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turning off auto dormers only turns off the Roof Hole the Dormer cuts , it does not get rid of the Dormer walls or windows turning off "Walls:Normal"  will get rid of those but has the side effect of getting rid of ALL walls in Plan view on all levels , which may not be desirable...

 

M.

That is very misleading isn't it.  So maybe add to the Wish List instead of a bug report?

Alan

I wish I had more experience with this program before I started on that house as that salt box roof is exactly what I needed.  However I have sunk too much time into this project to start over and as there will be only floor plans I can live with what I have.

Thanks for everyones help.

Alan

Okay let me take a look at that tutorial.

Thanks

Alan

You should probably submit this to the company's Support people.  It is confusing to turn off the Auto Dormer layer and not have that affect the display in floor plan.

Already did.

Alan

For future reference . . . KB-00484: Generating a PDF File

Thanks Kat now I have figured it out it's a breeze.

Alan

Okay here is my plan.  The dormer needs to go over the bump out in the laundry room.

Thanks

Alan

Foothills 7660 Franklin Road.plan

Alan, just so you know, when manually adjusting a roof plan to meet another roof plane you have two choices. The first is to break the roof plan being joined (one break to each side of joining roof and one in the middle to grab and manipulate) or, if you are doing an over frame, you can create a temporary roof plane to join to and break it as I describe above. Once you learn this stuff it takes all of a minute to do this.

Okay I'll try that.  Do you use the break wall tool or is there another method?

Alan

Okay I'll post the plan later today as I have something going on that stops me from making that gable wall.

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Alan

Okay I moved my first floor roof to the next floor drew a dormer on that and it shows in 3D view but not on the first floor plan as desired.   But now I have the same issue when plotting the second floor -- the dormers show up.  So I created a dummy third floor added a dormer there and voila -- it worked.
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Alan

Okay now I see.  It's a workaround because the auto dormer display is not functional. 

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Alan

Okay guys thanks for that.  I didn't know that you have to build the default roof first and then change it -- that is not intuitive.

Alan

Eric

How do you tell the system to build gable roofs instead of the default hips?  I don't see anything under Defaults and there is no option in the Build Roofs window.  I did let the system build roof planes and I checked the Leave Existing Roof Planes intact and it did build a roof over my bump out (as well as a bunch of other places where I had existing roofs) but it was a hip roof.

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Alan

I tried making the front wall a full gable but it doesn't change anything.  Frustrated!  I have the main roof over my building in three sections (roof slabs) the outside two are the same but the center one extends over the porch (you can see that in the drawing I posted above).  If I try to let the program create the dormer roof over the bump out automatically I cannot check the box that says Retain all manually created roofs -- it's greyed out.   I don't want to lose my roofs -- just let the program create a roof over the bump out.

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Alam

If the display options doesn't work  for Dormers you can move the Roof Plane up to the next level , or down before sending to  Layout/Print.

Sorry I'm new to this program but how do you move objects to a different level?  Still don't know why the Display option doesn't work.  I'm sending a request to tech support.

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Alan

usually you send to layout , then Print the layout once it is finalised.

 

M.

Yes I see that now but what confused me was that David said it was a Save As function to save as a PDF.   It only saves as a PDF once you enter the print function.

Alan

yes attach the plan as this shouldn't be so much trouble.... and doesn't require manually doing it

 

gable over bumpout1.JPGgable over bumpout2.JPG

Do I need to use the auto roof function after the wall was made a full gable or before?

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Alan

I just tried to save as a PDF and it would not let me -- said I had to save as a .layout file.

Any ideas as David said there was a save as PDF option but I don't see it in the save drop down list?
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Alan

Never mind.  It's a print function and when you hit the print button I can select PDF and then it saves to a pdf format.  The save as took me down the wrong path.

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Alan

Changing that bump out wall to full gable didn't help.  Please look at the attached.  I created two roof planes to show what I need.  It was a pain to do that manually as I had to manipulate the planes to touch the main roof.  Looks okay in plan but the view shown has the main roof inside the dormer so that the front wall of the dormer will not extend to the roof planes -- a result of trying to do it manually which is why I need help on how to let the program create it.

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Alan

Please do not bother exporting to images, when blown up they will all pixelate badly. What I recommend to you is to download "CutePDF" (it is free but during the installation be careful not to also install the inevitable bloat-ware that comes with free software).

A PDF document is "vector based" and as such will not pixelate but will remain sharp at any size. With a PDF printer you can then print to a 24" x 18" sized document and take that to Kinko's and then get professional grade results. I have been using Cute PDF for about 10 years 

I just checked and Pro 2016 has a "Save as PDF" option so you do not even have to download and install anything else (brand new feature!!!). Save as PDF and be happy.

 

DJP

Dave

Thanks for that.  I did see the PDF so will most certainly use that format.  Not sure why the other export option is there if it doesn't do a good job.

Alan

I do not have a printer that is capable of printing 18 x 24 sheets so I intend to export my plots as JPEGs so I can take them to Kinkos and have them printed,  However I note that when exporting, the default resolution is 74 pixels.  I'm not sure what kind of print that will create.  Can anyone tell me if that resolution is okay and that it prints fine detail or can I change this to some other resolution -- if so what is recommend?
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Alan

David

Yes I did click on Send Report.   The same thing happened a few minutes ago when I was trying to add a material to a shower floor.  Seems as if I need to save the building to a new file and see if that helps.

Alan

The program crashed and when I reopened it the issue went away.  I noticed that two of th catalogs did not load so I reloaded them and everything appears okay now.  I'll send the report to them anyway.

Alan

Same thing happened to me when I used the auto build roof function.  It put a roof over my porch foundation.

Alan

I just downloaded some content from the CA website (Owens Corning, Certanteed, Cultured Stone, and Coronado stone) -- all calibz format files.  When I opened them I got messages that said they installed in the library okay however when I tried to apply a material to a wall I get the messages on the screen shot.

Any idea what's going on?
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Alan

The Roof on your bumpout is caused by the fact you still have the Wall's roof tab set at default ,which is for a Hip Roof , set the Front wall  of the Bumpout to FULL GABLE and you will get what you want.

 

M.

Okay let me try that.

Thanks

Alan