DBCooper

If you want to remove a face item from a cabinet, just click on the face item in the cabinet dialog and delete it. If you delete a door, it will convert it into an opening with shelves so you need to delete it twice. You could also just use a soffit so that you don't need to. Adding a molding to a soffit or cabinet is pretty basic but here is a tech article if you get stuck: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00701/adding-moldings-to-cabinets.html

I really can't think of anything else to try because I am pretty sure that it always exports the same thing you see on the screen. You could try posting your plan and then maybe someone else can try exporting to see if they get the same problem.

Are you in a floor or full overview? Do you have any other camera views open? As far as I know, it will always export whatever you see on the screen. So if it looks good on the screen, it should match.

You can use the delete surface tool in a camera view to remove then parts you don't want and then convert what you have left into a new symbol. May not work all that well with that symbol if you will be left with holes after deleting so then you might have to add something else to fill the holes. If that were the case, then I would just make a new one. If it's not tapered, you could just use a soffit with some moldings.

I just tried it and it seems to be working fine for me. You might want to post your plan.

I was able to get 3 studs with 1/4"-1/2" side rough opening and a 5" space between the windows. I could not get 1-2 studs to build with larger rough openings even though there was space for them. Must be some kind of built in limitation.

It looks like it will always draw a solid line when you are using "lower wall outline". I think you can get what you want by changing to "upper wall and lower wall" and then setting up the lower wall to be dashed lines with either a solid fill style or no fill style.

If all you want is the layer sets, you can import them from the factory installed templates (as already suggested above). If you need everything, you can also import most of everything else. Another way to do this is to just start a new blank plan and use "edit area all floors" to copy your model into the new plan that has all of the defaults. Either way is going to be some amount of manual work.

You can't convert a line (curved or straight) into a counter top. It has to be a closed polyline and then you can. Another option, if you want a really fast way to create something that looks like Mick's picture above, is to just use a curved half-wall and adjust the "wall cap" to be the counter top you need. This will be much easier unless you need something like an edge molding or a shape that doesn't follow the wall.

IMO, probably not. I think it could be really useful if it was more automatic but the way it works currently looks like more work than it is worth.

Nice job Shayne! I liked the way you started by using the cabinet tools for everything that they can do easily and then mixed in other tools as needed. Polyline solids, molding polylines, and even other symbols (either ones found in the library or made yourself) can all be combined to make more complex furniture pieces. You might want to post your plan so that others can take a deeper look into how you made this. Regarding the original poster's questions, I think there are very few things you can't make in Chief using the tools that are built in but there are a number of things I wouldn't try to though. For example, I would be very willing to build most types of furniture pieces such as the one you are showing but I would never try to design something like say a toilet. Anything with compound curved surfaces will be a real pain but anything that is basically a dressed up box should be pretty easy. For those things that I won't try to design in Chief, I first look for something that is close enough in the library and if I can't find one I look to online sources such as 3D warehouse or the manufacturer's web site. If I can find it somewhere else, then it is usually pretty easy to just import it. There are other 3D modeling programs out there that can handle some of these things better but I have never felt the need to buy and learn how to use one. Another option is that if you are desperate you can always hire someone to make it for you. Another source of good info and free symbols is the symbols and content sub-forum you can find here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/9-symbols-and-content/ One of the things you can find there is the substance player that you can use if you ever need to make your own materials.

Not that poly solids are a bad way to do this, but I still think you missed something important about the wrapped stairs. You might want to give them another try to see what it is so that you can use them next time you need them. As Robert shows, you need to make sure the side of the stairs stop at the corner and don't overlap each other as you show in your first picture. As Glenn suggested, it is easier to draw the stairs going down but you can also make them work going up. The trick to making them work when drawing them up is that the top of the stairs needs to be at the right height. Most of the time when you draw stairs going up from a deck, the bottom of the stairs is at the top of the deck so you have to set the heights manually. The other thing that I know can be important is the room type. I believe porches and decks both work but most other room types won't. It looks like your room is marked as a "porch" so this probably isn't your problem (unless you just manually changed the room name). I think there are some other gotchas but I can't remember them at the moment. If you can't get it to work, you should really post the plan and someone could probably tell you in a few minutes.

Did you try zipping it? Or even better, try making a copy and removing stuff (like all of symbols). You might even get lucky and figure out what object is causing the problem.

I've never seen that layer. There is a system layer called "rooms" but this might not do what you want.

Might be something in your plan that is causing this. Post it and someone can see if it happens for them.