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Larry, A "real" mono slab is what it says - a proper mono slab built on the foundation floor and usually supplying the floor for the floor above: A "virtual" mono slab is one automatically supplied by Chief when there is no foundation floor level to supply the floor for the floor above. All I did was delete the level 0 (Foundation floor level) and Chief auto builds these slabs. These are "virtual" mono slabs:

Larry, I can see that you get frustrated with Chief's methodology of rooms and I know that you express that view on a regular basis. And you probably don't appreciate me telling you that you are overthinking it and making it harder than it really is. All I can do is explain how I do it and hope that you get it. I would be happy to do a zoom session if you think it would help. In the mean time, forget about the level zero and slabs and slab rooms, etc. You don't need to do anything on level zero - that will all get sorted once you turn on auto mono slabs. The floor and ceiling heights are set on level 1. When you enter the Floor height in Absolute Elevations, try changing the Stem Wall Top to the same height as the Floor height and take note of what is set to default to better see what is happening. The big mistake I saw you make was that you were setting the ceiling height in the Relative Heights section. If you go back and read my post, you will notice I say to set the Absolute Ceiling Height - not the Relative ceiling height. From your video: You don't have a "room within a conrete slab" - you have a room with a concrete floor. You don't even need a foundation to step the floor - you can delete the foundation all together and Chief will build a "virtual" slab so that you have floor to the rooms.

Divide the building into bays (where you want the steps) with Room Divider walls. Set the floor level of each bay as needed. Define the Absolute Ceiling Height the same for each bay - I am assuming you want the same height ceiling for the whole building Auto rebuild roofs. This will give you a floor that steps at each bay, a level ceiling throughout the whole building and eave and roof heights the same for the whole building.

You can use the settings to size and locate the jamb on the Jamb panel. For the door, you may be able to use Recessed Into Wall>Recessed>To Main Layer. But it will depend on your wall definition and how it effects other things. You can create a wall with a main layer and a sheathing layer - make the joint line between the wall layers, the invisible line type so that the wall just looks like a full single layered wall. Then use the Recessed option - you can control the recess distance by the thickness of the sheathing/main layer thicknesses.

An easy way to do this is by using Reset To Defaults...

Hi Cherel, I am in Sydney - northern beaches. I can probably help you. I will send you a private message with my phone number.

One way quick way to track down the difference between multiple objects is to group select the objects and open the dbx. Any settings that are the same will have a tick in the button. Any settings that are different will have a horizontal bar in the button. So, in this case, copy the wall from the old plan and paste into the new plan. Select the old wall along with a new wall and open the dbx.

What is so different about an ICF brick ledge?

Build Roof Framing?

Auto Exterior Dimensions will dimension to opening centres.

As a default try: Default Settings>3D View Defaults>3D Views>Auto Rebuild Walls/Floors/ceilings Or as a one off try: Build>Floor>Auto Rebuild Walls/Floors/ceilings

Try Default Settings>Walls>Room Divider>Structure>Platform Intersections>Invisible Walls and Railings: Generate Between Platforms

Guess 1: Have a look for Wall Coverings in the wall dbx. Guess 2: Go to the Materials panel of the wall dbx, select the appropriate wall surface, Select Material, select Use Default Material.

It is the Gable Fascia size of the other adjacent roof planes because the fascia belongs to them, not the roof plane you have selected.

Seems like if you place the Wall Covering AFTER placing the Backsplash it works OK.

At my first quick look.... I think it could be because you have already used a Wall Covering. Open the room dbx and delete the Wall Covering. I am not 100% sure why this is happening - maybe you can't use a Custom Backsplash with a Wall Covering. I will have a play and see if I can find anything else.

Do you mean you are using Cad Detail From View? Have a play with the layer "Wall, Thru Wall Lines".

Don't use points - too hard to keep track of. Use lines, splines or elevation regions. Try and avoid the use of terrain modifiers Do not cross contour (Elevation) lines. Always best to trace the imported data with Elevation Lines or Elevation Splines when practical. Best to avoid breaking elevation lines for text or other data like heights, etc.

I just had a quick look and found a couple quickly. Interior Stair Defaults>Carpet Runner>Carpet-04 Ghost Exterior Stair Defaults>Carpet Runner>Non-Slip Surface

First off, I would turn off the display of contour lines in layer display options and then have a look for any rouge elevation data.

What is the "tiny line"? You are not understanding the basics of this operation. You do not need a dbx. Select the object you want to move, click on the dimension text, a box will pop up displaying the dimension (in your example it is the box with 8' in it), the dimension value will be hilighted, change it to what you want, hit Enter, the selected object will move.

You need to turn on the backdrop in your template plan and then save the template plan.

How are you rotating the plan? Rotate With Plan only works when you use Rotate Plan View or when you rotate a layout box.

Apparently it was fixed in X12, but got broken again in X13. It is on the "to be fixed" list.

This sounds a bit suspect to me. When you do File > Import > Import Drawing (DWG, DXF)..., the file should not be saved to the same folder as the plan - it shouldn't be saved anywhere - it should open the Import Drawing Assistant dbx.