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Downvote , haha...Love you MJ!!

I would use a room divider to define the vaulted area, then select no ceiling in the designated vaulted area's room structure dbx. No need for a reference plan as electrical in the loft if their is one would show up on the wrong floor which would be wrong. @Kbird1 and @DzinEye Sorry Mick and Mark, don't agree with the recommendation. Edit: See Eric's solution below

What Michael said. Why is there a second floor and why is electrical placed on that floor? Seems that your method may be flawed

I think I had solved for the fireplace mantle by relocating everything back to 0,0. Can't remember. definitely some funny things going on with that plan though.

Emissive issue still exists, can see it in the trim. Too many problems with this particular plan to list. Something in defaults I would guess. Sometimes bringing the model to 0,0 will fix it but that only fixes the window trim. All through the house is an emissivity issue. Even in the 3d preview window the walls are black. You can delete wall by wall in this plan and the issue will bounce around to a new location. Consider starting from a new template if this issue carries into new plans. Could be a really difficult time to locate the culrpit. Turn off all lights and sun and the issue still exists. Which would typically point to a material issue.

Space mouse with the pencil. Quick keys on space mouse. The touchscreen is just awesome for clicking through toolbar actions. takes some adjustments to chiefs preferences. I will have to do a video of just drafting a house. there are times when using this thing that I truly feel as if no setup could possibly be faster. other times where it does not meet that challenge but still wildly impressive for what it is. I made those advanced materials using this laptop in substance alchemist, which is a heavy program in its own right. I bought the business grade one with the Quadro 3000. was $4200 with the stylus to my door. I plan on buying this guy to accompany it : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083ZFG1PF/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A8OJI2R2SBLIE&psc=1

FYEO

Been using the top of the line Surface Book 3 for 120 hours now and love it. Drafting on a tablet is incredible, and the graphic horsepower allows me to work in applications that were only possible on a desktop machine previously. Some limitations yet but incredible machine for what it is. Just finished this prelim rough rendering in 5 minutes on this machine.

Then would just build out a note schedule. I dropped a CA file in our shared drive under templates

Only other thought would be to use window, door , casing, sill materials to drive the other finishes and simply rename in columns to include

Abandon the Room finish schedule. Use Custom Fields in a note with an accompanying note schedule Add the newly created custom field to your note schedules "Columns to Include" Even easier and more dynamic to do it using notes with custom fields as you could just drop them ontop of the walls instead of opening a wall up, assuming you didn't need specific data from the wall assy itself. Easy to save the note to library for future use

+1 True, and if I need a blind plate then I make a roof plane produce it for me and take up most of the heavy lifting so I can manually manipulate it:

Sent an email.

Why has it been a struggle? Help us help you does sending multiple plan files to layout help you? Using the layout to navigate your different designs.

Far Cry! you mean a soft whisper see above. Only thing that's missing is the line drawing as the load calc is often together with a panel schedule.

Took me all of 2 minutes to find this listed as a requirement in a local municipality. They don't usually ask for it, but it is listed, even though it has a statement illustrating that it is a guide: https://www.walnut-creek.org/home/showdocument?id=2682

That looks like a layout file and not the plan file here is an example of using notes to generate a panel schedule: PANEL CALC EXAMPLE.plan

I've had to do it for Contra Costa County. Did it long hand before X-12. I've got a client that we have to put the circuit numbers into the fixture symbol designation. I've been building out new note tools for this very thing. You should see the craziness some of Texas is going through with electronic submittals. Then I've got a client from Maine that you could literally have a 4 year old draw up and they would stamp it over the counter.

Turn your sun off and see if it goes away..that'll start you in the right direction of troubleshooting the problem

Your duct is picking up other environment light. maybe protruding through an exterior surface. haven't downloaded the plan yet. EDIT: or what he said ^

BTW assuming you are a junior drafter, for assumption sake, my local counties and municipalities don't require me to show half the items they have in their checklists. Get around the desk clerk and over to your planchecker and let them tell you what you need. Don't ask if you need to include something, ask a generalized question. Or submit and let them come back with a revision requirement. No harm in that, and you may save a boat load of hours. My local plancheckers get so annoyed when I include too much because the last guy told me to. Unless they are subbing out the plan check, your local checker takes on some of the professional liability and is happy to do so if you prove your competence.

Use notes and note schedule and take full advantage of the custom fields available in notes. Could whip up a bullet proof panel schedule that can be used for years to come with a little bit of front end planning

Sonoma and vallejo counties homie, commercial projects, depends on the occupancy type. Assembly, for instance..in fact a lot of Bay Area counties require this.

That is not what I have found, but maybe you know of a fast way to adjust multiple pieces of framing for multiple walls quickly? I can remove the material from the unfinished walls in plan view very quickly (for all walls at the same time), and for any surfaces that need to be changed to greenboard, Type X, etc. I can do that pretty quickly in doll house view (set the default and simply click once on all of the walls you need to change). If I were to manually change all of the framing for the joists and plates involved I would have to open up a lot of separate views and adjust each piece individually, which in my opinion would take a lot longer. The WAY WAY faster was in reference to drawing a bunch of material regions after your surface deletion/hiding. That would take hours. I can think of a handful of different ways for modifying framing members. I can frame an entire house using manual tools in less than an hour in most cases...not that I would want to, but it wouldn't be a problem. I don't have a marker on your skill sets or how many hours you have in the program to know what tools you are familiar with. I think it would help the conversation and in guiding you to find out what region you are in and what level of granularity you are expected to provide in your region or to your contractors. It would also help to know your experience level and take a look at some example plans.(absolutely no insult meant by this, it is a necessary question I would ask anyone looking to employ me for training purposes for instance). I personally draft upwards of 40 plans a year for individuals and firms all over the world, and each drafting standard is different. I know a few drafters love to take on material take offs, but the majority would rather stay away from those tools all together. I personally don't carry the right insurance to cover me from a contract crew floating over milestones because I messed up a board foot. If you are a design-build I would tell you that I would drop a wall schedule in and add the length column to your schedule, or run a macro and call out your own wallboard.I would rather approach it in those ways rather than go through what you are trying to do in the current version of this software. Without the need for the material cut lists, the drafting methods that are standard in chief architect make a lot of sense for most regions. I might suggest exporting your material cut list to excel and then split out your different gyp boards in excel. Simple enough to do. For the amount of effort that I gather you've put in toward making an accurate material list, you could've just done it long hand and been hours further ahead in your draft set. As a marker, most CD's on a 2000 sq ft. 2 story house take from 20-30 hours for the majority of power users including prescriptive structural sheets...with some drafters getting down in the 5-10 hour range with the right templates and consistent project types.

We call this a California corner..we Californian's like to take credit for everything