DavidJPotter

I commonly use a filled-CAD box for that purpose, works for me. DJP

I commonly use a filled-CAD box for that purpose, works for me. DJP

I commonly use a filled-CAD box for that purpose, works for me. DJP

I commonly use a filled-CAD box for that purpose, works for me. DJP

I commonly use a filled-CAD box for that purpose, works for me. DJP

Do you mean "Patio" ( I never heard of a padio as a name for a space)? Be that is it may, if you need to remove the terrain that is covering your "padio" you can use a terrain feature set as a "hole" to remove the unwanted terrain. Otherwise I agree with Lew that more data is needed as to what, exactly your problem is please. DJP

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Tha plan you shared currently has no roof planes but to try to answer your questions I have the following comments: In order to have a symetric ridge between two baring walls, you make sure the ceiling heights of that space are the same height and that the roof pitches are set to the same pitch. In your posted plan there is no porch Since the plan you posted has no roofs, good or bad I cannot comment otherwise than to say that ceiling heights set in "Edit - Default Settings - Floor - Ceiling Height" and local room specification dialog box - Ceiling heights control whether roof eaves meet or not. I answered this in #3 above already DJP

I have done several sip panel homes and the sip company uses their own Engineer and software using my plan as the basis of the design. They did not seem to need my input to do their jobs, all the homes I designed are now built and the owners happy. It may be that you are making something basically simple into something unecessarily complicated. DJP

In this You Tube video I manually create some roofs using a similar technique you could also use to do these roofs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEkvMgyYYjk Allen's method will also work, this is just another way to arrive at a result DJP

In case you do not already know what "DRM" means here is a definition: (I looked it up) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management DJP

If you still get the update message, the update did not install (You may have to turn off Norton temporarily to allow the procedure to run as designed. Or you may have to locate the downloaded file and then manually install it (find it and then double-click on it to get it started). If you used MSIE to download it the file should be in "My Documents - Downloads", If you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox it will be in Chrome's or Firefox's download folder depending upon what you use as a browser. DJP

The oldest version I have that works is Version 7. I have it installed on a separate hard drive that runs Windows XP x32, In my experience it will not install or run in Vista, Windows 7 or 8 but it if works for you, more power to you. DJP

Here is a You Tube tutorial where I demonstrate manual roof editing, the join roofs tool and break tool in action, http://djpdesigns.net/html/join_roofs.htm DJP

Check to see if you have the layer "Ceiling Break Lines" checked "on", if it is on that layer you can at least turn it on or off as you wish. Such lines are not selectable in plan view but can only be turned on or off by way of Layer Display Options dialog. Ceiling break lines are caused by roof plane edges intruding into an established flat ceiling (coffered ceiling). If that is not it then please post your plan as you originally intended. DJP

CAD detail from view instances are automatically stored in "CAD - CAD Detail Management" by either a name you give them or that the software automatically bestows. Kilgore said "as far as I know" and he is correct, I just thought I would remove any "maybe's" from his answer. Afterwards they are accessible via the Project Browser or by way of the drop-down menu under CAD. DJP

Just curious but is your printer PC only? In other words, what's going on, I wonder? DJP

I have no way of knowing what you did-did not do or with what. I do know that once you learn how to use the software by way of study and practice with the Reference Manual and provided you have a decent computer for it to run on, you or anyone else can get stunningly good results. It takes lots of concentrated study and then using what you learned during study to then be able to display competence to yourself and others. It is worth doing. Everything you need to know is resident in your Reference Manual and Help files. DJP

That is what the "mirror" material looks like in a vector view camera view (no reflections except using a ray trace or standard render camera view). DJP

Walls connect by way of the wall's "Main Layer" so if your main layer radio button position is incorrectly set you will then get unwanted results as well as dimensioning errors. Make sure when creating custom wall types that this convention is properly set up in your wall types. DJP

I commonly build framing and then manually edit the results, that is what the manual tools are for, to make things exactly as you require. Each framing object has a dialog box and can be thus controlled, located and sized. DJP

The benefit in this case is that Chief Architect Inc survives into the future as opposed to them not surviving by being easy going and reasonable about their business model and intellectual properties. Like or not the Ethics level of our World is at a criminal level, the paper thin social veneer of "Civilization" is often too insubstantial to mention in terms of a business protecting its own survival by expecting people to be personally ethical. Sure most of us are personally ethical but it takes only a few lazy thieves to eat away at an already thin profit margin except the Fed Gov which prints its own money by decree. DJP

that particular cursor icon means that somewhere in your current plan there exists a bad wall connection. The bad wall connection should also have a "circle" showing at the bad wall connection. You also get a cursor icon appearing when "Angle Snaps" has been turned off and other basic function conditions. Such indicators are VERY useful and not a bug or something "wrong", it is just a communication from the software to you. DJP

Poly-line solid overlays would be my initial plan, depending upon the size and shape of the Architectural details, one might also use molding poly-lines or 3D molding poly-lines as well. Using only walls or pony-walls becomes problematic when intricacy is required but Chief has plenty of tool choices to do whatever needs doing. DJP

I use the back-clip to bracket just as much of a view as I want and any extra lines that remain, you can use the "Edit Layout" tool to add or subtract any lines when the view sent to layout. View to CAD is useful especially for old AutoCAD users who find that sort of thing familiar, I just do as above mostly, Chief is flexible enough to allow for several different ways to arrive at useful end products-views. DJP