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It was, thank you. I have SSA... I find the videos great for general concept. But I saw nothing for how to tackle this project. I'm still cutting my teeth on the tools here... I do more design and layout work. Almost anything outside an autoroof build is almost always a 10 hour day for the roof alone. Practice.

OK... Thank you! I'll never kick a gift horse in the teeth! Couple questions: 1) Did you work with the roof I had? Or did you delete it and recreate all manually? 2) Did you do the top "dormer" by opening the roof plane and ballooning the walls through the exiting roof plane? Would have been great to watch you do this. Thanks Again.

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Hello - This roof has been the bane of my existence. I could sure use some pointers on how to approach this. This was my first roof last year. I botched it pretty well. I've had to come back to it and get it right... still botching it with fervor. 1) This time I tried to cut out the roof over the bedroom using the polyline tool to allow for the gable. But after that, I'm kinda lost as you can see. ugh 2) I don't know how to address the pitch issues and there's no indicator on the original plans on the pitch on the main roof. I opted for 6/12 but that pinches the eave area of the front of the house and 4/12 looks right in front but doesn't allow for a 10/12 gable as indicated in the plan. 3) Finally, I can't figure out how to put the gable area over the porch and line it all up with the eaves that are technically from the roof on the 2nd floor. Guidance would be appreciated. I'm about a year old on this product now.. much to learn, this one has. Doers 2017.plan Klam - Doers.pdf

Have the need for a certified engineer to put his/her stamp on a plan. As well as future plans where necessary and where legally allowed. If interested, please contact me via this thread regarding your fee for plan review/adjustments/ and certification of an addition above existing 2 car garage (residential). Still checking code on this one to see if viable for client. Thanks Much, Stuart Anthony Sketch | Design | Plan

Thanks Lew, That's a lot of great info. Usually not that big a deal in SE Wisconsin... But we shall see. I will talk to the GC about that info and see what we're looking at. Also thanks for the heads up regarding legal concerns. ~ Best Regards

Thanks much.

I have the need for a certified engineer to put his/her stamp on a plan. If interested, please contact me via this thread regarding your fee for plan review/adjustments/ and certification of an addition above existing 2 car garage (residential). Thanks Much, Stuart Anthony Sketch | Design | Plan

Figured it out.... I extended the foundation wall across to divide the addition from the existing structure. Then I selected the existing structure and increased the height of the stem wall to 8'. The only thing I need now is how to show the cutout to the crawl space.

Hello, I'm trying to show the existing 8' block foundation and then demonstrate the 4' frost wall (crawl space) under the addition. The auto-build doesn't allow for this variable. Any assistance would be appreciated. Kind Regards... Kurtz Addition_2017_01_20.plan

Thank you - that link is referencing importing PDF elements INTO a layout... I'm not doing that; I'm talking about a pure CAx8 file saving as a PDF.

Hi All, Anyone know why my layout PDF's are now 10 to 13 MB instead of under 1MB? Did X8 change something? thx Stu

In some training vids I see a nice big bold number 0 in the master layer on the layout template. My default profile template doesn't have this. Seems like an auto page number feature would be pretty standard... Anyone?

Hmmm - novel idea, that. Any of you guys interested in making a few extra bucks when I get a stumper? If so, send me a message and let me know your rates for roof design?

Solver... Thank you... Crickets are still a bit of a mystery... ie auto or manual... but I have a better feel for it than I did going in. So Thank you ALL for that! Your configuration is what I went with... albeit my attempt at duplicating your idea was not quite perfect... but it works for the application. my camera view on the inside did not have smooth uninterrupted ceiling planes like yours did. but I can handle that one. I think the "Saddle" that I initially had in my uploaded plan was too complex... I was just stymied... So thanks again y'all for helping the newbie! It is truly appreciated.

I have to learn the on / off feature... sounds much easier. I'll look for a tutorial on that... Been doing it all manually... [sigh]

I will try this approach ... I suck at custom roofs... practice - practice...

well maybe I spoke too soon... I'm not understanding this fix... when i extend the slope down as a single pitch as labeled, the edge dos not line up like your image. can you show me the edited file?

This works... still don't know how to do the cricket.

cool idea... but it would make for an interupted vault in the bedroom.

yes... but the client wants the bedroom below vaulted north to south as drawn....

All... I have a roofing headache... Anyway... the auto-roof function creates the most logical roof design. My client (The Builder) says that option is too expensive for the budget so this is as close as I can come to a solution without further assistance... this needs a cricket... and I simply have no idea how to create one in CA. Any Help? Is there a tutorial for this? Kind Regards, Stu Flickinger Project.plan

Wanted to see what it looked like... providing options... Once I got this figured, I would provide the option you just suggested as well.

Hi... See Attached File... I would like to have this hip roof section (Addition) blend into the existing gabled roof. I'm not seeing tutorials on this; so I'm reaching out again. The file is kinda botched because I was "Trial & Erroring" it to no avail. What is the best step-by-step on this? Is it better to work at the roof baseline polyline level first for this sort of thing? The file is close... I want the left side of the gable slope to meet the slope of the hip roof... right now it's creating a straight line over to the peak. I hope this makes sense. Thanks for your help, Stu Flickinger Project.plan

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