Rosco2017

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  1. 37 minutes ago, Gawdzira said:

    "Is 1970 angled cedar siding making a comeback?"

     

    Bite your tongue.

    I live in a neighborhood built in the early 1990's and some of these houses have it. Lol

  2. Post the plan and Ill take a look. Just a guess but it sounds like the stem wall top isn't following be top of the slab. Make sure BOTH fields have the same number. There are other factors that could be affecting this as well but it's all just a guess until you post the plan.

  3. I'm not 100% sure what your talking about but I'll give it a shot. If you want to lower the porch slab and keep the porch beam hgt at the same hgt of the main floor, then just change the two numbers next to the red arrows in my pic and it should drop the floor and leave the clg/beam height of the porch alone.

     

     

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  4. 28 minutes ago, diyDehnel said:

    the program chooses to simple change a dimension I have previous set EXACTLY.

    Hmm. I've never had this happen to me. Now, on the other hand, I have accidently moved walls by my own mistakes. Perhaps you're doing the same thing?

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Doug_N said:

    The auto build is, from my experience, always a great place to start.

    Doug, I agree.

     

    I enjoy designing my roofs manually. Others like to use the automatic tools. Not everyone works the same. That doesn't mean one way is the correct way and the other is not. I'm not the type of person who ignores suggestion. Coming from a family of educators, learning and education is a life long endeavor. I always keep my mind open to different possibilities and ways of doing things. This turned into a hot button conversation. Does anyone else draw their roofs manually, or is it just me? LOL

  6. 15 minutes ago, rgardner said:

    If you setup your model roof to be built correctly it is generally pretty close.

    I've been using Chief and Chief Architect products for many many, years. Quite a few. I'm not saying I know everything about this software, because that would be ignorant, but I'd like to say I'm pretty proficient. With that being said I can tell you that is not always the case. 

     

    20 minutes ago, rgardner said:

    although I do tend to try to simplify new designs to take into account the general idea of massing and less is more.

    I wish this could always be the case, but some of my builders dictate almost 80% of the design. Including the elevations. 

     

    21 minutes ago, rgardner said:

    But again the roof tool although not perfect can get you 90% of the way in most cases.

    Depending on the complexity of the model. Yes and No.

     

    Some people are hard core advocates of Chief's Automatic tools. They are extremely handy and can save people quite a bit of time if used correctly. In some case's Chiefs automatic tools can not get you what you need because these tools can't predict every single scenario that arises in the field. We're getting off topic. It's smart to learn both automatic and manual roof tools. Who knows, you may prefer one over the other in the end. Like I said earlier... "To each his own" 

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  7. Ryan, Most of the homes I design have pretty complicated roofs. In the time it would take me to go through and critique everything to get to a finished product, I would have already been done if I had drawn it manually. Yes, Chief's automatic tools can come in handy but they don't work for every occasion. Which is why it's smart to learn how to draw manually. I got tired of going back and editing. I guess I saw it as more work on my part to correct what was auto generated when I could have just drawn it the way I wanted it the originally. Everyone's case is different. I design complicated and rather "large" homes with equally large and complicated roofs. I agree that the user should take the time to learn the automatic tools, but I also think the user should take the time to learn how to manually draw as well. To each his own, I guess. Lol. Happy New Year!    

  8. "Manually" is the only way to go for me. Haven't used auto roofs in years. It took quite a few years for me to become proficient with the roof tools. Once you become proficient you may find drawing manually goes a little faster. In your downtime practice with the roof tools. You'll be a pro in no time. Happy New Year!