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Hi, all. Trying to get this figured out and I'm close, but there is clearly something I'm missing. I'm interpreting an architects plans (2 D) and creating the 3D model of it. On the main house in the file, there are three bump out windows - 2 on the second floor, 1 on the main floor. The bump outs are supposed to look like a cube intersecting the corner of the house. In the case of the ones above/below each other, the two bump outs are separate from each other. Meaning they should have any connecting pieces, but have a finite bottom and top (I really hope that make sense), including the upper one should not touch the eave. In the screen shot attached, you can see I almost got the bottom one to work, but there are still massive holes in the walls that I can't for the life of me figure out how to close. I tried doing this with boxed windows, but that didn't work. I saw one video that explained about using a "room" to get something like this, but it was on a flat wall, not around a corner. Plan attached and thank you, in advance, for any tips/advice. Jason Gaherty.zip

Eric - one more question. How do I draw the pony wall and manually shape it? Can't figure that one out at all. Thanks.

Thanks, Eric. Signature updated. I'm sure I can get this to work now. Thanks for the tip. I rarely draw the roofs since I'm an interior designer and don't really care about the outside. But, now I know I need the roof to make all the inside walls work.

I've never been able to figure out how to fix this problem (which doesn't seem like it should be a problem). When I have two adjacent rooms with different ceiling heights, there is almost always gaps in the wall for the room with a lower ceiling. I've attached one screen shot showing the problem and a back-up copy of the plan file. In this particular home, there are two rooms with sloped ceilings - one tall one, one shorter, and then a bunch of 8' tall rooms. As you can see in the screen shot, there are gaps everywhere! Any helps/tricks/notes would be great appreciated. I have this problem on nearly every drawing. Thanks. Jason Appleby Backup.zip

@HumbleChief - I just watched the video again and he does the "exploding" in plan view. His fix worked for me.

Thanks, @solver. That definitely works. For future users looking for this solution - options to try to fix gaps in the top of walls, especially when trey ceilings are being used. Keep in mind that I'm an interior designer using CA for the interiors capabilities, not the building details. The framing is less important to me than being able to show my clients the interior wall/ceiling details. 1. If working with adjacent rooms of different ceiling heights, use a standard interior wall, but mark as invisible. This helps fill in the gap above the ceiling in the rooms with shorter ceiling heights. 2. If a small gap still appears, consider changing the ceiling structure to be 0" or delete the ceiling structure all together. Only do this if you don't need that framing information in your plans. 3. If one of the shorter rooms has a trey ceiling in it, you need to explode your trey ceiling and then move the ceiling plane in the shorter room so that it rests on the inside of the invisible wall rather than over that wall.

Let's try this one more time - this is an X13 version. I was able to fix some of the problems by changing the ceiling structure to 0". That worked. Now the only issue I see if the huge gap where I have a trey ceiling in the dining room. Untitled 1.zip

@solver - yes, sorry. I already moved over to the beta version. Let me see if I can save this as an X13 version.

Figured it out. Plan file attached. Untitled 1.zip

Not fixed. I can't get the file less than 18.6 MB. I have taken out nearly everything except walls and ceilings and can't figure out what else to do.

how do I save a backup file to be less than 14 GB? Mine comes in at 19 GB and the system won't allow me to upload it.

Thanks, @HumbleChief. I tried both things and it didn't completely fix the problem. Still getting the gap between the ceiling plane and the rest of the wall.

This home has multiple ceiling heights in a great room setting. I'm using room dividers to separate out the rooms so I can define the ceiling heights. However, once I do this, I get these gaps between the ceiling planes and space above the ceilings. If it helps, I can post the plan file for further evaluation by the community. Thanks in advance. Jason

@DavidJPotter - I was able to remove the lines using the "edit layout lines" tool. However, if I go back into the elevation to make edits, the lines appear again. They aren't a line that I've drawn, so that's why it's confusing. @SusanC - I looked at these elevations in live view and they don't show up. As soon as I went back to plot lines, they showed up again. I always use plot line view for elevations. I find they look better.

I'm not sure I can describe this sufficiently to make sense. I have attached two screen shots (with red text saying where the screenshot is from). In the live view elevations, everything shows up normal without any issues. Once I send the view to the layout, I get this strange diagonal line showing up. This shows up in 3 elevations out of 30. There doesn't appear to be any commonality between the two rooms that might cause this weird line - no strange wall intersections, etc. Any thoughts anyone? Thanks, in advance.

Thanks, guys. Changing the floor structure thickness appears to work.

If I change the floor height on the second floor (to represent the step down shower), it automatically changes the ceiling plane on the first floor. The step down showers "poke" through the ceiling. Is there a way to have CA ignore framing or adjust the framing based on floor heights?

I'm working on a house in South Florida (as the interior designer) and we're doing concrete slab for the second floor. I want all the showers on the second floor to be step-down showers. I know how to change the floor height to do this correctly for my elevation drawings. But, when I look at the first floor, the ceiling where the showers are located drop down. I.e. when I change the floor on the second floor it changes the ceiling on the first floor. Is there a way to override this? Jason

I'm using X12 for Mac. I really like my plans to have consistency between different pages, especially of the same plan but different views (electrical plan, lighting plan, furniture plan, etc.). It's important to me that the layout boxes are in the same location on consecutive pages. I thought the best way to achieve this was to use the Place Point function. I've checked to make sure "snap to points/markers" is turned on. However, when I move a layout box, it does not snap to the place point. Am I missing something here on how to use this particular feature? Thanks. Jason

Thanks everyone. I did mention that I'm using Chief Architect X11, but forgot to mention it's on a Mac and it's premier. I'll work on my signature. In terms of the horizontal and vertical offset. This seems to be a fairly inaccurate way to move a tile pattern around once you've actually applied it. Whether in plan (like a tile floor) or elevations (tile showers), there must be a way to tell the system to start the pattern at a defined location (middle of a doorway or wall). The problem with the offset method is that CA applies the texture and pattern in ways that don't seem to make sense. If I apply a 4x4 tile to a wall, it doesn't appear to start in the lower left corner or middle of the wall. That makes using the offset nearly impossible. Too much guessing. I included an example of what I'm trying to do. The reason I mentioned Autocad is because I could just select the middle of the wall at the bottom and select "set as origin." So easy and effective. Hope this clarifies what I'm asking. Jason

I've been looking high and low for any tool or trick in CA X11 to do something that Autocad can do really easily - it's called "set origin" and used for hatches (yes, I know CA doesn't use hatches). When providing drawings to contractors, it's nice to show them exactly how a tile pattern or flooring should be laid out. This often entails the starting point for a material - is it centered in a doorway or starts in a corner, etc. I can't find anyway to do this in CA. Am I missing something? If this doesn't exist in CA, seems like it should be something to add in so that we can provide accurate technical drawings to builders.