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I voted for floor structure with the assumption that the beams wont necessarily fit Chief's automatic spacing and you'll likely manually place them. If the beams will work auto framed I'd go with door number 2.

Good videos Eric In the 2nd one- another option would be to use the header settings for the doorway instead of manually drawing the beam.

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I think I would model the SIP panel as part of the "Roof Surface Definition" and create a material for the framing, or place the framing manually.

You already have one building professional whose expertise is trumped by the window supplier. Will your architect fare any differently?

I have a layer set for operations like this - moving a house on the site or raising / lowering / rotating a house. I like to keep the building near the origin an the first subfloor at 0 elevation, so I move the terrain. The layerset makes visible all the terrain layers and hides all the building layers.

It's not misleading, it controls the representation of the top edge, the line you see is at the bottom. If you try again with an interior door it will be clear to you.

Doug, Your example is an exterior door. The line you are seeing is not overhead, it is below.

open door dialog box Options Tab Plan Display line select "Hide Top Edge"

Here you go. I just went in to the dbx for the room and deleted all entries for the ceiling finish and ceiling structure. LEO PLAN 5J junk FOR CT A.plan

I use this simplified one that I made. You are welcome to it. Fireplace Wall Cap.calibz

I did it with a shadow board and fiddled with the offsets on the shadow board tab. I had to adjust the depth of the rake to make the gable end work. Rake Bed.zip

Just make sure your "Roof, Baselines" layer is on. I had to turn that layer on in your file to make my "diagnosis"

Your baselines are all at odd angles. They should be parallel to the exterior walls if you intend the eaves to be parallel to the walls. Once you fix the baselines the roof planes should join as expected.

Have a look at this thread:

I upload them to youtube and send my clients a link.

Chief's automatic roof, while hideous, is a better solution for the rain.

I like to keep it simple. Culled some buttons from the standard toolbars at the top. Made a custom toolbar for the left side. Made a custom toolbar with library objects to sit above the Library-Layer-Browser windows on the right.

Nice solution Eric !

Gimp is an open source application that has most of the same tools as Photoshop. I use it as my image editor. https://www.gimp.org/ Inkscape is an open source application similar to Illustrator. https://inkscape.org/

You should care about the baseline because it determines how the wall and roof objects interact. (Just like what you define as the main layer of a wall will effect how the model builds.)

I live in the Northeast and went to architecture school in Boston. Today is the first day I heard the term "Boston Hip."

Chief framing handles regular and repetitive framing well. Custom and specialized conditions need to be created manually.

Confirm your walls are aligned floor to floor. Are there different wall types on the two floors or are they the same?