First batch of tips

 I've been through the short Foundation and Framing videos, and I jotted down these items:

• If you label a room "Garage" after you have already built your foundation, you have to rebuild the foundation to have it apply Garage-ness on your room's floor and foundation.
• You can have a Pony wall (a "two-part wall") on every floor. Different kinds of siding don't have to stop at the floor platforms.
• Terrain or no terrain, it's sometimes easier to just draw a CAD line on the elevation or section
• You can take a section view on an angle--for example, a 45-degree section pointing at a corner of the building lets you align two things on the corner. Otherwise, you'd have to adjust one elevation, then the other.
• Don't forget that you can choose how Pony walls look in plan views--upper, lower, both, or ?
• You don't have to build framing for everything all at once:
• The Build Framing dialog has panels for Foundation, each floor platform, Walls, and Roof, each with a checkbox.
• Second, just select something--one wall, say--and click "Build Framing for Selected Object" in the lower toolbar.
• When you're sketching walls (not placing them precisely), hold down the Alt key. Then release the mouse button to turn corners.
• Doors and Windows have a 'Framing' panel for specifics about that opening.
• Build Framing > Openings panel is, basically, a span table
• Wall > Structure panel has a checkbox 'Retain Wall Framing,' which locks it against being rebuilt
• You must have Roof Planes before you can build the roof framing
• Edit > Defaults > Floor & Rooms > Floor/Ceiling Platform creates a hole for the platform that you can fill later with framing. It's all about specifying the height of that hole.
• Floor framing is always done on the floor below. For the first floor, go to Floor 0.
• You can tell Chief where to start laying out framing, so that 16" oc studs align with 48" wide panels, for example. This is called a Framing Reference Marker.
• Looking at the Display Layers list, start typing what you're looking for and it will jump there.
• Choose a tool (like Exterior Wall), then hold down the Shift key as you drag a selection box around stuff and only the exterior walls will be selected.