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Yes after playing around I figured it was the rectangular polyline...it worked great!! Thanks guys for your help.

I am going the poly line method thank you for the snap shots!

I submitted our plan to our Architect for review and it came back with a comment saying that any foundation below grade needs to be represented with dashed line not solid. I have change the line style but now they are dashed above the grade, is there a setting to control how the line style is handled above and below the grade for foundation and piers? How would one handle this...with out going into the elevation independently and drawing solid cad line over al l the above grade dashed lines?

Well thats where it appears to have populated...in the roof category thats for helping! Now I just need to recategorize it to wallboard. Do you know if there is a way to make that change globally so ceiling material on roof/ceiling planes will populate as a wallboard rather than a roof.

I have tried attaching the plan file but I exceed the size limit the file is 35.7MB. I have even tried creating a 20'x20' room removed the flat ceiling and created a ceiling plane with a 0 pitch, selected material by area and the ceiling does not pull in, I have not checked the roof material and will look to see if it is placing its there?

I am generating a MATERIAL LIST for all floors and am noticing that any room that I have created a ceiling plane for the material on the ceiling is not generating? I am certain that each room that has a added ceiling plane has had the build flat ceiling above (OFF) in my section the ceiling is visible. Has anyone had this problem and do you know what I Amy be doing wrong. I would really like the material list to include theses ceilings for a drywall count.

Can anyone shot me a quick 101 on how to interconnect lights at top of stair (in ceiling 1st floor)) and bottom (basement level) wall sconce

I am missing something probably very simple, but if anyone can set me straight I would appreciate it very much. I have a kitchen that I have build a breakfast seating on the back side of some cabinetry using a half wall and adjusted my height to 40.5" so my countertop would finish at 42" elev. I first used a regular wall and adjusted the height from my wall elevations but it left me with a void in my ceiling finishing. when using the half wall I can not seem to figure out why it does not finish the end of the wall with drywall, the plan view shows it to have the drywall but when viewing it in the render it is not showing, leaving the framing exposed only on the end. One other thing is that the wall it ties into perpendicular which is a full height wall to the ceiling is also affected by this in the same nature. Now there are is a walkway to the left of the half wall that I used a room divider to separate the kitchen from the dining room and where the half wall ties into the full wall there is also another room divider that id being used to divide the dining room and living room apart from each other. I added this bit of information just incase the room divider was causing this issue. I have removed the room dividers and it made no difference however. Ted Antrim American Finishers, Inc.

How do you modify the top plate to a roof plane. I copied my roof plane from level 1 and pasted it to level 2 but it does not adjust. I can not rebuild planes as they are all manually laid in., and the auto build throws them out of whack.

this is what I have created for a room.

I was a Truss Designer & Component Manufacture for several years so using Chief from what I have used prior is somewhat a step back but I am making do. I am finding it tricky at times in this software but I think it is more to do with learning how it works. Thanks for your input..

Scott, Do you think that I need to zero out the "Floor Finish" since I plan to cut back the old plywood so I am nailing the bearing plate directly to the 2x10's. I would imagine I need to modify the "Floor Structure" to just the 9-1/4" for the joist also.

I wanted to say thanks for all your comments it has given me some good direction on how to proceed...Scott I was thinking that was the best way to achieve the correct bearing heights yesterday, I am glad to hear that I was not the only one with that Idea. I will touch base with some updates in a few days! -Ted

I am currently working on a large renovation to where we are changing the roof line to a house. It is currently a mansard roof, with three levels. Were are planning on building scissor trusses over majority it all. The top level we will be leaving the flat roof in place and designing trusses to clear span from outer wall with a mild bottom chord pitch to clear any out of plane characteristics of the existing framing. The ceiling in that room will also stay in-tack, so no reason to disrupt what's there. The second level which is the middle will have some rafters being used as we will not have enough the heel height to engineer a truss, it will also have attic trusses that will be used for a loft) then the third level will have scissor trusses that will be framed over an existing garage which is currently an attic. We will need to build up the wall height in this room as it is only 72", we are going to make the new room elevation at 10" with a 4:12 pitch on the ceiling. I have laid in all the walls created a roof plan and then framed it with rafter, but with several modifications and changes and adding trusses it has gotten to confusing and busy. I copied the job over to a new file and deleted out all the roof framing and trusses. I am going to go through and set all my defaults to what they need to be and start over with doing the trusses first then finish with "build roof" for all the stick built areas. THE PROBLEM...I am having difficulty framing trusses over the 1st level where we plan to leave the existing framing (2x10 12o.c.). I have created two roof beams and modified them to be 5.5"w x 1.5h and set them to set onto of the 2x10's. I am trying to create a truss to bear on those as my nail plate but the trusses tend to want to bear to the top wall plate. I need some help on this section before I move onto the other two. ...if anyone wants a to add some comments I welcome them!! I have attached some pics

How did you create the hinges