bobditch Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I'm just starting to become comfortable with manual roofs, but a roof over a front entry porch has me stymied. I'm using a Slab & footing for the front porch and added "attic" walls for the gable; however, I have several issues: I can't show a roof return, which is selected in the dialogue box the frieze boarded does not show on the portion over the room but does over the porch no ceiling in the porch Initially I tried creating a deck but that posed other issues. Can someone please point me in the correct direction for creating a covered entry. Thanks in advance. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Please post the plan... Make sure you close it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobditch Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Spec Home03-05.2.plan.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution glennw Posted February 14, 2015 Solution Share Posted February 14, 2015 Bob, There is no ceiling because you haven't drawn one and you don't have a room defined for an auto ceiling - a slab and footing doesn't create a room.. The roof return won't build because you don't have a gable wall defined at the front of the porch. Not sure about the frieze board at this stage. I reckon it would be much easier to build an auto roof on a house like that. Anyway... Build the porch from invisible walls. Define the front wall as a full gable wall and give it a roof return - that will fix the ceiling and roof return problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Bob, the roof over the double windows just needs to be pulled toward the gable wall and your frieze board will show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Chief Architect as mentioned before so many times (and I'm still practicing with this concept) is a room based program. When you create a room there are so many other options available like floors, moldings, roofs, ceilings, roof returns, etc., etc. When you go outside of this method, and create slabs from P-solids, for example, it creates more work (more manual drafting), not to mention undesirable issues, just to get to the final look/design. So doing as Glenn first wrote, I was able to include some of these features along with what I wrote above to correct the frieze board. Hope its in alignment to your final look/design. BTW, I did not have available the same stone you used...an easy fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobditch Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thanks, Glenn & Evergreen for your help and insight. Understanding the "rooms" approach makes much more sense to me now. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobditch Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Hey Evergreen, you'd you please send me a zip of my plan you edited? I'd like to see EXACTLY what you did. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Glad I could help.... Spec Home03-05.2_Modified.plan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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