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In the roof structure tab, set the sub-facia depth to 7". Rebuild the roof framing.

That's happening because of the Interior-4 walls that have been turned invisible to create the Porch room. Change them to Frame-3 1/2" and that problem will be corrected.

Hi Gene, did you confirm that both  views were using the same set of defaults? Perhaps one view had a default set where the end-to-end locate settings don't pickup framing or cad...

Hi Chris, the problem is that the foundation wall is currently hardwired for this incorrect sill plate. I don't know why, but Chief is holding on hard to an incorrect setting. To fix this, you need to use the Import Settings tool. Select his and then navigate to and select the template plan file for X17. Once you have the file selected, choose the foundation wall and select the Replace option. Press F12 and the sill plate will build correctly. The foundation walls will also rebuild correctly, BUT Chief will not display them correctly until they are selected, and open-closed! Then, the top of foundation wall will be displayed correctly as well. Oddly enough, the sill plate will be an OSB material. 


 

If you don't have the Electrical parent and/or child tools visible on your tool bar, you can also access the rope light tool by clicking on the Build menu at the top.
Build>Electrical>Rope Light.

Option 1: allow for the outer profile of the truss in your building design and leave the truss spec's up to the supplier. Indicate the roof space clearly in your section drawings.
Option 2: Same as above, but include roof trusses in your section drawings. Manually edit the truss members to get as close as possible. Note that your trusses are illustrative and that supplier's spec's take precedence.
In other words, do more work that's not necessarily accurate and at your own expense.

The actual wall type doesn't really matter when the foundation height is 0", but a 16" wide foundation wall gets the piers aligned correctly.
I 'painted' the piers instead of changing the default material for the foundation/slab.
The pier spacing I used is simply an example. Everything here is automatic.

You can only control this by changing the defaults for the Full Camera. If you preview the walkthrough, then change the defaults, then preview again, you should see the change. I should clarify: you can adjust the default with the preview open and see the change take place.

If you set the room height and then manually draw a roof plane over the exterior wall, it does build correctly. The rafter meets the top plate exactly how you would expect.
You'll also want to reset the walls to the default top height and probably bottom height as well.

Use a shadow board...gables only.

No trick...labels can be set to show or hide on a per camera basis. In a section or elevation view, just select the windows that you do NOT want to have their label showing. In the Label tab, check 'Hide in this View'. This assumes the labels layer is on. So you have an override to hide labels as needed. The inverse function does not work (that is 'show label' while the layer is off).

The label control issue is because when a sink is placed into a cabinet, you immediately lose some control. If you single-click the cabinet and move the label you will see that the cabinet label and sink label are locked together despite being on separate layers and generated from separate schedules. If you turn off the cabinet labels layer, the fixture label relocates to the cabinet label position and can only be moved by the cabinet. This is one (of many) drawbacks of Chief's method of combining items that are placed into cabinets.
It would be much better if Chief allowed auto placement of these items but treated them more like an architectural block than a semi-single component.
The solution for more control is to add the sink as a standalone fixture. You could edit the existing sink to remove it from being included in the schedule while still keeping it in the cabinet. Then place the sink as a stand alone fixture and let it be buried or move it into the correct position manually. This will give you separate label control.

For the foundation wall, you'd need to use a pony wall (4" concrete wall on 8" concrete wall). If that is a walkout foundation that is already using a pony wall (2x6 wall on concrete wall), then you're in a bit of a pickle as you can't stack 3 wall types in a single pony wall. But...you still have a couple of options:
Use the 4" concrete wall and make the corrections manually using CAD tools (plan views, section views, details,etc) use the 8" concrete wall and add a wall cap (4"x8") that splits the pony wall. This can represent the upper portion of the foundation wall. Some CAD cleanup will be needed in section views and maybe in elevation views.

A pony wall and wall cap would work for the central stub wall portion. For the post and cap, a couple of 3d solids are the fastest, although I'd convert the 2 objects to a symbol with stretch planes so that it can be used for any height and width of column.
It's pretty easy to figure out the width and depth by counting bricks.

Pony Walls! Create your porch using a wall type for the stone. Add windows, not doorways, simply to be able to add the keystone > 'Treatments' / Millwork Above Casing. Position and size all windows; use a pass-through and remove frame and casing.
Change walls to pony walls, with the lower wall being an air gap type of wall. Place columns manually.

I'd suggest you examine the settings for the Floor Structure Definition. If it's checked as Trusses, the truss width is greyed out. Check Joists, change the width, then check trusses.

You have a Baseline Polyline in your plan, it just isn't displayed in the working plan view nor in the roof plan view. Turn on the layer for Roofs, Baseline Polylines. Then, select and delete the roof baseline polyline.
OR open the Build Roof Dialog and check Make Roof Baseline Polylines. This will generate a new baseline polyline and the correct roof, but it will not rebuild when walls are moved as that check box is not 'sticky'. Best to delete the baseline and don't use a baseline unless you understand its function and need it for roof edits.

First thing I'd try is unchecking 'Roof Over This Room' in the lower pop-out room. Second thing I'd do (if that doesn't work) is add that layer to the floor structure specification for the balcony.
 

You can't get a crawlspace floor to generate because of how the Crawl Space room is defined. By default, you have this room set to an Open Below room type. Change this to Slab.
Open the Room Spec dialog:



 

Pony Wall Defaults...

I would model that using 2 walls adjacent to each other. In this example I used a 2X3 interior wall butted against the adjacent wall. For final plan views, I'd use a cad mask to cover wall fills.
 

Yes and No. Chief can generate a truss that is not correct, and then you could manually adjust the truss polyline. Your particular model raises more questions than I have time to address, however I suggest getting the framing reasonably close and then making manual adjustments.  Chief will almost never build top plate heights and vaulted ceiling trusses both correctly.
 
For this building, you could split the room to create 2 separate default ceiling heights to help drive wall framing...but then you have 2 rooms instead of one. So, it might make more sense to manually adjust the wall framing of either the low or the higher wall. Either way, it will help if the default ceiling elevation is either 84" or 125 1/2".
 
Also, it will help if all framing defaults and assembly defaults are exaclty correct to what is being built, and if the walls have both framing layers as 'Main Layers'.