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I don't have a plan for it, what you see in the pic is it, just drop a u shape stair and create the walls around the stairs, tell them to "Follow Stairs". See what it does.

Stairs in U-Shape with a gap in between to allow for a "Solid wall railing" that follows the stairs do not generate the "Solid wall railing" at the landing. Chief generates the railing for the landing disregarding the walls around the stairs telling it to create the walls following the stairs. The walls for the stairs generate but, not, for the landing portion where the "U" is created. Tried several options with that specific wall portion without the desired results.

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I never use the floor structure for garages, since the code requires them to slope towards the main door, I use roofs. Create a roof plane, edit all defaults to concrete size and materials, play around on how to place it inside the garage floor area without cutting wall surfaces, etc, lower the garage door accordingly, layer it under slabs. Don't forget to use the footing under the walls to the desired size. Besides that all my stoops, patios, porches, balconies, use the same approach.

Chief will generate the attic wall whether there is a wall below or not, even if you have a curved (barrel) roof. Yes!

There's no reason for Chief not to auto generate the attic wall. If you did your part correctly then, it should generate. If you did your part correctly and Chief did not generate it, I suggest you send it to Tech Support and report it as a bug. I had a similar issue in one of my plans, and it was indeed a bug in the software.

I have noticed this behavior as well, if one creates automatic elevations, and send them to Layout, it will add "color" to them, and will not print as lines. It's probably the way it ships. I have also noticed that has gone away "by itself" after resending them to layout. odd.

Make it out of CAD lines, convert it to solids, add materials, from 3d view, create the symbol, save it as a window, it will take a few minutes. You may then place the window next to a door, mull it or leave it as is.

Just to wrap up this thread Support confirmed that there's a "bug" in the way Chief reads my plan, too many things happening around that area that it confuses the program. I will also report the bug, just in case. Thanks to all that tried.

Support replied today. On the room projecting over the "open below" room their suggestion worked, basically one has to draw another room on top of the projection, of course one will also have to change all the settings for the structure so it shows as a finished floor/ceiling and make it invisible so it does not show in plan views. On the missing attic wall, I am not sure they got it, I was able to create a new plan that generated the attic wall, but, my plan does not, their reply did not satisfy and or they did not look at it in depth. I replied again with my test plan to show that it does generate the attic wall. we'll see...

This is a tough one! For SunnyD, take the plunge! read the literature that can be downloaded free. Draw a "test" project get everyone involved. (Keep an eye on this forum, lots of good resources here) I typically post bugs I find in the program. (Keep AutoCAD, comes in handy for details, importing pdf's, site work etc.). For Grkawaja, Stay with Softplan! Lots of new features, good for networks, cloud, etc. No need to re-learn much.

And a shot of missing attic wall. If you look closely to the picture, the portion of the room without the ceiling mentioned above can be seen

Tried and tested several options without success , zipped the plan and sent it to Support, we'll see what is the issue with it. A second issue occurred and it was also included in the support ticket. The main room was also a "no ceiling" plus "open below" (not sure if that had to do with it). Next to that room there's a laundry room with "ceiling" selected, but, a portion of that room projects into the main room by about a foot and a half. (Well that foot and a half) loses its ceiling as well , even though it is an enclosed room. I must add that the "open below" does not fall over the projection. Even after removing "no ceiling" and leaving "open below" that portion still loses its ceiling.

Had a chance to try a concept roof similar to the one having issues, all attic walls generated properly, without having to check additional wall settings. Not sure why that other plan is having issues, but, will look into it when I get a chance.

Will try, thanks.

Just noticed that attic walls are not generating over one room with an offset, the wall generates up to the point where the offset wall starts, but, not where the room projects beyond and there's not a wall below. The catch here is the room has no ceiling. Catch #2, the roofs are "Curved" so the "gap" left is also curved, if I pull/drag the wall that generated, the bottom of it is not curved Both top and bottom should be curved.

The answer is found in your original question. The way we work details is as follows: (It's a bit of work but does the trick). Create a back clipped section on a blank area of the plans (layer it so it is easy to turn on/off from your plan) paste your cad detail there, send that view to your detail page, Ha! Now move the call out to the desired position on the plan. (you may have to rename the original section(s) as chief wants to do the naming in order. (Note that the name and the callout label are two different things) if you have info on both, it will show on the callout. If your detail and the camera overlap, move the detail away, resize the view on layout.

Dave, I'm still alive, after a long battle... Thanks. Did you notice that the APO does not change, unless you 1. Place an outlet on plan. 2. Save it to the library. 3. Select that outlet from the library. I had changed the "Default" outlet from the Defaults Settings and noticed the "Bug", Basically I changed "Duplex" to AFCI/TR saved as default. Then went to "AutoPlaceOutlets" APO and it placed the old "Duplex" not the newly selected Default. There was no way to do it within the Defaults DBX.

Almost an all iMac office here! Only one evil PC laptop (pun intended). Version 19 is faster than 18 that is for sure.

I am missing how to change the defaults in Auto Place Outlets or am I? I changed the default receptacle outlet(s), but, the APO does not update to use the new outlet, bugger... Thanks!

This has been true since I started using Chief, back in V9

The two options are valid here. The way you drew it, leaving a space between two walls, if enclosed, they become a room, leave it unspecified and adjust its ceiling heights to match the other rooms. Wall type definitions as "Solver" showed also works and may be easier to work with. (However you had not mentioned they were offset).

The pdf's I'm using go crystal clear into another program, they lose no formatting, etc. As David noted, Chief seems to like the image format better, within the same plan, I have some image files that came in "acceptable" as .png format. I have attached the files that have issues in Chief, but, do not in the "other program". Using the exact same importing procedure. File, import, import PDF, then placing it on the layout, resizing to fit. (Same on both programs) Please note at the "preview window" before you place the file, the formatting it's already lost, one can tell right away just before placing the file onto Layout. 217-P010095769A-000-000-0000000-0000-1.pdf

Hello all, I noticed that the .pdf importing into Layout sheets literally "destroys" the .pdf I tried importing the energy calculation files and, oh boy, the files changed font, formatting, etc. The second set of sheets I tried were some standards directly from the code book and sure enough, they came so badly blurry that are of no use. Anyone else having issues?

Save the current plan you are working on as your new "Template" (delete all the views you don't need before saving). That keeps my templates up to date.