Acropolis

I know what you are saying and that's just it, the default of 975 to the available space per side of 750 just makes a frustration cause the program s/w isn't adaptable, nor is it smart enough to make larger walls and then shrink the entire thing to the available space. I did the winder one too, issue is with the smaller segments, with any of this,... is that if you stop and shrink the width, none of the instructions they have work. I must have tried that winder 100 times. In the end, I manually had to adjust the height of each of the three sections doing the math on a napkin to get it to work. None of the instructions, nor any of the tolls do what they are supposed to.

Been trying to build a simple stairs, but its narrower than whatever, where ever the default is set - which is NOT in the EDIT DEFAULT settings. So if you follow the tutorial, its simple, make two sections and join and every thing is perfect - not. The narrow width - a 'real dimension' in use in the 'real world' confuses the software and the tools don't work to get the "landing" to turn into pie shaped sections. Even when you narrow it afterwards it doesn't revert and make the pie sections. Hours, its unreal that there isn't a default stair setting in HD pro 2018, it should be right with the wall and other settings. That might solve the issue, maybe not, plan attached - ignore the lack of second floor details - that does not relate to this discussion on how to get a simple U stairs drawn. HD FORUM stairs.plan

No and yes, it does not work. I stated real clear, the first floor is concrete, I do not want the second floor to be concrete - if the assumption is it's a full floor, it comes out as that & can't change it. It still doesn't work if you follow the instruction of this room over a garage (I started there to begin with before posting the question).

well that is very confusing, convoluted and just not clear at all. at 0 its a foundation, sounds spot on - did you look at the model? at 1 it says floor supplied by the foundation room below and monolithic slab so as far as I am concerned - that is correct 2.

no, its a house, it doesn't matter, second floor is second floor and it should be 2x construction

Unclear what you are asking. The slab is UNDER floor 1 It is clear that what ever I do the floor 2 structure is concrete when it needs to be 2x8 or similar - I specified PINE BEAM, no, no need to expose the beams either

I have similar problem, 1st floor SLAB CONCRETE, that is the default. But 2nd floor is PINE BEAMS, that cannot be the default, checking the default turns this to concrete, going in circles. Plan attached.HD FORUM.plan

David, thank you, that's a powerful tool!

Here is one I have not figured out how to do without redoing days worth of roof work, meaning that auto rebuild is OFF, not an option to auto rebuild roof. Into build, block construction essentially, constructor left off a row, so instead of 10' walls, they are 9' and the top tie-in structure is in place when it was discovered. I reduced all the walls and the roof structure stays up where it was at and fills that space with gray material. Anyone have an idea how to drop the roof onto these walls? There are numerous reasons to keep the model up to date, so we just leave that as off-topic.

This should be simple to program, its like a two way street, if the data comes out of the HD software with a reference number, then with the material list live, click that should take you to the item. This applies to all materials really, floor, wall components, etc. So if you have an errant framing piece how do you find it and correct or delete?

David same as yesterday HD pro 2018. The point is very clear - take the material list, click on a framing member - it should take you to the plan, it does not. Doesn't do anything.

Is there a way of finding a specific material list item in the plan? Logic says that by clicking that item it would be referenced back into the plan, but it does not do that, and I can't find a way to do that especially for errant items are most important to find.

David, thanks for the tutorial. A great way to show some of these steps. Clarifications - 1. that plan was a snippet of the larger plan too big to post, made by quickly deleting a bunch of stuff so not to worry those walls and roof section that looked like it was eaten you might say, that is not design intent. 2. The ceiling structure setting I recall setting to zero - why is irrelevant but related to that 8mm you were questioning, not sure why the defaults are not standard materials, in that those I never changed since the beginning. ... and most importantly --- once correctly set the ceiling structure immediately rebuilt without having to do it manually joist by joist. Now they may not be in the desired direction so your tutorial helped should I want to rotate them 90 degrees. 3. The 8mm is half of the required 15mm which is 1/2" drywall, that was throwing me off in that the floor finish was spec-ing perfectly, and would would use a 2x4 for a ceiling joist - could not figure that so I set them to zero, lesson learned... and to the why you asked about a couple of times... I wanted the joist structure to show in the "framing perspective" so that I am sure the roof builder knows what the intent is, a picture is worth 1000 words scribbled on a drawing. Thanks again - root cause understood, on to the next dilemma, cut list = buy list where I would expect the buy list to be standard lumber lengths.

David, the detail is the same as what I put in the prior post Build>Ceiling Planes.... it says that "IT" the new one is on top of an existing ceiling plane----- so where is the existing plane? The file red roof has the ceiling joist showing other does not, the not one is can't figure out what is turned off - it is there read above... Build>Ceiling Planes.... it says that "IT" the new one is on top of an existing ceiling plane----- so where is the existing plane? red roof one room.plan HD_FORUM.plan

moreover if I go to Build>Ceiling Planes.... it says that "IT" the new one is on top of an existing ceiling plane----- so where is the existing plane?

That's not the answer, if it was then they would show and there would be a red plus in the used column, which there isn't The prior model had these showing in the plan view, not interested in camera views, I need them to be there to be generating a material list!

HD pro 18, had the ceiling joists showing in a prior model, but can't get them to appear in the final version. Help step suggestions are all grayed out, and I do not want to AUTO rebuild roof, as that will screw up roof planes that I have different pitch than the base plan. Ideas on how to get the joist to show - its seems to me that the material list is short this entire quantity of joists.

Went back to an old design and started from there - that one has "floor supplier by room below - assuming that means sub-structure like a basement or in this case a footing. And also monolithic is checked. That one worked, did not have the issue with building the roof which is hit or miss at best. Now I am missing a rafter - searched, but its not clear you can add one simple rafter in the place you want? its the same file, the main entrance peaked opening, at the junction to the main roof as it is open to below, and gable it wont put that rafter. copy paste doesn't work missing rafter gimped.xcf

none of that is working and defies logic since I've made plenty of these with garage, there is something in the code hidden, at least not obvious that is corrupting the result. I've compared a good one to a bad one and there is something behind the code that I cant see, If I set it up just like others I posted there should not be an issue - but the issue gets worse. so I'm trashing this file, its a waste of time, worse is the roof would not join the rest of the roof imes regardless of what I tried. Again there is something buried deep in the code screwing this up.

Jo Ann thank you, that half fixes it, the roof becomes separated, and still cannot check monolithic slab foundation. If you check the slab definition is messes it all up.

Somehow, not clear where, therefore looking for help, the garage is submerges to floor below, somehow the default room above is 25, where are these defaults coming from, plan attached garage down under.plan

That was it, it is in the 2017 barrel tile profile, but not the 2018, little attention paid to reality, this is a color people use, not the horrific colors shown in 2018 version, not only are they not real, no one makes them or uses them. Now a right click isn't working......I had to export the entire barrel tile section and bingo - its all there in 2018 now. Thank you David.

well after 5 hours of looking at ever possible setting - it isn't there, never was in the user materials group, where most custom stuff was saved. It may have been pulled a long time ago from one of the template plans that came with the s/w, checking to see if its there next. I had it set as the default roof tile - the wall materials are all there, but the roof did not come over to the new plan

On many a plan, started over a year ago with HD17, Adobe Roof Tile was the choice. While I've been using HD18, I started a plan, and that Library material - Adobe Roof Tile is not there as a barrel type roof material, and in a dusty rose color as well, it points so an ugly color siding. Any ideas where it went? As a roof, its link isn't like fixtures or doors for example where you can copy over to the new plan, in this case its not been possible to copy it over to the new plan

David, please stop indicating user error - to the contrary there is absolutely nothing wrong with the 100% S-O-L-I-D C-O-N-C-R-E-T-E columns that I modeled and posted many moths ago. This is not user error, rebar is insignificant in the volume. A column is a column - wood steel plastic or concrete and it should calculate properly regardless What is wrong with the two column plan posted above - did you open it? Can't be making odd weird things like a slab 3000mmx250mmx250mm - how are you going to make the walls that fill the space between these columns? brick slabs with extremely cumbersome dimensions too? This has two posts is also interesting in that the walls are treating the posts as transparent has two posts.plan