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This type of issue should be reported directly to Chief. In general, bonus library content is trouble free.

Here is an example. Draw 4 cad lines. Place your fixtures. Center your fixtures on the vertical lines, then on the horizontal line. You can block the 3 fixtures together and then move them anywhere. If you position the CAD lines properly, the lights will be in the correct place, and you can then delete the CAD lines. CAD lines are useful for many things that involve positioning. Aligning things between floors, for example. Center a CAD line on some object on the 1st floor, copy the line, go to 2nd floor, paste hold position. You now have a reference to something on the first floor.

You can always draw a CAD line and dimension to it.

Set your defaults. Draw walls, build roof and basement/foundation. Everything works together so you need everything drawn and in place. Refine what you have done. Focus on the structure and resist adding furniture, cabinets, paintings on the walls etc until the structure is correct. Add terrain. Suite has many limitations, so in some cases, you may only be able to get close. People here will help with overcoming problems as they arise.

You will not break anything by building framing, and it's typical to use the auto tools to start, even if you plan on manual modifications. As David said, set your defaults to start, but keep Auto Rebuild Framing checked so it's kept up to date as you make changes.

Start a new thread, and attach the plan file. Someone will solve your problem. No plan = guessing.

That looks like the roof needs to be pulled back a bit. Also, make sure the walls are aligned between floors.

Layouts in Pro are single page. You will need to create multiple layouts, one for each page.

Some rooms have Monolithic Slab Foundation checked, some do not. That's why a "foundation" is visible at the front door. On the interior, select a wall in a camera view, grab the bottom handle and pull the wall down to cover the exposed concrete.

Even with Chief, you need to place these things manually. Chief has tools that make this a bit easier than in Pro, but placing beams with post and footings is simple, even in Pro.

Knowing nothing about the requirements or function of this structure makes it difficult to make constructive comments. Assuming this is drawn with the front door facing south. Generally too little natural light. Rooms like the dining should be on an outside wall. Resident rooms should have better daylighting, as should the common area. This goes for the 2nd floor too. Deck might move to the south side making it usable more days throughout the year. Office -- It looks to be set up for meeting with the public, so why place it at the back of the private space? There is room downstairs if the closet side of the entry were enlarged a bit. Upper floor could be extended over the entry to the front wall bringing in southern light. Entry needs to be sheltered by a roof structure. Resident rooms seem ill proportioned, with the bedroom being larger. I'd rethink the kitchen layout. Is one refrigerator enough? If the second floor area extended fully over the garage, it could have better windows.

One more question. Looking at a camera view from the second floor toward the entry closet on first floor, I see no ceiling structure, even though I specified "ceiling above". What happened to the ceiling that is supposed to be there? It's because of the Open Below space above. Place a room divider or invisible wall on the second floor to create a room over the closet. That will get you a floor structure you can modify to become the ceiling structure of the closet below. I sometimes delete the floor structure in an open below room. Not sure if this would help.

For the gable entry -- Auto Roofs build over Rooms. Create a room and you will be able to control the roof above. Are you modeling an existing house, or is this a new design? If existing, posting pictures of it will help us help you. If new, a description of the structure will help. Set correct room types as you go. The front "porch" looks like an undefined room, when it should have a Porch room type. If this is a 1-1/2 story house, then it needs to be built that way before considering the roof. For the missing wall in front, it's easy to just drag the wall on the left across, but we don't know what the inside looks like.

Study the roof planes. You will find the smaller gable roof intruding into the wall. It's generally best to get your structure built correctly, then work on the roof. If you want an open gable, check No Ceiling, and delete, or make invisible the auto generated gable wall.

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Search Help for cabinet filler, follow the trail.

Your roof will auto build correctly if you create a room by extending the front living room wall across to the bedroom, forming a porch. Roofs build over rooms.

Just pull the roof planes back as shown and then use the join tool to bring them back together.

Make sure the plan is not open in the software.

have you searched HELP for Sloped Soffit?

Post #4 above.

Check out the videos on YouTube linked below. Several good ones on roofs. Also search YouTube for David Potter videos. He shows many examples. Those roof planes should join with the Join tool and not have the fascia problems, or just manually edit the roof planes. -------------- Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube

That's unfortunate, because it, in my opinion, needs lots of work. It looks like this is being built in Alaska. Suggest you rethink the entire plan considering snow and darkness, the apartment above, bathrooms in the resident rooms -- they need doors that open out, for example. Bedroom windows need to meet egress requirements. The exterior looks more like an office building than a home. Maybe something that looks less institutional? How about stairs to the apartment in the rear instead of front, and a private entrance for access to the upstairs. Change Suite 4 so there are windows in the living area. And so on.

I'm suggesting it does not matter what industry standard is, what matters is how the program works. I'd be grateful if you could link "industry standards" for windows. I personally use Left-Operable to describe this type of window.

Because your image is looking at the window from the INSIDE. In the software, for a left sliding window, the right part slides to the left -- looking at the window from the outside.