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also see Creating a False Gable or Decorative Dormer - Video | Chief Architect on creating the attic wall

well, figured it out. The two roof planes were initially auto generate, however I was modifying the one on the right for this purpose: Anyway when comparing the two roof planes, the modified one had a different fascia top height. Different by a few 16ths, but when I changed it to match the unaltered one, the ridge did not match, I then examined the roof baseline of the altered one, and it was not at the end of the top plate. I must have accidentally moved it, maybe by grabbing it instead of the roof plane. Bit that layer is not usually on, so who knows. Anyway it is fixed now by moving the baseline. It certainly was an interesting side effect, the odd framing shown above

there are also a couple ugly juliet balconies in the exterior accessories??? catalog

no shadow boards...

interesting, the definition is: When Use Special Snapping is checked, the selected roof plane's edges will automatically snap to the outside surface of walls that it may butt against. Uncheck this to prevent the roof plane from snapping to any nearby walls. There are no "Walls" in the 4 snap points I show in the video. I just tried it, I still get the same 4 snapping points even if it is unchecked. interestingly the first snap away from the designated eave length is 1-3/16" there is nothing in the roof for that my guess is it is the funky way CA decided to frame the lookout where it looks to be 3 different pieces. anyone seen that? : yup thats it: if I delte them and build all framing they return

oh, and...all these things assume flat earth, at least the ones I tried. They do not know the house next door could have a 10ft higher grade

strange, it was up only a couple months ago. it was nice becuase you could draw a building on the map and specify the hieght https://shadowcalculator.eu/ There were ones that tried to map existing buildings, like http://shademap.app/ Make sure your CA and whatever app you try is set to the right timezone (including DST)

I do it like below, each time of year that I do it has a separate layer, so I can turn on and off I use this site to double check: ShadowCalculator - Show sun shadows on google maps just be careful, timezone matters. some jurisdictions have specified times you have to do it at if this is a regulatory requirement

with a space that small there are only so many permutations. If it was me I would forgo the closet at the top, and put in a 5'x7'6 or 8' bathroom there, and put the bedroom closet along the wall that you come into the bedroom on.

no i do not use grid snaps

There looks to be 4 different "object" "endpoint" snap points withing a 18" roof eave. Any idea what they are? Is it snapping to things that are not actually showing like the fascia board. For testing, "enpoints" is the only object snap I enabled. Its a lot worse if I turn them all on (although it is the same 4 points) 27.10.2024_20.10.57_REC.mp4 Thanks

I did not try that, I thought about it, but thought that was similar to how I first did it (broke the wall and set it to a gable, then adjusted the roof planes pitch and eave down). But in thinking about it some more, the dormer does have an advantage in this regard, in that I could just type the values (width, pitch, eave length) into the DBX, and see where it got me where the breaking of the wall, I only got to set it to the gable). There is something a little funny. if the dormer wall height is 10" it looks like: if I put it to 6" (lowest allowable) to tray and get it to the end of the top plate it looks like: I then alter the planes to get: but when I alter the roof plains manually to get rid of the eave across the bottom the wall is missing: then I bring the wall down to cover and the open space, and then try and get rid of those two little ends and then it all goes to He double hockey sticks. ...maybe the first way was quicker...or use the dormer to find the distances, then go back to breaking the wall and setting it to a gable

welll, it certainly is interesting. I can set the eave to like 80" to get it to go down past the 2nd story top plate but that cuts into the room looks like the best i can get is:

except i want the opposite, only show the exterior walls for the plot plan (I dont like the make polyline option as it is not dynamic) me thinks then I will need to leave the exterior wall as default layer and change interior and all other walls to their own layer. I think that will work

hmm, not a bad idea as i can move it around and leave the autobuild on. I'll give it a whirl

I do not see this setting in the defaults or in the wall type. how do you get to it:

The title should read NOT on attic layer This looks to happen if one changes the default exterior wall layer... maybe it is normal. Below is the second story, to the left is gable attic walls for the garage. they are autogenerated. but why are they on layer Walls normal? if I open up the attic wall, it shows as non default: but where is that actually set as I do not see it available in the wall defaults: I do have it set as my own layer (non default) for an exterior wall in defaults: if I change this default to check the default, which is walls, normal, and redraw the garage wall, the newly auto generated attic wall is now on the attic wall layer. So is chief then doing a "when build attic wall, if default wall layer is "walls, normal" then set new attic wall to layer "walls, Attic" otherwise build attic wall with layer set in exterior wall defaults? seems odd, I must be missing something. I suppose I could change the wall layer after it is built, but then that shuts off the auto build, which I do not want to do.

I'm trying to recreate this 14:12 roof. I have the floor plans but not the elevations. Can it be done auto some how? In this case I broke the upper floor wall at points where I guessed it might instersect the top of the second storey wall, then edited (including the pitch) and extended the 2 gable roof planes down past the second storey walls to the main storey. But it was a bunch of trial and error rebuilding the roof planes( so I did not have to manually edit the roof planes) and there is no place to actually put the 14:12 pitch, so I had to edit the two gable roof planes after each rebuild anyway. Anyway, is there a suggestion on how to do this better. The only thing I thought is to draw 14:12 cad lines on the elevation (as the porch roof and upper roof are already built), then measure from the outside wall to where it intersect with the top of the second storey wall. The pother thing I thought to do because there was no where to specify the 14:12 pitch, was to change the default roof build to 14:12, and go set all the walls to the other pitch (7:12) except porch (~4:12) any better ideas?

interesting, are you looking for in person training, or instructor led virtual training? I would have thought the latter would be available to you You could also check the "offering services" forum group

you may want to enquire with training@chiefarchitect.com

and rene showed a video on the semi autonomous way last month using baseline polyline. Auto built can be left on, and you only have to move the polyline instead of editing the roof plane. Attached is shown for this one where I took Gene's plan, turned on auto rebuild and built the roof planes (in order to delete the edited planes), then created a baseline polyline, then edited the two segments. CA then builds the roof to match 18.10.2024_21.59.01_REC.mp4

and then if you do it the other way, where you specify 54" in the build roof dialog, it works for those walls but not two others ...go figure

change the eave to 54" and build roof with same height eaves: autobuilt: but it wont work on the right wall. it will only work to 50". I've seen this before, not sure why. 50" 54" its like oh so close..but just will not do it

3d solid would be one way

did your system auto update the video card driver?