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Where are you using it? If it's in the Roof Plane's label panel, just uncheck Default Formatting

Oh yeah, that too. But in the future, don't use Slabs to draw that type of thing

Try creating it as a 3D Solid instead of a slab. The Slab tool is for like, a building slab. Just a flat slab with a specified thickness. 3D Solids can be anything. Also you can just create that shape in an Elevation view using 3D Solids so you won't have to rotate it.

It's been a bit since I've touched X15 but I want to say being able to add CAD Polylines to Schedules was introduced then. But you should be able to create Room Polylines or Standard Area Polylines based on the rooms, then set those to be included in a schedule. I'm not seeing a specific video on the topic but there was a webinar they have recorded : https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10286/schedules.html I scrubbed through it and found a bit about polyline schedules for terrain at around the 1h 29m mark.

Don't. That turns off the Structure Panel's Default Wall Top Height setting. Make sure that's checked on all walls. I assume it's creating a gap where you're only getting a half-gable there, that's somewhat common. Just grab the right side of the wall and yank it over. If that's not working for some reason, post the plan file so we can look at it.

Also make sure that Default Wall Top is checked. All you should need to do is lengthen the wall to fill that space, don't try to shape it yourself.

The porch is made up of a collection of room dividers and Invisible Attic Walls. Ditch the Room Dividers and adjust the attic walls to just be invisible walls.

1. get those elevation lines outta that wall!! you need to treat retaining walls the same as other elevation lines, they should never cross or touch. 2. open the Terrain Spec, you'll see your terrain smoothing is set to Linear. retaining walls don't work with Linear smoothing. Set it to Low and they'll work but you'll get a message asking if you want to use Linear because you have "too many" elevation points. (This is why you're using Linear, it asked, you said yes.) 3. remove some of the elevation lines to reduce the number of points. That will let it stay on Low smoothing, and it wont take so long. Might even decrease the plan file size. ^ that wall in the revision cloud is not (and can't be) a Retaining Wall, put a Terrain Break in that wall to get the terrain to behave there. I deleted about half those lines and trimmed it down to just the data within the perimeter, it builds quickly with Low smoothing, contours look about the same but with half the data: vs

The question is why aren't the others building down like that? They all ought to be assuming you have a typical framed floor. That's where your joists will be. Zooming in on your screenshot it looks like all your wall layers are all sitting on top of the OSB. Open up the Definition of those brick walls and make sure all the wall layers are where they ought to be. Everything that should build down to cover your joists should be in the Exterior Layers group. I suspect they're all on the Main Layer.

Naw I rarely have ever needed to make a copy of my layouts. you can, of course. It just doesn't come up all that often. slight correction, once you send a view to a Layout the layout then gets saved with the plan's name in the same spot as the plan. So if you start with RingosPlan.plan and then just hit Send to Layout without opening a layout first, you'll get a RingosPlan.layout.

Exactly. Just remember to Save the current changes THEN do a Save As. Can't stress that enough. Never Save As without normal Save first. ex: Day 1: Create RingosPlan.plan, send views to RingosLayout.layout Save/Save As: RingosPlan 12-1-24.plan Day 2: Open RingosPlan.plan, send views to RingosLayout.layout Save/Save As: RingosPlan 12-2-24.plan Day 3: Open RingosPlan.plan, send views to RingosLayout.layout etc etc etc

Sure enough. Scooting that elevation line on the right over a little bit and adding a Terrain Break between those lines will create a break in the terrain where you can add a wall or boulders or whatever. Or using a Terrain Retaining Wall instead, you'll get this

Just looking at the picture I'm assuming you're using regions and lines, but not actual terrain breaks or retaining walls. Check out: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00646/placing-a-retaining-wall-in-the-terrain.html

You'll have to relink each of them. Yeah don't waste time doing that, the Referenced Plan Files link does this for you, swapping out the links in all layout boxes to the newly linked file. Relinking 4 plans is a lot faster than relinking every Layout Box on your layout. One suggestion you may see floating around is to avoid using Save As like this and instead keep the Layout linked to one root Plan file, only using Save As as a sort of archiving save. But because when you do Save As it changes the active plan to that newly named plan, you need to Save the active plan, use Save As to create a copy, then re-open the original. That way you're only ever working on one plan, the name never changes, and all layout boxes remain nicely linked up.

Touché, touché. In all fairness I'm not WRONG, you can't edit the symbol directly, but that is a great and clever way of creating a new symbol out of existing ones though. It should be noted that Delete Surfaces can be finicky. If you do anything to rebuild the 3D view they'll come back and you'll have to re-delete them. It's not really DELETING anything, just temporarily hiding them.

Generally speaking you won't be able to. This comes down to the Material Components defined in the object. For example the Contemporary Chair only has two material components: the "seat" here applies the same material to both the seat and the back. Unfortunately this is not something CA can control, you'd need to do that in some 3D modeling program.

The vaulted ceiling in the main room is forcing Attic walls to build above, blocking the dormer. Open the large room. Check Flat Ceiling Over This Room Open the broken dormer and press OK (or copy a new one over assuming you've deleted the broken one already) Uncheck Flat Ceiling Over This Room

You could make the Music Note out of 3D Solids, save it as a Symbol, Hardware specifically then apply it to the door as a Lock and adjust the symbol's Offset to move it around

You don't need to draw Joist lines across the entire room, they only need to be in the area where floor framing is gonna happen. not sure why but they're just in bad spots, draw them like this and it works fine (assuming that's what you're looking for of course)

They shouldn't generate on invisible walls at all, but try opening the wall and checking the No Room Moldings options on the General panel.

I'm not sure what exactly you're asking, but it sounds like maybe you have a bunch of captured images you're trying to import. If so, try this:

Literally just Send to Layout. It's no different than anything else in your plan. While it's typically recommended that Schedules should be in a CAD Detail page, even if they're in a Plan view or an Elevation view it works all the same.

When you select the Exterior Room, ALDO shows the "Rooms" layer selected, so that is it's layer. What exactly for?

Not really sure, its hard to tell from just a photo. Would definitely help to see the plan file.

Check out https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03012/creating-a-storage-loft-in-a-larger-room.html