Chrisb222

Because the Entry is not an enclosed Room. Extend your invisible railing over to the corner of the master suite and the roof will build over the entry. Turn auto roofs back on and enclose the entry as a room, then adjust from there. This is auto-built: Some manual adjustments will be required to fix the area I circled in red- in your PDF the eave at the front-left of the master is higher there to allow this plane to build correctly.

You missed this part: You multiply the WIDTH x 4 because the image file contains 4 bricks in width. You multiply the HEIGHT by the number of rows in the image: 14 rows. Look how squished down the bricks look in the example object to the right of your screenshots. The image needs to be made taller, 2408mm.

Look again at the screen cap I posted earlier. The picture of brick is what the program uses to represent brick in raster (or Standard) renders, and is repeated - or tiled to fill the object it is for. In this example, this image of many bricks is 1875mm wide, with 4 bricks across. If your Pattern is 300w, then four bricks would be 1200mm and so you would change the size of the Picture of bricks to 1200w, and also adjust the height according to the same formula: you want each brick to be 172h and the picture contains 14 rows so 172 x 14 = 2408mm h. But again, it's difficult to troubleshoot since your model is using three different brick materials and you haven't indicated which one the problem - or your posts - pertains to...

Yes there is: The picture of brick you see above is a static picture that doesn't change, but the size of the picture can be changed which scales the image and changes the apparent size of each brick in the rendering. As stated earlier, Patterns are used in Vector views, and Textures are used in rendered views such as Standard. One method for verifying that your Patterns and Textures are synched is to open a Standard view and set it to display vector lines. This way both the texture and the pattern are displayed together, so you can evaluate if they're in sync / gauge adjustments. Also, your model is using three different brick Materials, so it's difficult to know what exactly you're trying to achieve.

No. Search the Suggestions forum and you'll find requests for it, add your support for the feature there.

I stand corrected. I knew about the stacking order for windows having used it myself, but wasn't aware of this effect.

I don't think it has anything to do with window stacking levels. Something really weird is going on with doors. You can't change the door layer line color. And it doesn't matter if you change the default door, or use a parametric door style. I copied and pasted a good door from one of my plans and I couldn't change it's line color either, nor could I dimension to it. I changed the window layer line color to green, and moved one door to the window layer but the door line color is still gray. Even on your reference layer, which I see is on, moving up to the attic, everything is red except the doors, even though they're set to display as red in the reference layer. I'm stumped.

I'm with Glenn on this one. Without a plan file, we're free to suppose whatever we think might be the problem, and we know that one wrong hit with the Material Painter, or changing wall materials in the Materials tab, can wreak havoc. OP states that he "selected all 4 walls and changed ..." The proper way to change all exterior walls is to change the Wall Definition. You only have to open one wall, or none if you go into Wall Types. There's a disconnect in the order of business here. Also agree with others who have never experienced anything like this. If, as OP says, it happens EVERY FRIKKIN time... something's wrong with operations, or with the template file.

Haha, I've been a Mac user continuously since the little 7" monochrome screen, around '88. But I have Windows laptops and have used Windows off and on during that time. I may have sounded snarky, which wasn't my intention, and I don't really know what's involved with running Windows on a Mac. I know it is done but I know next to nothing about it. It just seemed to me like, why not spend that same time learning the platform? It's different but not bad... personally I vastly prefer it over Windows. But that's an old old debate too haha. Good luck.

I would suggest that your time and effort would be better spent adapting to the different OS format. In the long run, that will make life easier.

I assume you're using Automatic Dimensions since there is no problem manually dimensioning to the same layer as the foundation wall. Check your settings, Automatic Dimensions obey the settings in the Dimension Default, which in your case is set to dimension to the Wall Dimension Layer: ...as set in the Wall Specifications > Wall Type Definitions > Wall Properties:

You'll have to use a different Material that already has that stacked bond pattern, or change the Texture image for that Material to one that does: Either find an image file that is the right color and in a stack bond, or modify the current image in a raster editing program like Photoshop. Editing Texture image files within Chief isn't possible.

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No. Yes.

Don't hold the Tab key while clicking. Click once, which is selecting the backsplash, then just hit Tab to select the next object near whatever was selected with the first click. Click, > then hit Tab and nothing else. It may require a few hits on Tab to get what you want.

I love flashy unnecessary add-ons!

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Without the plan file it's just a guess but I'd try increasing the gable sub fascia depth.

Do you have it set to search online? Not at my computer right now but that will slow it down.

It's a great tool. For irregular shaped rooms, I place two or more boxes where they need to be to approximate the shape, and then delete those unneeded walls after conversion.

Not trying to be a jerk, but...

I disagree about building roofs last. Obviously, the look of the roof is important to the overall design, and it's driven by the floorpan. I usually have a split window or two screens showing the floor plan and the exterior 3D at the same time, with auto roofs running from the get-go. I want to see what the roof looks like as I go in case something about the floor plan is creating a goofy end result. Roofs and Foundations auto-build as soon as the exterior walls close. I would never go all the way through Final Design without reviewing the roof. But that's just me...

For drawing lines by clicking points, enter Alt mode ( Edit menu > Edit Behaviors > Alternate ) then select the line tool and you can draw lines by placing consecutive clicks. Instead of using the Edit menu, press the Alt key on the keyboard. Or, simply click with the right mouse button. With the right-click method you need to click-drag the first segment before clicking points for subsequent segments. BTW, the right-click method also works when creating walls. It's called Continuous Draw Mode. Since I use Macs and do not have the Alt key, I assigned hotkeys to toggle into Alt mode.

That's the opposite of my experience and practice. Everything I see and do displays rough framing on plans, not finished wall thickness. Not sure why you would be placing a post at the end of a wall. I assume you want a structural load-bearing post inside the wall, as part of the framing, but I have no problem manually placing a post against the framing at the end of a wall: Maybe what you need to do is display your framing plan without showing the drywall, which again, is the common method in my experience: Here, it's common practice the allow 1/2" space between the stairs and any wall on either side. i.e., 38" wide staircase would be placed inside a 39" wide rough framing opening. That said, placing stairs between walls in Chief can be squirrelly sometimes.

I use Never Save because I often make temporary changes that I don't want saved, and I dont want to be prompted. If I make a permanent change, which is rare, I simply save it manually. I also don't use the Remember Zoom option that you have checked. I had to turn that off while working on your plan because I prefer to switch between plan views without relocating.