General Q & A

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24397 topics in this forum

  1. 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

  2. Imported PDF to Lines

    By ehumble,
    • 6 replies
    • 339 views

  3. Unable to select rooms

    By GrizzlyBear,
    • 4 replies
    • 402 views

  4. 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

  5. Material Texture's

    By NeilofOZ,
    • 5 replies
    • 521 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 9 replies
    • 577 views

  7. Privacy screen with vertical slats at an angle?

    By cbucks,
    • 7 replies
    • 582 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 238 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 2 replies
    • 299 views

  10. Elevation point text rotation

    By robdyck,
    • 2 replies
    • 277 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 1 reply
    • 309 views

  12. DWG Files

    By TWWest,
    • 1 reply
    • 249 views

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

    By cbucks,
    • 0 replies
    • 177 views

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

    By Charles,
    • 12 replies
    • 617 views

  15. The search window in my library disappeared? X15

    By mountaineer,
    • 3 replies
    • 416 views

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

    By JamesBolger,
    • 5 replies
    • 445 views

  17. Aligning exterior railings

    By AAInteriors,
    • 5 replies
    • 474 views

  18. 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

  19. [ 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

  20. Framing wall details

    By StVrainHabitat,
    • 2 replies
    • 358 views

  21. FLOOR PLAN APPS

    By builtright3,
    • 18 replies
    • 1.7k views

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

    By BeachHouse1,
    • 3 replies
    • 318 views

  23. Crash on printing to PDF

    By AmandaBrady,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.3k views

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

    By DIYJon,
    • 0 replies
    • 227 views

  25. Edit hole in 3d solid

    By RL-inc,
    • 3 replies
    • 344 views