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I was afraid that was going to be the answer. That is a lot of maintenance to do once the drawings are finished.

I have a general question about how everyone does master plans in CA. I have approximately 85 house plans that I am converting from AutoCAD to CA. Each plan has and average of 6 different front elevations and 6-12 standard options. I want to use CA to incorporate all of these options into a master plan for the house. I did this 2 ways in AutoCAD, either making blocks of the standard and optional parts that are on different layers and turning on/off as needed or pulling a partial off to the side with the changes. Which way works best in CA, or is there a more efficient way? I also need the master plan to create flyers of all the options for marketing so It would be best to have the options in one file. I am just starting on the conversions so I want to make the right setup now rather than figuring out half way through there is a better way. Thanks for your help! Lee

Thank you! this fixed the problems.

I have a stair with open treads on one side for the first 5 1/2 treads then a solid wall hiding the rest of the treads. Under the stairs I have a partial laundry room that has a 2x6 wall instead of the 2x4 wall that encloses the rest of the stair. I have 2 issues getting the stair to function correctly. the first issue is the 2x6 wall should be cut by the stair and the wall above the stair should become a 2x4 wall (we us a diagonal top plate at the bottom of the stringer height and build 2x4s above). The second issue is if I add a partial height wall below the stair then the side wall cuts below the stringer and makes an open tread stair above which I do not want. Does anyone have any ideas to fix these two issues? Thanks, Lee Marwick.plan

Thank you Solver and Kbird1! The problem was my wall definition for the foundation walls. When I moved the air gap and CMU to the main layer as Solver suggested then everything worked as expected. Thanks again! Lee

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize I had done that. I changed all the exterior walls on the first floor to not be knee walls but it didn't change the problem. Here is the revised plan. Marwick.plan

Thanks , Here is the plan for this house. I have isolated it to being an issue with the roof planes over these walls. If I erase the roof planes the foundation walls behave normally.. I appreciate your help. Lee Marwick.plan

Sorry about that. here is a screen shot.

I'm new to Chief Architect and have a problem with only certain foundation wallsls extending to the top of first floor framing in a slab house with 24" stem walls. the walls don't correspond to a specific room above, but in several rooms. I'm sure it's a setting somewhere, but I don't know where to look. the walls are shown in the picture below.I have had the program for about a week and I have to convert my standard house plans from AutoCAD. Thanks, Lee