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Do you have stairs anywhere? If so, then what do you think the answer should be?

Use the Living Area Macro and it will stay where you place it.

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Are you showing line weights?

Well, I guess as usual that there's more than one way to do it. I didn't have to do all of that.

I believe he's good to go now.

KBird & Scott. Please read my post a little closer. I didn't offer any wall type to use or any method. I recommended NOT to use a terrain path for what he called "a terrain wall". You both actually agree with me. He used a terrain path and called it a terrain wall.

Try using something other than a terrain path for your "terrain wall". A terrain path will follow the terrain.

Just drag the fireplace walls down. Use a solid or slab to cover the top. Add a molding polyline if you want crown mold. A quickie example.

The room molding selection will automatically break around windows and doors, but not necessarily for backsplashes ( I think).

I believe the "ticks" need to be smaller than the wall thickness.

Why don't you do a test and change the value and see what happens? Trial and error is a good teacher.

I place all text in the elevation before it's sent to the layout. I try not to add ant text in the layout 99.9% of the time.

Thanks Jim. I knew it had something to do with the way lines appear.

I think I remember something about that if your line styles such as dashes don't look right, then this setting could be the problem.

Richard, BTW, I have found that many times when you have this situation, you can do view to cad with the elevation and it will look okay and then send that to the layout. Either way, when you have this problem, there's extra steps to do to make the elevation look correct in the layout.

I find that this happens a lot. It's very random and frustrating. Just add a cad line in the layout if you want.

It sounds like he wants construction docs too and not get paid anything until it's approved. That's not how it works. Maybe a 14 year old would agree to this but a 14 year old wouldn't have the knowledge to get anything through a permit office or likely be able to afford a program like CA. One thing he is right about, he'll probably not find anyone here to agree on these terms.

That gives an interesting effect. I bumped up the settings and it gives a nice foggy look.

I usually just use a polyline solid in an elevation for the exposed truss. Here's a quickie example.

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I agree with you except just telling him that it doesn't work right doesn't tell him how to remedy the problem.

Yes you can. Use a macro in Chief for the living area. That's the only way. There was a recent thread about this topic. See this thread. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/1311-show-total-living-area-in-plan-views/

This is what I do. However if you have angled walls, there is a good chance that you'll sometimes have 1/16" dimensions at those walls. That is about the only time I'll round it off to 1/8" for those angled dimensions only.

Thanks Joe. Never realized you could do that.