TennVol

Thanks ebdesign, really appreciate the help sorting things out. Your advice and time is greatly appreciated. Happy Easter!

Kbird - Thanks for the check. I had all the main floors set at 0 and did not change ANY of them, (at least not consciously anyway - frustrating). I'll have to check the misaligned walls, as I generated the foundation from the floor above, as I did with the 2nd floor. I used snaps on the second floor interior walls with the lower level shown, to keep just this very thing from being a problem. Go figure.... mthd97 - agree on the whole workaround thing and wishing for more of a straight forward process. In my limited exposure to X7 so far, some things have definitely improved since v10, others kinda stay the same. I just have to get better at it and "enhance my calm". Be well :-)

Another shot at the plan file. Didn't redo the basement as floor 1 yet, it's still on the foundation level. Never ran into this problem that I recall in v9.5 or 10. TennVol Chief 4-1-15 plan upload.plan

Here's an attempt at a couple of pics As you can see, the garage and front porch floors are missing and the basement interior walls are protruding thru the 1st floor. Whether foundation has inteior walls or not, the 1st floor garage and porch floors are still gone. Before adding the interior walls, (should be a simple, straight forward thing, right?), the whole basement footer is at the same elevation, even with the garage door. But add the walls inside and the footer drops. I didn't tell it to do that.

I'll try moving the floors so basement is floor 1. Don't recall needing to do that before though. I'll work on posting a pic when I get to my PC. Thanks. Gawdzira, did you get the file I uploaded earlier?

mth97 - tried that (and some others), still the same problem Gawdzira - file uploaded

Hello all - Been away from Chief for a few years, but now getting back into it. I had v10 on an XP machine, but have a newer computer and now onto X7. Some things change, some not so much. As I'm finding the new things, I am liking them. One of the nice things is elevations in layout don't seem to have a bunch of extraneous lines to clean up, like in v10. That's was always a time killer for sure. That being said, Chief still has it's quirks, so I've got some new ones to figure a way through or around I'm sure it's me not doing something right (right being defined as exactly how Chief wants it, that is). I have generated a basement foundation from the 1st floor, and it behaves ok, but when I draw interior walls for rooms (and yes, I checked the structure settings), they extend up into the first floor area, even though there is a floor there. I also assigned the basement a "utility" designation before drawing the interior walls so it knows it's a "room". Seems like dividing the area up with interior walls would key from the room designation and structure settings. Having a hard time figuring why the walls are projecting up like that. The second thing related to the basement is one wall will be fully exposed with a french door out to a lower patio area. I need to show that as a framed wall rather than block. When I change the wall type from what was generated, it leaves a small horizontal gap (a few inches) between the top of that wall and the bottom of the one above in 3D and elevation views. F12 didn't help. Not sure what's going on, but I remember not to be pulling walls up or down in elevation view. I'm sure that hasn't changed. Anyway, glad to be back and looking forward to ramping up with X7.