fletcher Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Hello, I want to add roof trusses to my plan and leave my manual roof but when I do it builds the wrap around porch roof through the 2nd floor as seen in the images. Is there a way around this or is there a setting I'm missing? I spent several hours yester testing different settings but could not come up with anything that would not build the roof through the 2nd floor. I am using X7. Thanks for your help. PJ_&_Krisha.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 What are the steps you are using to build the trusses? The plan you posted only has a roof over the rear porch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletcher Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 Glenn, I am using the auto-build roof function . I custom built the back patio and don't want it deleted so I check the following boxes in the image below. Eric, I am not manually drawing trusses. I am just selecting the Trusses box under the specifications section in the dialog box. Is that what you mean? As an FYI it does this whether I select trusses or not. Like I said I spent several hours last night systematically trying all the checkboxes to see if I was missing something but every time it builds the roof through my second floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Liam, You need to build trusses manually. Trusses (no Birdsmouth) does not build the trusses, it just tells Chief where to place the roof framing in relation to the top plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletcher Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 Thanks for the advice Glenn. Regardless of whether I do trusses or not shouldn't the auto roof generate accurate roof planes without them going through my second floor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletcher Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 Eric, I have made sure not to have Ignore Top Floor checked and it still creates the roof like the image that I provided. Do you think that it is because I am still using X7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletcher Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 Eric, Thank you for the video. That worked to solve my problem. Thank you for the roof tip for the back patio as well. That was very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarr3tt88 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 What program do you use to capture the desktop video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarr3tt88 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Thanks Solver! I'll take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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