rlackore

Please provide more information. A detailed description of the problem is a first step. Images are very helpful. You can also attach the plan file. As it is, you're not giving us much to go on.

Ignore my suggestion about the framing material - I just dug into my own wall definitions and discovered I've defined my interior furring as framing also, and I don't experience any issues. Is the room shown in a basement? What's happening on the other side of the wall? Why don't you post the plan so we can take a closer look.

This tool doesn't exist in Chief. I draw a line with arrow, break it at some point to turn it into a polyline, then edit the label to display the dimension.

The attached image isn't displaying for me - maybe it's my computer, or maybe the forum is having problems, or maybe it's the image.

I'd try changing the furring strip to any other material besides a framing material; try an "air gap" material.

It would be helpful if you posted a screenshot of your wall definition. Make sure the insulation board, furring strip, and drywall layers are "interior" layers, and that they aren't zero thickness.

It takes Chief a while to calculate when sending to Layout using Plot Lines - it's to be expected. As far as the settings, it's down to personal preference and experimenting.

Like Joey says, send to layout using Plot Lines, then select the Layout Box, open the Layout Box Layers dbx, and define a Layerset to make your annotations in color, but everything else greyscale:

Regarding the survey map, CAD lines will not display in a 3D view. One technique is to select a line, convert it to a molding polyline, and assign a molding profile - this will allow them to display in a 3D view.

There is no universal method for appraisers, or realtors, or building inspection departments, etc. for measuring residential square footage. There are attempts at establishing a standard, such as ANSI Z765, and the HUD methodology, but very few jurisdictions have adopted them for use. As I stated before, I use the ANSI method, which is very simple and transparent - and it includes interior chases as Finished Area. What is "Living Area", anyway? I've never heard the term outside of Chief; however, Chief's tools to measure Living Area provide a very close approximation of the result calculated using the ANSI method.

My public school kids are not allowed to cite Wikipedia as a reference.

I try to follow the ANSI Z765 standard, which includes interior chases/etc. as Finished Area, eg Living Area.

John, is the PDF a result of printing to PDF, or is a a screen grab? I suggest posting the plan.

Joey, look at the right side of the bottom elevation. I assume this is the area the OP is referring to - it appears the brick pattern fill is incomplete.

Asking to post the plan doesn't mean we're going to fix it for you; we can give better guidance and suggestions if we have access to the plan file - then you fix it yourself.

I suppose it's exactly what it says: the plan file you are attempting to open was created with a version of Chief that is newer than the version you are using. If you want to open the plan file, then you'll need to upgrade.

When I have to add a custom door to the schedule, I create a "Doors, Hidden" layer, draw a wall off to the side of my plan, then insert a hinged door and edit the Components so the schedule reads correctly. I've found this a useful method for shoji screens, barn doors, over-head coil doors, etc.

Post the plan.

I think it's just the way Chief works: When the prior owners of my house "finished" the basement they built the stud walls over the existing floor finishes (2 layers of carpet, 1 layer of pad, 1 layer of sheet linoleum, 1 layer of glue-down asbestos tile). Just thought I'd share that.

Look at the ceiling at the hipped roof over the kitchen. I'd check the ceiling height in the kitchen room dbx.

Happens to me all the time with angular dimensions. Sometimes the problem shows up in plan, other times in layout, other times not until I print. Very frustrating. I've quit using angular dimensions; now I draw an arc, put arrows on the end, and use text to call out the angle.

Just build the foundation/crawl-space/basement. That will "fill in the gaps".

I swear I saw Jenna demonstrating Normal Maps in an X9 preview. Have they not been incorporated into the Beta?

The last time I did an arcade I used fat walls with arched openings. It worked well enough.

I'm not on X9 yet, so I'm just spitballing, but does your stone material use a normal map? I'm wondering if a normal map is telling the rendering engine to shade around each stone.