tommy1

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.

Just realized this happens this morning. If I place hatching on interior or exterior walls using the hatch tool, the hatching gets messed up when I place a wall niche using the niche tool. Windows and pass-thru tools don't seem to affect hatching. Anybody else notice this? Attached a simple example plan. (X10) Wall hatch tool.plan

Watch out for the face count with something that detailed.

This is correct. So far, the only symbol that I've changed the cad block for is the ceiling smoke detectors. 99.9% of my plans are done at 1/4" scale and it's real difficult to see the smoke detectors. I've edited the cad block for smoke detectors and placed them in my user library.

You need to have a terrain built to place a driveway.

Might have a lot of faces to the symbol.

Make it manually. I did one for a garage doors a few yeas ago.

If you set up the defaults for floor structure and floor finish, just check the default boxes. If not, then you'll probably have to manually reset set them.

I would not approach it like that. Just make your own wall type.

Yes, but I was just saying....

Oh so true.

WOW. Good to know for I make dwgs all the time for engineers. I deleted this layer in the exterior wall types with this layer years ago in my profile plans for I don't use the materials list which is why it's there I believe. Many years ago I had several plans where this was throwing my outside surface dimensioning off by 1/64. I also found that generally it can throw off the thickness on maybe a few walls in a plan and is not consistent. Generally most plans will be okay (in Chief) but then again in some plans you'll see it. Didn't know about the dwg factor though. Thanks for the heads up Richard.

Why don't you download the trial version of Premier and try it?

I agree with David. That would be your best option if not purchasing Premier. However, I don't believe you'll be able to open that V7 file in HD Prodessional. You might need someone to bring it forward for you.

Just moved a very difficult terrain plan to a different plan with the house. Difficult to do but doable.