GeneDavis

@MN_JohnH, you said, "I still don't know why Chief wants to use it's own trusses after I have put mine in but I can work around that too." Please, for our info, tell us how you "put mine in" and how Chief "wants to use its own." Chief lets you autoframe with trusses, and you can manually draw trusses the same way you can draw rafters and floor joists. It's "own trusses" are graphic representation of engineered wood trusses with top and bottom chords done per your spec inputs, but the webbing members are all from Chief's hallucinations. Actually, not. It places webbing based on how you have set the specs for max distance between for top and bottom chords. Play with the defaults for trusses and you'll learn how it all works. But never every think that Chief can or will do what your truss plant's engineer does with her roof build software. It is all just a reasonable "look" that you get from Chief. The only truss details (the elevations that call out all members, spacings, bearings, reactions, webbings) that count are the ones from the component supplier. I'm pretty anal about framing, having framed houses myself, trusses and stick, and being a structural engineer. I want my con docs to have the framing all detailed exactly how I expect it to be built. For a trussed job, I want my roof framing plan to have the exact layout the truss engineer will produce, so I always go back and forth as needed with someone from that desk at a components plant. Girders, hip sets, mono jacks, lay-ons, tray ceilings, overframes, everything goes in the right places, all dimensioned. But as for how any of the trusses are webbed or plated, I don't care, and nobody cares how my drawings look regarding that part of a job.

Would you be satisfied if your section looked like mine, upthread? No CAD detail needed. Your wallframe elevations will be exactly how they should be built, and your trusses will have the bearing pockets exactly to your specs. I did it in Chief. You should too if that is what you're after and needing. Lots of us do workarounds due to the software's limits.

Short answer: you don't. Chief has no settings you can do in dialogs that raises plates above ceiling heights. Chief generates wall framing based on room def specs, so clicking on a wall and framing it places the top plate at the ceiling height specified. As I said upthread, you need to edit the framing to raise the plates where wanted, and extend the framing up to the raised plates. Those edits don't "stick" if you doodle openings in the wall. I threw out the test file and can't play with it, but I just thought you might succeed this way. It'll do it for a simple shed building with roof shape like you showed in your upthread image of the truss with bearing pockets. Use CAD to figure the plate heights you want, both low and high sides, and do room division so that all rooms on the low side have ceiling heights for that low side, and likewise across the building for the high side. Fram those walls and you might find they are poked up into the truss envelope where you want them. Now all you have to do is edit the truss. Show us your results.

Edited truss envelope, chords, bearing, and web. Edited wall framing.

Have you done as suggested by me and others? Edit the truss to have bearing pockets, edit the walls to rise up into the bearings? It's just basic Chief Architect. Do it and show us results. My work is all in a locale with a gsl of 100 psf, and I have never met a header-under-truss situation I could not solve. Here's a pic of one going to con docs right now. You can see how the truss chord is interrupted so that a pocket is formed so the bearing is accommodated. The section view is picking up the 2x4-framed close-off panels we are doing in every 24" truss bay. You can see the top and bottom members as crossboxes in the view. The job is getting all its walls panelized in the shop sistered alongside the truss plant, and these are part of that package. I never show my truss guy anything other than the envelope required for a truss. This job has one exception, a gable end truss for which I want the 2x3 upright chords done to a specified layout. You may not know this, but the 2D truss detail views you have in Chief, showing all the chords and webbing, those are very editable and you can arrange any bearing pockets, and web arrays you want using Chief CAD.

Is there a reason why you want to pocket the wall frame tops up into the truss envelope? Bring the wall tops up to the bottom chord, and use Simpson VPA2 clips. Your sheetrock guys will thank you, because there will be nailing for the tops of the boards.

You can get the truss to generate by manually placing the roof and ceiling planes, then draw one truss, edit it to get what you want, then lock it. Frame the bearing walls and edit their heights. I'd tell you how to it all with settings and clicks and drags, but I don't know how.

Put it in a blank plan. Post it here. Then he and we can all have it.

Thanks, @MollyNDG! Worked great, and I gave the recessed panel (the countertop) a little bevel molding to emulate a simple framing bead. See the pics. I can make a second symbol for doors with the wood grain rotated, so my doors and drawerfronts all have the same panel with framing bead.

Thanks, @MarkMc! Make a door or drawerfront from a cabinet! That is out-of-the-box thinking, and you are using Chief's hard-coded grain orientation for the one-click-to-assign-oriented-texture thing. But, I see no way to do the drawerfront I did with its top and bottom rails at 1-1/2" width and its stiles at 2-1/4". How would one make a cabinet's face frame to that spec?

Here is a very interesting video that showcases Sketchup's rendering and compares it head to head with Nano Banana. Note the focus on the development of the prompts, and how photographs were used taken at the site. The house seen in the video is an interesting modern arrangement, a take on the kind of twin joined barns you see in the midwest occasionally, this one a cluster of three, the solar side of each roof plane steeper that the other. I think it's about 75x75 in footprint, with a roman style center courtyard about 20x20 and an integral 3-car garage, making it a one story thing with about 4500 sf of conditioned space. If you study the shapes and features, you can see how the architect cleverly did the guttering and hidden downspouts.

I use the freeware eCabinets software, which has as steep a learning curve as Chief, but worth the time if you are doing whole-house packages at the rate of two or three a year. In my case the job files are exported for CNC cutting, but the application has "saw shop" features that produce cutting lists, nested part diagrams, buy lists, and more. Chief is used for designing the cabinetry and for producing the photoreal renders. It takes about 2 hours to take a cab schedule from Chief and produce a job file in eCabs. But starting from zero, it'll take you all of a week 40 to 80 hours learning eCabs and building your seeds, longer if you need to learn part editing. Every cab config is built as a "seed" cab. An example is a 3-drawer stack base cab, like the two that you can see in the pic here. My seed is a 24" width version, and to load each of these in the pic into a job batch, all I enter is the width variable.

Give us a few screenshots of what you have tried doing, and please, name the Chief product you are using. Here is a hint: if that pitched ceiling is sheetrock against your rafters, your roof creates your pitched ceiling and you see it when the structure is defined as having no ceiling above. Watch a training video or two about all this.

I find it useful for producing images so we can see rooms in different color schemes, and when doing the prompts, give it the sources for the colors. Examples are "Cabinets to be painted Walzcraft 'Spring Rain' and all walls and ceilings Benjamin Moore 'Chantilly Lace.' And show the lot views outside through the windows as a mature forest of mixed red maple and white pine, tree limbs and crows way up 15 feet and more, the lighting being 30 minutes before sunset." ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Grok have all done well when I've tried this same dialog. I have compared the images to photos on Houzz in which the colors are given, and AI gives great matches. But all three struck out when I tried to get a pendant fixture I wanted over a dining table, even when I gave the LLMs screencaps of the specific fixture I wanted. They blew the image, not getting details right, and blew the scale. I had to make my own in Sketchup and import it, and it was just a simple inverted dome. Same with some wall sconces.

How do we know you framed the walls? I can see mine in my plan view if I turn on the wall framing layer.