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If you used the post with footing tool they are showing on the same level as you placed the posts. Go that level select and use cut, go to level 0 and paste in place. Wont change them in 3d but will show them where you need on the foundation plan.

Zoom in.

Third tip. Use the glass house rendering mode and have a look around to see if you locate the item. There are a couple of ceiling fans that are not set correctly as well as a common pendant light.

Yup you can set a post on top of a 6" sonotube and have a 18" footing at whatever size and depth you want with the simple post on footing tool.

The post itself can be easily modeled using the chief post with footing tool without importing this however if you want to use them lookup Stretch planes in the help file. Very easy to fix these and save in your user library setup to the size you want and need.

Also it is much more efficient as well as polite to start your own post instead of "hijacking" another especially since it does not have anything to do with your request. You will get way more exposure to your question and more willingness to help from them.

Work on your template plan and setup your schedules ahead of time. Then it will.

No I did read it, however 95% of the time when something similar to this is posted here that is what it is caused by. Many will try to fix it and at one point actually fix it but the second that you manually adjust a wall in elevation the dynamic auto build heights are removed so even if the item gets fixed it won’t adjust the walls after that unless you have the default top and bottom heights selected. In your case since in the view you showed the other heights were correct that was a starting point to rule out the issue since we didn’t have a plan file. But what Glenn is showing above should get you to what you want.

Lots of variables without seeing the plan file. If this doesn’t answer your problem your best bet is to provide the .plan file. My Guess: You already played with it before dropping the floor and manually adjusted that wall already. Open the wall dbx and select default wall top and bottoms and see if that fixes it. Otherwise too many variables to keep guessing.

Ok I will bite... It’s not typical to send that type of view to a cad detail from view. Why are you editing the story pole? And why are you sending it to a cad detail view? Reason may produce a different method that will accomplish what you are trying to do...

Impossible to say without the plan but my guess is those breaks may align with an interior wall that is forcing the junction...

Make a style pallet with your defaults. (Quick temp file using your template.)

Most likely the "flattened" pdf you are getting is around a 140-200dpi equivalent from chief's printer.

Solid advice from Michael on the actual process of how to model it. Just to add something that may help you in this course is that there is actually shipping containers pre-modeled in a bonus catalog. But they are basically shapes that you can place to show a container and are not "smart" or dynamic where you can add windows and doors. Chief is an Architectural modeling program so you have to work within it's constraints. It works off of rooms, walls are set by ceiling and roof heights will be filled from that room to the bottom of your set roof. Opposite is true to your foundation in the other direction. You need an 8' high room you set the ceiling at 8' and draw your walls...

Yes that time the file worked. Yup as I thought manual wall manipulation strikes again. Try to get out of the habit of manually dragging walls as 95-98% of the time it is unnecessary and 100% of the time it causes an issue later on. Long wall on the right I just re-selected the Default Wall Height for top and it flushed up to the roof you did. Showing you the left one and where to fix it in the picture.

Turn off Monolithic slab foundation on your foundation layer and set your pony wall to the height you need.

What DPI are you printing at?

You have to make sure that you have it completely closed out of chief before you upload it or it's blank still.

@scottharris Showed you how... But it is a one at a time thing. You can use a simple macro placed in each cabinet instead of typing out the code yourself. You can save that to your user library and place it on top of each cabinet in whatever direction you want it to be.

I don't think its really a tip or trick as it is a way of accomplishing it that takes double or triple the time of using the built in tools for this scenario.

Plan file doesn't work to check but by chance did you manually drag your walls down? If so that is the issue. Select the four walls open the wall dbx on the structures dbx select default wall top and bottom. Otherwise its just a guess until we see a plan file.

Not at the computer to open the plan file but my guess would be that you have an errant invisible/attic wall there.

I am sorry but I have read this 4 times now and still am unsure of what you are looking for. I might be dense but possibly it's not obvious to others as well?

Is there a reason not to use glass walls and shower enclosures that are native in chief? You can also use Kohler and other manufacturers catalogs and build your own glass doors as you want them.

Mac you can do this within preview. I am sure there is something similar for PC. I know that you can also do it with Bluebeam Revu which is available in PC obviously.