rlackore

Have you checked the Z-value of the third floor symbol? Otherwise, I don't think we can help unless you post the plan file.

Remember that the Ray Trace tool only works with 3D camera views, and you must use the Standard rendering technique for the tool to become available.

The reference manual has easy-to-follow instructions on creating curved roofs. If you're on X10, the instructions begin on page 808.

You show 3 displays: 1 & 2 are driven by the integrated Intel HD Graphics P530 chipset; 3 is driven by the discreet Nvidia Quadro M3000M. I wonder if this may be the source of your issues. I'm guessing you have a mobile workstation and the higher-end Quadro card only has a single port. Maybe unplug the Quadro monitor and see if the problem persists on the Intel displays, or vice-versa.

This is a goofball of a wall. The only way I could get everything to model correctly was to simply place a room divider parallel to the exterior wall and drag the fence back so it joins with the room divider and not the exterior wall.

It's got something to do with the default pony wall. If you check the pony wall tick box, then uncheck it, the artifact goes away:

Scott, when I try to download your plan I get this:

AFAIK, this is the only answer. There is no easy, automated solution - you simply have to bite the bullet and do the work.

You should be able to just click on the link (or right click>save link as). It downloads fine for me.

I posted a symbol here that may help.

I became tired of positioning loads of lights to simulate LED tape light strips, so I created this symbol: LED Tape Light.calibz The symbol is only 24" long - you need to use a row of several symbols to produce varying lengths. There are 96 lights per symbol at 5 lumens per light, for a total output of 240 lumens/foot. You can easily produce half the output (120 lumens/foot) by simply turning off every-other light. Adjusting the per-light lumen output is straight-forward but exceptionally tedious because the changes can't be made in the Adjust Lights dbx, you must modify each individual light (all 96 of them) within the symbol dbx. The symbols display reasonably well in both raytrace and physically based: Raytrace, 240 lumens (48 lights) / foot Raytrace, 120 lumens (24 lights) / foot Physically based, 240 lumens (48 lights) / foot Physcially based, 120 lumens (24 lights) / foot

The best you can do is create many closely-spaced lights and adjust their illumination properties until you achieve a satisfactory result. You will have to compromise between rendering speed and appearance.

Search these forums - several of us have posted individual symbols and user libraries.

You can raise the large roof to provide a wall against which the small roof can terminate: Or you can slope both roof planes in the same direction and join them along the common edge: Or you could create a hipped intersection: There are other possibilities as well, but what you want is not doable.

Eric has a point - you're plan diagram and your elevation do not match. Regardless, it can't be done as drawn, which is why you're having a difficult time modeling it in Chief.

I use Molding Polylines. They are tedious to place, but once in position they look good.

Place the bed in any open space. Then you can select the bed and rotate/position it however you wish.

This fixes it, but I can't say why it's happening:

There's no quick and easy way to export everything to CAD - you just have to plow through it one view at a time.

I do mezzanines as a second floor level, with the "non-mezzanine" portion as "open to below". Others use the new shelf ceiling feature, but I think a second floor level works best for setting up the stairs and railings.

When I do pre-engineered steel buildings I don't worry about the steel shapes - only the column base locations and dimensions, and the general arrangement of the wall/roof layers (outset girts, inset girts, etc.). My building and wall sections use a lot of CAD. All other aspects of modeling the building are standard Chief techniques.

Loading is slow! I had to use Edge - the Viewer never seems to work for me in Chrome. Anyway, the elevations in your OP fooled me as much as they fooled Rod - I thought the area beneath the funky projection was a deck, but it's just a roof. I still think the best solution for the funky projection is wood frame, clad in TAFS, with a grey-colored TPO membrane for the top, flashed at the perimeter with a color-matched drip edge. GRP would give you more color choices, but maybe GRP isn't readily available in Florida. That said, looking at the model in 3D, I have to agree that Rod has a point - that funky projection seems like a lot of work for nothing. If it was sheltering a deck area it could be justified, but it's not even shading the roof-top a/c units! I'm sure there are other considerations, but maybe you could eliminate the horizontal portion, along with the supports, and keep only the main vertical element that serves to break up the side facade. But, I suppose it's a personal choice - I believe form should have some kind of function.

It's a plaza deck! Why would you enclose it? The loss of a primary outdoor living/entertaining space is probably a non-starter for the client. Sure, there are challenges, but enclosing the space isn't the best answer.

I hate balconies and decks over living spaces, but it happens all the time. I think finding a competent installer is more important than the system. I don't have any experience using a GRP membrane as a traffic wear layer - around here we typically use PVC membranes.