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I was at Falling Water House once while repair work was under way. It was fun to see the structure exposed and how it was put together.

I did not say he never received any education. You did in fact support exactly what I said. HE HAD NO COLLEGE DEGREE AND NEVER OFFICIALLY BECAME A LICENSED ARCHITECT. It is just a bit of trivia. You seem to be trying to read a lot into this.

An interesting side note - Frank Lloyd Wright was not an architect. In fact, he did not graduate from college or even high school. Pretty good work for a "draftsman".

You can check your theory by turning the gutter layer off in your camera view to see if it goes away.

The slack for bad subs should not be taken up by designers. Specifying the exact location of every anchor bolt is a waste of time. If one of my cad guys did this on a plan, I would probably fire him or risk having that builder never use us again. In the real world, plans are expected to be created in an efficient manner. I have often gained new clients because the former designer was putting TOO MUCH detail on the plan or as the builder calls it "CRAP". That bad sub crew you speak of is probably incapable of reading any plan, much less one that specifies every bolt.

Just place the text on a layer that is used for the view you want on the layout. For instance, floor framing has it's own layer. Put the type you want to show up for that view on just that layer. It will not show up on plan view because you would not have floor framing layer turned on for plan view.

Use different layer sets.

This is one of the most cumbersome things to do with chief. There can be many ways to do this. As Eric said, you have to insert a floor. I have also done this by creating a new plan with the required number of floors and using a cut/paste to place the floors on the new levels you want them on. It is a pretty fast way to rearrange things. This also works if floors need to reverse which level they are on. One hint on any of this - Objects should be set to have the elevation above finished floor instead of absolute. That way they will move up and down with the floor it is associated with.

The view you are sending may have an object in it that is really for from the structure. Before you send it, hit F6 and see if the view widens to encompass some extraneous object.

You will be back to the forum before long with a list of things not working right. Stay with what works. The analogy might be a mechanic that has customized some part of the engine to his car. Most people just want to drive the car with the least amount of headaches.

Some objects have really high face counts and should be avoided. You can also purge unused materials from the plan materials list. Imported pictures, especially pdf files will also bog down a system. Another issue can be live updated views in a layout. It may be a combination of a lot of things. Other culprits include, too many lights, too many interior design items, too many cad blocked items.

I did not look at your plan but I wanted to comment on something you said. You should figure out ALL floor plan issues including the stair before you do the roof. If the the floor plan changes, the work on the roof becomes a waste of time.

I place them all on the same level (highest level with living space. The con docs can then have a layer set that displays the roof planes over the walls that are supporting them. I make the roof framing a separate layer set.

I think the IRC book says 150.

Eric answered it in post #2.

You can make it look right in 3d by telling the slab to be as thick as the depth you want the footings. A lot of builders would only do a point load pad where the columns are located and make the porch an elevated slab. In this instance, the software is doing it right. You would have to manually place a pad for the columns on the foundation layer.

Use a pony wall. Open the dbx for the wall in question and click on pony wall and pick your two wall types.

I have not done your particular thing so this is a bit of a guess. I think you will have to import your info into chief as a DWG file. You may need to fine tune the line weights and color. I have only done this with engineer info like surveys etc.

Listen to Lew. It's the best way to operate. Cloud is for back up, not day to day storage of operating program or even main storage of your files. Others may disagree.

Larry, I may be way off on this but are you using a plan that has been used many times or had excessive re-designs. Chief has an annoying habit of remembering room definitions and settings even if you remove the walls that created them.

I agree that this is not good part of CA. In fact, it may be the worst. I think your default stem wall is set under defaults - foundation - Then it is the combination of Minimum height and basement ceiling height. To the right of that area is a button called "edit default foundation wall". As far as I can tell, that only concerns the footing size and ironically has nothing to do with the height. I have no help for you about "minimum garage height" I'm not sure I have ever even changed it.

Nice job Dave. Teaching takes patience and abilities. You have both.

I only have time for a quick response with a down and dirty example. Create a straight stair with winder box checked. Grab the upper end of the stair and hold down the ALT key. Drag it to the desired arc. It will give you what you want. My version took about 2 minutes. The time will be spent getting to be right for the walls you want.

It does not show this way on my system. Try closing your program and opening it up again.

Store fronts are not shower walls. The first time it leaks or there is a problem, the client will want to know who had the idea of doing this.