SNestor

I've helped many just like you over the years... steve@mychiefskills.com

Steve, For the walls where the bottom follows the stairs you can attempt to break the wall and shape it...but, this can be a PIA. I usually just fill that triangle space using a solid. Sometimes a ceiling plane carefully placed can work...but again, this is time consuming and a PIA. I usually just place a solid for the underside of the stair drawn using the backclipped cross section camera. Don't get me started on the stair tool...

I agree with the others that posted... However, you could just make the porch room "no ceiling"...and use a ceiling plane to create the porch room ceiling. Place the ceiling plane at the elevation you want it to be...and set it to have a zero pitch.

You should not have to be doing that...typically a wall will use its default material. You are probably copying a wall type where the wall material is not using the wall type definition material. Create a new wall type...define it with the materials you want and save it. The out of the box Chief template file contains numerous wall types that are defined correctly that you can copy and recreate...without changing the material properties.

"Rooms" dictate the height of walls. Try not to drag a wall up/down...walls you drag will never change until you "reset" them to "default". Set your default room height in "defaults". Only make changes to individual rooms using the room dialogue as needed. Once you use the room dialogue to make a change...changes made to your defaults will no longer effect those rooms.

Define your wall with the materials you want, then...in the materials tab make sure all the materials listed show these as "default". If not, then open the material and change it to "Use Default" from the list of plan materials...or, check the box at the bottom of the LIBRARY MATERIALS dialogue..."Use Default Material" See attached;

You could send this to layout..."Floor Overview" using 3D top down view. Rendering technique Standard with hand drawn lines. If you change the framing layer to something solid...like Black.

Is the post a “suggestion” or just frustration.

Make the segment of wall that sits on top of the roof “roof cuts wall at bottom”.

Roofs cut walls. So…this isn’t possible. I’ve done this in the past by drawing the deck somewhere else in the plan…or a new plan and then converting this deck to a symbol.

Software development seems to have matured to a point where all we get is “change for change sake”. Will PM provide us with noticeable gains in productivity? With all the requests Chief has for adds or improvements…why now such a priority on this new paradigm.

I can assist with training and/or plan development.

This video may help you…

I offer 1:1 Chief Training...see my website below in my signature. You should post the plan file...

I can help...all I do is Chief Training.