Larry_Sweeney

Mark.........................I did forget about the 3D edit plane. I plan on "playing around" with your ideas/advice, along with Alan's input in another thread, later today. This morning, I have some commitments I must attend too. Thanks for all your knowledge/advice-------------much appreciated. Have a great day.

Alan.......................Interesting. I'm calling it a night, but I'll do a follow-up tomorrow and let you know. Have a great one!

Mark...........................Yes, I had thought of using a molding p-line for the drip edge, but you still need to deal with the shingles above and on a complicated roof it could/would be a real PITA. Thank you and all the others in this thread for taking time to try and solve this ---- much appreciated. I think I'll send it in to support to see what they say. Have a great day.

Glen.............If you look closely at the eave "shadow board" it's a drip edge, which is a pretty common item used on shingled roofs around here. On the gable is a 1"x2 1/2" trim for a shadow board and also a drip edge. No 1x2 1/2 on eave because gutter will be attached later. All items are drawn correctly and (I think) "attached" correctly. I haven't, as of yet, tried playing around with manually moving the molding p-line to see if "my problem" could be corrected. I think I'll submit to support just to see what they tell me. I've never showed the "shadow board drip edges" before. Now I know why.

Alan.............."You might need to model a custom eave line profile to match the angle of the roof" I'm not sure if I'm following what you are explaining. Are you saying you think I should angle the eave to match the pitch? (perpendicular to the pitch) I don't think that will work because I plan to install gutters.

Alan...............I downloaded Dropbox, made a sample plan showing my "shadow board" problem and sent it to the thread I've been asking for a solution in. I had used Dropbox many years ago, but somewhere along the "way" it got deleted. After you mentioned it in your thread above I thought I'd give it a try again. Hope it works for me. Have a great day.

Sample 1.plan If I did this correctly, this should be a simple roof plane showing what I show in the pictures I posted in the thread above.

Michael...................I "think" I understand, but this was a brand new plan with only one roof plane and three different shadow boards. Two are on the gable and one on the eave. That's all that is in the plan. I don't understand with only those items I can get 87 reference files attached to the plan.

I was going to submit a VERY simple plan to a thread I started earlier today. All it comprised of was one single roof plane with shadow boards on the eave and gable ----- nothing else. When I backed up the entire plan it had 87 reference files and the plan was 22 megs. Can anyone explain to me in "old timer layman's terms" what the H--- is going on and how to fix this. Thankyou.

I'm showing a drip edge on the eave and on the gable I have a drip edge and shadow board. At the intersection of the eave and gable the connecting drip edges don't connect correctly as shown in the attachments. I also show the profiles I'm using on the eaves and gables in another attachment. Is this something I just got to "live with" or is there a solution/work around. Maybe a different profile? Thanks for taking the time.

Ethan.....................Thank you. It was a long day and I guess I was having a "senior moment". Well, that's my excuse. Have a great day.

Is there a way to put one type of shadow board on the eave and another type on the gable? What I'm attempting to show is a drip edge on the eaves and a drip edge and 1x3 added on the gables. I know, of course. this can be done manually, but it's a PITA. That is if you also want the roof surface added also. I think this is my only option, but hoping I'm missing something.

It's difficult at times to get a good understanding of the terrain when looking at a render or vector view so being able to show contour lines in this view would be great. Is there a way to show contour lines in a render or vector view? "If" memory serves me correctly, some time ago (and probably longer than I think ) there was a video or discussion with a work around showing how to do this, but I couldn't find anything about it. As always any and all help is greatly appreciated.

I'm, I guess, sort of in the northeast area. I live about 10 miles north of Bloomsburg. I've been a Chief user since v10 (2006 I think ). I've built custom houses, restorations and have a custom cabinet shop for making custom architectural details and period furniture. I'm not an architect, but I've been designing projects since 1972. I've been using cad programs since the late 80's. Back in the early 2000"s I got discontinued my general contracting business and devoted all my time to my cabinet shop and design work. The last few years I've been doing only design work (and occasionally what my wife tells me to do ) I thought about retirement, but I'm having fun and I'm basically working every day. I'd say about 70 percent of my projects are from concept to completed construction documents. Like I noted earlier, almost 100% of my design work is using Chief Architect. I still, after all those years, probably only understand and use about half to two thirds what Chief can do, but I can usually get my projects completed and my clients are very happy with what I come up with. If I can help you in any way, I'll be glad to try. Otherwise have a great day!

How does one go about getting a wood porch floor to overhang the trim board (I call it the "skirt board") by 1" or whatever is desired? By default, the overhang is flush. Calling it a deck you can call out the overhang distance in the deck specifications, but with a deck there is no skirt/trim board. Am I missing a simple step somewhere or a work around? Up to now my work around to this is to use a p-solid for the porch floor and make the overhang whatever I want, but there must be a better way. Thanks, all advice is always much appreciated.