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MacOS also. This hasn’t happened to me…at least as far as I can remember. Certainly not consistently.

Must be a windows issue…I have never had this problem on a MAC

I’ve made a few “dormer” videos that might help you.

First floor walls are 8" CMU. 2nd Floor walls are Siding-6. If I stack the walls and align main layers...the ceiling on the first level extends to the inside surface of the CMU wall top plate. If I stack the walls using the wall surfaces...then, the 1st floor ceiling material extends and pierces through the siding material at the outer surface. Why? And is there a fix for this? See attached screen clips: Thanks!

Please elaborate. What feature(s) do we have to live without if using an M1 Mac?

I can help you with this...www.mychiefskills.com

@HCremodel - The stair is going to cut off the top of the wall...thus, if you place a doorway into the wall it will not extend above the stair. The quickest "fix" is to just use a P-Solid...and you won't be fighting the jamb of the doorway cutting away the drywall on the wall surface. Example using a solid...just took a couple of minutes;

@Gawdzira - good try though. Looks like we are still stuck using material regions for battens...

You can achieve this in Chief...but it is a bit time consuming. Adding a ceiling plane as Eric suggested above it probably the quickest method. I've attached a plan so you can review what I did...and a few screen clips. I created a room below the 2nd floor cantilevered area...and made adjustments to that "room" to the ceiling structure. Open the attached plan and review. In the attached plan I also changed your deck/porch wall to a railing wall, post to ceiling and added square posts. No need to use solids for posts. You may want the posts in specific locations...and there are ways to achieve a specific column/newel spacing in Chief. CrownResidence - Nestor Edits.plan

Thanks! Can't wait to give it a try...

Yes...supporting walls in required but you can do it with blocking. Placing a solid joist under a wall creates all sorts of problems for mechanical trades. The first thing that will happen is your electrician or plumber will cut or drill your engineered i-joist in a location that destroys the integrity of the joist. Happens all the time...

No way to disable....there have been numerous requests to fix this behavior.

On a MAC you can use "migration assistant" to move files from a MAC to MAC...or from a PC to MAC. I've never used this feature...so, I cannot vouch for how good/bad it works..but, my new computer is on it's way and I'll know soon enough. Here's a link: Migration Assistant

It's a Chief thing. Chief automatically places double joists under walls.

@Brittanyb22, @JiAngelo - As you can see from the attached screen clip, using concrete stem walls has nothing to do with the gap in the floor. Have you tried aligning the walls? Have you tried "Edit>reset to defaults>... I'd probably select as shown in this screen clip:

I opened your file...looks like the ceilings are all on to me. I would guess the layer set you are using for your view does not have ceiling surfaces turned on.

Apple is not using a dedicated graphics card with their new ARM based processors. Graphics will be mounted right on the M1 chip. I don't believe Chief can use the Apple graphics method...and at the same time use the RTX video cards that work basically with Intel X86 architecture. I'm guessing...but, I think Apple is changing the game and causing this issue. Chief had to pick a one path over the other. I'm not an expert on this subject so take everything I'm saying as pure conjecture.

I don't believe it will run X13...Chief is not supporting the M1 at this time. However, I can't remember ever seeing a categorical statement from Chief about this...

@jasonn1234 - Just wondering...why is your 8" concrete stem wall defined as shown? Typically it's one layer 8" thick. You have it defined with 3 layers...I'm not saying this is the problem...just wondering.

@jasonn1234 - I got it open. Just had to change the .7z to .zip I'll take a look.

I'm sorry...I did not see you had posted. However...I cannot open the file. You should post a .plan file format.

Save your money...the current iMac that Apple has released is a toy. The pro model is not due to be released until maybe October. Dammit.... As far as my research goes...Apple silicon M1 or whatever the next version is (M1X or M2) will be incredibly fast and efficient. The fan in the new iMAC may never come on. I'm not an expert...but I believe Apple will be placing their graphics GPU on the chip. Chief does not support the M1 chipset. Apple isn't helping...the new super duper iMAC is long overdue. I'm going to probably purchase an intel based iMAC now...and trade it in next year if Chief gets onboard and X14 supports Apple GPU...whatever it turns out to be. Quite frustrating to be an Apple user right now...and using Chief to make a living.

@jasonn1234If you post your plan I'd be happy to take a look at it.

@Larry_Sweeney - I looked at your plan and could not fix it...so, gave it a try using my template and had no issues. So...not sure what to tell you. I've attached my example plan. Dormer - Flush Eave.plan

Yea...I'd have to say that poured crawlspace walls is a by-product of big city-ism. Custom Concrete and Weber Concrete share ownership of all new foundations on the north side of Indy. Once you get away from their marketplace I'm sure using block is still very typical.