General Q & A

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24401 topics in this forum

  1. Finding or adding Plan Views

    By Mackenzie,
    • 13 replies
    • 840 views

  2. Problem Creating an A-frame in X15

    By CyndiM,
    • 2 replies
    • 600 views

  3. SLOPED CEILING

    By ChiefDesign2023,
    • 2 replies
    • 383 views

  4. What does interpolate tangent to edge mean?

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 373 views

  5. Is there a way I can set working plan view etc back to default without reinstalling?

    By cbucks,
    • 2 replies
    • 333 views

  6. Objects stopping at drywall

    By winterdd,
    • 2 replies
    • 275 views

  7. I deleted everything from a layer but it still says used and won't let me delete the layer is there a trick for this?

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 277 views

  8. Imported PDF to Lines

    By ehumble,
    • 6 replies
    • 339 views

  9. Unable to select rooms

    By GrizzlyBear,
    • 4 replies
    • 402 views

  10. Have a plan with multiple structures, is there a way I can make one of the structures on piers?

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 246 views

  11. Material Texture's

    By NeilofOZ,
    • 5 replies
    • 522 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 9 replies
    • 579 views

  13. Privacy screen with vertical slats at an angle?

    By cbucks,
    • 7 replies
    • 583 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 238 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 2 replies
    • 299 views

  16. Elevation point text rotation

    By robdyck,
    • 2 replies
    • 277 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 310 views

  18. DWG Files

    By TWWest,
    • 1 reply
    • 249 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 0 replies
    • 177 views

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

    By Charles,
    • 12 replies
    • 617 views

  21. The search window in my library disappeared? X15

    By mountaineer,
    • 3 replies
    • 416 views

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

    By JamesBolger,
    • 5 replies
    • 445 views

  23. Aligning exterior railings

    By AAInteriors,
    • 5 replies
    • 474 views

  24. 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
    • 2.7k views

  25. [ 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
    • 11.2k views