rlackore

You can't - it is not allowed by Chief; you can't insert below the foundation level or above the attic level, so you'll have to work around those limitations.

You need to set the default header depth for window objects in Default Settings>Window>Framing>Header: Use the Calculate from Width checkbox if you want it to use the default settings you set up in Default Settings>Framing>Openings.

Default Settings>Framing>Plan Display>Joists, Rafters, General Framing>Use Line for Framing This setting "sticks" for whatever floor is displayed in Plan View at the time, in other words you can set the value independently for each floor.

Turn on the Rooms layer.

Turn on the Roof Baselines layer, select the Roof Plane, then perform a point-to-point move from the Roof Baseline to the porch railing wall. Then you can clean up all your roof intersections.

If you prefer them round: direct vent.calibz

You can also create a greenhouse using a railing wall and roof planes with some rafters thrown in:

Yes.

This is a big part of your problem: Note that the arrow showing the slope isn't perpendicular to the 8:12 roof. You need to orient the 10:12 roof to be perpendicular to the 8:12 roof. EDIT: Kevin caught this right away (I was a bit slower than everyone else).

Here's a handy formula for you when working with unequal pitch roof planes: unequal pitch intersection angle = ATAN (high pitch / low pitch) If the intersection angle (in plan) between your 8:12 and 10:12 roof planes isn't 51.34 (or 38.66 if you're measuring the other way) then you can be assured that something is very wrong.

A polyline solid will appear in plan view as long as the layer to which it is assigned is turned on in the plan view layerset. You need to clarify: are you referring to opening a elevation camera view, or to determining the relative/absolute elevation (z-coordinate) of an object or element?

One common method is to shoot an elevation view of the pergola, draw the knee brace profile using the CAD tools (make sure it is a closed polyline), then convert the closed polyline into a polyline solid. This solid can be copied, moved, rotated, etc. to place wherever needed.

We have done this exact thing many times in the Suggestion Forum, going back several software versions. Still waiting....

File>Import>Import Drawing (DWG, DXF)... will only import 2D data. File>Import>Import 3D Symbol (DWG, DXF, OBJ, etc.)... will import 3D data. A DWG file created by AutoCAD Architecture doesn't include any "readable" 3D data for Chief to import - you'll have to first export the file as a DXF. Unfortunately, this data can only be imported as a Symbol, which will do you no good whatsoever because you can't extract any usable information from a Symbol.

Your room needs to be defined appropriately using the Room Specification dialog box: ...and then you need to change the Baseline Height of the roof planes: I suggest downloading a copy of the X10 Reference Manual and reading the relevant chapters.

Thanks for that nugget Eric - something I've missed and it will certainly be useful for me going forward.

I suggest downloading the Reference Manual. If you're using Premier X10, then you can get it here.

Sorry, I didn't notice that you'd attached the plan file. The problem is that the railing wall that defines the porch isn't aligned with the stem wall below, so when you make the stem wall a pony wall the upper portion of the pony wall extends to the porch ceiling above. The easy solutions are to either 1) align the railing wall above with the stem wall below, or 2) select the upper pony wall and drag it down to your desired height.

Dollars to doughnuts Chief created an attic wall to "fill in" the gap between the top of the pony wall and the roof baseline. I suspect your porch isn't defined as a room. If you make the porch a room (with railings or invisible wall), then Chief won't build the attic wall.

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No, I don't think so. I painted the walls three different colors and everything seems fine:

Every Symbol has a Bounding Box size; quite often these dimensions are greater than the actual physical dimensions of the Symbol's geometry: When you used the Fixture Specification dialog box to change the toilet's width, Chief re-sized the toilet using the Bounding Box width instead of the toilet's actual width. This is how Chief does things. The solution is to use the Symbol Specification dialog box to change the Bounding Box width to the toilet's actual width, then use the Fixture Specification dialog box to modify the toilet as you wish.

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I agree that ducts under the slab are not ideal, but they are a possibility if all else fails. I've used attic mechanical rooms with success, sometimes in combination with a hot roof so the entire attic is conditioned.

What is the compelling reason to build the front half on a slab? If you don't want a full basement in that area, a conditioned crawlspace would allow you to access the entire floor area.