Joe_Carrick

I find it easier to set the floor elevation for the room above. That will lower the ceilings below that room. IOW, work from the top down. Also, if you can do this in a 3D view it will be easier to see what's happening,

IMO the lack of : a "Grapic Repeat Patter" in Chief's linestyles start & end terminators is a major shortcoming of Chief's CAD tools.

Corner Board Tool

I consult with my clients and use what they want. Most of my projects are custom homes, not remodels. It's not in suggestions because I sent it to Chief via email. The respose I received is in red in the 1st post.

There's only one Plumbing Fixture Catalog that I know of in Chief - Kohler. Within that catalog are many Toilets, Urinals and wall mounted Sinks. For proper clearances (particularly for ADA, but also in general) there are standards for back, side and front clearances to walls, partitions & cabinets. back - 1" for floor mounted (Tank should be clear of the finished wall) each side - ((30"-width)/2) ---- 15" from centerline of fixture front to any wall, cabinet or door 24" for toilets 48" for urinals 21" for sinks In order for any/all of these fixtures to be properly placed with those clearances it's necessary to have the Bounding Box Offsets set to those values. OOB, all such fixtures are set to zero which means they can be placed right up a wall, cabinet, partition, door, etc. Chief's policy is: that it will not be distributing objects with bounding boxes that account for non-functional placement clearances. IMO, these clearances aren't "non-functional" and since we can't modify things in any library except the "User Library" we would have to copy: to our User Library make the adjustments there. unfortunately, there's no group modification of library objects so it would need to be done individually which could take may hours. If Chief adds any additional Plumbing Fixtures Catalogs American Standard Glacier Bay TOTO Gerber Bemis etc in the future we will probably be faced with the same problem.

Just open that "Dimensions" item and you'll get to select any of the dimension type defaults and then "Setup Temporary"

It probably doesn't have the correct front and back bounding box offsets. If you use a manufacturer's (Kohler, etc) all of those are in the library as 0. You would need to copy to your user library or just edit in the plan.

Toilets have rough-ins from finished wall (not framing) 10" 12" most common 14" from finished side walls (not framing) 15" minumum I just put point markers at those locations and dimension to them. For the side clearances I prefer to have the bounding box define that as well as a 1" clearance at the back to the toilet and 24" at the front. You will probably need to edit the bounding boxes for all toilets since Chief (in most cases) doesn't have those values set correctly.

In the Layout for that page - Update View(s)

The line showing in the plan can be eliminated by making the "Line Style" for that layer in the wall definition "Invisible"

No, because (=+) is actually "+" and has the meaning of addition.

Have you considered using open web floor joists so the utilities could be run thru? That might help.save 20 cm. It might also be possible to change the direction of floor framing in some areas to accommodate duct running between the joists.

In most jurisdictions the building height is calculated to the average roof height, not the ridge. Double check the local codes. I also note that 270 cm is approximately 9 ft. Do you really need that much ceiling ht for the entire floor area? Ducts can be run in just central room ceiling as well as in the attic, depending on the design.

If you want assistance with creating a log home in Chief send me your plan file and I will give you a quote to make the necessary changes to your model.

That's not the OP's problem. He wanted to block areas of the elevation to indicate existing vs new. My post above provides that funcionality.