DBCooper

Do you have "auto rebuild terrain" turned off? If you do have it turned off, you might not see any terrain in a camera view until you rebuild it manually. And if you do rebuild it manually, it will be out of date any time you make any changes unless you manually rebuild it again. You should also see a special cursor that looks like hills with trees on it if you have auto rebuild turned off. If it's not that, then you might want to post your plan.

I don't think you can do that automatically, at least not very easily. I would probably just generate the living area polyline and manually edit it to exclude the exterior walls. You might be able to get it to work automatically by temporarily changing the exterior walls to have a zero thickness wall type or by messing around with the main layer but this might create all kinds of other problems. Here is a tech article about the living area that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00424/understanding-how-the-square-footage-or-living-area-is-calculated.html

Just an FYI, I don't think many people would actually use a gable line in that corner situation. I didn't even know that was a thing until I saw your post so I guess even old dogs can still learn new tricks. Personally, I would either draw invisible walls or railings, especially if I was going to have a slab floor or I wanted some posts to support the roof. You could also manually edit the roof in just a couple of steps to get that. Good for you on figuring out that it was a bug and reporting it though.

I think all you need to do is pick a profile for your shadow board and then set the width and height. If you do this in the "build roof" dialog, then it will be set for all new roof planes (but not existing ones unless you have auto rebuild turned on). Also, it may be hard to see them if you have gutters turned on and the shadow board is behind them.

See if your exterior room has a wall covering applied to it. If not, then you might want to post your plan.

I think you can get what you want by just drawing a beam and then just placing posts with footings along it. See picture below as an example. Here is a video that coverts some foundation basics: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/321/crawlspace-foundation-with-framed-bearing-wall.html

You should be able to keep running X12 as long as you want and as long as your computer is able to. What you can't do is take any of your new plans done in X16 and then open them back up in X12.

Try using elevation regions. I find they are way easier than using elevation points and lines.

There are a number of videos here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/120/remodeling.html

Unfortunately, you can't tell a cabinet that it has sliding doors. You can fake it though. In the picture below, I used "slab" inset doors and set the material to glass. I also adjusted the handle positions so they were on the outside instead of the inside. The only obvious thing that is wrong is that they are not offset so that they would bypass each other. If you really needed to show this, you might be able to do it with custom door symbol that has both pieces offset from each other. The other thing I did was I adjusted the shelves to look a bit more like a gun rack. If you wanted to get fancy, you might even be able to create a custom shelf symbol to make it look more realistic.

The row heights are being set by the symbol column width. Rename the "2D symbol" column to just "2D" or even just a blank space and then you can make that column narrower. You probably also want to turn off "use plan view scale" for the images or even turn off "scale images". By turning off scale images though it will show your fan as the same size as your other symbols even though the fan is much bigger. Might also want to make sure you don't have a top or bottom margin set.

There is really no such thing as a "permanent wood foundation". Just saying... As for the wall layer problem, my best guess is that you changed something in the wall type definition that you shouldn't have. If you post a copy of the plan, then someone can probably tell you what is wrong. You will probably need to zip it (while the plan is not open) and might even need to remove extra things (like fixture and furniture items) because of the forum size limits. Either that or post it on the cloud where someone can download it. As for the footing material, you *might* be able to get what you want by going into your "default settings" and into "materials" and changing the plan default material for "foundations/slabs". This might end up changing the materials on things you don't want it to but then maybe those things can be changed back to concrete where needed. It's kind of lame that you can't just change the footing material in the wall dialog.

You should just be able to add shutters to the mulled unit and then adjust the height and width to be what you want.

I think it is pretty easy to build that roof using the automatic roof tools. I set the auto roof to build at 5:12 and then set the pitch to 2:12 for the lower wall where the shed is. Need to set the side walls for the shed to "full gable" and the upper shed wall to "high shed". I also had to go into several of your rooms and tell them to have a roof over them (not sure why they were turned off). I then set the overhang on the end wall to a small value (like 1") and reset it to "default wall top". I also noticed that some of your second floor walls were not aligned with the walls on the first floor.

Have you tried updating them? If that doesn't work, then see if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00090/obtaining-and-updating-library-content.html If that doesn't help, I would try contacting tech support.

Have you tried typing "gable vent" into the library browser search tool? A number of different shapes should show up when you do.

This thread talks about how to create your own door symbols using cabinets and other Chief tools:

You are doing it the hard way. You need to create your own custom template and then use it instead of the one that ships with the program. See if this helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00463/creating-and-using-a-plan-template.html

I think you have to uncheck "same roof height at exterior walls" to get what you want.

Those are symbols so they can't miter. What I sometimes do is place partitions and have the shelf and rod butt up to them. Another thing you could do is just use the shelf tool and then build the rod yourself using either a molding polyline or a polyline solid which would give you more control over the shape. It might depend on how you are actually going to build it in the real world.

I got ok results with a long skinny lowered region. I also tried two flat elevation regions with a gap and an elevation line in between them and that looked ok too.

Something like this maybe? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10258/ceilings-vault-shed-trey-a-reflected-plan.html

I'm not seeing anything like that on my machine. My guess is that it is a video card or driver problem. Might want to try tech support if updating your driver doesn't help.

The "barrel tile" roofing materials might have something close to what you are looking for. As for using the library browser, this video might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/268/library-browser-overview.html

You should even be able to put a custom profile on the end of those joists if you want it look just like the picture.