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Thanks Glenn and yes I'm a bit of a block head as my mind wants to work in singular, incorrect fashion, and definitely not the way Chief actually works. I saw through Eric's video how easy it is to set the floor height on a mono slab. Not by setting the actual floor height which will turn off auto foundation (this is so lame I can barely deal with it, sorry, and I will never stop banging the drum of this unintuitive, borderline stupid GUI 'feature', sorry again) but by setting the height of the stem wall instead? I simply never tried that, not thinking for a minute that the floor height would be set by anything other than the floor height. Probably simple and straight forward to most and my embarrassment at not understanding this is difficult to bare because it literally took me 20 years to understand this methodology. That's one down and a few more to go. As always I appreciate your offer of help and your help in general but I will take this new found knowledge on and take on new and exciting mono slab adventures.

Yeah I figured as much on the video quality and doesn't diminish my appreciation for your video and advice. I reloaded and the video was excellent. "Everything seems so unintuitive." Intuitive is not an easy thing to define but my intuition would tell me to adjust the floor height one would set the height in the floor height dbx but when trying that it requires the auto build foundation be turned off as you note. But if you change the stem wall height it then changes the floor height and let's you keep auto build foundation on. In my opinion this is the poster child for not only unintuitive but down right incomprehensible. Been raving about such things for 20 years and just have to adjust to the way Chief works and not the way one thinks it should work. Thanks again for your help. Maybe this will help the OP as well.

Thanks again Eric. The video quality was pretty poor but it looks like the floor height is controlled by the stem wall height? And here I thought it would have been controlled by the floor height specification. I guess assuming that the floor height would have been controlled by the floor height specification was a reasonable assumption but NEVER understood that the floor height is controlled by the stem wall height and not the floor height. Of course. Thanks again Eric.

AHA! THANK YOU Eric. I see you changed the floor heights with a wood floor THEN built the mono slab foundation. My templates default to 'auto rebuild' a mono slab. Can the floor heights be changed with the mono slab already built? From the first floor? Or only from the mono slab 'room' below? THANK YOU again. Both the OP and I must have slabs already built as we both saw the floor height return to '0' when trying to change the room height form the first floor.

I find this answer fascinating and Glenn is one the most helpful and knowledgeable posters here on ChiefTalk and to the OP I've been using Chief for over 20 years and have no idea how this is accomplished. "Set the floor level of each bay as needed." I get the same return to '0' when I try and do so from the structure dbx. Have always been flummoxed by Chief's use of 'rooms' in a slab foundation. Any help is very much appreciated. This is as close as I could get and still can't quite figure it out.

This advice will save you a LOT of pain in the future with building any structure in Chief.

Thanks for that Eric, did not know that existed.

There ya go children... the much coveted down vote...

Yeah Lew no staving off the children with their down votes, which should earn this post at least one. I also agree that HD PRO user can benefit from information on this forum as long as they understand someone will tell them to post some where else. As far as the OP, the question seems more like a Windows file management question that a Chief (no matter the product) issue. I'm not ware of any Chief file management solution for the OP.

Yeah I noticed that too. I don't have a RTRT video card and I thought it was way faster but certainly not 'Real Time' and the lesser 2080 versus the 3080 is pretty dramatic.

This might be enlightening...for me at least. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10251/real-time-ray-tracing-setup-optimization.html

popcorn please.

Just for clarification PBR and RTRT are not the same thing. PBR can be accomplished with a generic -ish video card and RTRT requires a specific video card with RTRT capabilities. Pretty sure RTRT also does not require 2000 passes as the name refers to 'Real Time' Ray Tracing. Curious which technique did you use? PBR? RTRT? Native Ray Tracing? Still a nice job - for an electrician...

Thanks Rene, fixed one problem created another? Never could work Chief's CAD tools.

...never so simple for me. ARC LINES.plan

Yeah I figured it was done unbeknownst to me and never noticed that anomaly as my ceiling and wall are usually the same color..

Not proud of myself for being so anal about such things but for many years the drywall layers in sections showed that the walls were basically put on first and then the ceiling. As an ex drywall contractor this made me nuts, even though it's the smallest of details. I just noticed in latest section detail that the drywall is now shown correctly with the ceiling placed above the walls instead of the ceiling placed next to the walls. Don't know when this was changed but Bravo to the Chief guys for noticing and changing this. Anyone else see this or has it been changed for years and I'm the only one to finally notice?

...and here's the smallest of details to show the software engineers can learn form building practices. For many years the drywall layers showed that the walls were basically put on first and then the ceiling. As an ex drywall contractor this made me nuts, even though it's the smallest of details. I just noticed in your pic and the latest detail that the drywall is now shown correctly with the ceiling placed above the walls instead of the ceiling placed next to the walls. Don't know when this was changed but Bravo to the Chief guys for noticing and changing this.

This is not that uncommon in Chief as most of the engineers are software engineers and not builders so it doesn't come as naturally to them as is sometimes expected.

Starting the ceiling framing at the edge of the wall to act as backing is pretty standard. Not sure why Chief, not only doesn't, but also won't allow it to be framed that way automatically.

It looks like he was never looking for a "Rim" but a joist set along the edge of the ceiling for backing. Do you know how to get a joist there auto?

There's a "Framing Reference" that Chief has to set up framing in a specific manner but WILL NOT allow a ceiling joist in the location you are looking for. Does seem a bit strange but manually adding a ceiling joist is probably the only way to have Chief frame it the way you want, and in my mind "correctly" as well.

Is it possible you've raised the roof creating the taller attic space Joey's referring to? Instead of a second floor? That's the only way I can get a section to look like the one you've posted. I don't know how to define a 'room' like Joey's suggesting on the attic floor but maybe I'm missing something?

Not sure what you're expecting but a 'Rim Joist' typically doesn't create "backing for the drywall."

Is the Framing, Rim Joist Layer turned on? It doesn't show in your Active Layer Display pic that you posted? EDIT: I see that you have 'all layers' turned on please ignore this comment.