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You assume the house is built right when you assume no cutting. You can dream your little dream, but framers and and drywallers are often pretty sloppy, things aren't square, walls are out by 1/2" here, 3/4" of inch there. I hate following someone else into a space, I'd rather just do everything myself so I know what to expect.

Doh, I knew that was somewhere, not sure why I didn't see it. Thanks,

Okay, I'm sure this is a stupid question and I haven't used chief in quite awhile. So feel free to laugh. So I draw a couple walls and then put in a third, I adjust the length on the third wall and moves the previous walls around. It's super annoying and a real pain because I'm converting a condo drawing from metric to imperial so it comes up with really stupid numbers. I'm sure there's something to lock one end of the wall but I sure cant find it at the moment. Thanks

So does anyone have any experience with taking surveyed elevations in X,Y,Z format into Chief. Some sort of software that could be used to convert data to the proper format?

Thanks Larry, I think one of the problems is that the building has a full basement and these sheds are just stuck on the side and drop to the ground. But I think I can hack my way through it with that little tutorial. This building is a nightmare. There's a massive new addition with multiple roof planes etc. I figured I'd just build each section as a separate building and stick them together in my model rather than try and build the whole 13000 sqft building. I only need this to show adjacent buildings in the model so it doesn't matter if I stick it together. Thanks again.

Oops wrong Screen shot.

I've added a screen shot of the actual building.

So I'm building a model of an existing building. The building is an old store, really a big box about 80' long and 26' wide. I'm having problems with all these little sheds off the side. So the wall height of the store is 10' with an 8/12 gable roof. Off the back there's a shed the width of the building with a 3/12 roof and on one side there are 3 shed's one 8' wide and 16' long, followed by one 7' deep and 10' long (this one has a shed roof about 6" higher than the first and 3rd) and then a third 9'6" deep and 30' long. So I'm trying to set the wall heights lower than the 10' main walls and I can't do it. I'm sure it's a stupid noob problem but maybe someone can help me. I attached the plan with the side sheds Thanks, Rob MERC1.plan