GeneDavis

As long as a GC is OK with this and is willing to explain to subs, I like it. Any of us used to working with truss manufacturers are already up to speed. I'll go make a suggestion.

Thanks, Doug! I missed that. Actually, I saw it and did not know its effect on this aspect of a build. The Chiefer that drew the plan asked about this weeks back and could not get the floor to generate as a deck, but got no answer because he did not post a plan. I got it to work by deleting the railing walls and re-drawing them with the deck railing wall tool, which auto-creates a deck room, and with X15 OOB settings, auto-frames the deck. What sequence of wrong moves do you think it takes to draw it as you saw in the plan, and have that box checked?

Here. https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArvhHoTabnLDoErLa0aVCFBD_SrI?e=KlWmF9

As I said, it is already posted in that other thread. Download it from there.

There is a recent thread here about siding finish, and I made a comment after downloading the OP's plan and examining it for the materials issue. That thread's title begins with "Exterior Cladding . . " The plan has a deck with roof over that is failing to show the deck floor structure. See the pic. The room is defined as a deck, the room selects, all three deck walls do room definition, and if I use the deck railing tool to draw a small deck on the adjacent wall, the deck generates with its auto-modeled framing and planking. What should I be looking for to get this deck's missing floor? The plan file can be downloaded from a post attachment in the other thread.

I have your plan open in X15. Looks as if you created no new wall types for any of your desired exterior finish variants. You used the paint tool, which is bad practice. Very bad practice. You ended up down the rabbit hole. In your plan, create a new exterior wall type for each separate desired wall finish. One for lap siding, one for stone cladding, one for the board and batten, and if more, one for each. If you have garage walls framed with 2x4, you'll need a wall def for each desired clad type. Now go into your plan materials and purge all unused materials, then go through the list and examine how each is defined. You have created materials that have differing textures but have the same name. Finally, go to your model in 3D overview, select exterior walls, and change their wall types to one of the new wall types you created.

I'll offer a solution only when the OP clarifies the issue, and tells us what software he is using.

You can frame it manually but the rafters are going to be plumb, which may not be what you want. I find no way to rotate them to have sections perpendicular to the roof plane.

I want framing nails, too! And why not roofing nails, drywall screws, joint tape, and mud!

How do I turn on the label for square footage?

Sidewall framing probably means attached "ladders" which some truss plants will build. My work is an a zone with 100 psf GSL and it gets done if gable o'hangs are a foot or less. You all with those minimum heel heights must be building where ceiling insulation isn't important. We've got to go R50 now, and that takes some overhead.

And the VSD of course changes when the top chord size is changed. I do a lot of big overhangs, and the trusses often are built with 2x6 or 2x8 top chords at the tails, sometimes with the top chords segmented, only the tail plus the first run to a web that size, the rest 2x4.

Show me a truss plant's drawing that has heel height shown differently than top plate up to intersect of top chord line. I like the new setup. Saves time. Before, needed to do the math to get an energy heel roof height done correctly, now it's "auto." Don't we all love "auto?"

The wall is made a pony wall, framed wall top, concrete foundation wall bottom. It sits atop the concrete frost wall. The pony wall is specified to have the break at your chosen elevation. in elevation, you drag/edit your footings down where needed. Step where appropriate.

What have you tried?

I have my frameless cabinetry specs set up with the old Blum system 32 spacings for drawers and margins. As per recommendations here by those pros that do lotsa cabinets, my box style is framed, not frameless, and separations are 3/4". But to get my preferred (per Blum 32) margin of 3/8" from top of base to top of top drawerfront or door, I edit the overlay. You type "fillets." Do you mean fillers?

I see your problem. Your roof structure has, in effect, a sheathing depth of close to a foot, and no matter how you set your sufascia, which sets o'hang depth, you have that high buildup over that wants to be part of the o'hang. I've used separate planes but for a different reason. How doe it look to you with the separate roof plane? It'll give the look you need in 3D, not so much in 2D plan view if you are doing a roof plan in layout.

Might take you a few minutes using Chief CAD to draw a scale profile of an RC-1 2" x 1/2" channel. Is that what you need?

Those GA type and ESR type reports are Gypsum Association docs, and won't be any help with your Hardie Plank finished wall. I looked here, in a web page from James Hardie, linking to Warnock Hersey reports of fire-rated wall assemblies faced with Hardie products. I was in the entry door business (ThermaTru) and we did all our fire door testing at Warnock Hersey labs and they provided reports such as these. I could not find a wall assembly making a 1-hour rating that did NOT have 5/8 GWB (gypsum wall board) on the exterior side of the framing layer. Recommend you ask the AHJ plans review person if a Warnock Hersey doc will do for your project, where the 1-hour wall is needed, and that you study the information at the link. https://www.jameshardie.com/product-support/resource-center/technical-documents/fire-wall-assemblies?loc=refresh

One door, options tab, 2 panels right, two panels left, looks like what you want.

Nice little place. Steel roofing? Cricketing ahead of that thru-wall feature, and the short parapet on the low side?

Same footprint same foundation slab, but the project now has two floors but when permitted it was a three-story? Sounds to me like the plans reviewer at the building department has to take a look at the whole thing, now that it is reduced in size. Like, from scratch. Elevations with a revision cloud around the space formerly occupied with the third floor? Sounds silly to me. A floor plan for floor three, a big revision cloud around it saying, "not to be done now" sounds like a recipe for confusion.

Flat ceiling unchecked.

"Is there a setting to automatically increase the foundation thickness to match the 1st floor wall type?" Do you see anything in the wall specification that looks like it might address this? Look again. Examine every aspect of the wall specs. Very deep subject, as there are many panels to examine. And when you get into wall type definitions, look again at all that is there. It was where you found which layer responds to dimensions. I can give you the short answer, which is no, but maybe now is the time to take a deep dive into how Chief does walls, so as to help build your skills in Chief.

As they say in the commercial, "have it your way!" Three minutes sixteen seconds to go from Chief all one texture, into SU, do some materials work, back into Chief, nicely done with stainless steel and plastic where needed.