Results 1 to 15 of 18
Thread: Open below floor issue
-
11-22-2012, 11:26 AM #1Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Posts
- 13
Open below floor issue
Hello All
I have a house plan with five floors. The first two floors are living areas, the third floor is the attic and fourth and fifth floors are access to an observation tower. On the third floor I have a small room for the stair well that is set to "Open Below". On the rest of the floors the view in "Perspective" "Floor overview" shows the stair way to the floor below correctly but on the third floor it shows a white plane instead. The top of the floor is removed correctly but what appears to be the ceiling of the room below is not removed. I have tried deleting the walls and redrawing them but to no avail. I also checked the defaults for each floor and I could not see anything different. Does anybody know what could be the problem?
Regards
Phil
-
11-22-2012, 11:30 AM #2
Go to the floor below, select the stairway room and open the dbx. On the structure tab, uncheck "Ceiling above this Room".
Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
ASUS M51AC Desktop, core i7-4770 CPU @3.4 GHZ, 16 GB Ram, NVidea GT640 with60M with 3GB GM, 30" HiRes (2560/1600) Monitor , (2) 24" ASUS Monitors
Windows 8.1
Chief Architect 9, 10, X1, X3, X4 Premium, X5 Premium, X6 Premium
-
11-22-2012, 11:10 PM #3Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Posts
- 13
Hello Joe
I tried that but it had no effect.
Regards
Phil
-
11-23-2012, 01:06 AM #4
Phil,
Time to post the planGlenn
Chief X5
www.glennwoodward.com.au
Windows 7 - Home Premium
Intel i7-920
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
6 Gb DDR3 1600MHz
EVGA GTX285 1GbDDR3
1TB Sata HD
-
11-23-2012, 09:12 AM #5
Do you have any of those 0 layers in your ceiling or floor structure defaults, if so ,delete them.
Perry
P.H. DESIGNS L.L.C.
Eastvale Calif.
Alienware, liquid cooled
Ver 10-"X6 x64 SSA
WIN 8.1 PRO 64 bit
Nvidia GTX780 3GB.
i7 920 2.67-- 12 GB Ram
40" led monitor
-
11-23-2012, 11:14 AM #6
Floors above the attic? The attic level will have different properties than a normal floor. Try making them all real floors and the attic can then be just an attic and not another floor.
-
11-23-2012, 03:29 PM #7Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Posts
- 13
Hello All
I have found the cause of the problem but I don't know how to fix it. On the end of the building is a garage with a gable roof that joins onto the hip roof on the main house. I have a room above the garage that is accessed via the second floor of the house. As soon as I delete the end wall from the room above the garage the stairway open below shows up correctly.
java tom
Sorry for the confusion but the proper Chief "attic floor" is actually floor 6 and is not used.
perryh
I could not find any 0 layers.
Glenn
Attached is a slimmed down version of the plan but it still shows the issue.
By the way I am using X5 on Windows 7 64bit.
Thanks for the help
Regards
Phil
House Plan.zip
-
11-23-2012, 05:36 PM #8
Phil,
There is no data in the plan.
You need to close Chief before zipping.Glenn
Chief X5
www.glennwoodward.com.au
Windows 7 - Home Premium
Intel i7-920
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
6 Gb DDR3 1600MHz
EVGA GTX285 1GbDDR3
1TB Sata HD
-
11-23-2012, 09:49 PM #9Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Posts
- 13
Hello Glenn
Don't know what happened there. I did have Chief open but the file was not opened in Chief. I have uploaded another copy I hope it works.
Regards
Phil
-
11-24-2012, 08:10 AM #10
Phil,
It's definitely a Ceiling Plane. I suspect that it has something to do with the Roof Baseline Heights - possibly being too low. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you simply raised the roof about 500 mm.Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
ASUS M51AC Desktop, core i7-4770 CPU @3.4 GHZ, 16 GB Ram, NVidea GT640 with60M with 3GB GM, 30" HiRes (2560/1600) Monitor , (2) 24" ASUS Monitors
Windows 8.1
Chief Architect 9, 10, X1, X3, X4 Premium, X5 Premium, X6 Premium
-
11-24-2012, 08:30 AM #11
Phil,
The solution is to check "Use Soffit Surface for Ceiling" for the Room above the Garage.
Don't ask me why - but it works.Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
ASUS M51AC Desktop, core i7-4770 CPU @3.4 GHZ, 16 GB Ram, NVidea GT640 with60M with 3GB GM, 30" HiRes (2560/1600) Monitor , (2) 24" ASUS Monitors
Windows 8.1
Chief Architect 9, 10, X1, X3, X4 Premium, X5 Premium, X6 Premium
-
11-24-2012, 08:55 AM #12
BTW, If it was me I would raise the Roof Planes so that the Roof Framing rests on a plate on top of the Floor Sheathing. It's a lot easier to build that way.
Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
ASUS M51AC Desktop, core i7-4770 CPU @3.4 GHZ, 16 GB Ram, NVidea GT640 with60M with 3GB GM, 30" HiRes (2560/1600) Monitor , (2) 24" ASUS Monitors
Windows 8.1
Chief Architect 9, 10, X1, X3, X4 Premium, X5 Premium, X6 Premium
-
11-24-2012, 12:02 PM #13Registered User Promoted
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Posts
- 13
Thanks Joe that fixed the problem with the stairwell but now the walls are transparent when viewed using a full camera placed inside the room. I can live with that I guess but it looks a little odd.
I will lift the planes up as suggested. You are quite correct it would be a lot harder to build with the planes cutting the floor like that.
Regards
Phil
-
11-26-2012, 07:45 AM #14D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
San Diego, Ca.
Chief X-5 w/ Win 7
Asus P6T X58 ATX Core i7
Intel Core i7 920
6GB (3X2) DDR3 1600
NVIDIA GeForce 580 GTX
The videos we watch are not 100% gold, but if we find a gold nugget, the time spent viewing has a value.
We can please some of the people some of the time, but we can't please all the people all of the time..... but I will keep trying.
If you are interested in keeping abreast of any new videos, please subscribe to my channel at YOUTUBE...... channel is ds hall
-
12-14-2012, 03:56 PM #15
Here is the wierd ceiling plane issue that Joe solved. Makes no sense. I believe there is another user who is experiencing same issue with his plan. Probably a bug.
D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
San Diego, Ca.
Chief X-5 w/ Win 7
Asus P6T X58 ATX Core i7
Intel Core i7 920
6GB (3X2) DDR3 1600
NVIDIA GeForce 580 GTX
The videos we watch are not 100% gold, but if we find a gold nugget, the time spent viewing has a value.
We can please some of the people some of the time, but we can't please all the people all of the time..... but I will keep trying.
If you are interested in keeping abreast of any new videos, please subscribe to my channel at YOUTUBE...... channel is ds hall