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Copy it and delete everything but walls. Start by deleting all framing (Edit>Delete Objects). Turn on auto framing for walls, floors, roof etc.

Edit>Edit Area (All Floors) Copy Paste into the new plan, rotate as needed. Best to have the buildings square with the screen and rotate the plot plan as needed.

Delete the framing or turn off its display in Layer Display Options.

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/6U4GCzA1EeQ?hd=1

Start with the plot plan. Once drawn, save a copy. You will want to rotate it so the house is drawn square to the screen.

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/InRDAh5BZJk?hd=1

Look again at the image I posted above. The cabinet filler is tiny -- 1/8" deep, 1/8" high, and could be 1/16x1/16. Placed back against the wall no one will see it.

For centering a cabinet between 2 windows, or more specifically the casing on each window, place a cabinet between them and drag each end of the cabinet until it bumps into the casing. Open the cabinet and set the width you want.

No -- as you found out, it needs to stay. A picture/drawing would help explain.

This feature was just added to Chief this latest release -- center between 2 points, and in chief, you can pick up centers and edges of things. When I was using Pro, I frequently drew CAD lines to use where there was nothing to locate. Center cad lines on 2 windows. Draw a 3rd line connecting those 2. The center tool will find the center of the connecting CAD line.

Make a small cabinet to act as a filler. You will need to change the cabinet defaults to allow a reduced width. Place the filler cabinet and size it, then bump the other cabinet against it.

I believe you are correct -- might check the Bonus Catalogs for a horizontal outlet, and sill color is the same as casing color.

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You changed the ceiling height to what is shown by the short red line. You can see a black line in the 2 taller walls showing the level of the ceiling in that room. Ceiling height is one way of controlling wall height. Start by raising the ceiling 8', just as a test. Use a cross section or elevation camera to see what happens. And turn on Auto Rebuild Roofs.

Does this help?

It depends on how accurate, and exactly what you want to show. Your options are limited with Architectural. You cannot, for example, remove the back from a cabinet.

As I suspected -- don't know why people change these settings Do you see what's wrong?

You didn't show any of that above I think you will still need to do some things manually. Only Pro lets you define floor structures, for example.

Select the circled wall in elevation and reshape it so it fills in.

I would add your roof/ceiling and floor structures manually using soffits or slabs or custom countertops. Make the room Open Below and no roof. Your columns need to be placed manually too. Architectural doesn't have the control over structure that you need to do much automatically.

The easiest way to get a curved roof is to use a dormer. You then need to use the manual roof tools to modify.

I did this video for Chief Architect users, but you might get some ideas from it as pro has many of the same tools.

I believe the material needs to be set to Area -- it's now set to Count. You need to report this directly to Chief so it can be corrected.

I believe you need to start with a standard Perspective Overview and change things to show as you want. For your wood framed walls, you would create a new wall type without drywall and turn on the wall framing layer so it shows.

A framing overview only shows walls on level 0 and walls above that are framed. It doesn't show walls that are not framing like a CMU or pored concrete wall.