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Thanks for this thread. My space mouse is amazing in sketch up......and "no joy" in chief. I'm remotivated to try again. Thanks

Maybe you have room to start your stairs 1 tread back at the top. You'd be 1 riser lower at the platform that way. Also you could reduce your treads to 10" and you'd also gain a riser in 10 treads. What is your overall floor to floor height?

You might have success contacting Mr. Larry Belk. He has a huge library of plans online and with online brokers (publishers) and is always helpful if he isn't swamped with work. https://www.larrybelk.com

I d/l'd your zipped plan and tried to help. Your model has all kinds of small issues. Then, when I went to 3D overview....it locked up my mac and crashed it to reboot. Someone else might be able to help.

Lot's of big homes in the south have 10' first floor, 9' second. Furr downs are used quite often to make custom ceilings.

Cheaper to set the regular floor truss high and furr down around the outside to create the boxed effect.

Amazing work, Steve. Thanks for all the work you have into this and for sharing!

In all my time framing, we made the rough opening the called size plus whatever vertical trim was being used to trim out the door so that the final finished rough opening was the actual door size. For example and 8–0 door was actually 8’-3” RO because we used a 2 x 8 to wrap the doors, thus making the final rough opening from finished surface, 8’-0” I’ve never made the framed rough opening the exact door size because then trimming out that opening would be wrong when looking at the garage door. is this how garage doors are framed in your region? It seems I learn something new every day.

Terrain video today

can you open object on the wall you want to change and manually enter the angle you want?

His screenshot is from a mac. No PBR (No Soup for you) yet for apple computers......c'mon Tim Cook

Is 1970 angled cedar siding making a comeback?

Chief has very helpful tech-support people who might be able to walk you through solving this problem for you.

YESSS! You are using the same work flow as I am. Plan views and layout in Chief. Extremely complex and accurate details in Sketchup Pro with Medeek BIM or sometimes no extensions at all. Larry Belk pointed me in the direction of Nathaniel Wilkerson and Nick Sonders.