DavidJPotter

It sounds like you require additional Architectural services but are unwilling to exchange with a design professional further to obtain your desired results (that is how it seems to me from reading your post). I and others here like to work directly with our clients to make sure they get exactly what they want (a custom home is a Lifetime important proposition). That is why I charge by the hour because house design is a process which includes trial and error versions until the perfect house is achieved and proper exchange for professional services is the traditional way of our society. This forum has the purpose of end users helping other end users of Chief Architect Premier software, are you an end user? If so, what version of Chief Architect Premier do you use? If you want free service, you have come to the wrong trough to drink from, if you are a software user please state what your software is and post a copy of your plan file please. No one owes you their help. DJP

Here is how I would do it: https://youtu.be/4SlhvqqQZus DJP

I do, I also have versions 7 and 9.5 running in Windows XP x32. Sorry, I did-do not have any trouble installing it and its libraries, sorry you are having trouble. I was never able to get it installed in Windows 7, that is why I hung on to XP for old, legacy software. DJP

You need to better define what you mean when you say "right way" please. On inspection you have the main ceiling set to "Finished Ceiling=191 1/4" and the walls you are complaining of are programmed to "balloon frame through", with those settings, that is what you told the software to do. It has mechanically followed your commands and now you are are complaining that it has done so. I don't get it. DJP

There are settings in the Pony Wall dialog box that control how the pony wall sections align one to the other. Carefully look that dialog and its settings over to find the correct one for your purposes. DJP

Call Chief Architect Sales and ask them, it is them who are the authorities and not end users (US) who know and enforce the "law". DJP

Susan, the FIRST place I would go for help is Tech Support which you paid for with your SSA. They have been offering Network support for years and know what problems arise and how to fix them. They actually sell network licenses and versions and I am sure some useful advice will come from a call to them. DJP

Here is me fiddling around with your plan based upon what I know, hope it helps you: https://youtu.be/YJdAqUTWpDo DJP

Do you want the existing file repaired? I cannot tell what is "right or wrong" with this file, I can see the roof planes that need editing but without knowing in some detail what you actually intend,it would be guessing and I prefer not to guess. DJP

The program is a mechanical device and you cannot expect it to take two orders and comply them both but what you can do, for plan view is to add a 2D CAD wall on the second floor, perhaps using a dashed line style so you have something there for plan view. The reason it does not show on the second floor is because you ordered it to be on the first floor, so there is where it shows and rightfully so. DJP

Every visible object that can be selected has a dialog box and in that dialog box one can then alter or edit that object, try that please. DJP

I am not the original author of "RTFM" but merely an acolyte. I have learned much from people but I have also learned much by myself reading the manual, help files, videos and User Guide. It comes down to intelligence and responsibility. No one is an island unto himself (except perhaps for Glenn W. The rest of us mortals should probably study some is all I am saying. I am pretty sure Glenn Woodward has been guilty of study sometime, somewhere. DJP

I recently reread the "Users Guide" and it occurred to me that, as a long time user and teacher I should point out that many questions asked here on this forum by new users and not so new users are fully answered in the "Users Guide" ( Help - View Users Guide) and secondarily any other answers are fully contained in the Reference Manual ( Help - View Reference Manual) and Video tutorials (Help - View Video Tutorials). Why Human Beings no longer study is a mystery to me, I guess we are in a hurry and modern people have not been trained to study first and then, having become learned. then do. I am merely suggesting it to you as a new thought and a better, more economical use of your and others time. DJP

I looked at your file and I don't understand what you are talking about: the decks aka docks are "stacked" and I see nothing "wrong" with the railings. What exactly is "wrong" in some detail please? DJP

You can adjust fascia in each Roof Dialog box-Framing Tab or via Default Settings - Framing - Roof Framing. The usual procedure for trusses, is to build them and then rebuild Roof Framing at which time, the tool will frame to the trusses without disturbing them. DJP

The main one I know of is Vince Kunisek ,Long time user. DJP