ComputerMaster86

@CADustinWhat is the best practice if your trying to generate a texture with the tile builder and you want the tiles to be a specific size let's say a single rectangle tile 4" X 8"? Sorry if someone has asked this before.

I have read this thread a billion times trying to take in knowledge of these number formaters and conversions. I have one question if you don't mind. If using text to display room height as a custom room label, why can't one simply use something like... %room.height.ceiling.convert_to("foot")% to change the output to feet??? The output is inches. There must be something I am not understanding.

There is not really an easy way to auto rebuild a certain section of roof. If you turn "Auto Rebuild Roofs" back on it is going delete your manually edited roof planes. With "Auto Rebuild Roofs" turned off, you have to re-edit the roof planes everytime the footprint of your building changes. I like to use the auto generated roof planes with auto rebuild roofs turned on, when I can. Every wall has a "Roof" tab inside the "Wall Specification" dialog box. Those settings along with the settings under the "Build Roof" dialog box the software uses to auto generate your roof. Sometimes you can break a wall into two sections using the "Wall Break" and modify the "roof" tab settings for one of the segments. This method allows you to keep "Auto Rebuild Roofs" turned on. The one big downside is sometimes no matter what combination settings you adjust, the auto generated roof can't always give a person exactly what they need. In these situations I just manually modify what is auto-generated to get what I need. Many prefer to manually generate their roof planes right from the start. Some users would say manually editing roof planes is easier than trying to adjust the different combinations roof settings to get what they need.

Here is a short video I generated where I manually edited the roof planes to create a rear gable on the back of my structure . Rear gable is the same with as the front gable. My video creation skills are not the best.

Most people prefer to manually edit roof planes to get what they want. I lean towards using methods that keep "Auto Rebuild Roofs" turned on when I can. I have started to use the "Gable Roof Line" tool on some of my projects. If you are using auto-generated roof planes, you can place a "Gable Roof Line" using the "Gable Roof Line" tool. Line it up with your far front edge of the main wall layer and draw the line the same width as your front gable. Then you can select line and move it to the back relative to the where you want the back gable. Keep the line centered on your front gable. Some users would like say this is not the best method of accomplishing what you are trying to accomplish. I like it I can keep auto rebuild roofs turned on.

Pictured below is pretty much what I was after. I normally don't get this detailed on my projects. I was challenging my self at creating the look of steel ratguard trim using an actual to size molding profile. The ratguard fastens to a treated grade board at the bottom of a post-framed wall. The steel sheet metal panel sits on the ledge of the steel rat guard trim. I have been experimenting with the extension wall layer feature too see if I could come up with something like I have pictured below. I wish we didn't have to have walls placed on floor below to make use of extension.

I added foundation walls on the floor below. The foundation walls were placed to have the same footprint as my walls on the 2nd floor. Those foundation walls were set to hidden, no room definition and no locate. I also turned off the sill plate and footing. I was then able to get it to do something. It frustrates me that you have to have some form of a wall below to get the extension to do anything.

Below is inside the zip is my X16 plan I was playing around the extension settings with. Extension X16.zip

Inside the wall type definition dialog box I am trying to make use of the extension setting. I can not for the life of me get wall layers to extend past the concrete floor or by using a negative number get them to extend upward exposing the concrete floor a little. What am I doing wron?

Daniel Bauman has a bi-weekly free webinar called the "Designer's Show". I have picked up on a lot of things over time viewing his free webinars. I have also viewed some of his paid content. I also pay for Rene Rabbitt's YouTube video content. Both have allowed me to pick up on a lot of things over time.

I have had that happen before. I never understood what causes it but, restarting CA always fixes it.

Just out of curiosity, I merged all the materials together so there is only 1 material. I wanted to see if their was still a lag with the 3D model in your elevation views. That did speed up the load time of the elevation views. I am guessing if you have some method of condensing and cleaning up the materials so their is not so many that may help speed up the load times. I wasn't able to pin point any specific textures causing the slow down.

I like to save the most recent and latest Chief installer for each version (X14, X15, X16, etc.) for a just in case scenario. I have a special folder on my NAS I keep program installation files in. You just never know when you will be saying a few choice words while realizing you have to reinstall something. Plus it's handy for setting things up on another computer.

I am not liking how Chief handles the primary wall side for interior walls.