DavidJPotter

Thank you, Mark! DJP

Allen Seale Architect: http://www.architectaustin.com/ (his website) Home Phone; (512) 448-9948 Business Phone: (512) 892-1977 Try the above, please DJP

Eric indicated that you look at the Roof tab Settings, Room Dialog box settings of the plan he edited for you. That IS how you get the resulting roofs thus autogenerated. The basic data is to be found in the Build Roof Dialog - Roof Styles tab. You learn to do roofs by one: learning the Wall Specification Box pre-settings made on the Structure Tab and Roof tab by study and practice. Manual Roof editing and creating is also a process of study followed by lots of practice failing and succeeding. It takes a while to gain real competence with those tools. Whether Auto Build followed by manual editing or just manually creating the roofs are based upon your understanding and competence. DJP

There is a bonus "Barn Door" library offered for SSA members at the Chief Architect Website. You can also search at "3D Warehouse" online for .skp files that might work for your purposes. In either case, you place a "doorway" for the wall penetration and then place the "Barn door" door symbol, aligning it to the doorway. They currently go together as a pair to emulate a barn door instance. DJP

I was able to do exactly as you describe but successfully using 4" walls. I enclosed the indent with a wall divider wall, set the floor up and the ceiling down with an overall depth of exactly 6". I recommend you try again. DJP

Place the files on your hard drive, then open those .plan files or .pl1 files in Chief Architect Premier X8 and save them. After you do that you can then open them in X9 and X10. DJP

This roof is quite simple as it is, what, exactly do you wish to change? DJP

Contact Don Hurst Architect (512) 394-1234 dhurst2@austin.rr.com or Allen Seale Architect (512) 892-1977 allens@austin.rr.com both live and work in Austin, Texas and are both Chief Architect Premier users. Neither of them are Licensed Structural Engineers though. DJP

Please post a copy of your plan and layout files so others can see what you see and look at the settings etc. DJP

Since what you say is theoretically impossible, can you supply more detailed information about what you are seeing, and under what conditions please? DJP

I do not know about Scott or you but I intend to post it to Tech Support, as that behavior is unwanted, I agree. DJP

Since you did not choose to share the plan file with us (Oops, I see that you did now), we can only guess what is the matter. I would recommend that you check your "Locate Objects" settings in "Dimension Defaults" on "Dimensions" and "Auto Exterior Dimensions" settings. If your first floor dimensions are measuring to "Surfaces" instead of "Main Layer" could account for the discrepancy of dimensions, floor to floor. DJP

Scott, respectfully, what exactly do you mean please? DJP

The attached document was created by one of the World's best rendering persons: Jintu Montego. These have been posted here several times in the past. Ray Tracing is a process of balancing lighting and material properties to get an aesthetic result. It is an Art as opposed to a Science due to the infinite variables involved including your PC hardware and operating system. You work it making adjustments until you obtain an acceptable result. Asking you to do a search here was and is good advice as the first step to a solution after you read the applicable Reference Manual sections on the problem, watch applicable video tutorials that address in this case "Ray Tracing" to be found at the Chief Architect website. After that it is a matter of trial and error practice creating an acceptable result which then brings you personal competence. I do wish you success. DJP Raytrace Settings-Forum Notes.pdf

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Ray Tracing has been discussed here many times in the past. Much useful advice has been posted already. I suggest you do a "Search" of the forum using "Ray Trace" as the search term and carefully read the results to then apply to your plan file yourself. You also need to state what version of Chief Architect Premier you are using, so others who may want to help you can do so using the same version that you have. For instance, Version X9 and X10 are programmed to handle Ray Tracing differently-they have different Material Properties settings from each other. This forum is for helping you, help yourself as opposed for us doing all the work at no cost to you, keep that in mind. DJP

Point to point creates its own dimension points relative to where you left click and release the mouse. I never use those for cabinet elevations. What I do you is the "end to end" dimension tool for cabinet elevations. Check it out and see for yourself. DJP

Check for common walls to the trouble area by looking at the Wall Specification Dialog for check-marks in the "No Room Definition" checkbox. That command will not allow a wall to form a room when checked. DJP

Your User libraries should be located on your old laptop in C:\MyDocuments/Chief Architect Premier X5 Data/ Database Libraries/User_Library.calib That is what you copy and paste into your new Chief Installation on the new laptop. DJP

I do not have the time to inspect your plan but generally speaking, there are several different types of camera tools in Chief, some of these camera tools are programmed to exclude the roofs. Make sure you try all your camera tools, especially the "Full Camera" and Overview cameras the by default show the roof planes. the " Floor Camera and Floor overview camera" will NOT by default show roof planes. The "Roof" layer can be turned off any camera layer set (Display Options dialog) in, you can check the Display Options Dialog for each camera view while that view is active. So there are several different ways for roofs not to be visible in camera views, check your Display Options dialogs per camera view and you then should be able to sort this out yourself. DJP

There are only two possibilities, neither of which seem to fit your situation: 1. Your mouse is broken or defective (since your mouse works with other programs that seems NOT to be the case). 2. Your software drivers are either corrupted or out of date (again this seems unlikely since your mouse works with other programs). The above are the only problems I have ever had with mouse and Chief since I started in 1995. IF you have an SSA account, then just contact Tech Support for help. DJP

Thank you, I looked in m X9 and I had forgotten that Preferences does have that setting, though it is not important to your particular problem. It may be a short fall with your video card or the software drivers for your video card. There is a webpage that states "Minimum Requirements" for hardware to support Chief Architect, check it out against your PC: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02761/chief-architect-minimum-system-requirements.html DJP

In plan view and also in camera views, all particles have an "x-y-z" location, there is nothing "hidden or invisible". That is how virtual space is parsed. DJP