glennw

I don't think a beam by itself is not going to do anything There are a couple of ways I can think of to do this. Have a look at Extend Slope Downwards in the Roof Options in the Wall Specification dbx - you may need to raw an invisible wall. Have a look at Treat As Part of Bay/Box/Bow Window (with the Use Existing Roof option) at the bottom of the same panel. Do you want the bump out to have the same ceiling height as the main house, or lower (flat or sloping)?

Construction lines will display in both plan and elevation views.

Creating a .jpg happens instantly on my machine in both X14 and X15

In my younger days of hand drafting we used the straight door swing because it was so much faster and easier to draw a straight line using the set square than it was to get the circle template and draw a curve. But....I would never mix them up now so as to distinguish new and existing.

What about placing the notes on a hidden layer - they will not be visible in the plan, but will still appear in the schedule.

Yes, this is possible with Chief without too much effort - think of your fire pit table as a small room. If you want a Material List, you will need to use 3D objects so that you can assign materials to the objects. You don't need a cad drawing, you need to build a 3D model. Cad cannot report to the Material List.

Why can't you just change the ceiling heights of three rooms on the upper floor and then auto build roofs?

Notice that the left side Baseline is locating on the inside of the side wall and that the ridge is not in the centre of the room.

Just a wild guess without a plan. And it doesn't really look like this should help, but give it a go. Railing Specification dbx>Rail Style panel>Build From>Generate on Low Platform. However, there is an underlying problem that you need to find and fix.

Are you getting this error message on opening the plan? Did you try the Move option? This is the result I get when choosing Move - much, much closer to 0,0 than Ignore. I have placed a point at 0,0 for reference. Have a look at the coordinates in the status bar and compare the different options. Chopsaw is correct in that the cause of the problem is the objects drawn miles away from the origin.

The Exterior Walls setting applies when you select the outside room and change the material.

CAD>Lines>Line Style Management.......

That doesn't appear to be the latest plan?

Post another updated plan.

For the gable walls, select them, open their dbx and on the Roof panel>Pitch Options, uncheck Upper Pitch. For the walls above the roof, select them, open their dbx, Structure panel>Default Wall Heights, check Default Wall Top Height. It looks like you need to do that for a lot of the walls. I which case go Edit>Reset To Defaults.... It looks like your ground floor roofs need a bit of work as well?

For the gable roofs, select both end walls where you want the gables. Open their dbx and on the Roof panel>Roof Options, change it from Hip Wall to Full Gable Wall. Auto rebuild the roof. Can you post your latest plan.

You already have a second floor but the problem is that the floor and ceiling heights are all screwy. You need to go here (Floor Defaults) and change the floor and ceiling heights to your defaults. Especially note the Relative and Absolute heights. You wouldn't want the second floor to have an Absolute Elevation of zero - that would set it at the same elevation as the ground floor. You need to do this for both floors. You can then go back to the plan and apply the default settings you just created. The easiest way to do that is by ticking the wrench on the right of the input boxes for each room (you can group select the rooms).

Thats what I said way back - still waiting for feedback from the OP.

Draw your cased opening the full width. Draw a section of railing close by and define it as No Room Definition. Drag the railing wall section into the cased opening.

At a first quick look it would appear that there is not enough information to draw this. Did you draw this with only the information supplied? Do you know the angle of the upper shaded polygon? or...do you know the width of the lower polygon and the location of the horizontal line that runs through it? Are you familiar with the Enter Coordinates, Input Line and Input Point tools? - have a look in the help file. Notice that the Input Line and Input Point tools have a next button.

Use a Wall Material Region to form the arched recess - with Cut Finished Layers of Parent Object checked. Place a window under the Wall Material Region. Here is a very quick one.

A plan might help instead of us having to reinvent the wheel. I haven't got a clue what a "dog trot" is.

For the regular shaped ones use Boxes, arrange as needed and then convert to a block or symbol. For the tapered base one use a Truncated Pyramid for the base and boxes for the regular shapes.

Just a heads up. No Locate walls have no effect on wether a room is defined or not. That setting stops auto exterior dimensions from dimensioning to the wall. Instead, you probably need No Room Definition to prevent a room from forming.

Just thinking about this a bit more and being mindful that you really don't seem to need the functions of the Find Plan Assistant. You may be better using Explorer to get something like the picture below instead of trying to do it in Chief. I am a Mac user so we don't see a thumbnail, but you should see the thumbnail in Windows - do you still use Explorer? It's been a while since I used windows! You should see your thumbnail in Explorer instead of the image we see on a mac.