Chrisb222

So I have a project that calls for a high shed roof with a matching vaulted ceiling, built with parallel chord trusses. The program doesn't want to build the high wall when using trusses. It will build it with rafters, including ceiling joists. See attached images and attached OOB Residential Template sample plan. I can manually raise the wall top height, but it doesn't function correctly for setting high windows, and caused other problems as well. Thanks for any insight if I have missed something, but I think this is "unintended functionality" that needs sent in... Rafters: Trusses: Sample file: High Shed Roof.plan

Make sure it wasn't moved to a non-standard location. From Support: If the Chief Architect Premier Data folder is renamed, moved or deleted, the program will automatically replace it using default information from the program's installation folder. When this occurs, customized user settings and custom user library content will not be available.

Just change some things around. Tell your clients you cannot and will not copy anything verbatim, unless they can prove they own the copyright or have permission from the owner to copy. This has been litigated to the point of establishing fairly clear lines of what is legal or not. You cannot copy someone's work verbatim, but you're allowed to be inspired by others' work. i.e., if you're working from an existing design, change some things around and you should be good, with the caveat that anyone can sue anyone for anything. I do know of one local instance where, after negotiating with a midsized regional builder, a person took the simple flyer of one of their designs (basic floor plan / ext rendering) to another small builder and copied it - just the floor plan, with significantly different exterior - and the first builder went in the building after framing and recognized his floor plan design. He threatened to sue the owner and demanded some thousands to settle. I was consulted by a mutual associate on behalf of the owner, and felt the first builder didn't have a claim since the house was greatly different. The owner decided to settle out of court, but it would've been interesting to see what a judge would decide. Interestingly to the OPs question, AFAIK the second builder, nor whoever drew the final plans were involved.

Set your screen to a shape roughly equal to your target dimensions, go to File > Export > Export Picture, and click "Units", type in the dimension you want, keep "Retain Aspect Ratio" checked, then enter something like 200 DPI. That will produce a pretty high resolution picture, about 3.6 MB. Some clipping may be required to change it to the exact dimensions, unless you can set that ratio up before saving.

+1, I had forgotten about the 2D CAD plants, which DO show in plot line views.... and I even use them in layouts!

The standard 2D plants are just "pictures, " they are not 3D objects and cannot be converted to plot lines.

There's a couple of window wells in the library. Might be a bonus catalog, I'm not at my computer. Automatically cuts the terrain, has separate material settings for the retaining wall and the "floor" so you make that gravel, dirt or whatever you want. Resizable.

Actually, you definitely want to use Roof Beams to get the benefits of automatic placement under ceiling, easy adjustments, plumb joints and ends, and automatic grain direction. The easiest and best method IMO is to create another separate roof at the pitch of your ceiling, draw the roof beam there, then move the beam into your project. If using Auto Roofs, make another building with the roof direction, size, and pitch matching your target ceiling, draw the beam there then point-to-point move the beam into your project. This will allow you to retain Auto Roofs. If you're already in manual roofs, just draw a roof plane outside the structure somewhere and create the beam there. See pics: Plumb ends with auto grain:

You don't mean a cricket do you? I'm a little confused by your question. I don't know that we actually "add" a valley, they are simply the result of two perpendicular planes... A screenshot with some notes would be helpful...

I'm sure there's a good explanation for this alternative workflow, and that I'm dense, but I have no idea how these various elements and phases can be "automatically controlled by the software" without some user directives that I would think would require some amount of setup work and diligence, not greatly unlike the directives we assign with Chief...? If you want a chance at catching lightning in a bottle you at least have to hold up a bottle (i.e., nothing will change by posting here, head over to the Suggestions forum)

I think you'll want the additional RAM in Option B. Or upgrade Option A to 16GB for $200. Rendering speed won't be a problem with either choice, I use a Studio / M1 Max and it flies. But it has 32GB unified memory, so that may be a factor...

Open the Room Specification > Structure > Ceiling Finish and delete all layers: Do you have the layer Framing, Floor Joists set to display in your Standard camera view?

You can raise the roof without affecting the wall heights.

Then the poor framer has to think!

It's doing that because your Dimension Default is set to Distance Rounding. Change the Primary Format to "Grid Rounding" and the problem goes away. And I would absolutely urge you to change your dimension defaults. Most of your user dim defaults beginning with an * are set to use Distance Rounding, which has the potential to introduce dimension errors in your dimension string. (You also should check "Use Greatest Common Divisor" instead of "Use Closest Fraction.) From Help:

Did you link to the right plan?? I'm not seeing anything like your screenshot above. And no need to back up the entire plan. Just save, close Chief, zip and send.

IDK when I set the smallest fraction to 1/16 and type in a 2/3 dimension it automatically displays 5/8. Maybe post a plan showing the behavior.

Why not add a second ref display. Or a third?

I've done it before using an invisible railing to close off the slip.

I do not see doors in your ref display. That leads me to believe you have the Door layer turned off in the ref display layer set. However, pocket door pockets will still display even with the Door layer off. Change the Door layer to gray with dashed line.

X15 is very stable for me but I'm still on Monterey. Do you have the latest X15 build? I think I remember that early versions were somewhat unstable.

Edits are applied when you close the edited CAD window and hit Save. Did you do that?

I use triangle markers, but I have one for every pitch already in all four saved elevation cameras in my template plan. Grab the correct one, slide it into place. Maybe a tad bit easier than pulling from the library?

Just guessing here since OP hasn't returned, but probably not easily:

Yes, and you're right, it's fairly simple. This took about 15 minutes: What exactly are you struggling with? Posting the plan would allow someone to work it out.