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Thank you to @Chopsaw and @Gawdzira for the feedback. I just wanted to get confirmation that others have had problems with Staples and going to another print shop is the right thing to do. Getting confirmation and a print shop recommendation helps greatly, thank you again. I also got a recommendation from a colleague for a print shop in my area, which works to get the drawings ASAP.

My client and I are doing a formal review going page by page to mark up the last cycle of corrections and changes. All the previous reviews have been done with PDF's shared in electronic form or on Google Meet sessions, where I shared my screen during the presentation. Until now, i have not attempted to print the layout on paper. Today I attempted to uploaded the CA layout PDF file to Staple.com, using their Blueprints printing service, and got an error. Originally the file name was long and had a couple special characters, but I shortened and simplified the filename and got the same error. I also checked the security settings on the PDF file and there are no limits on the files access or read/write settings. I checked for Staples.com limitation on the file size or format constraints, but there were no constrains other than photo images could not be printed as blueprints. My layout has elevation and perspective views, but I do not remember converting any of those to .jpg to prevent changes or disconnected links to views. I eventually called Staple Customer Support to ask if there are any limitation on file sizes or the like. The service representative indicated there are no limitation other than the images could not be printed as a blueprint but could be printed as a poster. The rep also suggested calling CA Technical support to ask about the file security or parameters on the layout PDF files. I opted to post the issue here first to get user feedback from Staples.com users. Has anyone encountered this problem and resolved it? In the past, when using Home Designer Pro, I have printed layout PDF's at Staples.com, both color and BW, without problems. In December I purchased a monthly CA license to take and drawing content to the next level, primarily to generate the construction drawings required by my client's town building department. Every step through design process has been an incremental learning curve on CA, and that trend has continued to this point; printing a hard copy of the layout.

I added a new text callout layer as Text, Callout, Excluded and used it in the Framing Schedule to reassign the numbered callouts to that layer. That allowed me to turn the callout off in plan views that used other schedule generated number callouts that were already displaying. That solved the problem without going through all the wall framing and turning off the Included in schedule button. Thank you to Perry for his suggestion, which put me on the right track, although I used a slightly different method. Thank you to everyone for you alternate suggestions. I had previously tried the Material List Polyline and it worked for all the framing associated with rooms, but not walls. I always appreciated such good ideas when I feel against the wall.

I designed an addition on an existing house and have created a schedule of just the addition the framing. The shell of the house has been added to the plan for perspective and elevation views. I have exclude the house rooms from being included in schedules but some of the framing is still being included. I have also selected all the house walls and excluded them from the schedules.The wall framing is still being added to the framing schedule. The only way I have found to exclude the wall framing is to select each stud individually and open its specification to deselect the Include Schedule button. CA won't allow me to marquis select similar stud objects. Is there a better way to exclude the exist house framing from being added to the addition framing schedules?

After spending way too much time trying to resolve the strapping issue I called technical support. Nathan assisted me and confirmed what Eric indicated, that there is no mechanism to control the direction of the framing and the anomaly is most likely due to some miss connected or skewed wall or surface. The most efficient way to resolve is to manually make the correction as Eric suggested above. After working to resolve these problems, I think it would be beneficial to add control of the strapping to support it orientation. This could be done in the ceiling specification or with a strapping direction pointer similar to the joist direction tool. I will add this to the suggestion thread. Michael

Eric, I found an angled wall anomaly in the attic on the left side of the house, where the 2nd floor bumps out over the 1st floor (part of the Colonial Garrison design). After straightening that attic wall, the 2nd floor ceiling became separated from each other and the ceiling framing follows the Joist Direction arrows as seen below. I also changed the ceiling joist height to 9 1/4" instead of 7 1/4" to define a different ceiling platform, as explained in Help, but changed it back top 7 1/4 and the ceiling rebuilds just fine. So that part of the problem is solved... I hope. The other part of my problem is the ceiling framing anomaly, 'strapping', as I call it. I probed deeper and found the extra lines have a Role as Automatic (Ceiling Joists) but are drawn with the a Width of 1 1/8" and material Type of LVL. That is not what is define in the finished ceiling structure anywhere, which is 3/4" and Lumber. The 1 1/8' and LVL combination is the Rim Joist specification. Below is the object detail specification box showing the Framing Specification (Ceiling Joist). This strapping is automatically generated when the ceiling is generated, so manually editing them is possible, but doesn't help me understand why CA is generating them in this manner. I'm open to suggestion, but curious to know if this is a software bug? Michael

Eric, Sorry of the delayed response. I attempted to clean up other wall height and floor level issues and messed more things up. Got those things corrected and retained the framing so as not to loose manual framing components. I also attempted to delete the ceiling joist and rebuild them, but they would not rebuild. I used Drawzilla's suggestion to elect the Default Ceiling Joist check box and only the garage ceiling redrew, but the original problem is still there. Here is the original plan compressed plan file 3 Car Garage - Concept 7 24x36 Garage Stairs on Left v0.0.plan.zip (9MB). Here is the compressed plan with junk removed 3 Car Garage - 2nd Flr Ceiling Problems.plan.zip (1 MB). Both of these plans have the ceiling problem. Perry, Thank you of for the suggestion, as it partially helped, but did not solve the problem. Michael

Hello Solver, The plan file is 38 MB and archived into a Zip it shrinks to 32.7 MB. Is there another way to share the plan given the 14 MB attachment limit? Michael

I lost the view of ceiling joists on the 2nd floor after correcting various wall angle, alignment, height and floor fixes. As the corrections were made I rebuilt the walls and floors individually and in some cases retained the framing so as not to change things that were fixed. The missing ceiling joists are only affecting the 2nd floor in both the house and garage and not an addition that is only on the 1st floor level, so the Framing, Ceiling Joist layer is selected and displaying. Although the ceiling joists are missing, the ceiling strapping or furring is displayed in the garage but not in the house. Looking at the Room Specification>Structure>Ceiling Structure the ceiling is defined with the joist and strapping sized correctly and each are tagged as Framing. Another anomaly, that is most likely related, is the strapping (colored magenta) on the back of the garage ceiling goes off angle and displays into the house ceiling, shown below. The garage and house ceiling are isolated since the rooms and are individually selectable. Please offer some guidance on what things should be checked to help isolate and resolve this issue. Another point to note, I recently transitioned from Home Designer Pro 2024 plan to Chief Architect X15. The plan is in its 7th version and all work has been done in HDP. This iteration was to angle the garage to improve the look from the street and avoid the septic system. I opted to move instead of delete/redraw the garage and have had many troubles in HDP 23 & 24. I am new to X15, as I just bought the license Dec. 13th and opened the HDP plan after the modifications were done. I have been using the X15 trial version to learn and experiment for a couple of weeks with a copy of the 7th plan iteration, but not able to save changes then lost the changes when the program halted. The X15 align wall tools and rebuild of individual wall and floors were the main reasons for the upgrade.