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In x17, the fill for concrete walls and slabs when you used the auto detail feature followed the wall type and floor structure fill setting. It's seems as though in x18, the auto detail feature ignores the these settings and makes it a concrete fill with a 2" scale. Am I missing something or is there another place that this can be changed?

It looks like you are missing the surface layer on the curved roof? If you use the material eyedropper, the shingles should paint over to the curved roof.

The sloped ceilings will be defined by the roof frame. Without seeing what the place looks like from the outside it would be hard for me to tell. As far as chief is concerned, it would just be one room. Any roof plane that is lower than the top plates will create a ceiling sloped to the height of the ceiling as defined by the room.

I'm confused by what you mean here. The wall sheetrock is not what's generating. What does the ceiling have to do with it? I think Chief cuts back the sheetrock assuming there will be a soffit and fascia. Like Gene said, if you move the truss roof plane back from exterior FOS, the wall heals correctly. Now regarding framing, would you suggest that once the trusses are correct (whether auto generated or manually tweaked), lock everything and clean up the roof planes? Sorry for the word salad, but my partner and I consistently have this problem.

Sure, but now the roof will not be framed correctly. Gene wants the trusses to bear on that kitchen wall and the roof above the Kitchen to overlay on top (look at his roof framing plan). Joining the roofs creates a structural valley in lieu of what I mentioned above. Now image if there is no wall between the Kitchen and Living and you want a girder truss to carry the Living room trusses. Joining the roof makes the creation of a girder truss almost impossible. Maybe I'm missing something and I would love to know how to make this scenario work properly.

I would see if you can get a PC that is packaged with a decent Nvidia card (RTX 5060ti min) and 32gb min. of RAM. A good Nvidia card by itself can go for $1000+ and the GPU will probably make the biggest difference in performance in Chief.

Gene is talking about the outboard side I think. Even though there is no truss tail, the program does not put a finish on the outside face of stud. This condition happens to me regardless of what the ceiling is doing.

I've had this problem from day 1 with roofs. I can not get finishes to extend upward on any wall with a roof plane on it, even though the the truss tail is removed and truss terminates at exterior face of stud. The only way I've gotten it to work is to move the plane to inside face of stud. I have this condition all the time where there is a gable overlay on top of the main roof. I'd love to be wrong on this one.

I disagree. There are definitely times when I want to show windows on a floor level where the window may not necessarily occupy that space in elevation. Creating that window or door in the selected level does that. My two cents.

Hi Rene, Thanks for the reply. I could not get it to work by dragging the siding layer of the attic wall like you did. I got it to work by dragging the siding layer of the full height wall to the left of it. I wish this type of behavior was repeatable, but there seems to be a join logic that I just can't understand.

Hi All, I have a behavior that exists where an overlay attic wall meets a regular exterior wall at an intersection with another wall. There is always a section of missing exterior siding, regardless of how much I fiddle with the wall layer intersections. Please see the picture and model. Am I missing something, or this just how the program handles this? https://valleypartners-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/christian_valleypartners_net/IQC1_ZojZGqyQotpoSK7NQMFAcP9HPzUTUyQmOkQLJ-rsp8?e=OPj4NT Christian

Are you right-clicking on the plan or the project? are you in the project browser? A scrfeenshot would be helpful.

FYI, I ended up changing a display setting that allows windows to automatically manage color for applications and it seems to have fixed it.

I just used the Nvidia app to download the unified driver. AFAIK, the unified driver functions for all cards on any computer on windows, but I will look into it later. I'm guessing it's Nvidia, Windows, and MSI all fighting for control of color schemes. Wasn't an issue prior to this driver version.

I installed 616.56 on my laptop (4060) and my desktop (4070). When I'm using my laptop, the white background in chief architect randomly shifts back and forth from a warm white to a very bright, cold white, primarily in camera views. Everything else seems fine, but the color shift is super annoying.

When I am mulling units together for the sole purpose of trim, I uncheck the box the says something like "frame as one opening". There are other times when I do want it framed as one opening, but the builder will use a wood mull for a look in lieu of the window mfr. mulling the windows together in the factory.

Hi Joe, I also use mulled units when I want them to be trimmed as one window. We have a lot of instances where windows are separated by one or two 2x4 mulls. In these instances I set the label to each component.

Scott, 25100 kb is larger than 14mb. Did you try zipping it?

I'll keep this in mind on the next project. Can you still do planking with a Balcony? Here is a screenshot of the last project I did. Too bad Chief can't incorporate a slope on the sleepers.

Why is using a deck room type not recommended? I've used it a few times for decks above living spaces and didn't have an issue. I just added layers to the floor structure for sleepers and drainage? What am I missing? If balconies can do more, I have no problem switching.

I am in the early stages of a software switch, so take what I do with a grain of salt. I have boiler plate details in a disconnected plan in the "common files". Any unique details or details with information that may change from project to project I store in the layout file of the project. I export the details plan file to our server so that my partner can have access to it. I'm not sure how we are going to deal with updates and changes to that file.

I think I may have figured out why your overlay roof is not framing at 2x10. There is no gable wall that goes to the underside of roof to define the break between soffit and attic cavity. I checked "roof cuts wall at bottom" for your attic wall between the trusses and overlays and it brought it up to the roof plane, which fixes the framing. I would imagine another way to fix it is to change your gable sub-fascia to 2x10.

Hello Gene, You may want to frame the bottom of truss at the highest point and then use ceiling planes to frame the dropped ceiling portions. You also may want to send a sketch of the truss to your truss mfr to make sure it's possible. I can seeing squatting issues.

I was fiddling around this morning and I came up with this, similar to what you were showing. A ceiling plane meeting up to the structural rafters.

Select the ceiling plane and press the "build framing for selected object" button. I think manual ceiling planes are considered custom ceilings in the build framing DBX