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20 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

is that something other than what I am showing in this screenshot?

I guess it must be my eyes playing tricks, it's just very difficult to tell from the angle. My apologies.

Renerabbit, can you accomplish that while keeping the 12" eave overhang at the intersecting roof plane?

I don't think you can get what you want with auto-build turned on because Chief's logic can't resolve the intersection with the garage eave.

Then select the wall that you want to reduce the overhang, and: Wall Specification>Roof>Overhang>Length

Default Settings>Roof>Roof Overhang>Gable

Set the value to what you need, taking into account the thickness of the exterior wall finish.

That warning doesn't help you find the specific Layout Box that contains the missing detail that is throwing the error. Remember to turn "on" the Layout Box Borders layer, then page through the Layout to find any "empty" layout boxes.

You can accomplish this with pony walls. Define two wall types:

1) the lower wall type will include the framed knee wall; be sure you set the knee wall layer to framing and set up the particulars in the dbx

2) the upper wall type is just your basic concrete wall, no knee wall framing

Next, select your foundation walls and turn them into pony walls; set the Elevation of Lower Wall Top to the thickness of your floor framing (I-joist + subfloor), this will build the lower wall type with the knee wall to just beneath the floor framing:

Build Framing and cut a section to see the result. Of course you have to set up your stem wall height, define the foundation walls so the floor hangs off the inside with a ledger, etc.:

This gets you most of the way there. Auto-detailing isn't 100%, it details the knee wall as concrete, but you can easily fix that manually.

Here's a link to a Chief tutorial:

Creating a Custom Door

Builder's Guide to Hot-Dry & Mixed-Dry Climates

Call the JHA or local law enforcement and ask if discharging a firearm within the jurisdiction's limits is permitted; this is always my first step. Second step is to talk cost, ventilation, and lead abatement, as @GeneDavis has pointed out. Third is to ask if they have children living in the house, and inform them of the lead dust residue that will exit the range, clinging to their clothes and shoes.

Two suggestions:

1) investigate using a fill pattern (room specification dbx) if the demo area is the entire room

2) if not the entire room, maybe use a material region

One possibility is to check the Dimension Defaults for the Default Set you are using:

Another possible solution is to select the Extension - not the horizontal dimension line - and adjust it's length by moving the highlighted grip handle:

1. Shoot a Cross-Section view and place an insulation CAD Box:

2. Create a CAD Detail from View. This turns the insulation line into a polyline comprised of arcs and such:

3. This polyline can be easily shaped to fit roof slopes by dragging the center points of the arcs:

Here's a library with two versions: full polys (53,987) and reduced polys (21,140). I don't have the hardware to test the light settings, so you'll have to tweak those no doubt.

Embra.calibz

Maybe the OP is referring to the numbers that appear when the dimension line is selected:

Step 1: Open Default Settings>Floors and Rooms>Floor Levels>Floor 0

Step 2: Set the Floor 0 Defaults>Structure>Absolute Elevations>Floor value to 0'

Step 3: Set the Floor 0 Defaults>Structure>Relative Heights>Stem Wall value to 4'

Step 4: In Plan View, go to Level 0, select each Room in turn and make sure all the  Absolute Elevation and Relative Heights wrenches are checked.

Step 5: Select all the Foundation Walls and ensure that the Wall Specification>Structure>Default Wall Heights>Default Wall Top Height and Default Wall Bottom Height are checked.

Step 6: Go to Level 1 and do the same for all the Exterior Walls, except for the kitchen bump-out.

These steps should take you most of the way there, though you may have to mess around with the kitchen bump-out.

You may also want to investigate this setting for the Foundation Walls: Wall Specification>Structure>Platform Intersections>Ceiling Platform>Hang Floor Platform Above on Wall.

If you're referring to using the Wall Specification dbx General>General>Terrain Retaining Wall checkbox, then yes.

Before you change the wall type or definition, set The Resize About to Main Layer Inside.

Turn off "Use Special Snapping"

I am unfamiliar with Home Designer Suite. If you are planning on using 24' manufactured trusses, then the out-to-out dimension between the exterior wall framing should be 24'. For purposes of truss design, 99% of the time you will ignore everything (sheathing, siding, etc.) beyond the outside face of the framing (wall studs).

1 hour ago, rgardner said:

Pretty sure you can bury a partition in the ceiling or floor at that point as well and it will stop.

Just curious. What is the advantage to this strategy? What problem does it solve that an invisible wall does not?

You can assign a Molding to a Shelf; however, the Molding will "wrap" at a free end, as shown in the picture, so unless the shelf butts against a wall, it will look weird in 3D, unless you add an invisible wall to make the "wrap" disappear.

Assign a molding:

Molding "wraps" at free end:

Unless you place an Invisible Wall:

Typically, roof trusses span between the outside faces of the exterior wall framing (wall studs/plates).

In the Wall Specification dbx, the value reported in General>General>Thickness includes all the Wall Layers, regardless of whether they are Exterior Layers, Main Layers, or Interior Layers.

If you want to dimension to the outside face of the framing, define the wall with Wall Type Definitions>Wall Properties>Wall Settings>Dimension to Exterior of Layer set to the Main Layer component that defines the wall framing. Also, pay attention to the Dimension Defaults settings within the Default Set you are using.

You could define the balcony as a Deck, build the framing, then delete the rim board: