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I'll use CAD lines, and center the block on them. Guessing you are referring to the material list? Not positive, but I don't believe there is a way to change. In my experience, you don't use a continuous sill when building over piers. Just a single block of treated material on top of each pier.
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Are you asking about the gap between the wall and floor framing? Turn on the Floor Surfaces layer.
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You will need to manually draw it. Use a joist and resize it.
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In a framing overview, select the framing member that's above the pillar and open it. It will give you its dimensions -- elevation of the top and bottom etc. Set the top of your pillar to equal the bottom of the framing member. You can do the same thing by taking a cross section and using the dimension tools to measure.
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i did not look yet at your plan, but this is what I would do. Take a cross section. Use CAD lines and the angle measurement tool to find the slope. Draw in a ceiling plane. Review in cross section. Adjust as needed.
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Start by building a stemwall foundation. That will get your floor platform. Then delete the foundation walls.
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You should post a screen capture of the error message. Have you done a reinstall with the repair option?
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What's not working for you? Posting a plan that represents your best effort will give others something to start with. The software will not build this type of foundation automatically, so you will need to create and place any piers, and possibly some of the framing.
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What are you finding difficult? Select the slab and temporary dimensions will show. Change the dimension. Grab one of the handles and drag to resize. You make the top height of the pier the same as the bottom height of the LVL. What part of this do you not understand. Can you determine the bottom of the LVL? Do you know how to raise and lower the pier?
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I don't recall ever doing what you are, and don't understand why the soffits do not align as expected. Unfortunately, the program is full of oddities like this and I just work around them. Suggest you send this in to support.
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A couple of tips. When you post a plan showing a specific view, save the camera so whoever looks at the plan sees what you see. Use the full camera to look inside. Ceiling planes are like roof planes in that they need to be joined manually. They may look like they join in plan, but may not. Consider what happened when you moved the ceiling planes up -- what happened to the top edge.
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Yes. Select it in the library and paint it on the wall. Or, define a new wall type with stone as the exterior surface. This needs a work around. Use the Room Divider tool to outline a room, drawing the walls just outside the 3 fireplace walls. You should have a skinny U shaped room that wraps around the fireplace. Select that room and remove the trim. You can move the Room Divider walls closer, but in your case, with cabinets on each side, you will not need to. U shaped room in green.
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Take a cross section and use the dimension tools to see where the 120" is. You should see the top surface of the ceiling plane is at 120". You can set the top surface of the soffit as required, or change the ceiling plane. In a cross section, measure how far up or down the ceiling plane needs to move, and manually adjust it up or down. Basically, you are in control of the exact positioning. Ceiling planes always seem to need adjustment.
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Use walls like it will be built. Pass through to make a hole, and one of the fireplaces from the library. There is fire too if you want to add it. You will find that the convenience tools like build fireplace, bay and box windows etc are not very useful. You can make them simple or more complex, when built from parts.
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Images?
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Uncheck Auto Adjust Height on the soffits.
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Stem Wall Foundation Missing on Perspective Framing Overview
solver replied to AirstreamJake's topic in Q&A
Visibility in all view types is controlled by layers. The Framing Overview layer set shows framing -- so you will need to turn on additional layers to make the foundation visible. -
Read about Roof Cuts Wall At Bottom, and Lower Wall Type When Split By Butting Roof. You will need one or both of these settings for the side walls. Add your knee walls
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Post the plan and I'll have a look.
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Layer Display Options
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Is the Ceilings layer on in the camera view? All views have their own layer set.
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Don't use the dormer tool. Create a room where you want the dormer. Raise the ceiling height in that room. Build the roof.
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It usually helps to attach images and your plan file (close Pro before attaching the plan). With Pro, you have manual framing, so you can change what is generated by the program. I'm showing what I think you are describing. I used a pony wall, with a Room Divider as the upper part of the wall. You would fill in the missing beam and post manually.
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Chief Architect is discussed at ChiefTalk https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/ To answer your first question, use a Perspective Floor Overview camera. And read about it and the Full Overview camera in Help.
