Chrisb222

I don't think that image is what your client is asking for. I think they want an attic room contained entirely within the roof, with knee walls as someone else said: It can easily be done with trusses called attic room trusses or bonus room trusses. The second story walls do not protrude through the roof. The 8' ceiling will be in the center of the room, with a sloping ceiling.

Why not use the Perspective Floor Overview camera? The ceilings are turned off automatically, without you changing the model.

You can select roof trim if you unlock its Roofs, Trim layer (locked by default on stock templates). You can then perform some edits to the molding.... which can get quite glitchy and entertaining, depending. Good luck!

Two main reasons: It's going to be nearly impossible to build that design and not have future issues, besides being difficult to build period. It's going to look like it was designed by someone going after a certain "look" who then bashed that together with a floor plan, without regard to potential water intrusion or aesthetics. I get that, and that's why we're seeing so many low slope shed roofs, white B&B siding, and barndos right now. But professionally designed houses do share similarities... for the reasons you're getting pushback on your design; they work, they're fairly straightforward to build, and they look good. But hey I've seen lots of houses that made me go "what the F...!?" Your decision, but you could still have a very handsome home that gets close to the look you want, has a unique vibe, and works, if you made some changes here and there. That's what better designers do, like the good folks here, some of whom are available for hire. Good luck! https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/15-seeking-services/

The old carpenter/builder that reared me explained that "it tells a story." So there ya have it!

Strip it and zip it if you need some actual help, because without it we're just guessing like you.

I find the story pole needs a lot of tweaking to get it to look how I want, and is sorely in need of more snaps!

Wow, not much leeway between min and max!

That's what I do. I have a lot of generic construction details in my template plan, in multiple CAD Details, and yes edit and send to layout as needed.

Ok. It's going to be very difficult for a novice, nearly impossible to explain the particular steps needed in a post, and too time consuming for me to do it for you. You're just going to have to get more familiar with the manual roof tools, or hire someone to do it (unless someone here volunteers to do it for you). Study up on the manual roof tools: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00441/creating-hip-and-gable-roofs-manually.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/category/34/roofs.html

First off, I'm not clear on what exactly the problem is. Are you unsure of how this roof should be built? Or are you just unable to accomplish what you want using the software? I don't usually like to give my design opinion, but the main roof should really be a hip roof. Looking at your problem from a practical construction standpoint, trying to make it gable and integrate those returns is going to be really tough, and look like shi-ite anyway. Auto roofs does a pretty good job if you make the main roof hip. I just turned on auto roofs and switched the upper level end gable walls to the hip setting: Sargent_auto_saveCB.plan Adjusting the footprint can help with balancing the roof planes, but I would 100% make this a hip roof.

Hit the space bar. Turns off any tool.

A Rich Text object can contain text made up of multiple fonts, multiple type styles, multiple sizes, and colors. Plain Text cannot. However, the Plain text font, size, color, and style can all be controlled by its Layer, making it very versatile for showing different text effects on different plan views. Two very different tools.

I was able to strip the file down to 21 MB and zip it to under 4 MB. Do this in the future, it makes it much faster and easier for others to troubleshoot your issue. Complete rebuild 8-15-25 CB.plan.zip

You have to split the wall using the Add Break tool, and reverse the interior/exterior direction: I simply went to the Attic layer and added an attic wall. Pull the roof planes over to snap to the wall: You've got some other issues to do with spraying the wall material (not advised), among other stuff, but that's as far as I took it. Get that stuff fixed then let us know if you still have other problems.

Is the software installed on the laptop? If so you can deactivate the license from the current PC by going to chiefarchitect.com > My Account > Digital Locker, click Make Available, then log in on the laptop. If it's not installed, install the software first then do the above.

When I open your plan this is what I see. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? The post isn't clear to me what the problem is...

Since it's been a few hours allow me to answer for Rene. He used the Disconnect Selected Edge tool to disconnect the one segment of the polyline, then selected the remaining three segments and deleted those. The tool you pointed to removes the molding from that edge, but doesn't affect the polyline segment - he wanted to completely delete the three polyline segments.

Try a pony wall for the foundation:

Do you mean CPU ray trace? If so yeah it's gone. From X17 Help:

You should be able to control that by simply assigning to layers, eg: Washer on "Layer X" color gray, line 10, Dryer on "Layer Y" color black, line 30

The same way. You may have to create new layers to separate the walls onto, unless you already have multiple wall layers in your plan.

Your glass wall is connecting to the wall behind the wall material region, and the edge is buried under the tile: In plan view, place a Room Divider (Invisible) wall along the face of the tile, and pull the glass wall out to snap to it. This will connect the shower "room" to the rest of the bathroom - if you want to define the shower as a separate room, turn the room divider wall 90° to connect with the tile wall. I pulled the room divider wall out to the left more than needed for illustration:

Wall types, other than Foundation Walls, by default, are assigned to the Walls, Normal layer when created. However you can assign them to a custom layer after they're drawn, and then control the fill color through that custom layer. You can also set up custom layers for the wall types listed in Defaults > Walls, which those walls will then default to when created.

Yes, as Shane said just right click and copy the layer, rename. Then you want to do a couple of things to get your clouds on the new layer. If you already have a bunch of clouds, you can group select and open, then change their layer in the Line Style tab, but that only works for the sheet you're on; go to the next sheet and repeat. If you have clouds on multiple sheets, you can also use the Layer Painter tool to go around and change them individually without opening their dialog; the tool will stay active even when changes sheets, so you only have to set the tool once to go around your layout and change all the clouds.: If you want to have future clouds go to your new layer, set that up in Defaults: