Help!! Back wall keeps disappearing

[David J. Potter]

Steve,

This is a complicated if straight-forward, nicely designed model.

What I found was a collection of small but important errors:

1. Spaces not matching floor to floor exactly as required for "no ceiling over this room" and matching "Open Below" areas; they have to match exactly floor to floor otherwise you get problems.

2. This type of design requires manual editing of roofs, attic walls and custom ceiling planes all of which were off enough to cause your missing (disappearing) walls and other problems.

3. I am not of course exactly to nine decimal points sure of where you were going in every design detail but I will send you the model I downloaded and edited if you will send me your e mail address to do so.
The clerestory window you had was too wide to fit in the space you had for it to be in so I deleted it and I added several over the front-facing clerestory area to let light in (which I am guessing you intended to do anyway).

4. The second story wall that abutted the upcoming stair width did not match as to alignment and that caused that wall to disappear (stair objects and walls need to match exactly to work properly in the software as in the field).

5. The wall you had at the foot of the stairs needs to be under the next to last tread otherwise it will protrude through the stairs (you had it through the first thread and so it grew through the stairs).

Like I said your design concept is very nice so it was the software adjustments, manual settings, manual ceiling plane, wall and roof edge adjustments that let you down.
I would not feel bad at all as it took me almost an hour to find and figure out what I wrote about here.

DJP