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X7 is still Beta. the final release is coming out soon.

Blizzard, Here's a quick video of how I'd go about creating those two roofs: http://youtu.be/l4GDczBbbrQ (sorry no sound)

I'll guess the second floor walls have not been framed.

2:30 including typing this post.

You need to create 4 roof planes for your 2 roofs. I would do it manually. Edit the pitch in the dialog box for the roof over the garage.

His sense of humor extends beyond building science. Joe is Canadian. A great line from one of his seminars a number of years ago was "We Canadians are a lot like you Yanks. We like to think of ourselves as unarmed Americans with healthcare."

I have experienced this too. My guess was the monitor, but it was entirely that - a guess.

As you begin to draw the wall press the tab key after the first click. You will be presented with a dialog box where you can enter exact dimensions.

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Though I contributed a solution, for my own projects I merely fill the overlay area with a hatch and let the truss manufacturer take it from there. Keep it simple (like Sherry)

Alan, This condition is a bit harder because it is unique. The automated tools only get you so far - anything repetitive and completely standard. Custom solutions need to be done manually. See video below for how you can edit your truss envelope to create the overlay. http://youtu.be/8mCrz34H0vw Sorry no dialogue - I don't have a mic on the desktop computer.

I draw existing walls without poche and I poche proposed walls.

Here are some recent renders with the tips from the John Caffee workshop. The project is an outbuilding/playhouse/treehouse/garden shed that is to replace a deteriorated garage.

I stumbled upon it when things were not exactly behaving and I dragged the overhang out so I could play with larger offset numbers.

I am able to move them independently, but i dragged the overhang out to 36". I did see them both move at one point. That happened when I tried to offset them a distance greater than the overhang. There is an interaction with the overhang amount. I think your issue is that Molding1 is set to offset 5 1/4 inches when your overhang is only 4". Also it seems we are not able to offset the shadow boards beyond the extent of the roof overhang.

I reported this, but you should too. In X7 the arrow takes on the layer of the text. When you go to draw the second leg of the leader the two line segments are no longer on the same layer and therefore do not join.

I send my clients videos through youtube. Works across computers and devices. You can make the videos private if you wish.

http://www.awc.org/publications/dca/dca6/dca6-09.pdf

I don't think those are ceiling break lines - they occur outside the plan. Post the plan.

It is not z fighting it a is a room issue. Z fighting would not be a clean break. it would look more like the attached image.

That's how I do it. I crop the exterior walls out when I send the plan to layout.

I've seen Joe speak - he is a great speaker with a good sense of humor as well.

I did it by hand too - all except my final project. Cut and pasts for the background involved x-acto blades and sobo glue.

Saw this online today. I like the sketch interior render with the exterior photo background. I might try to replicate this with Chief and GIMP. (Back in architecture school I did renderings like this with constructed perspectives and photocopied landscape photos collaged together.)

Nice Alan ! El of an idea.