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I keep the plan and layout files names the same throughout the project. I place them in FOLDERS with the name containing the date completed. This allows you to avoid having to set up the links every time you change the plan file name. It will also help if you keep your materials limited to the ones provided by chief out of the box. Custom materials would mean another step in the process of saving the layout.

You can also move the roof plane to another level. Click on the roof and hit "display on floor above". It is the icon that looks like a gable end of a roof.

It could be a label.

You also might have some imported objects that have really high face counts. For instance, I have seen two toilets that look about the same but one has a really high face count. If your plan has a lot of these items, it can really add up.

The roof will determine how it frames. Look at a section view. You will be able to see the wall and ceiling heights more clearly.

Open the DBX for the rooms in question and change the ceiling height. Leave the other rooms as they are. You can change ceiling heights on a room by room basis.

That line is probably a dashed line and it just did not show up that way before. You need to figure out what that line is and check the definition for that line or the layer that it is on.

You can make it a separate entity by exploding the auto dormer.

You should put this in the section called "seeking services".

Drag the roof plane over that wall and the framing will disappear. The plane that will do this is the big one you have covering the bulk of the house not the small one above it.

I would never show this on a plan. Who would it be benefiting? The framers know how to frame a wall. If they don't, hire a different framer.

You can also import saved plan views from different plan. Use the template you sent the plan to but import the other sets of plan views so you can make it look right.

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Maybe something very directional and focused. Keeping light AWAY from the screen is important.

It is adding the lintel because that is how your defaults are set. You could change the default and the lintel will not generate but then you would have to manually change the rest of the windows to have it turned back on.