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I've asked Gemini and searched through the forums and knowledge base but can't seem to find this seemingly simple answer. I'm on the Mac version of X17 - I know how to save each Active View as a short name (like Laundry Room, Kitchen, etc.), but my tabs for each view still contain the project name, plan name and short name which makes it really hard to find the right view quickly once I have a bunch of tabs open. Where can I remove the project name and plan name and just see my short View name? Thanks!

I've had computer and browser (Firefox) crashing this week related to a recent Nvidia GPU driver. That would be my first thought on this. You might try to roll back your driver to see if it helps. Otherwise, I find Chief pretty stable.

I have X17 and until you just now said this I realized that evertime my system shuts down on me its when Im working in CA. So I guess it may not be my computer thats the problem, could be related to CA

This belongs in Q&A section. Style pallets work well for spraying.

Gonna give this a shot. Thanks for the tip.

I am pretty sure you will find all of your folders under "Documents". You are looking for a folder called "Chief Architect Premier X16 Data" where the X16 is the version of chief you have installed. I would make sure those folders exist or didn't somehow get remapped transparently without you being aware.... In my case this happened when I set my Mac to sync with iCloud. Suddenly everything was missing. This is because in order for things to sync with iCloud, they had to be in a certain folder and therefore "documents" was remapped by macOS to the new folder. Once I reset the folder path location in Chief everything sorted itself out. If the data folders exist check the actual "documents" folder path and compare with what is in chief. if you don't know how to do that a quick google search should suffice.

Hello; I too have now noticed that my "User Libraries" have disappeared suddendly in all of my versions of Chief, as I even opened the preferences in this version X17, and then older versions, say, X11. I need your help pls, in trying now to find a way to restore my User Libraries from the Preferences, or from another data point from the cloud or the Chief software itself....? Any help or support here is greatly appreciated. Thanks agin.

Also you can unlock roof trim layer and adjust how you want it

Looked right past it for many times. Thanks!! Gerard

There are several ways to do what you're you're attempting to do, BUT you have to consider the fact that Chief won't allow you to change the properties for a mulled unit when selected along with a normal window. That being said, the most all-encompassing solution is this: Drop a window schedule into your plan that only includes only a 2D Symbol column. There are other columns that would work as well, but the idea is to use a single column so that only one line item is generated by the schedule. Set the schedule to include all relevant window types. Select the one single line item in your schedule and click the Open Row Object tool. This will essentially let you edit every single window in the plan. You can optionally use the Find Object(s) in Plan tool if you want to select and edit for only a specific floor. In order for the above to work for mulled units, you will need to set all mulled units to Show Component Labels so that they are being listed (and therefore selected and edited) as individual units and not as mulled units. There are sneaky ways to make quick/temporary work of this as well, but that is a different thing.

Use a stacked molding for the shadow board.. Set the fascia thickness to 1/16" or turn it off.

open up the camera dbx and you see the backclipped adjustment and the framing backclipped adjustment checkboxes and amount needed area.

You can hold the control key and select each window that you want to include but I dont think you can include the mulled units.

I would like to change the grid pattern to a single vertical stile on all windows on an existing plan. When I use the marquee tool, it will only select similar types. Is there a way to select all windows at once including mulled units? I've changed it in the defaults but it is not updating. I do not have restrictive selection checked.

Yup. All good notes. A few more that are worth considering as well: If you have Auto Refresh turned on for Auto Exterior Dimensions, you don't even have to generate those. Chief will do it automatically with no need to switch defaults. If you have Auto Refresh for Auto Room Dimensions turned on, you will only need to switch Active Defaults the first time your generate dimensions for any given room(s) In lieu of adding the Active Dimension Default Control you could also just create a special Plan View for this purpose.

Hello All, I am running X16 and my machine exceeds all the baseline specs. Drivers are all up to date. I have been getting the dreaded "internal rendering, blah blah" error. This week, while on a live Zoom with clients for a huge project it happened. Clients were not impressed. It was incredibly embarrassing and down right unprofessional. So I finally decided to call tech support - they had me change a few things and said "good to go". This morning while working on a different project - boom - it happened again. I hate upgrading versions in the middle of big projects but can anyone tell me if this problem has (finally) been resolved in X17? Thank You

A while back, many where saying you can't control column heights in schedules. That's not true. (or at least not for a while). TIP: Schedule column height can be adjusted not just via what Font you use, but via Margins around those fonts. To fix this, Just increase your top and bot FYI: I don't get on the forums much, but I would like to start sharing some of the very frustrating things that took me a long time to figure out. What should be easy, is sometimes made way to complex. Enjoy!

I’m sorry to interrupt but I just want to make a comment/compliment; I want to say how impressed I am by your intellect and memory. I appreciate your help whenever I need it. I'm a more out of the box user, dependent on the writers of the program and my work isn't on the same design level as yours. My more complicated builds I subcontract. Anyway, the point was to tell you how much I appreciate you guys and learning from reading these post even though I don’t understand some of it.

You're seeing the warning because your currently selected dimension default has auto dimensions turned off. You need the change which dimension default is currently active to the one that has auto dimensions turned on. To use this method you'll need to change your current Active Dimension Default to the dimension you want to generate, then back to your normal drawing dimension default to resume normal drawing. Set everything up like Michael described Add the Active Dimension Default Control drop-down menu to your toolbar (see screenshot) Before generating auto dimensions, go to the drop-down and select the dimension default for the auto dimension you want to generate Generate the dimensions Go back to the drop-down and select your normal dimension default Add the Active Dimension Default Control tool to your toolbar:

Fix it with a CAD patch on live for your detail. Or do CAD detail from view and your wish is your command.

Wish i knew the answer to this one too.

It's not the LX1 it was the moasure 2. Same tech probably. Might be ok for something you need really basic measurements on but not accurate

This'll require manual roofs. it should be relatively easy tho.

Are you wanting the upper roof to extend down to lower roof or vice versa?

This is one of those things that frustrate me too. Would really like more control over how these walls clean up like "don't clean up this intersection!" The cleanup wall tool does help sometimes. Anyway, try this.... Step 1 - pull the end of the wall out past the intersection. Step 2 - Grab the diamond on the end of the wall to draw a new wall, just a few inches, in the direction opposite the shower wall but perpendicular to the existing wall. Step 3 - make the new wall invisible. Step 4 - move the new invisible wall back towards the original location, where you want the end of the wall. Adding the invisible wall gives the wall something to cleanup with. If you really want to get technical make a new invisible wall layer for the little wall piece and turn it off.