General Q & A

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26608 topics in this forum

  1. Material Texture's

    By NeilofOZ,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.3k views

  2. Terrain taking forever to interpolate not sure if there is anything I can change to speed up?

    By cbucks,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.3k views

  3. Privacy screen with vertical slats at an angle?

    By cbucks,
    • 7 replies
    • 2.4k views

  4. Somehow I messed up my default tool for create a retaining wall, is there a way to reset?

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 804 views

  5. How do you change the name that appears for the floor in layout?

    By cbucks,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views

  6. Elevation point text rotation

    By robdyck,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views

  7. GLASS HOUSE WITH 1 OBJECT SOLID?

    By woodcraftdesign,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.8k views

  8. Problem using reference display, when I go to glass house the structure is visible but standard terrain gone

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 974 views

  9. DWG Files

    By TWWest,
    • 1 reply
    • 786 views

  10. While Chief is building a terrain/interpolating is there a way to work on another plan on Mac?

    By cbucks,
    • 0 replies
    • 655 views

  11. "Rubber Stamping" a typical apartment into a hi-rise?

    By Charles,
    • 12 replies
    • 2.1k views

  12. The search window in my library disappeared? X15

    By mountaineer,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  13. Material won't cover entire wall without having multiple duplicates

    By JamesBolger,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.7k views

  14. Aligning exterior railings

    By AAInteriors,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.6k views

  15. When i build a custom wainscot everything looks fine. When i add a window, however, it cuts through the wainscot all the way down to the baseboard height! Any ideas on how to stop windows from doing that?

    By Denzil,
    • 19 replies
    • 4.8k views

  16. [ LONG POST ] - I'm a new user, hoping to ask the Chief community if Chief Architect is the best program for my somewhat-unusual use-case. Would greatly appreciate help. 1 2

    By Ty_Tradeswork,   
    • 37 replies
    • 16.6k views

  17. Framing wall details

    By StVrainHabitat,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views

  18. FLOOR PLAN APPS

    By builtright3,
    • 17 replies
    • 15.6k views

  19. It looks like every scrap of previous installs is gone after upgrading to X15.

    By BeachHouse1,
    • 3 replies
    • 983 views

  20. Crash on printing to PDF

    By AmandaBrady,
    • 9 replies
    • 4.3k views

  21. Is there a place to set a default degree for the spline segment angle on electrical connections?

    By DIYJon,
    • 0 replies
    • 784 views

  22. Edit hole in 3d solid

    By RL-inc,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  23. Delete Unwanted/Unused layers

    By HumbleChief,
    • 4 replies
    • 2.2k views

  24. Can auto roof on top plate above ceiling joists be done?

    By CARMELHILL,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.4k views

  25. Curtain Walls

    By raltd9245,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.2k views