way no matter where the problem started. PLEASE report problems like these.

Just got back to my computer. I only spent a few minutes playing with this, but here's one quick idea...Break that center window into 2 units and then they can join at both corners. I basically removed everything so all the windows do is create a cutout. You would just need to add the glass and frame manually. Might be another way but I think this might be the least painful... Window plan.plan

Just one man's opinion here but I think those windows feel too high as it is and so dropping the bottom down a bit shouldn't hurt. Not sure I would be, but if you're worried about the ratio, possibly make the windows a littl wider...it looks like you have the room.

Please don't make light of reporting issues you run into. Think about how much time you spend posting stuff here and how much time you spend venting, complaining, and/or struggling through all these little issues. They WON'T get fixed if we don't take time to properly report them. I can tell you from experience that more often than not when I take a few minutes to submit a thoughtful bug report that it's usually addressed rather quickly. I think the last three updates all included fixes for bugs that I took time to report. Imagine everything that might get fixed if we all did the same. Even if they don't get addressed, at least you did your part and tried. And BTW, don't hesitate to report someone else's problem (as long as you can re-create it) if you have a little spare time. The more people they have reporting a problem, the better. That way it gets fixed before you need to use the same tool, technique, or method.

No, I don't think so, not really...especially when it's connected to a wall of the same type. It's really kinda strange if you ask me. I can see what you're saying but I just don't see any good reason it should behave that way .

You offer a good solution Glenn but I would still consider this an issue that should be addressed regardless of whether or not it's normal Chief behavior. I personally see no logical reason it cannot or should not work without the strange connection issue.

I think I agree with you. I also agree with Johnny that this should be considered a bug and reported. Even if they decide it's not a bug, it needs to be addressed.

You bet. I feel the same way.

For the roof (besides whats already been mentioned above) there are multiple methods you can make work but the 2 the come to mind first are... 1. Simply dragging the walls up in elevation. 2. Setting the room(s) to have no roof and ceiling and then just drawing a manual roof plane inside your walls.

Maybe this will help you a bit. Just the basics and might answer a couple of your questions... Step 1: Build Distributed Objects>Polyline Distribution Path Step 2: Draw line and Change Line/Arc Step 3: Select object and adjust settings as necessary Step 4: Explode Distributed Object (I thought I went over this step in that video but maybe not) Step 5: Delete, move, modify objects as necessary ...and any number of extra steps in between or after those.

Just got back to my computer. Select that wall, click on the Materials tab, click on the Interior Wall Surface material, click Select Material, and then check Use Default Material. There is something funny going on with the material definition for that wall. Not sure how it got that way though.

Overlayed views, added text/CAD in layout, or you could convert the whole plan to a symbol, rotate it to its side, take an elevation view of the roof and add any notations you want to that view. Definitely a good handful of methods and combinations thereof.

Click the little Open Symbol icon and it's in there.

I'm away from my computer now, but double check that wall definition and see what happens if you turn on your wall framing layer.

Edit>Preferences>Appearance>Minimum Display Size. Set it to a lower number, perhaps zero.

WHAT!!!? People wanting to be fairly reimbursed for their valuable time!? What nerve. On second thought...I guess I would be charging for maintenance on a house I built 10 years ago and it doesn't surprise me when I have to pay for repairs on my 2007 Suburban so....maybe it's not so crazy?

I made this video a little while back for a different situation but it may help you nonetheless. I'm think instead of the spline I would use a polyline.

I've had this issue come up with one plan in the past and it didn't bother me enough to deal with it but it's recently reared its head again and it's getting slightly annoying now... When I open a particular plan I get a message stating that the plan is using a font I don't have installed on my machine (or something to that affect). The strange thing is that I created the plan on this machine, it's essentially empty, and even after I tell it to replace that font with Chief Blueprint, the message still comes back next time I open the plan. I've had this happen on 2 different plans in the last few years. Anyone else ever see anything like this? And if so...any idea what causes the issue? I would post the plan in question except that the only thing in it is a special tool I'm working on that I don't want to put out there right now.

Unfortunately if you never saved/named the file I don't believe any auto save/backup will be initiated.

You need to check "Automatically Regenerate Deck Framing" for that material to show. The deck surface is a unique surface in Chief as it is treated like a framing layer and must therefore be "framed".