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I usually get the correct s.f. on my plans, I use the room finish schedule for that. Sometimes it might be off a couple of s.f. but ,never a problem with any cities, and I've been doing it a long time. It would be nice to get it exactly right, but until its fixed, not a problem for me. I charge by the s.f. so you would think I would complain about it more.

I set my grid snaps and dimensions to 1/4" and never have that problem. That cover just about every condition using wood studs.

I'm pretty sure Chief calculates to the center of a garage to house wall but it should really be to the garage side of the wall. It's close enough for me though but some day they will fix it.

garage to house wall measures to the center of the middle wall, not the garage side as it should. Chief might have fixed that though.

Did you add a second floor to the plan, no rooms in the attic. did not look at your plan. ok looked at your plan, add a 3rd floor. also your 3rd floor walls have no room def. un-check that.

Look at your dimensions they are not locating the same side of the wall for the individual room square footages. The way you show the rooms, they would have different sizes. If you dim. was located at the center of the middle wall they would be the same.

Dennis I use the Beta drivers, and have for years, you get the updates a little sooner. NVidia updates about every month,

You can also use the "Auto detail tool" in section view and it will give you a p-line applied right over the foundation. You can then manipulate that p-line to get exactly what you need to show, but the 3d model and materials list won't be correct. I do this all the time when I can't get the foundation to show correctly in section view.

B/c your dimensions aren't located on the same side of each wall.

Trace over them, there is no conversion

I use light sources, you can place them anywhere to lighten up a scene and they don't show up on plan or 3d camera view.

You won't be able to delete some of the original layer-set that comes with the program.

I also did a lot of turning off startup's and cleaning, and no change for the lag. I think it's a Chief thing.

Rich text has never given me any of those problems but I'm on X7.

Jon, I don't have the topo info in my google earth pro, do I need to download something?

Copy a layer-set that's close to what you want, re-name it "roof plan reference set". Turn on and off the layers you want to show on your reference set. Also adjust line styles and line-weights. Bring up your roof plan and turn on the reference icon. Double-click on the floor number and choose the reference set you just made, then you will see what you referenced to the plan. This could be confusing. Let me know and I can do a short video for you.

Jay, putting the basement on level 1 lets you provide a clean foundation plan, without having to turn on and off any layers.

Joey, I have never put the basement on level 0 and it work great for me. I'm not saying any way is better, he just seemed to be having a problem or was asking, so I gave my opinion that's all.

Yes basement should be on level 1

Funny, I always use rich text, except for room labels. I am able to change the size color and font in the text style of the layer display, not sure if I understand you correctly.

Like to help but I'm also a little green with google earth, I would also like to know how they get the topo's off that site. Please include me if it happens.

It still doesn't change the fact that, I want my foundations on its own level because of the clutter that can get to be quite a mess trying to combine the 2 levels. Too much info jammed on 1 level is just not good for professional work. Joey was that all automatic? or did you use slabs.

But, Jon, there is a way to do it, like I said earlier. Copy your layout to create a second layout linked to the same plan, and just add or delete page as needed. Use the second layout whenever you need just those pages.

I don't experience that, it only re-draws for me if I press a mouse button, but I can freely move it around the screen without any problems. You might want to update your mouse driver or just use the generic windows or mac. drivers.

For me a workaround is when Chief might have a bug or non-functionality of a task and you need to find a way to make it work. It happens. I feel most people call some task workarounds when it is really just user error. Some people use the term workaround when a task just doesn't work like they want it to work, or they never learned how to use it correctly..