General Q & A

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26774 topics in this forum

  1. What are you building?

    By ShaneK,
    • 7 replies
    • 3k views

  2. What are you running?

    By AmandaBrady,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.3k views

  3. What are your thoughts about Chief X10's new 'Plan Views' feature?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 10 replies
    • 3.2k views

  4. What Came First? House Or Plat, Or Does It Matter? 1 2

    By keithhe,
    • 40 replies
    • 8.9k views

  5. What can cause walls not to grow up to roof planes?

    By rockyshepheard,
    • 4 replies
    • 4k views

  6. What causes sunlight to bleed through walls when rendering?

    By DIYJon,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views

  7. What Causes The 'floor Height To Be Grayed Out?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.5k views

  8. What Causes This Weird Floor Separation

    By briang552014,   
    • 10 replies
    • 2.8k views

  9. What code is referenced in CA

    By BillsburgChief,
    • 3 replies
    • 2k views

  10. What controls the text height for "show length" label?

    By Michael_Gia,
    • 7 replies
    • 2.5k views

  11. What corruption is causing this roof plane to not be editable? See thread in Suggestions "Pls fix roof problem"

    By GeneDavis,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.5k views

  12. What determines how high your first floor is above ground level?

    By Markenbach,
    • 6 replies
    • 5.2k views

  13. What Determines Overview Camera X,Y Location?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 10 replies
    • 2.9k views

  14. What determines whether lookouts are autoframed or not? Got none on a shed dormer roof and I want them.

    By GeneDavis,
    • 1 reply
    • 818 views

  15. what did I do to my cursor?

    By lindatchambers,   
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views

  16. What Do I Do To Keep Items From Passing Thru Walls Intead Of Attaching To Them

    By WOODYIMB,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views

  17. what do you like to draw with?

    By DianeP,
    • 22 replies
    • 5.1k views

  18. What do you use for perimeter units? 1 2

    By Joe_Carrick,
    • 29 replies
    • 7.4k views

  19. what do you use for topo measuring in the field?

    By Lighthouse,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.7k views

  20. What do you use to make floating shelves?

    By bdillard1,
    • 8 replies
    • 5k views

  21. What Do You Use When Measuring a House? 1 2 3

    By DHerb2014,
    • 69 replies
    • 27k views

  22. What Does Chief Snap To When All Snaps are Off?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 22 replies
    • 3.9k views

  23. What does interpolate tangent to edge mean?

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views

  24. What Does The Circle At The End Of A Dim Line Represent?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.4k views

  25. What does this ERROR Message mean?

    By Larry_Sweeney,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.7k views