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If I understand correctly, which is a big if: Referencing the Default Settings>Floors and Rooms>Floor Levels>Floor 0 dialog box, the basic issue is that the Absolute Elevations>Floor value needs to be coordinated with the Relative Heights>Stem Wall value. You can either: 1. Adjust the Stem Wall value: 2. Adjust the Floor value:

The stringers are 1/2" plate; modeled them with Polyline Solids in X9 I believe.

I need them for setting up isometric cartoons of structural and special assemblies. Sometimes I use CAD, but other conditions need to be modeled for 3D purposes, so I use the model to build the isometric:

The terrain hole modifies the terrain above and below, as you've noted, so it may not help with an earth home that is partially buried. AFAIK, Chief doesn't have a terrain feature that can create a horizontal recess in a terrain perimeter. Some creative possibilities may include polyline solids, molding polylines, etc.

Turn off Hide Terrain Intersected by Building.

You could use a tile texture built with the development team's Substance Player Tile_Builder. Here is a quick and dirty: Metal_Wall_Panel.calibz

@DefinedDesign, here is what I use: Wire Shelf.calibz Wire Shelf with Standards.calibz Insert the Wire Shelf with Standards symbol into your plan. It's set up for a "standard" 18x60 unit. This symbol has 4 corner standards with casters, and the lowest shelf at 6" off the floor, per most commercial food codes. Then insert the Wire Shelf symbol, center it on the previous symbol in both the X and Y axes, and set the height accordingly; repeat for every shelf you need.

I believe Gene has a good workflow; if you're using Sketchup Pro you can export the Section Slice as a .dwg file, and import that into Chief for tracing, so you won't need to resize an image file.

If you're using the Chief core content, the solid fill is turned on for the Tube Lighting>Recessed symbols, but not the Tube Lighting>Surface Mounted symbols.

One way to cheat this: 1. Edit the Roof Plane Specification>Structure>Roof Layers>Surface>Roof Surface Definition material to 1/1000" thickness. It will display as "zero": 2. In plan view, drag the roof eaves to be flush with the exterior siding, then drag them out to be 1/1000" beyond the face of the exterior siding. This forces Chief to generate the Gable Fascia and Eave Fascia, but the value is so small that the geometry will merge nicely: 3. The section will need CAD cleanup, but it's not a bad starting point:

I draw a heavy dashed line and use a note. There are so many ways for a contractor to create a baffle, so I leave it up to them; it isn't a detail I need to micromanage.

There has been a recent discussion here, and a recent suggestion here.

Solution to question 1: Open the Stair Specification dialog box. Under the General tab, uncheck Automatic Heights, check Top Tread, Lock Bottom, and paste the deck room floor height value into the upper stair section's Top Height box.

Robert, I understand that I can force the text wrapping by adjusting the column width. In X13, this wasn't necessary. I like all my schedules with equal overall widths, so automatic text wrapping is important to me. Okay, maybe that's a bit OCD, but my frustration is that it worked in X13! Why the change?

Nope, I spoke too soon. If you stretch the schedule column, the wrapping disappears:

Thanks for confirming that it should work. I also tested this condition in a OOB template, and it works correctly. There must be a setting or other variable that controls the behavior, that I haven't discovered. If you find what it may be, please post it here. Thanks!

Joe, the schedules in my screenshots are using the Comments field - I renamed the column heading to "description".

Gene, that means the width of the column will always be dictated by the cell with the longest single line of text. In X13 resizing columns wasn't necessary. Why did the behavior change?

In X13, multi-line text in Object Information Fields displayed as multi-line text in Schedules: In X14, multi-line text in Object Information Fields displays as a single line of text in Schedules: I hope there is a Preference of Default setting that controls this, because I depend on multi-line behavior for my Schedules. Any help or insight is appreciated.

As Joe mentioned, check the X13 Reference Manual and the videos on the Chief website. And examine the plan file I provided in my previous post. Good luck.

Too much to explain. Here's the plan file you can dig into: 386671785_MontenegroIgalo.plan

Window Specification>Label>Plan View Position and Orientation This setting can be adjusted on a per-window basis; it can also be set in the Defaults. Or, select the Window and drag the Label into position using the Label's edit handle.

Are you looking for something like this?

No idea; but I've run into framing issues myself when I don't have my Walls, Floors, etc. defined properly, so my guess would be Yes.

Open the Wall Type Definitions for the framed walls, select the Main Layer, and check the Material layer>Framing box.