GeneDavis

From two days ago, here is an autosaved file, and the wall renders OK. File attached Wall OK in this one.zip

I had it and fiddled with the wall spec and this happened. It is not the roof that is doing this. The part that is good sits atop a first floor exterior wall, and the part with the problem bears on a carry beam, no wall underneath. I'm quite sure it's not the roof cutting away the finish. File attached. Why the siding stripoff.zip

ICF builders, the pros not the DIY, recommend the molded plastic foam bucks and build openings with 1/4" clearance around windows. I want to dimension to the opening, not the window. I can pull a leader off the story pole for the window, but not my opening, which is 1/4" different.

Is there a way to trick Chief? There is a way to pull the unit, i.e. window or door top, for an elevation dimension, but with no wood frame element, I see no way to get the opening elevation.

Windows and doors are to have 1/4 inch RO clearance and Chief won't let me get that tight. Where is the minimum clearance set?

What is this? What did I do wrong? I only got to this when doing what I always do when downloading Chief content. Within the Xwhatever app, do "get additional content," then wait for the download complete message, then do the install selecting the .calib file from my downloads folder. I do the routine today, in the X18 app, selecting the catalog for X18, and if I do in answer to "what do you want to do with this," select OPEN, and what happens? Chief opens X17 and then flashes me this message. I have tried catalog after catalog, and am seeing no .calib files appearing in my downloads.

Maybe @Renerabbitt will enter the room. He's got this covered well.

Here is a camera view with both issues highlighted. The gable wall with fake window centered under peak is killing me. I am unable to generate the wall so it shows properly in 3D. Its right half is "roof cuts wall at bottom" and needs to have that spec so it doesn't protrude into the vault space below. The other is the beam atop the railing (post and beam). The corner join won't render correctly. There are OK corner joins all around the porches. Note the wall spec with the offset posts and beam. Both are offset horizontally so I can get the slab edge 3" past the wall line, so columns do not bear right at the edge. This corner has one of the walls NOT offset, and it needs to be this way. File attached. ICF barndo.zip

I did this post-facto and have now to deal with dropping the foundation wall top. Where is this done? I open the foundation "wall" for spec, and see no way.

Do I just export each layout page as a separate .dwg?

Thanks @robdyckMy file (did I not sent the right one?) has that roof plane specified as structure depth 9.25. When I uncheck soffits (and why would this work checking a box in the roof layers sub-panel?) I am able to generate a 3D proper view of a 2x10, but now I have uncut rafter tails? Why can't I have both proper depth display and cut tails to match up to my 2x6 subfascia?

@robdyck here you go. Overframe 2x10s.zip

I've a complex roof due to a cathedral ceiling below that is making for an overframe config. See pic here. You can see the 4:12 rafters of the overframed part. They are specified as 2x10s, the roof plan strucure is set to that, but the rafters are 2x6 in 3D. Select any one of them and open for spec and you see that it is a 2x10, example here. Section views are worthless, in that they are displaying the rafters as 2x6. What is going on here? Is this the bug that occurs in overframing, in which the rafters somehow default to the soffit size tails? What is the workaround? Over on the other side of the 4:12 overlay roof that is coming onto the house from the attached barn, there is a segment that is over the cathedral roof below framed by the 2x12 rafters of the 10:12 pitch of the main house gable. The section is seen in this view, and I highlighted the perimeter. This is done in 2x8 rafters and they are represented properly in 3D and section views (which are 3D). The difference between this plane and the one with the bust is that there is no bearing wall and overhang with soffit to this one.

See the pics. Why is this wall bottom held up over 4 inches above the roof that is cutting its bottom? In the actual build, the roof gets a pair of rafters under, and the wall is framed with its bottom plate spiked through the sheathing into the rafters. Chief builds it with a big air gap. Why?

Thanks Shane @PitMan71. I exported the X17 project file (**.caproj) into a folder, then opened X18 and imported the .caproj file using IMPORT. Seems clunky but now I have it in X18 managed files space.

I have only one project going and began it in X17 using project management which I don't really understand. I want to stop working on it in X17 and get it into X18 for the rest of the duration. How is this done? I have X17 running and both .plan and .layout files open for this job. I have X18 running.

Patterns are toggled on/off in 3D views when camera type is vector. But you know that. It was Eric @solver that got me in the habit of doing full overview 3D views using those settings: vector view, color off, patterns off, and shadows on. The best way to examine the details of a building's exterior envelope, and it's fast. Great when doing manual roof build work or editing. Are you wanting to control patterns on/off in a different way?

Hey, @robdyck, thanks, but I did that, and it won't frame. What is the secret for Chief autoframing it with the 1x3s I specified (3/4" thick framing layer above my ceiling finish, 16" centers, 2.5" widths, fir framing 1 texture, layer specified as framing), and those straps run perpendicular to the trusses?

I've a huge attached garage (Shhhhhh! Don't say Barndo) with roof trussed at 24 inch centers, and the ceiling finish is to be 29 gage ribbed roofing panel, Fabral's Magna Rib 3 or equal. I need to strap it with 1x3s at 16" centers. Is there a way since we are in this new age, the 2020s, AI and all that, X18 now fully live, that this can be done, or do I gotta hack it.

I've a plan in which a wrapped porch has a gabled roof feature, and the railing wall (post to beam) has sitting atop it a gable wall. Inside the porch, an invisible wall separates flat ceiling alcove with entry from vaulted ceiling porch, and that invisible wall has a gable wall above it, same wall spec as the wall atop the railing, and it frames. Both walls generate as attic walls. Plan file attached. Why won't the one over the railing frame? In the plan view screencap, the wall that frames is F and the one that won't is NF. Attic wall won't frame.zip

I think it's done with roof structure. Looks like a framing depth of 20 inches or so, with a parallel chord truss. The roof is overhanging that windowed gable wall. The gabled roof edge has a shadow board fascia, and the finished fascia is matching siding. You'll do that with p'line solids. AFAIK, we've no way to make a fascia board have a texture to match that of a siding.

You can readily model that in Chief 3D solids using booleans. And that is what you'll get, solids. How it gets built is up to the contractor.

Wow! Hey, @CharlesVolz please please tell me what you did there? I go on floor two where the landing is, and draw invisible walls, make the "room" open below, and the ceiling same height as the landing "room" but mine turns out a mess.

Thanks, @Joe_Carrick, and while I can readily manually edit the truss to the profile I want (or thought I wanted) to get it in 3D. But then @VHampton stepped into the room, and said the magic words, "model accuracy." I can and will edit the two trusses to show the trussie what we need done, and can do a CAD detail to show the framers how to block it. But as an exercise, I'll do the third floor thing to see how the hole looks, although I know that a third floor will make getting the truss envelope needed an impossibility. Too bad there is no "hole in ceiling" tool. I tried a tray, but you cannot abut a tray to a wall.

And here is the plan file. Barndo.zip