AndyGump

Well, you don't really "convert" it to a Chief file. you bring the DWG file into a Chief Architect plan file.

Is that what you mean?

Andy.

I think it is more esoteric than exoteric. 

That is, it is a word that is not meant to be known but by a handful of people that are in that particular field of endeavor.

Andy.

I am happy for you.

I am curious, were you able to use the file I posted?

Andy.

DWG file.plan

Here is a little trick I discovered.

Open the DWG up in a program like DraftSite. It is a free AutoCad clone from the people that make Solid Works, If I remember correctly.

Open the model space, select all the lines with a right to left select box then using the left mouse click on the selected lines and such and drag it over to a blank plan in Chief.

This usually works like it did on this file.

Andy.

I am going to take a wild guess and say you guys are in...hmmm...the state of Washington.

Do I win anything if I get it right?

Second choice is...you are  in the Los Angeles Calif. area in Sherman Oaks.

Andy.

I often do prescriptive structural design for clients here in southern California as long as the Building Official (BO) will allows it to be done prescriptively and not require an engineer.

Here the structures I do like this will be relatively simple structures without too large of openings, spans, heights,  etc.

I don't use any software other than a PDF viewer to check out tables and such in the California Residential Code (CRC).

Some times the BO will require that some aspects of my prescriptive design be done by an engineer so that they can cover their derriere.

Andy.

When I was building I did a lot of just this kind of thing in Old Towne Orange here.

It has been my experience that the brackets are nailed in with rather long nails into the studs.

Andy.

You will have to split that one rather complicated roof into two parts.

Andy.

Chad and Emily Lambert.plan

Johny if this what you trying to do as in the picture. Do what my good friend Dave from DMZ suggest and I think he just did a video on that. Go to Areal View Set and delete the roof> Build Roofs> and just select> Make Roof Baseline Polylines (turn the layer on) Now you will see all your baseline polylines. Select them all and  pull it over the balcony and Build your roof again and make sure you check mark Use Existing Baseline Polylines and you done. Something funny going on on the left of the house, with that you just have to tweak the roof a little and it's done. I would play a little more with it and get it where you have to be but I have to drive my son, but you will get it from here. Attached is the plan also. 

That or you could try using the same roof pitch.

Andy.

first thing you should do is to post the plan.

If it is really big then close the plan (save it of course) zip the plan file then post it.

It is the best way to get a good response instead of us just guessing at what the problem might or might not be.

Andy.

Yeah, you just draw it, draw the walls for the new [portion of the second floor against the existing portion.

No need to over-think it.

Andy.

Yup, no can open here either.

Andy.

See if this works for you.

Andy.

S2750L-Hip-Roof.plan

okay so I made a plan did every easy part then I started to make a deck I made it then I  made the front a gable wall then I automatically made a roof and it shows a gable roof but no wall between the both roof halfs and I tried many ways searched on youtube and everything and I don't know what to do please help me

Are you using a keyboard that has no punctuation?

Andy.

Interesting, thanks Gene.

Andy.

Yes please, I would love to see that joinery.

Andy.

That is so funny, you can make it stick if you call "whatever original name", copy.

Meaning that when you copy the original name and it automatically puts the suffix ", copy" on the name it will stay. But try any other name and it will not.

You can continually put "copy" on a name and will stick also.

Weird.

Andy.

You should probably start a new thread but if you click on the "cad from View" button then change the lines you need to into dashed lines, maybe block what you have and copy that to the plan view and paste with "hold position" that will do the trick.

Andy.

tapered roof edge, Andy.planIt is not the most elegant of solutions but it does work using the PS subtraction method.

I just don't have time to look at any others now though.

Andy.

I build all my systems and I have settled on an AMD quad or 8 core CPU with a nice mother board and Nvidia GTX 980 GPU.

I know that the i7 CPUs from Intel are consistently better than AMD on all the bench-top comparisons except for this one category, rendering (raytracing).

AMD does better in only that one category. It is outclassed in all the other categories but it is the one that I am most interested in.

I really like the one I am using now in my main machine, the 8 core 8320 but might go to the 8350 in the next build.

Andy.

Two things I am not understanding (not a big surprise) about this then Gene.

First is, do you mean you want it to automatically do this? I was able to build a couple walls and put in a couple windows in a corner then take out the 2xs that framed automatically and replace them with one 4x4, no problem.

All manually of course.

Secondly, I am wondering how the actual framing at the header and the 4x4 is to work. Do you "let in" the header to the 4x4? That is to say, cut a notch in it to set the header?

Andy.

This is probably not much help but it sounds like a video card issue.

Download the latest drivers for it and give it a go again.

Andy.

Even I can't understand what I said in that last post.

What I meant to say was that they (someone using and earlier version) will lose some of the information upon opening a plan from the latter version...but only lose about 100% of the information.

It was a bad joke told poorly.

Andy.

They will some of the latter version plan information but only about 100% of it.

I am here to help.

Andy.