DavidJPotter

The best thing about Sketch Up 3D Warehouse stuff is that is freely shared by other Sketch Up users. The bad part is there is no "Quality Control" other than yourself. some downloads are not as well made as others and they are made, number one for Sketch Up and not for other CAD programs, thus the hit and miss on 3D Warehouse downloads relative to general quality and assigned materials. Symbols you get from Chief Architect do have quality control as to materials and the number of 3D faces is kept low. I often download several symbols to keep just one of those, throwing the rest away after download and evaluation. I suggest that you adopt a similar philosophy and just appreciate that they are free, DJP

The software should automatically fill in those walls underneath the roof plane unless you have turned off "Auto Rebuild walls, floors, and ceilings" under the "3D" menu or you have turned off "Walls Attic" in "Layer Display Options" dialog for the camera type you are using. DJP

In Chief Architect and Home Designer software, generally speaking, one can do what is possible by way of the Cabinet Specification Dialog for individual existing cabinets including door style or type. The best way to handle this is to open "Edit - Default Settings - Cabinets" and then set all majority settings per cabinet type including dimensions, material assignations, door and drawer style, and type before creating cabinets in a plan file. The choices available as Eric implied is variable from software title to title and version to version thus my general answer above. Your choices will be limited to the software title and version that you have. DJP

Also, I always mentor my students by making sure they know to quickly lookup and get defined any terms or symbols they are unfamiliar with while studying or using this software. If you do not understand the nomenclature, the language, then its technology and procedures will not be easily transmitted to you as the learner. English words and symbols often have more than a single "meaning" or "Definition" in a sentence, an oft used example of this is the word "of" which has 32 distinct meanings depending where it falls in a sentence, so having the correct definition is essential to the student. This software is a mechanical device. In and of itself it contains NO intelligence, judgement or knowledge. It was created by intelligence and experience but itself has NONE of these qualities. So it is upon you alone to provide intelligence, planning and guidance that it needs from you to obtain a creative result. DJP

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If you have Home Designer Pro it will NOT show any framing in the walls until you manually order the wall framing to be built (No framing built equals no visible framing). Architectural, Suite, Interiors and Essentials auto-build framing by default, Pro does not. DJP

The cross-section camera view does not contain the columns because they are outside of the extents of the back clipped cross-section camera that you used, the whole point of using a back clipped camera is so you can include or exclude objects, if you wish the columns included in your cross-section view then make sure your camera viewpoint includes at least one of them in its view field. Currently, it does not. Each camera type and plan views have each their own "Display Options" dialog that allows you to control what is seen or not seen per plan or camera view. The Back Clip Cross-section camera just adds a little more control relative to what you can and cannot include in the view. DJP

Share a copy of your plan file so others can then look and see what can or can't be done. DJP

Find out what your local building authority requires for new single home family dwellings. These people have websites and people whose job it is to advise and help you. You do not know what to expect, then find out for yourself what is required, now. DJP

HD is programmed to allow "Living space" to be created on Floor zero, one, two or three, never in the Attic or <A> floor level, so f your garage plan does not yet include a second floor you are just wasting time. You leave the roof planes resting on the first floor and then manually draw the walls for the attic room on floor two but underneath the existing roof planes of the first floor. That is how you then get a "storey and a half" outcome. DJP

That command still exists in Chief Premier and I rarely use it because 0f what rookie65 observed and I agree it is not worth the aggravation it causes or you might say the work it causes that has to be manually repaired afterward. It is a lot easier to just draw interior dimensions manually and this IS what I currently do when I need and want them. good riddance I say. DJP

You should be able to download any of these that are free or even those that are for sale but you must also pay for those, take a look: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/library&search=&x=0&y=0&x=true&soft_family_2=2&hid_soft_family_2=2& DJP

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No, sorry. DJP

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Please share your plan file with me and I can and will work with you to straighten it up and get your plans done. DJP

In your posted image I see a gable where one would expect to see a gable roof, If you do not have a structural wall under such a gable you often must draw such a wall manually on the Attic <A> floor level. DJP

Yes, that should work perfectly, unlike a ".dwg" file the layers exported will be only on a single named layer. DJP

What software are you using? If all you have is auto-roof generation you can lower a ceiling height and that secondarily lowers the roof over that room. DJP

This is easily done in Chief Premier but no so in HD Pro. If I were you, I would create a ".plan" file and call it Wall Types and then when I wanted that wall type you could then copy-paste that custom wall type into your current plan from the "Wall Types" plan. A lot of what Chief Premier can do can be done in Pro but it usually takes additional steps in Pro. DJP

This may be helpful, take a look DJP

After you learn how to manually create and adjust roof planes, it gets easier and easier but NOT at first. DJP

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I agree with Eric above, what, more succinctly stated, is your question? I downloaded your plan file and looked it over. What I noticed is that the auto-roof generator was building the roof plane edges too close to the intended taller walls, thus cutting them off from their intended height. To get what I think you wish you would have to do this manually seems on the surface to be simple but is actually rather complex. DJP

Turn "Angle Snaps" back on. DJp