Alaskan_Son

This^^^^ ...although I would probably make the box first and then a larger subtraction to act like a lathe.

That’s actually a pretty easy one. Just create that using a zero thickness polyline solid, explode, delete the unnecessary face, select the remaining face, and use the Revolve tool.

I just end up making these types of “moldings” out of solids.

No. I’ve been requesting this one for years.

You should be able to add filler items to get the cabinet schedule numbered appropriately and then simply delete the filler items one by one. Just don’t click Renumber Schedule.

Even a 24" box is a non-starter for us.

Make sure Ignore Top (2nd) Floor is not checked. The setting is right below the one Eric circled in the screenshot above.

Which chord are you talking about? Currently, Raise Off Plate is the distance between the top plate and the bottom of the top chord. Or do you want this setting to generate a truss that is floating up above the wall?

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To anyone following along and/or struggling with this same issue being discussed here, After reading through this thread and some other similar threads on the same subject, I've concluded a few things: If you want to see any improvement in this area, you'll need to describe your issue a little more clearly. The burden of describing the problem is on you because you're the one having the problem, and if you can't describe it accurately, no one can effectively help you with it. Plus, Chief can't fix what they don't understand either. This problem doesn't seem to have been brought up in the suggestion forum...at least not that I could find. If it's not getting reported/suggested then its not gonna get changed. The challenge is a bit more complicated than some are letting on. For example it was my supposition based on the initial post that the OP wanted to set a specific pre-determined, user-definable heel height at the exterior wall. This is a perfectly valid way of configuring a truss but would result in variable overhangs depending on the specified roof pitch. The methods I spelled out in my first post were specially geared at ways to set this user defined heel height. After reading through the thread again though, I'm starting to believe that contrary to the way the question was posed, what was really wanted was a way to FIND that required heel height at the exterior wall. This is another perfectly valid method of configuring a truss but unlike the first method, it would result in the opposite; a user definable overhang and variable heel height depending on the roof pitch. There are also other valid methods that would result in a variable truss tail or sub-fascia height but I won't go over those because I doubt that anyone is talking about that. Anyway, I don't disagree that Chief could give us a better way, but again, the problem needs to be spelled out at least a little more clearly, and needs to be presented that way as a suggestion, either in the forum or sent in directly to Chief. Until Chief gives us something better, all we can do is find ways to get it done using the tools we have NOW. There are several methods we have now of accomplishing both of the main truss configuration methods I mentioned above. As others have already pointed out, it can be pretty easily done by taking a section view and finding the required numbers, but it can also be done using formulas so that you don't have to take any measurements. I took the liberty of writing some custom text macros that carry out the calculations for you and have attached them below. I'll leave them available free of charge for a limited time. Simply download the macros, Import via Text Macro Management, select the desired macro, click Edit, change the appropriate values, and then copy value(s) from either the New Result or Expanded Macro Value fields. There are 4 macros: -One for calculating the required heel height or Raise Off Plate Value using a standard Pitch (12 in 12) -One for calculating the required heel height or Raise Off Plate Value using a roof Angle (45.0) -One for calculating the required overhang using a specific heel height and a standard Pitch -One for calculating the required overhang using a specific heel height and a roof Angle NOTE: I recommend setting your Number Style to decimal inches or decimal millimeters before transferring values. Your subfascia height in a metric plan for example might say 138 when in fact it is 137.5. It’s important that the numbers being entered are accurate.

If you think I was misunderstanding the question then you could just say that.

I may or may not have fully understood what exactly the OP was after in my attempt to help offer a solution, but it doesn't take a genius to understand the methods I spelled out if you actually put in a little effort to comprehend them. I can't help but think you didn't even read them because they included little more than basic addition and subtraction using information supplied right there in the dialog box.

They're different.

Sometimes with improvements come costs. The behavior changed when they added the ability to reshape layout boxes. By the way, if you want to anchor and resize with a specific corner anchored in position to match the old functionality, I would suggest you familiarize yourself with 2 tools. Place Point Rotate/Resize About Current Point I have these mapped to hotkeys because I use them so much. In this example, Place Point at Corner, toggle Rotate/Resize About Current Point on, select your object and drag the corner while holding the X key.

You seem to be providing conflicting information as to what you're after. Are you trying to set the desired heel height at the wall or the desired heel height at the very end of the truss? The methods I mentioned above were in response to the first example and described ways of setting the desired heel height at the wall, but the second example requires totally different methods.

...aside from all the other ways.

I wish Materials Lists could be updated as well, but just remember, we have a lot of tools at our disposal to really speed up the generation of new Materials Lists. To name a few: Layer Settings Use them to control which layers are even reporting to the Materials List Components tab Use the Components tab to control exactly what gets reported by any given object Include These Categories This setting found under Preferences>Materials List controls which categories are included by Default Materials List Polylines Use the Materials List Polyline Specification dialog to really dial in what gets report. Then select one or more polylines and click the Calculate Materials in Polyline tool. Calculate Materials From Selection This can be used to calculate lists from very specific item(s).

Garages work like any other room. It's the Floor Supplied by the Foundation Room Below that we need to talk about. Remember, Walls define Rooms. Rooms are essentially just big 3D boxes created inside the space enclosed by those walls. The various Room settings control what is automatically happening inside those boxes. In some cases we want the real world room to occupy the space of 2 of those boxes. This is where things like Open Below and in this case, Floor Supplied by the Foundation Room Below come into play... Hope that helps.

That's the spirit!! ...and then you follow it up with a method that only takes a few seconds too. Seriously though, your advice is super negative, discouraging to new users, and not very helpful, plus it's not even accurate. A couple quick examples: Here's one of the easiest ways... Open your Framing Defaults and change your Roof Structure thickness to match your Roof Truss' Top Chord. Now open the Build Roof Dialog, uncheck Automatic Birdsmouth Cut and enter the desired heel height minus the displayed Vertical Structure Depth. In fact you can even just copy and paste the value from right there into a formula in the dialog box that looks something like this... ...hit tab to make sure the calculation carries out and that should be all there is to it. Plenty of other easy ways to do this after the fact. Here's one... Open the roof plane(s), Lock Pitch, and copy/paste the Top Of Plate Value and add your desired heel height to it in the Baseline Height Field. Easy peasy... Bottom line? @BnCKelley, this can totally be done and it's really not very difficult to achieve. Hope that helps. NOTE: The methods above were specifically meant to describe how to set the "... desired heel height at the face of the wall". This may or may not be what any specific person was referring to. It was not intended to address the suitability of this heel height for any given cantilever distance.

The ratio is 8 to 1, and you can actually use the Reference Display capabilities with or without custom macros to get what you want. The main key points: -Reference Floor is same as existing floor. -One layer set uses a taller text style to control the arrow length. Text color is either set to white or a custom macro is utilized to display different label in different layer set (blank in this particular layer set)). -Other layer set has normal text style assigned but Roofs, Labels layer is set to invisible line style. -Put the first layer set (the one displaying the desired text) on top. -Move the text in relation to the arrow by using carriage returns either before or after the displayed text.

Secondly, check this setting in your Sun Angle settings...

First thing I would check is that these 2 settings are both checked. In particular, Use Enhanced Lighting will kill all your shadows in everything except PBR views...

Ya, I realize that. It’s being used less and less though in favor of other apps and even just web browsers. I personally haven’t had Adobe installed for years.

Just FYI, there’s a pretty high likelyhood you’ll have to get your clients to download another viewer for the 3D PDF anyway. It’s not universally supported. Plenty of the most common PDF viewers/editors don’t support it at all.

I’m with Joey. Looks like you probably just need to turn the layer on.