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  1. Sloping Ceilings in Chief Architect X8 / FREE TRAINING VIDEO

    By DMDesigns,   
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views

  2. Screened porch doors: How do you do them?

    By GeneDavis,
    • 3 replies
    • 829 views

  3. Floor Surfaces Disappeared

    By BruceBoardman,
    • 1 reply
    • 731 views

  4. How to place Light inside pony wall

    By capitaldesigns,   
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views

  5. Hi, looking for a way to preview pages of dwg files as thumbnails?

    By zowie123,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views

  6. Annotation Sets

    By REMDES,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  7. Section lines display not the same in view as layout?

    By dskogg,
    • 5 replies
    • 1k views

  8. Rotating polyline objects in 3d view 1 2

    By shingabiss,
    • 25 replies
    • 6.1k views

  9. Symbol stacking

    By Griffin,
    • 4 replies
    • 943 views

  10. What's your workaround for beam sizing in railing wall

    By GeneDavis,
    • 3 replies
    • 921 views

  11. Shower Question for Joe Carrick

    By SNestor,   
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views

  12. New Micrsoft Surface Book I7 With Nvidia Dgpu- Chief Only Sees The Intel Gpu?

    By Seascape,
    • 8 replies
    • 3.6k views

  13. AutoCAD Lineweights / .DWG import

    By amddrafting,
    • 3 replies
    • 983 views

  14. Custom Line Styles

    By Keith_A,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.2k views

  15. Dormer roof joining issue

    By KKB9750,   
    • 4 replies
    • 1.7k views

  16. Created a custom door

    By cmatala,
    • 3 replies
    • 636 views

  17. How To Display Two Story Spanned Windows On Both First and Second Floor Plans?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 8 replies
    • 2.2k views

  18. Gutter on specific edge

    By stephenbc,
    • 3 replies
    • 822 views

  19. Walkthrough glitch

    By jonboy,
    • 8 replies
    • 1.5k views

  20. roof issue help needed

    By Designer100,   
    • 4 replies
    • 1.4k views

  21. slab footings

    By Bonadesign,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.7k views

  22. Using .OBJ vs .SKP CA

    By olyconstruction,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.5k views

  23. Removing lines in cross section view

    By Vizplan,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views

  24. Wall Issue- not closing up.

    By Designer100,   
    • 10 replies
    • 2.3k views

  25. Using Sketchup to make custom objects

    By shingabiss,
    • 3 replies
    • 1k views