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Great tip! Can you speak louder on the next videos?

Exactly the kind of technical knowledge I am looking for to become more proficient! Thank you for sharing!

Hey Mick Thanks for your help. This site has some really great people. I'm completely swamped and I am considering outsourcing some of the modeling work. I'll keep you in mind.

I guess I wasn't clear.....I suffer from that occasionally. The wall that is an interior-6 goes through both sides of the 12:12 roof. I need it to remain an inside wall inside the 12:12 part..........and then become a siding-6 exterior wall on the outside, but following the 12:12 roof angle (not a vertical change like in using the split wall tool) I guess this is not an automatic wall configuration? It would be nice if the software "understood" that a roof line just caused a wall to transition from an ext to int and cut the siding to match the roof pitch/ angle. I'll attach the plan, it's pretty jacked up. The client has made all kinds of changes and I think I might just start over from scratch. (I seriously need to get professionally trained) I seem to have walls or floors always blocking the stairwell .......but that's for another thread......maybe there should be a noob section........for the basic stuff that us beginners haven't mastered yet. Lot 1 Blk 4 revD.plan

Can someone direct me to the literature or video that explains how to configure a wall to have siding on the outside part but remain finished GWB on the inside part? Every time I use the painter the inside wall (in the actual model room) converts to siding. I'm hoping that there is an attic wall or something like that, that I can use along the slope of the roof to make one wall line out of two different wall types. Thank you gentlemen.

So thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I went through all dialog boxes and found that the Open Below space over the stairs had 11 7/8 inch I joists selected rather than 2 x 12 for the floor system. Now I'll now to check those defaults more closely before starting!!! Thanks again!

aha.......thanks for the time and expertise you all shared with me!!!!

And HI! back, cuz!!!

I thought I did......but I'm using 2 separate computers and keyboards......sooooooooo...looks like i selected it but didn't click the attach this file. 924SF - 2 BDRM revE.plan

Okay. I broke it. Being new to chief and being swamped with work it Is never a good combination. I have a client who wants to experiment with a very small spec home. Everything was working perfectly up until somewhere around revision C for D. Then I noticed that the ceiling above the stairwell appears to be about an inch higher than the rest of the second floor ceilings. I have no idea what I did or what setting I may have selected to cause this to happen. But now that it's present, whenever I try to auto roof things go wrong. Maybe someone here has seen this before and can steer me in the right direction. Thank you so much in advance. -- Mike from Kingston , WA

Thanks Mick!

Y'all are awesome! Thank you for taking time out of your life to help me out. As promised I found out what you had already knew...Adding a Step to an Edge was the success. You're right..........I'll let Chief do more auto steps as I learn it. Thanks all.

Nice Gawdzira! Thanks! I'll give that a shot.

Here is the file. Ontario St Duplex v2 all.plan

Great points so far. Thanks much!! I tried the break line tool, but I will need to re-try now. The roof is on the first floor garage wall and slices through the second floor house wall. I assume that I can use the first floor house wall as a reference line when cutting the roof plane? I will try to upload the file in a few...........I didn't know that was an option. Very cool.

Hi everyone, As I'm doing my due diligence to search for an answer from the user and reference manuals, I decided to also post this (probably overly basic) question here on the blog site. I have been using chief architect for about three weeks, and unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you would view it, I am being swamped with work. CA is great but my deadline-driven learning curve is brutal. Whenever I use the join roof planes tool in the scenario shown in the attached image file it causes the garage roof to extend into the house through the wall. I assume that there is some command that I can select that will cause the wall to be a stopping point where the correct roof planes would be generated. Any help with this is greatly appreciated and if I discover the answer in the literature I will return and post it here. On a sidenote, one of the frustrating things that I've noticed as I jump between AutoCAD and Chief Architect is that the spacebar acts like the escape key in CA which is okay until you're in AutoCAD and you press the spacebar and repeat the last command. Or try the ESC key in CA I really enjoy reading the insight provided here by the veteran users. Thank you.

Dennis - Thank you. I shall give it a shot and report back. David - I guess I wasn't clear enough. Sorry 'bout that. The space under the stairs is part of the first floor master closet.

Hi, I'm new to CA. I have a pretty solid grasp of AutoCAD from release 11 to 2016 and some time with SolidBuilder, SoftPlan and WalPlus. Chief seems to be the most robust and user friendly of anything I've used so far. So I have the cart way out in front of the horse and I'm scrambling to overcome the learning curve so I can complete a project and get it in for permit. I'm looking for help from the CA pro's on how to do something. I've attached a screen capture of the issue. (well that failed - here's a DropBox Link ) This house actually exists and has the space under the stairs as sloped closet space. How do I draw the wall so that it replaces the upper railing side of the stairs and only goes down to follow the bottom edge slope of the stair stringer so under the stairs remains open? I'm saving my $$$ to see about attending a training class this fall/winter so until then it's going to be asking for help here or watching all the videos I can find. Thanks in advance. Mike