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That house looks beautiful. Thanks for giving it a shot. The truss company and client have the left hip roofs ridge continuing across the house so there is a longer horizontal ridge on the house. I gave there truss sheets in another post.

Here is the truss layout sheet from what the truss company designed that I am trying to duplicate. Perhaps it just won't work the way they expect it to??? If you go to the roof plan view and turn on the CAD, Roofs LAYOUT PICTURE layer you will see where I copied the layout picture in to work with it. BOBBY WELCH-1.pdf BOBBY WELCH-2.pdf BOBBY WELCH-3.pdf

Thanks for your efforts, That would work, but the client likes the more simplified roof the truss company came up with, so I am trying to replicate it. I think I will just let them know the issues I am having and tell them I can fix the plan cosmetically to match what they want, but there could be water issues. As an aside, I see you are from Lancaster. I have a sister and her family that are in Rosamond. Another sister is in Reseda, I graduated from Newbury Park High in Newbury Park but live in Pensacola FL now. Small world.

Sorry, I should have said this is a new build.

I have this almost complete but the owner and truss company say this wall that is circled should go all the way up to the roof. The back side of the wall (drywall) shows on the other side. Is it possible for this wall to be done the way they say, and if so, can you tell me what I need to do to fix it. I tried just cosmetically fixing it with a slab with the brick on it, but the wall seems too wide coming out of the roof. Thanks! Bobbie Welch Residence.plan

Awesome. You found it. I am still not sure why it wouldn't work, but I took out the extra segment around the stairs (there were 2. I made it one using the fillet tool) Thanks bunches!

Is anyone able to help me figure out what is going on with this plan. There is a gap that shows up in the 3d model on the second floor near the stairs. Also, the area doesn't look right when I do a section cut thru the area. I have attached the .plan file for any that have time to look at it. Thanks! 6040 East Bay ICF Design.plan

That's great Joe. Is there anyway I can see an example of its output? Does it measure to the exterior of the veneer for the sqft figures?

Is there an automatic method that would calculate the living area for each floor, and the garage, storage space and put it into a table format? I have been making polylines, getting the sqft info from it and putting it into my own table I made. Just thought I would check to see if something easier was available. Thanks!!!

Got it, thanks Eric!!!!

Does anyone have a wall type for open lath like is used in the picture below that they can share or tell me how to create. I am not sure if this is the correct term for this type of wall. If it isn't, I would appreciate the correction. Happy New Year and Thanks!!!

Got it on the suggestion forum! Thanks!

Thanks Chopsaw! I will do this and add it as a suggestion. Is there a way to add a ChiefTalk forum thread to the suggestion box directly. If not, then that would be a suggestion I would make to Chief Architect.

Can you tell me how to link library symbols to hot keys? I either forgot how, or it isn't possible. I want to link an exhaust fan, ceiling fan, chandalier, smoke and carbonmonoxide detectors to hot keys. Possible? If so, how. Thanks

I hate when I don't notate what I did so I can refer back to it. I did create these hot keys for library symbols, Now I want to create more for other things in the library that I use often. I can't figure out how I did it. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!!! Sorry about the second quote. I had two saved somehow and I can't see how to remove the other one.

Oh Wow!!! Robert thank you so much!!!

Well darn, The above options work in the 3d perspective views for the materials, but the pattern is still single lines 7" apart in the vector and 2d views I send to my layouts.. Anyway to get the pattern 5" and 3" for the 2D views? Thanks for all the great ideas!

Wonderful!! Thanks so much Robert!!!

Eric is there an image editor that you like to use that is easy to use?

Any suggestions on how to modify a material so that I can create this effect. I have created a 2" reveal and a 7" reveal, but never one that alternates between two sizes. Thanks!!!

Thanks everyone for your advise. Didn't realize there was a section for building code questions. I will keep it in mind for next time. I appreciate everyone using their ESP in figuring out what I was trying to ask and giving me the help I was looking for on this stair question. I will confirm that the landing is 44".

Sorry, I didn't mean to post both of them, but they both have some really good information in the replies, Is there a way to merge the posts?

Thanks Mike, that makes sense. Not sure how/why anyone would want to create that situation.

is this allowed? Wanting to do this so that the opening at the top of the wider stairs will match the double door on the house. I remember reading the landing is supposed to be the same width as the stairs, but wasn't sure if it would work if the stairs came to the landing from different directions, so thought I would ask one of you experts. Seems like a 6x6' landing would be incredibly large. Thanks!

is this allowed? Wanting to do this so that the opening at the top of the wider stairs will match the double door on the house. I remember reading the landing is supposed to be the same width as the stairs, but wasn't sure if it would work if the stairs came to the landing from different directions, so thought I would ask one of you experts. Seems like a 6x6' landing would be incredibly large. Thanks!