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6 hours ago, BryceEngstrom said:

Section but not 3D

Yes I did, as recent as two weeks ago.  Could not figure out the for the world why either.  But I was using X16 on that model, so...  

9 hours ago, DJSSDB said:

crosshairs

Not a fan of these myself because your dimensioning to the point and not the object, but as mentioned above you can reduce the size so its not to obvious.  Here is a video on how to reduce the size of the crosshairs.  

21 minutes ago, JasonJFBdesign said:

shows/generates the path of a vehicle

For things like this Jason, I've never seen it in Chief.  However, I am sure you can find the info via a Chat GBT or something.  I also have the online version of Architectural Standards, and that book has everything you can think of..  I am not sure how it applies in Australia though.

https://www.graphicstandards.com/

7 hours ago, MtGipe said:

get the soffit on the upper gable walls to show and the lower gable roof plane to extend to the attic wall

Hey Marshal, do as you just stated.  On the lower section, grab the roof plan, you'll see a grip.  Pull that to your raised attic wall, it should snap right at it.  That will automatically put your soffits in...

On 6/18/2025 at 6:04 PM, Renerabbitt said:

"Auto Detail as Insulation"

See if your working on a Friday night...  :-)

I am aware of the auto fill and use it all the time, that's not my question.   My question is that when using the auto fill, it always comes in with the "batt insulation" symbol.  About 70% of my houses use closed cell as their insulation of choice.  Forcing me to delete the batt symbol and replace with right insul. symbol.  So I was wondering where is the insulation type controlled from and if there is a location, does that also set the fill hatch pattern?  I am not seeing it in the wall dbx, and looked elsewhere as well.  

4 hours ago, SHCanada2 said:

rebuild the framing to rebuild the truss

I think you are right Jason.  I probably should have rebuilt instead of raising the FTH.  I did fiddled with this a bit.

Doing a wall section, and I noticed my top sill plate was 1/2" higher than what it's supposed to be.  My ceiling heights are correct at 109 1/8".  So I edited my Fascia Top Height to add that 1/2".  That corrected situation, but I am wondering why that would make a difference in the 2 top sill plates?  

11 hours ago, JiAngelo said:

Check "Higher Eaves Boxed" in your roof dialog and that will fix your issue

Thanks, that worked.  Curious though on why both roof planes changes that eave when I only modified one?  This is something I will note, since the I won't be doing that lower eave after all.  

It was tough for me to give you the "solution" John, since I am from the state to the north.. but live in FL.  (don't tell my fam)  Go Blue.

18 hours ago, mthd97 said:

Been to Tampa and there about in 99. Nice place

It is nice, daughter lives there now.  I'd love to visit Australia but the worlds most deadliest anything (animals on land and the sea) are down that way.  I'm too far north for boa's.

@winterdd

and as Jim states, you can do in X16  and I think even X15 as well.  

Same layer...

I'll try that tomorrow.

Where is Qld Australia, :-)

Latest project is to add 20' to the rear of this existing shotgun style house for a master bedroom.  In the video I highlight the existing roof and the new.. when I grab the section of the new to pull down for a little awning over the slider, the eave on the existing and new change, even though the settings do not.  Not finding a way to put the eave back to what their supposed to be.  Any ideas?  Should this little awning be its own roof pane? 

@willbb

Without a plan to look at, you might check your attic wall and see if it aligned with the wall below.  I am guessing here obviously but i's tend to believe its a wall alignment or intersection issue.

2 hours ago, agorres said:

I ended up using a polyline solid to get the look

So, did you show these on your model?  Did you use the stair tool, and minimum the size of the tread and then just placed these in its spot?

30 minutes ago, DBCooper said:

A picture of what you are after would be good. 

please attach picture..

32 minutes ago, rcapone said:

This is how it came out.

COOL....

47 minutes ago, rcapone said:

Are there lights for pools

I made my own, by copying a 6" recess light to my user catalog then renamed it so I knew what kind of light it was.

"Open Object" that part in your user catalog.

Go to the  3D tab, and rotate this fixture, I believe on the Y axis +90 degrees

Then go to the Options and make this floor mounted.  (I could never get this to work as wall mounted, even though that is my preferred method)

Lastly, go to the 2D Symbol tab, and at the bottom of that page is "Generate Block".  This will put the light in the vertical.

Place the light on your pool wall, adjust the height A/R.

1 hour ago, 33DegreesNorth said:

so it doesn't show the drywall ceiling gap

In my temp-plate I have a layer called "Walls, Normal SOLID FILLED".. and in case like this, its a a simple solid, drywall material, placed via a section view.  This has no value to the actual floor plan set, so this layer is turned off on the con docs.  Its is more for a visual, and awesome camera views.  I have spent time trying to figure this out, and if it's not a obvious fix, and it doesn't affect the plan.. I move on.  

1 minute ago, winterdd said:

Why on earth are people doing that?

There are peeps who do this, ALOT.  I probably get two clients a year, that end up scrambling after they get busted.  I also know many who believe if its on 50 acres, way back off the road.. it's no bodies business.  

9 hours ago, DBCooper said:

I think you have to put them in manually.

That's kind a what I thought....

Thanks

We have builder (from not in our area) decide to do an addition to a 50+ yr old home here wo a permit.  He got busted and now is in a hurry for a drawing set to get made and engineers review and stamp,  I am trying to match his build as close as possible for an engineers to use.  One of the things he has done is a rafter roof package.  I want to show the Rafter Collar Ties that he has built.. however I am not seeing this option.  Am I missing it, or so I need to manually model them and copy paste? 

@DRyeHD

As DBC mentions above, if this isn't a room change, just a material section on part of a wall, the Wall Material Region is the way to go.  And again, what DBC says about the molding.

oops, sorry no audio.  follow the curser, :-)

1 hour ago, Michael_Gia said:

Like a radio button for lighting. "Enhance lighting with AI"

I like this idea very much so...  Even if it's not AI.  All of my rendering issues for the most part are because of lighting.  

I hope its under your tree this year for us all to enjoy.

30 minutes ago, JKEdmo said:

You should check it out.

I just did... this is crazy.  I guess I got so used to using the same tools and not really ventured through all these extra tools.  Has this always been here?  

I learned two things to today on the same post.  LOL.  

@JKEdmo

Cool elevations.  How did you get the back view lighter, is this tow different elevations on top of each other?

Genius... thanks Robert.