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Sink may have been placed and then cab size made to small to work with that sink.

Probably something to do with your wall definitions or even the default room definition. It may think you have created a new room between the 2 walls.

You can also place cad lines perpendicular to the wall and dimension to those instead of the wall layer. I snap the line to the wall intersection point then move it to the closest 1/8" increment. You still need to use the parallel tool for the dimension line.

You guys can't really be suggesting that it is ok to build a wall 11' tall with a hinge point at 9'. You might want to ask an engineer about that. Forget about weather ca can do it. Is it a good idea in the real world?

You may have manually defined the ceiling plane of a room that is higher than the default for the floor. Just a guess though with the info you provided.

Turn all layers on and look at the array of curved attic walls that show up. These are preventing your normal walls on level 2 from connecting. Delete the offending attic walls and it will work.

How on earth would a crew know how to build a house without the weatherstripping showing up on a plan?

Mark is spot on with the suggestion to use items from the library and call it close enough.

Maybe that plan has an errant default setting. Defaults are plan specific.

I seriously doubt you have it "99% complete". That comment might make scare the competent users away from you. It is code for "crazy guy".

I did not load plan so this is based on pictures you posted. Maybe the wall with the garage door should continue over inside the turret. Without doing that, it would be hard to get a proper sized portal frame for brace wall.

I have noticed it also. I'm glad you sent it in.

I do not have a cheat sheet but I do have a suggestion. If you hold the mouse arrow over the icon without clicking, it will pop up a short text description of what the icon does.

Almost all text.

It is under the structure tab for floor.

Tough to know without plan but I have a guess. You may have a 2nd floor in play at that point. If so, tell the room definition to be "open below".

Click on the roof plane tool and draw in a manual roof. It helps if you create a cad line first with the exact distance you want the roof to extend. Then you can create the manual roof plane from that line toward the house. Stop the roof plane at the siding, not the framing.

Save a screen shot as a jpeg. Then you can import it into the plan.

It will quickly go the way of the avocado colored appliances.

file - import - import picture.

Room definitions tell CA your intent. Defining a room as a porch will in part determine how the foundation is built. There are many ways to do what you want. A quick one would be to call it some other type of room like a bath or kitchen. The foundation will build under it. You can then open the dbx for that room and manually change the name to "porch" and set the structure to be a 4" slab.

"have fun with your design and figure out how to build it later" That is the mentality that gives this industry a bad name.

Apparently he likes pocket doors.

Under the roof tool icon there is also a ceiling tool. You can place ceiling planes manually.

Go to default settings. Under cabinets click on materials and set it to the darker oak. The other cabinets will update if they were placed as default cabinets. In many cases it is faster to use the material painter. If you want both versions, you should save it as two separate plans.