DRAWZILLA

You could also use the balloon frame wall to go up to the roof and just delete the attic wall.

Try to set the "Recent files" to "0" or a low number. Chief Recently found this problem and it worked for me. Not using a Mac but might help

That should never be the problem, I guess that's what the Alpha and Beta is for.

To separate the rooms ,use the Room divider tool.

Just change your ceiling spacing to what you need using the "Joists direction tool. This sounds more like a plan check correction, if so just give them what they want or get an Engineer to do it.

post the layout so someone can check it out.

Larry, there really should be no foundation or roof under the foundation room spec's. So I would uncheck those. But I really don't have an answer for you , I just ignore the note, and move on. Maybe its b/c there is a stem wall in the defaults, who knows?

Actually here in Calif. we use the CRC (Calif. Residential Code) for residential, and the CBC for all others. They made up their own codes.

We use a lot of those around here and its getting more and more every year. We have to show them on the foundation and on the framing plans, that's one reason why we have to put all that on a clean foundation plan and not on a basement plan, it would just get to cluttered. All this stuff is in the IBC, but not everyone enforces it yet but it's coming your way.

Nice Bill, it seems to be a lot easier to build than to draw.

Once you frame the deck just turn off the auto framing of the deck and check retain deck framing.

Larry, couldn't you just change your deck room defaults to get what you want without changing the floor joist of all the building?

Yes Doug ,I also saw that too.

Believe me when I tell you I feel you pain.

Nice job ,but I don't see anything special about your design that anyone here can't do. You can copy your plan and send a stripped down version just showing your problem, then someone here can answer exactly what your problem is, we need to look at all the settings to be sure.

Thank you sir, I'll give it a shot, I am very happy now that I know what's wrong, it was driving me nuts. I had recent files set to 20, hopefully they can fix this now.

Nothing on removable media or networks. for me. I do use a mirror backup using a compact Hard drive from Carbonite, connected all the time. I could turn off and just backup at the end if the day.

The recent files set to zero did the trick, thank you Doug. I had it set to 20. the only problem is I use that every day so I don't have to search for plans all the time . I might be working on 3 plans at the same time and need this feature. Is there a way to fix this?

well, I not the only one, thanks guys, Chief has me going around and around with this.

We never said" Save -as" anywhere.

This happens a lot and I would like to see it fixed once and for all. Chief please fix this stair bug. The railing will never work correctly until this gets fixed because the handrail will not detect a wall at that triangle point and Chief creates a full rail there.

Look at your window in 3d view and use the "Delete surfaces" tool to delete everything but the window, then use the "Convert to symbol" in the Tools /Symbol section, to create a new symbol. Go back to a plan ,and use the "Get last symbol" to place it in your plan, you might want to save the symbol to your lib. for future use also. Joe beat me to it.

here is one I did a while back. http://www.screencast.com/t/KV6kdcftHJ

are those moldings turned on in the 3D view?

Chief's PDF printer also creates a larger file size.