GeneDavis

You didn't need to add that second floor to gain heel height. Just raise the roof. You might learn something from this video. Check it out. Sounds like you want a platform of sufficient size in the attic for the air handlers and supply and return trunks, so the attic might just need 5 trusses to give an 8' long deck. You'll need to guess whether the truss engineer will do the trusses with a 2x10 or 2x12 bottom chord, but that'll all be figured at truss-quote time. Use attic walls parallel to the trusses so you only get the attic trusses you need.

Thanks, @DBCooper! Your 'chute musta worked, cuz yur still around.

I'm using out of the box X17 and having trouble understanding how to change text size for 2D camera views, both backclipped and wall elevation. Here is a screenshot of my cabinet plan for a kitchen with island. K1 and K2 were taken as wall elevations, and K3 is a backclipped section view. Note the size of the text in these is same as the cabinet callouts, and same as the dimensions shown. They are all sized for the K&B plan view. Now take a look at a screencap from a Chief video on the top of annotation using default sets, this one using the K&B view of a kitchen. Note the text size for the walls and section view. That's what I want. Larger. How do I get there.

If hand-drawn means squiggly lines, Chief does not have that option in 2D plans.

Thanks, @Chrisb222. That was it.

I used solids, blocked, to create the iron countertop brackets seen here. I want to display them in plan view using dashed lines, just as the under-counter base cabs and appliance display. See here. They are in their own layer, "Cabinets, countertops, brackets" and that layer is assigned dashed line. Since they are blocked, I changed the layer for Architectural Blocks to have the preferred line type and thickness. But none of this is producing the plan view I need.

I wanted a mid rail in a shaker style door for a tall cabinet, and specific placement, the rail not centered vertically. Took just a few minutes to make a group of 3D solids to emulate what I needed and convert to a door symbol.

Chief does not do 3D siding. It is a surface with a user-defined thickness and user-defined "texture" or surface imaging. Many of us here have discussed the board and batten pattern for vertical siding, which involves the use of the material region tool, but while that tool can both cut the planar surface of siding and project from it, it is rectilinear, in that you'll not be able to get that V-joint you want. Your metal panel has the same shape as V-joint wood paneling, so you should be trying to use one of those materials, edited for color and texture, to get the look you want. And you will be breaking your exterior walls each time you want to accent the vertical joint sections with horizontal joint sections.

I do it in the floor framing plan, with details. The framing is edited as needed. And on the architectural floor plan, just like Joey does.

Show us with a screencap what Chief is doing, please.

What I meant was to refer to the picture. Door on left is LEFT. As in, where it is. Not how it is hinged or how it swings.

@ImNewHereChief's default arrangement, when specifying a corner cabinet, is for the doors to be hinged together and opened using the single knob shown in the screenshot here. The hinges used are 135 degree blind-corner type. I do this for all the corner cabs I do, and this setup is seen in almost every kitchen cabinet showroom you tour. You never came back and stated what you were after, so I am showing here that Chief defaults to this type of action. For other types, you can do things with two cabinets like others mention upthread.

Describe L to R how you want the doors hinged and knobbed. There are various ways to do this. Example: LEFT DOOR, knob on L, hinge on R. RIGHT DOOR: no knob, hinge on R.

A warped roof like what you seem to want is either a roof-framers nightmare or his crowning achievement, as it will require tiny pitch changes with each set of rafters, bending sheathing, and more fun things. Also, it is impossible to draw using Chief roof tools, which only produce flat planar or cylindrical surfaces.

What software you using? And on what machine? Take the time to go to your profile and create a signature text, so we can better help. Here is a dimensioned wall detail. Is this what you want to do?

Show us all you have to work with. Pictures, plan views, elevations, etc. Your "backing onto a rock wall" thing needs to be better explained. Attach all directly, and not as downloads, please. As for how-to, Chief has many many instructive videos.

I think you have another case of a plan drawn in 2D by someone who didn't use 3D to generate elevations, thus you may have something you cannot replicate in Chief.

Gotta wait for Chief. This, and more, has been suggested as needed stair tool additions.

I've a simple one floor house and have truss-framed the roof, and now want a six-truss run, 10 feet in length, to all be attic trusses so we can have a platform deck on which to mount HVAC equipment. The depth of the bottom chord for the rebuild is unknown but it's certainly not 3.5". Do I just draw my "room" with invisible attic walls and guess the floor structure at, say, 7.25"? And the rebuild the affected trusses?

I did not download, but have a q. "glass panel, with 1/2" lites" Do you mean 1/2" muntins?

This presumes you need us to look at something in the building. Copy it, then strip the copy of all that is not stuctural. Remove terrain, fixtures, furniture, clean off any weird textures you may have applied, the file is to contain no plants, no people, no nothing but walls, floors, roofs, windows and doors.

I hope I stated this so as to be understood. I need a larger scale for some details I want to do, and having a default set for 1" = 1'-0", went ahead and wrote a new default set for 1 1/2". I had already created a text style for this new scale. I'll need to write the appropriate specs for rich text, arrows, callouts, and the rest, but for now I am starting with text. See here that my newly created text style appears in the lineup. Now see here, in this screencap of the default set dialog, I cannot see the text style in the dropdown, and thus cannot assign it to this default set. What am I missing?

Pretty long discussion for a Home Designer 2026 issue.

I made a house with enough roof area to do what I wanted, then manually cut a hole in the roof and built the dormer walls connected to interior walls so as to have it be a "room" with a ceiling and roof over, then used a different wall type to draw the three balcony walls, and manually adjusted their shapes. It's a mess, but it's a start. You can use the window tool, pass-through type, to make the scuppers. If you can shape windows into a trapezoid, you can shape pass-throughs. I think the glass and metal railings will need to be modeled manually using whatever you like. Solids would be my choice. Others might use cabinets.

Did you see this? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5202/creating-floor-platforms-that-hang-inside-walls.html?playlist=144 Try building with a 4-1/2" thickness mudsill and then editing it to a 3-stack after your framing is all the way you want it.