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He was trying to lay down a specific railing flat on the ground (not upright). Had to explain that the railing is a wall and not a symbol. I had to copy that short railing to a blank plan>convert to symbol> place in library> then he could rotate it to lie flat on the ground. He also had a problem with a roof plane that he has a symbol for to fix it but without looking at the original roof plane settings, I would guess that he has the sub fascia setting wrong and was therefore losing the fascia and gutter.

Keep in mind that sometimes when you rotate the object as mentioned, it sometimes will throw off how it appears in plan view vs 3D views. If so, you'll have to make an adjustment on the origins of the symbol. If you have troubles with this, let me know and we'll do an online meeting.

Glenn has it right. That's exactly what I told him. Since he is a very new user, I wanted to be sure he understood.

I'll call you. there's a little trick to make that work.

I helped him for a while this morning online with his roof and dormers. Got most of it done but are definitely some plan issues that could be fixed. Don't know if he wants me to help clean up more of it. He's only had the program for a few weeks so you know there is going to be some issues.

Rockne, If you like, I would be happy to show you some things on roofs tomorrow, Friday, if you like online. No charge for this, just willing to help if desired. I use TeamViewer for online meetings. If you want, just type teamviewer in your search engine and it will come up. Just download the "free version". Very easy and is a secure program. The new version is TeamViewer 14. Happy to try and answer any other question you might have. Send me an email at my email address shown in my signature below or good also to contact me on my cell 832-754-6160. Happy Thanksgiving.

Rochne, I would keep the room definition as a porch. Just be sure it has a roof and a ceiling, It needs the ceiling to start with so Chief has a plate height to work with. Also, if the room is defined as a closet, then if you put a door going into the house, it will be an interior door when it should be an exterior door.

This is basically what I did.

I will post a pdf of plan view on basically what I did.

The very first thing I do when starting a new plan is to name it.

Yea. I did something similar in a new plan and everything generated just fine. Anyway, if I run into something that doesn't generate automatically correct, then I don't fight the program, doing it manually will get it done faster.

Made a small change. Moved front roof back to wall. first attempt.plan

What about something like this? Manually edited. X10 first attempt.plan

Here is your plan with roof edited to walls as drawn. test.plan

If you want the plan, let me know. I opened it in X10.

Edited 1st, floor roof manually based on your wall placement. Personally I think you need to redesign this.

Not sure what's going on but I could fix it manually.

Try rebuilding the roof. Be sure you have room definition on the 2nd. floor. I'll look at your plan in a little while if someone doesn't beat me to it. Worse case would be to edit the roof planes. Should only take a minute to do that.

Your 1st. floor roof is cutting off the 2nd. floor walls.

Amen. Louis Fernandez (many years ago) mentored me and taught me how to do roof manually first. His thought was that if you can master manual roofs, then there's practically not a roof you can't do. Once you understand doing roofs manually, it makes it a lot easier to take an auto roof and edit it.

I always do these roof types manually. Quite simple to do. I just like doing manual roofs.

Newell, I'll take a quick look at your plan in a little bit.

My reply from tech support: Hello Tommy,Thank you for contacting Technical Support Services.I appreciate you bringing this to our attention as what you are showing in that example plan definitely is not correct. I'll be passing this along to our development team to look into further.Best regards,KatherineTechnical Support AnalystChief Architect

Reported.

Thank you, didn't hear about it.