DBCooper

Check your preferences to see if your status bar is turned on.  If it is, you might try turning it off, closing the program, and then turning it back on again.  If that doesn't help, you might want to try resetting your side windows in preferences.  If none of those help, you might want to post a picture of your screen.
 

You can set the default layer set to use in the layer set defaults.  I'm not sure why it doesn't just use whatever layer set you are in since then it would be more wysiwyg.
 
 

 

You can set the default layer set to use in the layer set defaults.  I'm not sure why it doesn't just use whatever layer set you are in since then it would be more wysiwyg.
 
 

 

I think you already answered your question.  It is really easy to accidently select the exterior room when you are in a camera view.  You can do this by clicking on something like a floor or ceiling surface or just by hitting "next" after selecting a wall.  It's also a bit hard to tell the difference between selecting a wall and a room if you are not paying attention to things like which handles you have or what the status bar says.  At any rate, if you select the exterior room and drag the top handle up/down, then you will change your default room heights for the whole floor.
 

Open the dishwasher and change it from "appliances (undercounter)" to something else.
Open the cabinet next to it and turn off the counter or make a custom counter over it.
Might be others but those are what I found quickly.
 
Begs the question, though, why don't you like it?  If there is ever a case where you don't like the auto counter, converting it into a custom and then modifying it solves just about all problems.
 

No, but you don't need to in order to change the casing.  Just check the box for "separate trim and materials".
 

You could use an auto bay window and then just make the window a slider.  Setting "has lowered ceiling" will give you the soffit.  Just tab to select the window and change it from the default type into a slider and then lower the bottom to the floor.  See pic below.
 
If you need it to show up in the schedule and material list as an actual door instead of a sliding window, then you could explode the bay window and then replace the window with a sliding door.
 

 

Try using this built in macro instead:
%room.floor_elevation.to_s("'-\"")%
 

Open the railing and turn on "follow terrain".  I *think* "follow terrain" is the only thing that makes a railing into a fence.
 
 

Open the layout box dialog and go to label page.
Click on "edit" button next to "use callout".
On callout label dialog, go to "attributes".
 
There should be some controls for the text above the line and below the line.  You can set it to match the callout text style or use a different text style if you want.
 

 

While I can see Ringos point that Joe's first post wasn't as helpful as it could have been, I think everyone kind of missed the target on this post. 
 
As useful as it is to know how to find and make your own materials, that probably isn't even needed in this case.  And I'm not sure if I would ever go to the extreme of trying to model a concrete block wall using solids.  Life is too short for that.
 
In this case, all you really need to do is tell the program to use block walls for your foundation.  Turns out that these are actually already built in to the program.  When you go to build your foundation, right there in the dialog the program shows you what it will use for your stem walls.  If you click on the "edit default foundation wall" button, it will open a new dialog where you can change the default wall type to "8" cmu (block) stem wall". 
 
If you have already built your stem walls and you want to change them from a solid concrete wall to a block concrete wall, then all you need to do is select them all and change the wall type.
 
In either case, you should be done unless you want to change the look of the concrete blocks and then you can start playing around with either the wall types or materials.
 
 

 

Your soffit is oriented the wrong way.  They will only slope front to back, not side to side.  You need to pay attention to where the front arrow is pointing.
 

 
 

There might be a way to use macros to get the text to show quadrant bearing (but I don't know how to do this).  Maybe one of the macro gurus will chime in with an answer?
 
You could just create a cad line and turn on "show angle" on the line style page.  This angle will display using the cad default settings.  If you don't want to see the line, you could then use the "invisible" line style.
 
Also, just as an FYI, "number style" only affects what displays in the dialog boxes and does not affect anything in your plans.
 

The problem is the middle soffit sections.  They seem to be connecting to the edge ones and making some bogus filler surfaces. 
 
You could make them out of something other than soffits, such as polyline solids or counter tops.  I found if I took them and converted them into architectural blocks (each block with only one soffit and you do this by holding down the shift key when you select it) that it disabled this strange behavior.  Seems like you shouldn't need to do this though so you might want to report this to Chief.
 
You can also turn off all of the automatic fillers in your general cabinet defaults but this will turn off the fillers in between the edge soffits as well and I don't know if you want those or not.
 
 

 
 
 

Have you tried just typing in "+ 3/16" to both sides?
 

According to the help documentation, it isn't supported.  Looks like you might need to submit a feature request.
 

 

How did you get what you are already showing?
 
Assuming you are using a "specified" label, you should be able to use %elevationf% to get the same as the automatic label.  If you want it formatted differently, you can use %elevation% and add your own formatting options such as %elevation.to_ft.round(0)%.  If you need something more complicated, then you would probably need to write your own custom macro.
 
 

Open the switch dialog and turn off "automatically change switch type when wiring".
 

Do you have any walls on hidden layers?  They will still get framing even when you can't see the wall in plan view.
 
You should probably post your plan for problems like this.  Might need to make a copy and delete a bunch of stuff to get it small enough to attach to the forum.  Should probably zip it as wall but you need to make sure the plan is not open when you do this.  Another thing you could do is post in on a cloud service to share.
 

I don't think that is right.  Even if it was a counter top problem, I don't think you need to replace the sink when you replace an auto counter with a custom one.
 
My guess is that you have accidently created a weird cabinet connection situation.  Try going into your general cabinet defaults and turning off "create auto fillers for angled connected cabinets".  You may or may not want to turn off the "create auto blind corner cabinets" too.
 
If that doesn't solve the problem, then you should post your plan.
 

Select the terrain perimeter.
Select the "make terrain hole around building" tool,
Edit the shape as needed.
 

Make sure the wall you drew is using the wall type you changed.  Make sure the "walls, layers" is turned on.  Make sure the wall is not a "railing".  Could be something else, but would probably need to have a plan to look at.
 
As far as other ways to make some walls look different, could also use the wall hatch tool.
 

Look for it in your framing defaults under "plan display".
 

Check the wall type used for the railing that forms the stairwell room.  My guess is that it doesn't have any drywall.  Might want to change it to "interior railing" if it is not already.  
 
If that doesn't help you, then you should probably post your plan.
 

Edit layout lines is perfectly fine as long as you don't mind having to redo it every single time you make a change to the model that affects the elevation view.
 
You could also just make a copy of the plan material you are using and use this material on the solids where you want the line.  The program won't merge the surfaces if the materials are different.  They don't need to actually look different so just making a copy should do the trick.