DBCooper

You can open up the schedule and check the box for "use both callout and label".

I did not spend much time looking at your plan but I found a few problems right away. - your exterior walls are marked as attic, no locate, and no room definition. This will lead to all kinds of problems. Did you mark them this way on purpose? My guess is that this is the main reason your walls are not connecting properly. - your plan is also about 6 miles away from the origin at 0,0. I know you can start having all kinds of weird problems when you get very far from the origin but I'm not sure where that starts happening. - your PDS working plan view has your dimension defaults set to use the 1"-30' scale which seems a bit large.

You can't really have an existing wall and a new wall occupying the same space in the same plan without them having problems. There are a bunch of different ways to handle this better though. The existing walls could be in a different plan and then displayed using reference display or they could be converted into a symbol or they could be converted into cad or even a picture though. Here are some videos that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/120/remodeling.html

How would the program ever know where to split the framing if you drew more than one joist direction line in the same platform? This is what it does when you add some bearing lines/walls to tell it what you want:

Yes, I agree with you that it seems slower in X16. I guess I hadn't noticed that before.

Wall dialog, structure, uncheck "view wall detail from outside". Should be able to change it in your wall defaults if you always want it like this.

If you post the plan, then someone can see if it still happens in X16 and see if they can figure out if it is something in the plan.

Well there you go, I learned something new today. Now I am glad I didn't give you a hard time about the star light fixture.

So when you build level 2, the program should use cmu walls like you have on your first floor. If you set your "wall resize about" to outer surface before you change them all to brick, then they should be aligned the way you want. The other way to do it would be to make everything in the brick wall part of the "main layer". This might have unwanted side effects though for things like dimensions. Other than that, I think you would have to move them manually to align them.

@kwhitt Yes, nice pictures. You might want to post the things you want on the suggestions forum though. Might also want to add a couple more outlets to that kitchen. @basketballman How are those other area lights different from Chief's area lights?

Try making a copy of the plan and then delete all the stuff that is not related to the walls. I would start with things like furniture, fixtures, electrical, plants, and maybe even any terrain.

The message says you can't change joist direction for a single platform. You can probably get what you need by splitting the platform using a bearing line or room divider or wall set to be a bearing wall or something.

What version are you using? Might be a bug because I am not seeing this problem. I never actually use scroll bars though and had to figure out how to turn them back on just to see if I could. I always use the zoom wheel on my mouse to move around. You can also just click and drag the zoom wheel (or middle mouse) to pan around so for me the scroll bars just waste screen space. One thing that might help is to see if hitting refresh (F5) will bring the screen back. If it's a case of scrolling too far, you can also use fill screen (F6) to put it back on the screen.

You can always make your own: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00767/creating-a-new-material.html

Take a look at your wall type definition for the brick wall. Look at the wall properties and see what the wall layer is set to for the foundation alignment. Also, check to see if there is an offset set. Should be able to get what you want using these settings.