GeneDavis

Guess I'll try that, Eric. More than just a few clicks, though.

That normal wall needs to be there and I had it all successfully modeled when I took this shot. And this rear elevation.

Try this. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IukXwD7wdG0D7Jv8qhv98ET-XZ6qL1FH/view?usp=sharing

I think I can share this using Google Drive. Let's see if this works. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IukXwD7wdG0D7Jv8qhv98ET-XZ6qL1FH/view?usp=drive_link

I had this OK before but not now. See the pics. The building has a slab foundation I have drawn with foundation wall footings to create the thickened edges. As can be seen, one of the walls, specified just like the others, builds atop the slab and runs up to the roof. How can I fix this? The footing wall opposite it, where the post is bearing, has the same spec definition but is not rising up off the slab. Both it and the front footing wall are behaving as I want. All three bounding walls are room definition walls and they define the porch. All three are under a roof. There is no ceiling, as the roof soffit is the ceiling.

A roof for sure, lower the sun intensity to something like 8,000 for starters, and add more interior lights.

Methinks the OP wants it auto-labeled. It's like Americans have names for things, hoods and trunks of cars come to mind, and the Brits call those bonnets and boots. Perhaps a feature request is needed, some kind of global terms replacement. Like, even in the specs and dialog tabs. Substitute "column" for "post," swap out "lookout" for "outrigger." How about other languages? Should there be a Japanese version of Chief?

Headers are framing in Chief-speak, while lintels are trim. Are you wanting what Chief terms headers, called out in labels as "lintels" instead?

What is a garage entrance wall? I'm familiar with the term apron for the slab outside the garage door, and I draw one with the slab tool.

@kbaxterIn your original post, the front elevation shown has that garage roof hipped with only one gable, the small one, showing if you take a right side elevation. But you gabled it. Do you want to match the roof arrangement shown in the pic you attached, or do you want it gabled, as you modeled it?

I place a callout, spec it to have a section line with arrow, and how can I reverse the arrow? I placed the callout beneath a wall, section line going vertical UP, and the arrow is pointing left. I want right.

I just added a second subfloor layer to my floor 2 floor structure. Formerly it was 9.5 inch joist with 3/4 subfloor total 10-1/4. The elevation now shows 11 inches between and there is no pair of lines there 3/4 apart. Why would you add a subfloor atop a subfloor?

Siding always covers floor framing for whatever floor or floors you view in an elevation. If you are getting some double line at your ceiling / floor junctures, you are doing something wrong. I opened a new plan, did walls for a two floor box house with board and batten siding, clicked to get auto storypole, and look what I got.

That's good one, Reenee. Pardon my nick for my favorite teacher. Too bad we can't copy distribute on path those light sources. Or can we? Maybe not vertical. One thing I really like about your toots, is the caption pic vid of you, as you speak and watch and glance at the keyboard or whatever space age device (joystick?) you are using. The effect is like being in a classroom. The remarks about light bleed are gold.

What a dummy I am! Zero thickness is allowed. I shoulda just looked at the OOB room divider wall,

I'd like to draw a porch wall as a single line, not a wall with two lines at 1/16" thickness. I did a wall spec, single layer 1/8 thick, line weight 25, color black, "inner" line weight 1, color white, but the plan is showing two black lines weight 25. Is there a way?

I helped the frame gang do something I sketched out, helped because it was easier to just do it than talk about it. We set the first inboard common truss down on cribbing, tacked on some temporary vertical 2x4 spacers on which to set the reduced top gable truss, then nailed on the lookouts, the subfascia, and the big barge rafters (fascia) and hoisted the assembly up right after the common trusses were set and there was something to tie it to. This was 2011, northern Adirondacks, three weeks ahead of the hurricane Irene rains that washed out bridges and roads and isolated the job for ten days of ATV-only access.

@DeLayDesign thank you. That is a real paddleboard. Looks great!

Frame the openings with no header, and in the framing above, whether roof or floor, edit the end joist or rim arrangement to get the beef you need. Or use steel.

I've heard framers call them ladder rungs. As in, "send up that gable ladder with the rungs." Particularly the ones that do not sit atop the gable wall, but instead are just nailed outside to the framing through the sheathing. The truss plants here are panelizers also, and build them like 12" h. or whatever studwalls, single plate top, single plate bottom, and they get picked and set with a crane right after the trusses are set and braced.

Thanks, Michael. All's good now.

Not working for me, Joe. On the opposite side, I removed the truss base, leaving the over-roof, the under-roof, and the ceiling plane under the under-roof. Tried to drag-repeat the truss over and got three little trusses INSIDE the scissors envelope.

I've a 17 meg file I tried compressing and I hope you can open it. I didn't test it. A cross gabled roof has lower side wings, one side with two pitches, and the framing requires the trusses to lay on as a valley set over the center bay scissor trusses. I manually drew the roofs, drew the ceiling planes in the center bay for the scissors envelope, drew the trusses and drew the truss bases. I only get one valley set lay-on before things go bust. Uphill trusses do not generate between the truss base and the roof above, instead form inside the lower roof. See the pics.Bly Mountain basement garage.zip Bly Mountain basement garage.zip

Send to layout and measure the font height and report back please. I don't think you have the font scaled properly for printing. X15 ships out of box with schedule text set to either 4.5" or 6" height, and it is for sending to layout at scale 1/4" = 1'-0". From what you show upthread, you have your schedule text at something called 1". But that is a great tip for reducing (or enlarging) the 3D images of scheduled items. There is nothing from Chief in the manual about this.

Sliding glass doors, actually, any Chief sliding door, have too many problems in 3D modeling, and are best done as sliding windows.