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My comment about the permitting authority was specifically to dshall's question of not having clearly defined parameters. It's a little less gray in Canada. The NBC code reference is:

Do you have stub walls on the open sides, or portions of wall that are floor-to-ceiling?

Seems to me that when a term isn't defined then the interpretation is up to the permitting authority. I know this doesn't apply to you @dshall, but as a quick point of reference for others who stumble upon this topic, in Canada it is considered a garage if 60% of the perimeter is enclosed.

No problem Justin. A little heads up...if you import too many high surface count models, or models with large texture files, Chief can start to slow down significantly. A little experimentation and you'll figure out what works and what doesn't.

download it, then just drag the file into your plan view.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/u9d731ce1-a1fd-479e-8b8e-6be4b76c232c/Water-Hydrant https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/3d627513-532f-4e3e-a80d-d07587dfb252/Outdoor-tap-set

Not a plan view issue per se, but I'd love to see swing control for doors that varies based on the view. Example, open in camera views but closed in section views.

OK, I hear you and I did notice your default heights were still active. I 'm not sure I could free my mind to that extent. Rather, I leave the steps until the house is in it's final position on the lot, and I have the final grading determined. Then, I create reference lines in elevation view so I can ensure the following: all footings are below frost depth top of conc. walls are at least 6" above grade all steps are at even 2' horizontal increments for simple forming (when possible of course) no footing steps exceed 24" in height no foundation pony walls have backfill heights exceeding 4' above the basement slab all foundation wall step dimensions can be easily relayed to the excavation and foundation crews. and I need to relay the footing elevations in imperial for the foundation crew and in geodetic metric for the survey crew

Here's a brief video showing how dragging a room height can be beneficial. In this example, I have my house positioned on the lot, and the final grades have been decided. My grading info is metric so sometimes it simpler to drag the garage room down to the driveway elevation instead of doing math. I have my driveway layer turned on temporarily to get the snap point. And in this example, my garage floor is the top of the gravel substrate, and the 4" concrete floor is in the floor finish layer (just for automatically correct cross section display). dragginagarageroom.mp4

I'm not intelligent enough to pick up what you're putting down...you'll probably need to spell it out for me!

Do you have 'cross section lines' layer turned on?

If you need it...

For a garage (for example) on a bi-level home, you may want to at least experiment with dragging the room heights, for both the main floor and the foundation.

@stevenyhof You mentioned things Chief can or can't...Here's an example of can't (at least not easily). In the example below, a full height basement foundation wall transitions to a stepped foundation pony wall. Chief will not connect the footings if the footing step is at the same location as the wall type transition. If I manually drag the footing down, Chief creates a 12" vertical footing. There's ways around this but they are relatively time consuming.

Don't forget that you can manually drag a room's height in section view. Sometimes that can be much quicker than trying to remember all the different elevations. Click on the wall, then hit tab to get the room. Or click on the baseboard if you have the moldings layer on. You can drag to snap points, like cross section lines from other walls, footing, floors, ceilings, or a cad line or marker placed as a snapping reference.

At times, I even need to manually adjust the footing bottom. When a typical full height foundation wall meets a foundation pony wall at a step down location, for instance. Sorry @stevenyhof, not trying to hijack your topic!

There's a few things up north that lead to this: frost coverage, sloping lots, building codes.

More a case of necessary. Stepped walkout foundations on almost every plan...

It can. Either you'll figure it out or you won't. BTW, What's wrong with manually dragging wall heights if it's quicker? I do it all the time. I'm doing it right now, actually.

That's funny...and sad!

wasn't me. I could never intentionally misspell a word.

typo

Its my experience that the windows will group as long as no dissimilar properties are present in the schedule.

Open the doors.

This is what I do. Usually a short wall in the mechanical room.