DianeP

Think I did something wrong. Here is the sketch.

Mick, I am so sorry. I just got in too big a hurry to respond that I messed it up. I attached the picture for a similar home that has a small front porch. Here is the whole sketch they sent. Use the one for the 1512.

Sorry guys, I had some running I had to do. I had my client sketch out how they wanted the front elevation to look and it is as I mentioned the garage is to be 1' lower than the porch area. You were thinking correctly Sherry. I attached the sketch.

I am thinking the same thing. This is making my brain hurt. The plane count is as follows: (they can be seen better in the roof overview .jpg) 1 goes from garage left to left rear corner of home 2 goes across the rear 3 goes across the right side of the home 4 goes across the porch to a valley at the right side of the garage 5 Is the little roof plane that is on the right side of the garage that comes up and joins a small portion of the left side plane making the gable.

I did have the plan open. thanks for letting me know. I will try to attach it again here. pdfs too. The roof planes are joined but the one for the left side of the roof hangs out too far and the ridge is off center of the left rear corner. It needs to meet in the corner. I think the secret with the trusse company is they will use heels on some of the shorter walls, I just don't know how to do this. 1512.plan roof instructions.pdf

I would just create 2D views and have the left side of the house all at the 8' level and the rear at 9' level. As I said, it would be fudged but it works as far as what the finished roof should resemble. The truss company is able to make the roof look right with 5 planes when the house is built. I wish I knew their secret.

I have a builder that uses 8' ceilings in the garage and 9' on the front porch. He will use 8' walls with heels bring it to 9' on some of the exterior walls. These are shown in his instructions which I attached. The completed roof should have only 5 planes. The roof overview and rear view pictures show a problem I am having with left rear corner of the house when I manually manipulate the planes that are auto built. Not the look they are going for at all. They want the garage front to be 1 foot lower than the front porch. I usually will just take this into AutoCAD and fudge it and let the truss company deal with it, but now that CA is becoming my #1 software, I would really like to learn how to do this correctly in Chief Architect, if I can. I have attached my plan and some of the screen shots in an effort to be helpful. Can anyone give me some guidance on how to accomplish this in Chief? A video would be wonderful if one is available. As always, thanks for your kind assistance. Diane 1512.zip

Is there a video available on how to use the roof design information that you have described and using setting the heel heights etc.?

It's to scale yay! Thanks everyone for be there to help me!

I think you were able to help me. I didn't know the printer dialog also had a place to select 1 to 1. It was set to 95%. I have tried that and sent it to the client to print. Crossing my fingers!!!

I have images of my set up I want to share. Trying to find how to load to here.

I have the .plan at 1/4" = 1'-0" and the .layout at 1 to 1 but the print isn't coming out to scale. When I take a 1/4" scale ruler and measure a dimension that is 12'-0" it is 11'-4" by the scale ruller. Any ideas on how to fix?

Exactly Rashid_Garuba... concisely said! Thanks for your help in brainstorming everyone to see if there is a different solution. I think I am stuck changing each plan as chief58 suggested. .

Scott another question if/ when you have time.... If this was you would you approach it by making the changes in one version and then reversing that version to make the other hand again instead of going back to make the changes a second time. Thinking about best way to do it and not accidentally miss anything. I also thought about coping the areas changed and then doing a paste hold position into the other plan versions after I delete the affected areas. Each plan would have its own layout pages. Just looking for ideas on best approach to accomplish the changes as quickly as possible.

Thanks for the quick response. Guess I will just put it on the wish list for my dream version of Chief Architect. Really love working with CA and enjoy watching your tutorials. Appreciate all you help.

Can anyone help me???? I do work for a production builder. I make reversed version of every house plan I do for them. They will do front, side and 3 car side entry garage versions on most all plans. There are always modifications they come back with and I end up having to do the changes on all these copies of the plan. Does Chief Architect have a way to link the source plan to the other copies? I have been doing their work thus far in AutoCAD.... very time consuming. I have Chief X5 with the subscriptions for the later versions. Haven't the computer to run the more recent versions, yet. Thank you for your time, Diane

Good fix. Thanks!

Yes, this works. I would like to see the edge of the deck or balcony without all the framing members. Any ideas?

Is there a way to show the edge of the deck and the railing in plan view? I can only see the railing and want to keep it since it has my column positions. is there a setting I need to change so that I can see the deck edge? Thanks a bunch!

Thanks for your help. I am using the full view camera for now. When I tried this I got the same results whether the box was checked or not: Long term solution is to uncheck: DEFAULTS>CAMERA>3D VIEWS>RESTRICT FLOOR CAMERA TO ROOM If this box is checked, then the camera won't display anything outside of the room the camera is in.

So sorry, here it is. 1100 E Lakeview Ave FLIP STAIRS - Copy.zip

Sorry, trying to attach again. 1100 E Lakeview Ave FLIP STAIRS .zip

I just double checked by putting a floor camera into the house and then going to the Display Options button to make sure that Walls, Normal had a check mark by it. It did. Is this what you meant? I have attached the plan. I wonder if it shows the walls when you try it. Thanks for trying to help me on this issue.

Forgot to attach picture.