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If you set a wall to no room definition, you can actually place 2 walls in the same position, that can be used with railings. But, since Chief still foolishly treats the center of a full wall assembly as center as opposed to the main layer (as it should and as we've asked for), it's not that quick to stack/center them together.

Turn off the "Rooms, Interior Dimensions" layer -

I have a detailed setup for automating glazing & vent calcs. But first, I highly recommend using Rene's macro page on his site...it's extremely useful. https://www.rabbittdesign.net/macros I spent quite a while creating this sucker but I'll share it...here you go: I've attached a simple plan that has everything you need inside. It's pretty darn accurate, far more than any reviewer should care to see. Few things to know - 1. If there is glass in a door, make sure to mark it as tempered in its DBX. However, if it's a hinged exterior door with its style being a symbol that uses glass, it'll always report 30% of its area as glazing. There is no way to accurately measure this since chief can't analyze a symbol like that. 30% is close enough for most doors we use but you can finagle the number yourself if you need to in either that door's custom object field or the glazing_door macro. 2. I keep the schedules in a CAD detail for my layout. You'll want to make a copy of that schedule template for each room that needs to report these values. In the schedule, select the room it's in and add the name of the room to the main title (I wish we could use a macro for the title to save time...). Here's a video walkthrough: Glazing&Ventilation.zip

I've used my drones for progress pics for my own marketing but the best use-case has been for getting roof shots for asbuilts. As far as selling it as a service, you'll have the best luck offering it to the builder for them to use for their own marketing. Homeowners will like it but I'm not sure how many will actually want to pay for it.

There's a drop down that allows you to choose if a specified shadow board will show on the Eave, Gable, or both. You can also select a roof plane and, under Shadow Boards, choose if it will show on that selected edge or not.

Can you clarify what it is that you're trying to accomplish? Which are the new 5 windows? If this schedule is showing more windows than you like, it's due to you sending the extra windows to that schedule. If you only want to show 5 of your windows in that schedule, you'll need to either uncheck Include in Schedule on the others.

It will be located in the roof defaults. In the structures tab, under the Roof Layers section, you'll want to click edit on the structure to edit the rafter sizing. With the framing layer selected, check Auto Detail as Insulation.

The simplest way is to use Rene's search on his website to look for seamless textures. That's always my first go-to. https://www.rabbittdesign.net/texture Making one is more difficult...you typically need some photoshop/photo editing knowhow. There are tools that supposedly can do it for you, they pop up after a Google search. They might work?

Can you share the plan file? That's a fairly simple wall intersection and works fine when I quickly replicate it so I'm curious to see what is done in your file. That being said, Chief can have a difficult time handling complicated wall intersections and may even fight any manual layer editing that you may do. But this is simple enough that it should be fixable.

Michael gave you a simple way to fix the issue. It's better to adjust your way of thinking to how Chief wants you to think - "slab" being the floor under the room, not necessarily a concrete slab. The model has a handful of problems in this area but if you only want to fix the material & fill pattern shown just select the displayed slab at your carport (it's a terrain feature that you placed, 1" thick with a concrete material) and change that concrete material to the river rock that you were trying to use as gravel. Then adjust the bounds of that terrain feature however you'd like, in case it's extending out to the street or something. Then, on whatever plan view you are trying to show this on, make sure that your terrain feature layer is displayed. And the design being showed is something that you must have accidentally set so in that terrain feature's DBX, set the fill style to whatever it is you're looking for (you have decorative block shown, hence the pattern). Plan view shows the selected fill type. Most 3D views will show the material.

Chief sees faces of 3d objects so that's normal behavior. That's the reason that the foundation, walls, and slab are all empty too. I sure hope that Chief will allow us to slope floors sooner than later...this has been requested for many, many years. The new Poche tool in x16 beta would fix this beautifully if the floors could slope. (per what Kevin said below, if you only want to show the outline then make sure the layer is on)

I was able to replicate it perfectly when copying your screenshot, with all walls being 4". But when copying the OPs screenshot (with the 6" wall) it no longer works. I tinkered for a bit and couldn't find a solution. Try the 6" like they are showing, perhaps you'll have better luck than myself?

Not a perfect example, as it continues to the end walls, but I imagine that it would likely be similar. Though this builder is working on a different one of our projects, this isn't one of ours so I don't have details that I can share. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn4cUHorowQ/ I'm interested to see how you detail it out, share updates!

I can't share this one but, as a reference, here are the included framing categories. No rim joist, I checked older versions as well with the same result. (To be clear, I'm really not that concerned about this, custom categories are a quick workaround even though it's a bandaid. Just odd to me since Chief has rim joists as a Role and even an OOTB layer.)

The only way that I'm seeing to differentiate the two is to manually set one of them to report to a custom schedule category. The default framing categories do not include rim joists as a standalone option. Am I missing something?