tundra_dweller

@MidSouthClay You should be able to control your baseline height in your roof planes' dbx by locking your pitch and entering in your baseline height, which should be your top plate height + your heel height, so 216" plate + 12" heel = 228" baseline height. For your right side roof plane that is giving you plate height trouble, try unchecking Flat Ceiling in the adjacent rooms in the right wing, you have custom ceiling planes in those rooms anyway. Doing that seems to fix the plate height for the great room wall. Wall and roof framing for can be a real PITA to get right with adjacent rooms with different ceiling heights, even worse with scissor trusses/custom ceiling planes. Looks like you've got your hands full with this one.

Looks to me like you're well into manual roof territory with what you're trying to do there. If you post the plan someone might be able to help out, but otherwise this is a good one to learn the intricacies of manual roofs on.

First thing is to make sure that you have "Higher Eaves Boxed" checked in your roof options. If you do have that option checked then it could be any of those other things you listed, in my experience.

Beautiful, thank you!!

Doesn't look like there is. It would be nice if there was a way to turn it off by default, or at least a "Don't show this message again" checkbox when it asks if you want to turn on your room label layer every single time you designate a room type on a new plan.

I'm not seeing any transoms over any of the exterior doors on the plan you uploaded.

@Ange822 If you go to the "Foundation" tab in your wall specs you should be able to hit the "Center Footing on Main Layer" box to get what your after.

dish machine.calibz Here's one I got from 3D warehouse a few years ago.

Yep I like to use the same method as Chris & Gene. Sometimes for basic prelim versions I will toggle off all the patterns in elevation views when we aren't sure of materials yet.

You can also toggle all the material patterns on or off in 3D views.

Yeah this is annoying. I have messed around trying to use 2x6 rafter tails but never got them to work how I want. I do the same thing as @robdyck and just use normal rafters with the appropriate size for the I-joists.

At 52.50 yrs I still feel like a rookie just about every day. Keeps things interesting!

It might have to do with your dimension rounding method / grid snap settings.

Nice...did not know this existed.

@Michael_Gia Just out of curiosity are you using X17 in project management mode or legacy mode?

This and ceiling break lines are a good case for some kind of tool-tip layer/setting. I don't know how realistic that is but could save some confusion for newer users.

Been there. If you don't know they're coming from arcs it's hard to find the setting to turn them off.

Default Settings > CAD > General CAD

I assume since the line vs box setting is in general defaults now that it's a plan-wide setting versus by floor as in previous versions. By the view would be optimal. I haven't messed with it in X17 other than try to figure out where the setting went.

Yeah I was able to kind of fix it by drawing a wall off to the side the length from the end of the railing to the peak of the ceiling plane. Then changed the new little wall section to "Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom", then center on the 2x4 wall. But as Rob said it's extremely unstable with the ceiling plane wanting to snap to places you don't want it to, etc.,.Plus I still ended up with missing drywall at the railing-wall intersection. I've learned it's usually way quicker to build a solid and move on in these situations. I wish I had all the time back I've spent chasing wall-ceiling-roof intersections around and fixing gaps in materials in Chief.

Thanks! I must have looked right past it.

Does anyone know where the framing display option for plan view (line vs. box) went in X17? The help file says the setting is in automatic framing defaults, but I can't find it there or anywhere else.

My arrow keys are set to move a selected object one click of whatever my grid settings are, or if nothing is selected they will pan the screen view. I think this is the OOTB setting as I don't think I ever changed it. I like my grid set at 1/2" and I mostly use temp or actual dimensions for bulk adjustments. I have two side buttons on my programmable mouse set for moving up or down floors. For view navigation I mostly use my spacemouse and mouse zoom wheel. This works well for me but I imagine these preferences vary a ton between users.

Or possibly a non-invisible wall that is on a wall layer that's turned off. I would start by turning on any wall layers that are currently off in that camera view, or just change the layer set to all-on temporarily. Looks like they are using X17 so the extra newel should be able to be moved or deleted.