Jambruins

perfect, thank you

I am trying to design a house that will have 12' tall studs and the floor joists will be installed so the bottom of the floor joist is at the 8' height. The stud wall will extend up 3' above the floor joist to provide a knee wall for the 2nd story loft. How do I create this look in chief architect? Attached is a section of the house showing what I am trying to do.

perfect, thank you

How do I get my stairs to have a railing at the lower part and then a full wall at the upper part? Like this attached picture.

thanks. can you post the plan here so I can see what you did

Steve, can you get it work with this plan? I tried to gable line tool but I can't get it to work. Thanks for the help. house.zip

I believe what you are looking for is under default settings - floors and rooms - floor levels - 2nd floor - floor structure on the bottom of the dialog box

Chief automatically puts double floor joists under partition walls above even if they are non-load bearing. Is there a way to change this so double joists are not created?

Is it possible to change the deck framing so the support beam and posts are not recessed. Sometimes my client wants the support post and beam to be on the outside edge of the deck. If the deck extends 12' from the house they want the outside edge of the support beam to be at the 12' distance not at 10'-9 1/2" like chief auto does.

Is there a way to adjust the distance the floor joists overlap each other over a wall. I know I can do it manually but is there a setting somewhere that I can adjust? Under the framing defaults there is the option to have the joists lap or butt over support but I don't see anywhere to change the lap distance.

scottharris, what were some of the odd exterior wall settings? I want to make sure I get these fixed.

Perfect. Thank you for the help.

I get a lot of clients who want a gable roof in the middle portion of the house and a hip roof on the left and right side of the house (see attached picture). Disregard the messed up beams/windows/etc. I just added the picture to show how the roof needs to look. I have always manually modified the middle portion of the house to get the gable roof but is there a way use auto roofs to do it? My plan is attached. house.zip

Thank you both for the help, however, it is still centering the house walls on the frost wall instead of aligning the exterior of the house wall on the exterior of the frost wall.

Attached is my plan. There will be a frost wall poured for the house and the porch. My auto foundation is putting the foundation wall centered under the wall that separates the house from the porch. I would like to outside of the foundation wall to be aligned with the outside of the house wall. Is there a way to do this and keep auto foundation on or do I just need to manually move the wall? I am using Chief Architect Premier X15 house.zip