robdyck

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'.
 

Hi Ange, you could try copying that shadow board and set it to 1/16" thickness, Eaves Only, set it to an invisible material.

The camera callouts will display correctly once the layout file is open...and only when the layout file is open.  

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You could use a molding assigned to the frieze for the roof planes. If I were doing that, I'd probably assign 2 separate moldings as a frieze: one for the crown and one for the dentil molding.
You may be able find a dentil molding that is close enough, although you might just want to make your own. 
 
Take a look at the dentil moldings in the library, and that should give you some visual cues. You can convert a 3d object or symbol into a molding.

The ROOM has a wall covering applied:) Open the room specification dialog and delete the wallcovering from the room. Double click on the room in plan view or in camera view, double click the floor or baseboard to open the Room Specification dialog.

Draw a polyline around those spaces. Single click the polyline, then select Edit>Edit Area>Edit Area Visible...then rotate and then point-to-point move into place.
It would be  good idea to read up on this function and experiment with the various options.

There is no way to auto-rename them. What I prefer to do in the instance you describe is to add the new elevation and name it E4.1...and so on.
I simply don't have time to redo everything because of a single change and over the years I have learned to accept the function of the software rather to fight against it. Adaptation is key!

You can easily add that as a Treatment > Exterior Millwork Above Casing. Create the symbol using a 3d solid or whatever tool works best for your style, convert it to millwork and add it to the library.
Make sure you are using an Exterior Lintel (no profile, width = 0"), then add the treatment and adjust the width as needed.

A simple way is to draw a grid of terrain paths / curbs / sidewalks in both directions that are quite skinny. You can draw one, then replicate it every 10' (or whatever works for you), then select them all and copy / rotate them 90 degrees.

This site has everything.
https://www.mcmaster.com/products/carriage-bolts/carriage-bolts~/medium-strength-grade-5-steel-square-neck-carriage-bolts/

Hi Ange, I can't tell you why Chief does this but it's them, not you:) Some items simply don't rebuild or update when other items are adjusted or rebuilt. I would expect that if you moved back to your plan view, select a single material region, open / close without changing anything, the material regions should rebuild. 
 
It's possible that only the selected material region will rebuild and if that's the case, then select all mat regions using the match properties tool, open / close with no adjustments, then go back to the camera view.
 
Another option in that camera view, would be to select the left wall, open / close with no adjustments.
 
Also, it's possible that F12 might rebuild them but often F12 doesn't rebuild these items in this type of scenario.

Check  for the display of this layer: Slabs

You'll need to make quite a few adjustments:
Set the clerestory window elevation reference to 'Absolute' reset the dormer walls to use default top & bottom heights set the dormer walls to 'gable'  - NOT knee walls Create an 'Open Below' room (exterior walls > not attic walls, uncheck 'No Room Definition, check connections at each end, make dormer walls one continuous wall)

Hi Jim, I'm not getting those results UNLESS the bottom of the window is in the space occupied by the finish flooring.
1/8" above the finish flooring should bring it back.
 

Here I've manually edited the wall polyline (something I hate doing but when all else fails...) and added a ceiling plane for the steeper ceiling. You can derive the correct elevations for your ceiling plane from a cross section view.

In layout, turn on the layer for layout boxes. Then review every page looking for empty layout boxes or boxes with seemingly 'random' drawings. Relink them or delete them.

All you need to do is open the Story pole Dimension Defaults and adjust the Grade Level Marker setting and make sure the Elevation Reference is Grade Level Marker. 
For Locate Elevations, make sure you're including the floor finish elevation. You will need to manually enter the thickness of the floor finish so if you make changes to this in the plan, you'll have to remember to update this value.

I didn't see this issue when I opened the plan. I will mention that you should create an Open Below room on the 2nd floor around the stairs. This room needs the same floor and ceiling elevations as the bonus room! Also, you could examine your plan for walls that don't have the default top and bottom heights and reset them to defaults.

Your rooms should ALL use the default floor structure (which should be defined). This will allow the floor framing to build uniformly. Currently the framing is being separated because there are different types.
Select all rooms on each floor and ensure Floor Structure - Default is checked. Open Default Settings and edit the Floor/ Ceiling Platform defaults. Ensure the framing layer is set to trusses (or whatever you prefer). Rebuild floor framing.

No, just open that wall's dialog (double click it), go to the Foundation tab, and you can spec the sill plate for that wall.

Perhaps the solution might be to allow both wall and door to be transparent. By adjusting the transparency you can control how the 'intensity' of the display of objects behind the glass.
Using my tempered glass material with transparency at:
10% 
 
50%
 
100%
 

Yes, using the Edit Area (All Floors) tool you can neatly cut a portion out and move the left or right remaining section the appropriate amount. A little trial and error along with the undo key and you'll have it figured out in no time!

Stairs: Press shift, then select the upper stair and uncheck "Open Risers".