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Not exactly sure what you are looking for but here is a typ. slab floor in your plan, mostly automatic with a very little touch up. shangri las cop w- slab floorsy.plan

I would use custom ceiling definition showing the all the framing in each room. If there is a floor above then it would be a custom floor definition from above. These are found in the structure section. You can now have multiple framing in ceilings and floors, I do it all the time to get the model correct. Soffits do not frame or that would be easier. your situation look a bit complicated and will take some work though. You can also just pull down walls and add a 2nd floor to get that look but it is possible.

I use invisible walls along side of the flared stairs, set the stairs as winders ,and they will follow the walls. As for the railing , what you do should work as it looks custom.

I couldn't get the deck direction to change either.

What's ugly is very subjective, I might just love your ugly stuff.

Try to keep all your colors on the dark side or you won't see them unless you print in black and white. I always print in Grayscale for large format printing looks pretty good. Turn off the color button and view your screen to test it. You can also change the line thickness. I use line weights of 15 to 200 depending on what it is .

Here is a sample of a framing plan. I do it with cad, Chief doesn't address this at all.

Don't listen to them, they are all nuts. Good luck with all that.

Not if you put the whole house fan in that bathroom.

Larry, It seems to me that a door from a bath to a kitchen was not code, but it could have changed, not sure. Just something I have remembered since birth.

There seem to be something underneath the shingles, almost like your texture and pattern are showing but they are different.

Well, you just cut your own pay for the same work, if I'm reading it correctly. Not my idea of good business.

Nice score, Think about me at Christmas

Probably break the play equip. but I'll play.

This is when it pays to get up late on the west coast, never had a problem.

This job is not going to make any magazine's, so do it. After all we work for money, don't we. I always try to please every client, even if it wouldn't be the way I would do it. I know what I like but someone else might not. What your talking about here doesn't seem to be anything that hasn't been done many time before. As long as it's not something really bad, it just a matter of taste.

I LEARNED A LOT TODAY .Thanks for looking that up guys. 1foot, does anyone think its good enough to use for what we do. Could be, of course if I needed anything more I'd get a survey done.

So the base height could be 5 to 6' off. Are the waypoints then accurate to the base within inches? I can't be 5 to 6' off between waypoints. I really don't care about the base being off, but the waypoints ,I do.

Thank you for all the info. That went pretty easy. I was just wondering how accurate it is. Within inches or feet?

If you set up template plans and layouts, no need to bring in anything, it's always there when you start up every new job. Everything already sent to the layout. Very , very fast. open the plan and start designing right away, no set up other than some defaults and colors.

or just call it a balcony. depending on what you need

Isn't that what I said?

Larry, Chief will always conventional frame an area where no trusses exist. This is good for us guys that have mixed framing, which I have a lot. In an earlier video you may have changes the floor framing for one room. Nice video, you are doing so good with those.

for some reason the base molding was going crazy, I just replaced it with a manual one. River House fixed.plan

Larry, thanks for the video, I was just commenting for the O.P., he seemed a little confused. I think the reason that the balloon frame stopped where it did was b/c , I believe you used a roof plane, and a balloon frame at the below wall ,will only take you up to the roof, if you had used a floor system as the roof, it would have gone full height. But if you have to create a slope on that roof, use a roof and do it using the go thru floor method like you did in the video.