chiefuserchad

3 hours ago, dshall said:

 

I do not use auto dormers either...  waste of time for me.  I build them all manually.  I do not think there has ever been  dormer I could not build.  i have done multiple videos on how I build them.... if you can find them....  I did them a long time ago....  they might be on youtube,  type in DORMER VIDEOS BY DSH  and you might find them....  who knows though....

 

If you want me to show you how to do it,  I will do a gotomeeting with you if you pay me for my time.

 

 

I seem to have fixed the majority of the issues using your method from your video but the only thing I can't seem to add is the 8' ceiling in the front and back of the room. The center of the room will be vaulted because of the shed roofs but the main roof will need to be at 8'. When you're in camera view you should see the main pitch get collar tied off by that 8' ceiling but it screws with the attic walls above it.

Ratner New.plan

I'm not sure where you're seeing a crawl space. My section shows the slab in the garage. I've tried using attic walls to fix it but it either messes up an attic wall near it or messes up the wall below it. Yes, I could use p-solids but I'm trying to find the real way to put a wall there. And I still can't figure out these weird drywall holes.

I am struggling so much on this plan, and I feel like it's something easy I'm missing. I can't stand using the auto dormer button because I end up getting error messages every second so I do these dormers manually. But on this one I cannot get the half attic walls to go in. When you open the plan and drop a camera inside you'll see which walls I'm talking about. I've tried using the roof cutting wall at bottom, I've tried using attic walls, anyone dealt with this before? There are also these square patches of drywall that will randomly disappear from a wall surface. you will also see this in the camera view.

Ratner New.plan

A1 0 MYERS 5-30-2016.pdf

Most of what i've done is all manual. I did auto frame it and then I was just going to go back and adjust the sets of joists to be at the correct height but when I change the heights of one floor it messes up everything below that I did. Am i just drawing this house in the wrong order? I do agree with Zowie that sometimes it feels like you do have to find the magical combination of dbx checks and unchecks just to get it to do what you want.

Everytime I tell it to change the floor level, it changes my stem walls heights and when I try to correct the stem wall it changes the floor height. I'm just going in circles. On one area of the plan I need the floor level to be framed on top of ponywalls that are higher than the stem walls, so effectively the exterior walls are framed lower (down to the stem wall). Any ideas? The pictures I've included should show you what I'm talking about.

I have a very odd existing structure to draw and I can't seem to figure out how to get it correct in chief. There are 3 different floor heights which normally wouldn't pose too much of a problem, but there are also two floor joists framing methods.

Flerchinger Existing.plan

That was it. I thought I already did that but I missed the floor framing.

I know I'm missing something pretty straight forward here but where the heck is my sill plate? I have the options checked in the DBX but it doesn't show up or even show that it's being used. Photo included.

Haha, no kidding. Thank you for your guys' help.

Got it! Although I have no idea how. I made the main layer 5" and added an extra 3" exterior layer of concrete as well so combined it would be 8". Somehow that worked.

I've been trying to figure out if it was just anything over 8" that was messing it up but then I changed the lower wall type to the siding 6 with continous insulation which has a total thickness of almost 9 1/4 and it renders fine!

If I delete the gypsum or fur off the lower portion and change it back to 6" stem wall its visible. But when I change it to 8 it disappears. Even if there are no extra layers on it. I'm so confused. There;s a 8" CMU block stem wall that renders just fine. Although upon closer inspection its main layer is only 7 5/8". Does CA just not like 8" stem walls???

I believe when you open the plan I uploaded it shows the correct pony wall that I made already in place. It includes the 8" stem wall with a 3/4" fur and 1/2" gypsum on bottom and then an interior 4 wall above with gypsum on one side.

That is the closest so far. I made my own pony wall type that has no footing and a 8" stem wall with a interior 4 above. it looks like the 8" stemwall is whats causing the wall disappearing. Any idea way?

So maybe its the kind of wall I'm using. We're going to build the new stem wall and then frame the top half of it. So I used a straight pony wall with two wall types to show that? Is it possible to create that dropped room with that kind of wall?

That does look like it would be good information but I'm trying to figure out this issue that's all on the same floor, not a multi floor issue. The program doesn't seem to want to make a room lower than the room that surrounds it.

I am trying to draw a basement that we will be digging out of an existing crawl space. Since we're only digging out part of the crawl space I need the crawl space "room" to stay at its floor height while the new basement drops below that. But any walls that I draw that go below the crawl space floor disappear. How do i fix this?

You can see the issue when you open a perspective.

Perucca Existing.plan

Yes, I was planning on adding the crickets, but what I'm trying to figure out is how to draw the two new roof planes and how it would tie into the existing one next to it. Do I cut back the eave and rest the edge of the roof plane on the exterior wall? I can't seem to get the roof planes to merge in the right way.

How would you go about positioning the gabled roof in the middle of this photo? The lower roof on the left is existing and the second floor on the right will be the addition but because we're extending the exterior wall between the two structures the roof line has to be changed. I thought I could get a gable between the two as a patio cover but I'm not sure how to integrate where the eaves intersect between the existing roof and new roof. Any ideas?

That's exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Does anyone have an idea on how to create this dormer like the photo shows? When I draw a truss on top of the ones in place it will only place a new truss between each of them.