GeneDavis

I am starting to see where the inaccuracies are with this. Chief hints at it in the writeup they give in the HELP dialog when you open HELP from the roof plane dialog panel. I'd like them to explain better. They say, "Note: The Fascia Top height will decrease slightly if the fascia edge is aligned with the ridge top of another roof plane." This seems to hint at why you cannot get an exact match to fascia heights going around a roof where there is a plane at a different pitch from others. In the case of 12 pitch to 4 pitch, 12 around perimeter with one 4 in the link, that "slight decrease" is 3/16" as reported in the roof dialog for heights. In a 2D section view and measuring using Chief CAD, in the L-shaped example you posted in your thread in Suggestions, two mating 12-pitch roofs are reporting, in the roof plane dialog, fascia heights of 109 13/16 and 110, a 3/16 height difference. But a 2D back clipped section cut through the building has fascia tops not at either of these two numbers, but close to 110 11/16. Using CAD, one measures 9' 2.7193542495" (110.719" to 3 decimal places), and the other at 9' 2.7071067812" (110.707"). A 3D view of a corner where two roof planes join, the one on L reporting a fascia height of 109 13/16. the one of equal 12-pitch on R reporting fascia at 110, but as can be seen in the vector view with roof surfaces peeled away so just the fascia can be examined, both fascia tops are equal and coplanar. So we have Chief reporting fascia heights that when measured in section are almost 3/4" different from what is reported, and fascias showing in 3D as having equal top elevation, but reporting as 3/16" different in the dialog. I'd say Chief has some 'splainin' to do!

The structure panel is where you specify depth (thickness) of sheathing and framing. The surface panel is where you can do all your buildup of paper, membrane, rooftop insulation, and roofing weather surface (shingles, metal, TPU, etc.). Back in the structure panel, all the elements under Roof Size is where you can access and change subfascia and fascia size to be where you need things so soffit and trim all looks like you want.

Post your plan, please

Try the "hide camera-facing exterior walls" option checkbox in the camera spec dialog. See attached. It is way down at the bottom.

I got into this one with comments about roof generation in Chief and editing, and could almost get the roof I wanted, but something kept happening to one of the planes that I could not understand. I always thought you could raise a single roof plane with the move tool and wanted to hold fascia height and pitch and move in the z axis up or down, to be able to get a matching fascia height all around. The OP's file with my edits to roof planes is attached as Plan Rev 1. The screencap identifies the rogue plane. I tried everything I could think of to get the fascia top at 110" to match all others. At one point I thought I had it but something caused it to move. What could it be? You can delete the plane, take the 12-pitch plane to its immediate R and copy-mirror it, the copy works and has the 110" fascia height, but when you edit it to join the others, the edit causes the fascia height to drop 3/16". This, with the 12 pitch staying same and the two roofs joining at top dead center. Makes no sense. The OP built the example file with weird defaults and settings? I don't know. I made a perimeter polyline of the "house" and copied it and pasted into a new file with my template, and auto-built the roof with appropriate settings, one wall only at 4:12 pitch, creating the irregular hip and valley where it joins the 12-pitch adjacent planes. No problems with that one, attached here as Plan Rev 2. As with roofscapes that have irregular valleys and hips, you need to manually edit fascia and subfascia to get things in perfect alignment, which I did for both plans. But what's up with that Plan Rev 1? Plan Rev 2.plan Plan Rev 1.plan

May we please have a waney edge siding like shown in the pic, here. 2D (pattern) and 3D.

Experiment with the camera field of view, height above floor, how clipped surfaces are hidden, and try backing up and using the hide walls option.

See my edited post, above. What does that macro look like to you? I don't see any kind of code for a lookup.

So, why doesn't the Pella library work? Does any manufacturer offering a library somehow embed into it the macro work needed to produce this? Or is the library really just a collection of symbols none of which have any connection to sizing? Edit: I downloaded and installed the Pella library, and it is a collection of symbols totaling 118 items, a count far less that what you would have if the standard size chart sizings would be there for each possible window model and type. The label macro is shown in the attached pic, and that macro returns the word "custom" for any size input into the sizing panel. So where is the chart of standard w x h combos and where do such charts reside in Chief?

Sounds like some serious work with macros would be needed. Every combination of standard width that matched to a standard height would have to be there to differentiate between standard and custom. The whole table of standard w x h is needed, and the lookup function. Can this be done with macros?

You cannot resize the tile and retain the grout space it has in its "standard" size (smaller) image. Find a 12x24 solid color tile.

Chief is more typically used to model a house in which the exterior walls are built in layers. Examine in detail the specification for the out-of-box exterior walls like "Siding 6" and look at what is going on for every layer. There is a main layer that typically is set to have its outer face be the "building line," the line which is dimensioned in plan views. The layers outside that exterior layer, when we look at Siding-6, are the ones that extend down and cover the floor layers upon which the wall bears. This is why your siding layers do what you want to see. Do you want to model a house that can actually be built? If so, you'll want to seriously rethink how to do those glass walls.

Experiment with beamspread, dropoff, distance from, and lumens. Also shadows on/off. I usually also place a point light about head-high somewhere and maybe a low-lumen spot to light dim areas like corners and knee space under overhanging island tops.

Place the wall elevation view camera and report back.

Show us your wall defs. Screencap each, the brick-out and the stucco-out, so we can try to reproduce, or . . . POST THE PLAN!!!!!!##??!!!

Screencaps would help us understand.

What exactly is the problem? Change the sun angle so there's no shadow on that wall, and report back.

Open the Chief plan and examine the lighting. Look at the placement, the lighting specs for lumens, shadows, everything. The material "lighting white" is used for the globes. Look at the material specs for emissivity, transparency. An object that's white and highly emissive casts no light, but can block all light if a light source in inside.

Torn on the light source indicator in 3d and make sure your lights are not inside the globes.

There is no bug. General framing members cannot be rotated in 3D. If you want them able to be rotated, post it in Suggestions.

I made a 3D solid to do this. You can rotate framing in a wall layer that is framing and built with its studs and plates, but you cannot rotate general framing objects.

Watch one get hosed down to a depth of about 9 feet. No lateral bracing needed.

Ian took out all the pilings.

Are you here because you use Chief Architect? Because we can't tell. Look at my signature line. Where's yours? Does your software have training videos showing how to frame a floor? Chief Architect does.

Define "blend in." To me, hearing it from an interior designer, it suggests hombre. I drew two ceiling planes same pitch in a one-room house with roof, apart from each other, painted one blue, one left white, then dragged each to make a lower part blue and upper part white, then joined them. See the pic. What exactly are you looking to do? Attach a file and you'll get a better answer.