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Close Pro first.

Imagine you are building a house. You get to the roof, take a few measurements and realize something is out of square. Think of all the ways this could happen. The software is like that. Your model gets built up in layers, many of which build on the previous ones. To understand the problem many times requires looking at the model. Moral of the story -- attach the plan file.

I'm not sure -- have you checked the Bonus Catalogs?

From Help: Calculate Materials in Room To create the Materials List for a room, select the room and then select Tools> Materials List> Calculate Materials for Room. Calculate Materials in Room is also available on a selected room’s edit toolbar. See Editing Rooms. A Materials List calculated from a room is created for only the contents of that room: wall materials are not included. An object will be counted in the Materials List if its center point is located inside of the room.

Make sure the software is using it. Preferences>Video Card Status

My answer was yes, and again, if you are using the Chief Architect trial, you should be asking on the Chief forum linked above. Help with what? The trial does not let you save, so someone would need to create your design from scratch. You should post images of what you are doing with Chief, not SketchUp.

Did my response above not answer your question?

You can draw in your own lines, or review the Slab Footing tool -- you did not mention the type of foundation.

No.

The Chief Architect site is https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/ HomeTalk is for the Home Designer products. Please post screen captures, or just the original image instead of a PDF of an image. As for your question, I would say yes, the software can do it. This is a model I did with Home Designer Pro which has a subset of the roof tools in Chief Premier.

Nope. It's a bit frustrating, I know. Just reset the other settings to their defaults working from the top down.

The software thinks about the floor height for the first floor. It builds the foundation down from there, and the rest of the structure starting there and going up.

Foundations are rooms. Open it and adjust as needed.

Because you are using manual roofs, you are responsible for where everything goes. You have a rather unique design. Is this an existing structure or a new build?

If you don't want the pitch to change, it needs to be locked. Click the Lock radio button beside pitch before making other changes. if you want to raise the entire plane up or down with no other changes, try Transform/Replicate.

Offhand I can't point you to anything specific, but it's covered in the documentation. There is a tutorial linked under the Help menu, and links to PDF format Reference and User guides as well. The hour long getting started webinars posted on the Chief Architect YouTube channel are also good resources. You want to try and set all the defaults you can before starting the plan as this will generally result in a better model with fewer problems. Wall defaults can be frustrating as you think everything is set and still the program is using the wrong wall type or materials. Once you think things are set, I like to create a simple test model to see how things are working.

Adding an image so others may not need to download and open the plan is always helpful I did not look at the plan, but you can easily change a roofs height with Transform/Replicate, or from within the roof plane dialog. What sort of "goofy results" are you getting -- pictures?

Your defaults for walls and wall materials are not set correctly so the software is filling in what it thinks should be there. An easy fix is to use the Material Eyedropper and paint the green siding to match the other.

You need to do it manually. Electric does not connect floor to floor.

Look at Roof Structure in the roof defaults.

Can you explain more about what you are trying to do? What 3D view camera type? What are you referring to when you say the wall top?

Open the door specification dialog and review your options. Open Help and search

If you don't need framing, you could make that wall from a slab, soffit etc.

Draw and align the 1st floor wall. Copy, then Paste/Hold Position on the 2nd floor. No special settings needed. Do you know about the Align With Floor Above/Below tools that show in the Edit Toolbar when a wall is out of alignment?

It looks like you should be asking in the SketchUp forum Not understanding the problem.