johnny

Actually, I just noticed you don't have a exterior wall made up of multiple sections (not 1 wall profile), but you are running a secondary wall manually partially around the perimeter. I dont have a fix for you at this point other than to say you'd probably solve part of your issue making a wall profile that contains all the layers you need/want...and not have multiple wall lines running together and parallel. http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02944/defining-a-new-wall-type-in-x7.html (added) in fact, I just deleted the secondary wall and it turned on balloon frame (see Joe's comment) and it fixed the issue. Your main issue I think is that other wall line you are running parallel with the exterior walls. CA is trying to place a wall platform under that wall.

You've set a neg ceiling height for the room which is messing that up. You need to just correct your default heights....

You best bet is probably to use a molding poly - but someone may have a better solution.

I wish everything was metric.

The extra amount I think you are confusing (or I am wrong somehow) is the "continuation" price vs the "re-start" price. They give you a discount if you continue your SSA. Which brings up an interesting point that doesn't relate to me - but curious nonetheless. What if you naturally had SSA coming due now?...that means you don't get any additional discount? I think this is a good deal to get back in SSA and that way can get beta X8 - ill spring for this deal.

Never mind - I see that if you upgrade to X8 it includes SSA so that is really what I wanted to know.

I noticed there are a lot of sales for CA. Does SSA ever go on sale?

Actually they recently had a video on this - I think you are on right track, but perhaps too bright in your example (but very good overall). If you want better lighting you might be better to use a full render app.

Under default settings, dimensions, and then automatic exterior -

Chief thinks in terms of rooms - for better or worse. If you dont think in those same terms, and approach your project file differently, you will run into issue after issue. What I understand you to be saying is that you have a post and beam structure and am unsure if you should place that structure first or the "in-framing" first. Since you can't make rooms with post and beams I would say start with the in-framing, but I would draw lines that represent the "grid" of your posts and beam members. After you are done with that place the structural members into the file - and I would isolate the layers for each type. I'm not a Chief pro, but that is how I would go about it.

Yep that was it, thanks. I had thought it needed to be checked for the sides to be dimensioned, but works fine un-checked.

Thanks Glenn - that was easy.

Is glenn's method the same as yusuf's?

Does someone mind verifying this works on their system. When I set the default to R/O its 1/2" off still. I couldn't get it to work, but maybe I am missing something.

edit - Joe show's below there is a way.

You probably should post in the general section, as this area is more for people giving tips than asking questions.

Is there a way to move a roof plane's baseline post creation, but in a way that actually resets the roof plane to the new baseline coordinate position keeping all other settings "locked"? I understand you can move the baseline, but simply dragging the baseline over to a new location messes up the other aspects of the roof plane settings. Thanks in advance.

I should have clarified the term "true". Yes, other cards can display at 4k, but the buffering required creates a delay. I suppose for the type of work we're talking about it may be fine, but running anything past 30 FPS only 2 cards can do that - Nvidia’s Titan X and AMD’s dual-GPU Radeon R9 295x2. Any other card that can "handled" 4k is taxing it to a point where you are talking 16-20 FPS which is noticeably slow. So if you are rotating a high res 3D model its going to jump around a bit (but again, maybe this is fine). http://www.pcworld.com/article/2906385/4k-monitors-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ultrahd-pc-displays.html

Just to be clear, you will never get the same "sharpness" from a TV product (even 4k) as you do from a computer monitor. For presentations and things I'm sure the TV would be fine, but for everyday work most recommend against using anything other than a true monitor. Also, as I understand it there is currently only 2 video card series that are true 4k - the Titian is one of them.

hummm....so if I am reading that correct its basically saying you need to apply to each separate primitive solid - so they've removed the feature altogether from CA. Well I guess that answers that.

Yeah, I have a couple uses for this feature - but I don't expect to then be able to individually control the sub-items on their own without "un-blocking/grouping". Mostly I would want to have all items of the block influenced by a "cut" solid like the video shows.

Thanks, and yep, I did see that and noted in my first comment - which was the point of the thread. What is the new (alternative) approach? It says there is one, and yet can't find it.

Here is the instruction video training for that functionality in x1 - you can skip to 5:56

So from x1 CA lost functionality?

I was watching a tutorial on CA and solids, and for some reason I can't duplicate the process in the video of forming a "union" between multiple solid objects (not touching). The video has a note that newer versions of CA has a different process, but I can't seem to find it. I'd like to have multiple primitive solids as a single "object/shape" but not touching. An architectural block doesn't work - since I need to be able to interact with the shapes as a single 3d shape. Extracting other shapes from it. Thanks!