Specify the desired angle to which you would like to rotate the material s pattern.
Chief architect change floor direction.
On the pattern panel of the define material dialog.
How can this be done.
Specifying joist direction and where joists are cut.
In vector views materials are represented using patterns.
Open the chief architect plan in which you would like to customize deck planking or select file new plan to open a new blank plan.
To rotate a material s pattern.
339 framing with floor and ceiling trusses.
328 framing a floor with the beam and post tools.
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Return to the plan materials dialog select your custom material and click the edit button.
In the next dialog that opens select the edit.
If you would like to adjust the offset of the pattern you can also do.
From the menu select edit default settings.
Question i want to change the direction of floor or ceiling joists in a certain area of my plan.
Joist direction lines specify joist direction and bearing lines define the boundaries for joist direction.
In this example a simple 10 x 10 deck is used.
Answer you can specify the direction that joists build using a joist direction line however this will force all the joists sharing a floor platform area i e all floors or ceilings at the same elevation to build in the direction specified.
The adjust material definition tool works the same in all chief architect inc titles and versions.
A step by step process for messing around with floor defaults on chief architect.