GeneDavis

You are seeing the light. Foundations have room control the same as levels 1, 2, etc., and there is no real limit on where in the z axis a room's floor is placed.

At the User Center.

Steeper than this? Just watch the Chief video.

PBRing the view gives me what I would expect from the pendants over island and small table, but raytrace does not? Why? The pendants don't even look ON.

Look up nail-base. Goes on top.

Found it! Thanks.

In the attached plan, a front porch with roof over and railing surround is designated DECK, and terrain is not cut. A rear porch is designated DECK but has non-railing framed walls with windows and a door, and cuts terrain. I do not want the enclosed rear deck to cut terrain. I tried specifying terrain without the building cutting the hole, and did the perimeter I wanted as a terrain hole, and STILL that back room cuts terrain. What's up? DECK TRIAL TERRAIN.zip

After I closed the file for zipping, I reopened it after doing this post, and now I have room def. Thanks.

I cannot and have tried. The breezeway in this plan was changed by the client to be crawlspace instead of part of the basement, so I put a pony wall across to define it, ICF foundation wall below, 2x6 framing only above. I am unable to get room definition, and it has got to be one or more of the four intersects shown in the image here. Plan attached. Thanks. Hickey SBR final for permit.zip

Thanks but tried that.

3D Warehouse.

See the picture. A breezeway intersects the house wall, and we know it's just sheathing in that attic area. How to delete the siding?

The kind that's low voltage, two parallel wires maybe10 inches apart, the little flying saucers with gimballed spots, and more. Edit: downloaded this little beauty and it's by one of my favorite lighting outfits, Tech Lighting. I am afraid of blowing up my already-overblown plan with more surfaces.

Manual mask. Easy. Can be translucent. Can be done as transparent fill angle hatch, and with the right combination of line weight and spacing, can render the below-grade parts in dashed lines.

Is it available? A library of CAD depictions of beds, tables, chairs, sofas, and more? I place 3D furniture and then my model gets slow.

File here. Rear porch roof. Roof rafter Oct 3.zip

I have an enclosed deck with 2x8 roof rafters over, and cannot get Chief to NOT trim the rafter to the soffit condition. I have tried in the roof dialog checking and unchecking the trim to soffit box. What am I not seeing or doing? What you see is the roof trimmed to 2x6 size.

I've done it with a molding, it was wood shingled, the editing for pattern position took much more time than getting the molding positioned.

IOW, your 8" ought to grow to 15" But tell us why you want ICF there at all.

I cannot get the inner wall in a position to see and click its pass-thru for editing. In plan view, I select the inner wall, move it 12" x-direction to get it in the room, and it shows no pass-thru. What's the trick? And Eric, how did you get your result?

I did the splayed wall surround for a basement window in an ICF wall. Set the window depth to 4-9/16", created an outer ICF wall at 4-9/16" total thickness, an inner, broke walls and did the double wall work, did a molding for the splay, only have the molding as my interior casing, but I have an unwanted lintel or something that I cannot delete. In section view it is on the inside face of the wall and also against the outside face of the inner wall. File attached. It is in the floor 0 bedroom at plan top left. Hickey SBR hipped roof.zip

Thanks! I'm all set.

I have a plan with the garage at the customer-specified 25 degree angle with the house. It was not easy to draw, because I don't understand how to get angle snapping working for me. I want snapping for walls and camera section views, and while I have added 12.5 and 25 as additional angles, nothing snaps to those.

And I need a fix. Pic attached, also file. The camera is looking up to the ceiling above the entry, where a wall I manually adjusted for height has an attic wall above (I made it invisible) but it cuts away the ceiling. Hickey SBR hipped roof.zip

Had you closed the Chief file before zipping?