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"JOIN ROOF PLANES" is what I meant to type

Hmm.. never really used vector view before.  Def cleaner and easier to see.

In regards to increasing depth.. I did try that for a test, and it seemed to work but as soon as you reconnect the planes, the soffit issue reappears. 

This has happened to me now on my last 2 or 3 plans..  When I lay out out my roof planes, with the overhang set, all my eaves and soffits line up nice, but as soon as I put a bump out of any kind, the soffit changes shape.  I fixed previously my putting in a poly solids and called it a day just to keep moving.  Now that it's happened again, I figure I need to share and ask the pros.  Is there a setting that I cannot find or have overlooked?

I recreated the same issue with a test model...  see attached. 

ROOF SOFFIT ISSUE.plan

LOL.  I love your email.. just saying!

A sandwich is a snack, a SAMMICH is a meal

Something this small, I would just draw lines to replicate the grout line, and be done with it.  I never know what the client will end up using, so I don't show these lines.  But since your doing interiors, I guess you need to.  Drawing lines is far better than the frustration of trying to offset.  My $.02.  :-)      

Wow.. never knew that.. for years been locking things..  that was it.  I knew it had to be simple, and I was overthinking it. 

Thanks Chris.   

Just curious if there is a way that I can set it where my text can be easily picked without having to lock items?  I thought by changing the order that would do it.  When you r ripping through the model annotating, having to stop to lock a items, like interior fixtures or cabinets, just to move text, is a buzz kill.  

can you put the three windows as you want, then mull them?

Just had to do this.. making the railing off to the side and changing to a No Room Def worked perfectly.

Just saw this post, was looking up the bookshelf doors as well.  Then I found under the Bonus catalog "Doors No.3 Specialty" there is a inswing and a outswing bookshelf door.  Just modify to your liking (the 2D symbol isn't the greatest though). 

Other cool doors in this catalog; like a star ship door (in case you want to design a Death Star), or the security door folder has hatch doors so you can design cruise ships.  Now that's a challenge for someone bored... 

Are you converting that picture to a new material?

>USER CATALOG

>NEW

>MATERIAL

>give it a name and on the TEXTURE tab, browse for that file...

stretch to fit

> then you can place in your frame

As you get more experienced Philip, you will find that you will hardly use the auto function.  I haven't in years.  

Hi Scott...

The ad states your needing a design-BUILD firm.  Just making sure that's what your looking for.  I'm not affiliated with a build firm down there, is why I am asking.  

1 hour ago, glennw said:

You may be able to use an addition framing layer on the outside of your wall definition.

Now that is thinking outside the box Glenn..  Next B&B, I'm trying this.

Called belly bands here too..

10 hours ago, BnCKelley said:

Thanks y'all I'll try these and see if I can come up with something

Its pretty simple BnC.

Pick the outer edge of you build, then select "Make Room Molding Polyline"

The height is just what it means, the height you want this band.> OK > The whole area will highlight > Open the object> from there you can build your band with the style you like.  Can build on top of others also, to get the stacked look.

I use this method also for brick ledges.. 

9 hours ago, joey_martin said:

different lengths of railing I turned into symbols

That's a good idea Joey..

On 12/7/2020 at 8:27 PM, Alaskan_Son said:

perpendicular Room Divider wall to more precisely control the break

That's what I ended up doing..   ended up looking great.. IMO

23 hours ago, solver said:

railing wall thicker

Thanks guys for the direction.  

That did it..  unchecked full wall width of rails.  

Watching your Railing - Part 2, to see if it gave me the fix.  

Yes they do. I made a sample deck off to the side.  The first problem going with a larger sq. column, is it hangs off the edge of the deck, if you use the dbx.  So I made my newels 0" in size... placed the symbols of columns.  I cut the wall, and where I don't want railing is an invisible wall.  How do I get the rails to sit back?  If I can figure this out, I should be ok.. just a tedious process.  

Just now, solver said:

I made a couple of railing video

I save a lot of those vids..  going to watch them now.  Wife just gave me a hot chocolate cookie with a coffee...  

Just now, Alaskan_Son said:

but it can be pretty complicated and time consuming to get like you want it at ends of walls and at other transitions. 

I have two full decks to do this with, with a lot of corners.  This is going to take a little bit of time.

1 minute ago, Alaskan_Son said:

Use a little section of perpendicular Room Divider

This is what I thought I had to do.  

Actually was answering to both you and Michael.  Yes I did get your picture.. did you have to do it the way I mentioned, or did you have another way Eric?

Well, I did ask huh.  :-)  Was hoping for a magic button I was unaware of.  Thanks for confirming my thought process..

I know, but I need to show that "break" of no railing in between.  Railing wall, then a invisible wall back to a railing wall??  

Need advise on how to provide a double column (newel) on raised porch, besides drawing manually.  I have done the double column before, but did it manually, the difference was that house was one step off of grade, therefore no railing was required.  The house I have now will require a railing.  I tried to break the wall, thinking that would add a column, sometimes it did, but if you tried to adjust the distance, well.. rail wall has A LOT to be desired for, that's all I'm going to say.  Basically it didn't work.  I also need to keep the "beam" that chief puts in with the "post to beam" selection, per the engineer for wind load (hurricane winds)

On 11/30/2020 at 9:24 PM, ricatic said:

Michigan UP

Hey there yupers~!  HAHA.. Snow mobiling on the mitten part myself, never been over the Mac.. hard to believe.  Now I live where it doesn't snow, and I am ok with that.

All the rest of you, WOW, very impressed.. on the talent you all have above just designing houses on Chief.  Great job everyone  

23 hours ago, VisualDandD said:

You had to model a cell as if it were a school

Justin, that is a great way to show the model of the animal cell, put it perspective of what these kids know, and that is school.  

Love that pinewood car too...