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Depends on how detailed you want it. This has been what others have done. If you want a very rustic edge you will probably have to create a 3d molding for the fascia. One other possible way that comes to mind would be to use a terrain created in another file with a grass-like plant across the whole thing with rotating and variable sizing, turn it into a symbol and apply as a roof.

Pretty sure you can adjust that in the components (real name of the panel???) panel of the door dbx.

It looks like in particular he is looking at a wall that instead of changing the wall definition he changed the wall thickness which gives it a weird nomenclature on the end. As Eric is showing you can find them that way by clicking on the item or in the edit toolbar a find item in plan tool pops up. But to answer the OP. Open your schedule and select the type of walls you want to include. Many times glass walls, or different types of railings you don't necessarily want to include so on the 1st panel of the Schedule DBX you can choose which walls to include.

Just to add to Rene's great trick is that there are actual commercial door hardware items in a bonus catalog if you are looking for the pull handle and panic bars for the door.

Select the dormer and explode it first. Then change that errant roof plane fascia material. I wont get into other things that I see in the plan but I would advise you to be very careful with the MODE of the material painter tool. You have lots of conflicting materials/colors that you have mixed by using the blend colors with materials mode. This has conflicting materials across your defaults and it is resulting in some z fighting as well as why you couldn't just use the edit all roof planes tool to change that roof plane. The mixed colors was breaking the dormer material specifications.

Tried to download but it is locked for those without permissions.

This would be the type of issue that someone needs to examine the plan in order to see what is happening.

I probably would use this method as well. As an alternative but I think it would be more finicky would be to do regular walls with fixed windows. Corners are going to be a little tricky though which is why I think pony-walls would be much faster.

Glenn brings up some great points if the stairs are going to be against the building. From the picture it looks like they are stairs that are on the terrain and are more like a landscaping feature. Different ways to do it if that is the case but I personally would only be showing that on the site plan and not architectural or structural plans so would just manually set the heights of landings and steps without worrying about rooms.however if next to the house Glenn made some great reasons why I would consider doing it within a “room”.

Chief itself recommends it in every webinar or article I have seen regarding schedules and layouts. In fact they now have an automatic location in the PB for some. It allows for separate scaling and much easier to place it in various locations. it is not necessary however I am pretty sure the majority of not all the power users would agree that cad details are generally the more efficient place to use schedules. Many will also setup their templates to have their layouts auto-populated and setup so it’s oftentimes better so the schedules don’t encroach on each other and have their own location. For me personally it’s a nice way to have everything in its own place. Plus awfully nice to be able to hit f6 and zoom to the extents of the plan view.

Don’t need rooms but those type of stairs and landings do require lots of math and manually set stairs.

Try to use autoroofs.

Just an FYI the general recommendation is to place your schedules on a cad detail instead of on one of the floors.

Build it like you would in real life. Those are custom built shelf units on top and the base wold be several bases.

Still there where it always has been on the upper toolbar to the right if you are using the OOB toolbar. Try searching for the term "edit page information"

I think what Erick is saying is your description for some of us is a little hard to follow what you WANT or what it is supposed to look like. Maybe you can expound a little more or share pictures.

Try to learn Auto-roofs a little better and it will lessen your stress. They are actually extremely powerful once you understand them. In Fact Eric (@solver) is one of the best with the auto roof tools. Some projects I don't need to do anything to the auto roofs, sometimes it gets me 90% of the way and I adjust at the end. In any case What Eric says: Is kind of true, They are ultra finicky. However I would venture to say that 80-90% of the time it is because a roof plane is out of place in one of the X,Y,Z axis planes and it is causing the issue. The most frustrating is when one of the gable sides works and the other doesn't! haha. It is definitely something that could be improved a bit and has been suggested many times.

Might need to include your plan to get help on this one.

It is determined by the house specs. You set the Terrain how far below the House main floor (0 point.) you want it.

If you can find a 3d molding in the bonus catalog that will work (they are limited so if you need exact you will need to make one) you can use a molding polyline.

Wall Material Regions are very helpful in this scenario as well.

Do you have any manually placed ceiling planes that are not snapped to the drywall or main layer by chance?

Not 100% sure of this, but I think there has to be stairs in the open below room to trigger it…

You need to provide a lot more information. Are we to assume 1.) you are sending it to layout 2.) By exporting you mean you are using the Chief PDF printer to print to a pdf, 3.) That you are sending the same view as preferably a plot line view to the layout and not changing the layer-set afterwards? Maybe some screenshots at least and best a plan file would help get some answers.

Not my expertise but assuming the trick is to place the walkthrough for the second floor on the first but changing your camera height otherwise just stitch the two videos together???