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Hiring someone like me, haha. sorry shameless self plug but its true, I had a mentor. Some of the trainers on the market will work on your project with you so you're moving things forward and learning at the same time. Right tools for the job is a big part of it as well. Then there is the design experience. It just takes time understanding flow of a space while making sure the roof design works, that the structure is efficient and cost effective and that it all comes together to make a beautiful home. You can build a million homes and still not know the complexities of designing one yourself. Lean on the community, come back here for technical support etc. I do a free show every tuesday at 9am on my channel as well as a free show with a group every 1st and 3rd fri Watch all of the videos

Join Dan Baumann, John Schrader, Robin Rigby-Fisher and me for Designers Show #183 on Friday, November 6 at 10 a.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. Eastern. We’ll talk about the new AI feature in Chief Architect X18 and take your questions live. Bring whatever’s been stumping you in Chief.

You can make your own with the pattern tool in the CAD menu

most problems like this can be fixed by breaking walls. if you break the walls at the intersection of the open below room, then it fixes the issue

Place a light and select this from your edit toolbar Then in the dbx that pops up then flush mounted then set the offset based on roof structure Then and now you can use it over and over again as long as the source symbol has an emissive material it will produce light in a raytrace view

it does but you need this checked you could alternatively reverse layers of your interior wall

check auto height, you may have inadvertently grabbed and dragged the edit handle which unchecks auto height

absolutely, reference this video, all of the concepts here should help you out

You have to check mark those settings in the style pallet but also make sure that the casing being used in your style palette is not the default casing or it will be checked as "use default"

@MN_JohnH I put together a video showing the workaround for separating the shallow frame/mull depth from the full-depth perimeter jamb in a mulled window unit. It covers combining a shallow mulled unit with a pass-through window, removing the extra casing and sill, excluding the helper object from schedules and labels, and converting the finished assembly into a reusable window symbol. I also show how to Tab into individual windows in the mulled unit without exploding it. Hope this helps!

yes it works with grok

Template Tuesdays #31 - Use Ai To Draw In Chief Architect Natively I demonstrate setting up Chief Architect’s AI MCP server and connecting an AI agent to supported actions inside Chief. We discuss skills and instructions, tests with different models, useful first tasks, and problems encountered along the way. Access notice: Template Tuesdays is a free live event, and the replay is free for the first 24 hours. After that 24-hour window, the replay moves into the paywalled members-only section of my YouTube channel and requires a paid channel membership.

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Template Tuesdays #29 - Programming A 3d Connexion Mouse with ChatGPT Part 2 Part 2 continues programming the 3Dconnexion mouse with ChatGPT. We build on the previous session’s configuration work, troubleshoot the setup, and refine how the controls fit a Chief Architect workflow. Access notice: Template Tuesdays is a free live event, and the replay is free for the first 24 hours. After that 24-hour window, the replay moves into the paywalled members-only section of my YouTube channel and requires a paid channel membership.

Template Tuesdays #28 - Programming A 3d Connexion Mouse with ChatGPT I use ChatGPT to help configure a 3Dconnexion mouse for my workflow. We look at the configuration file, controls, and the process of turning an intended action into a usable mouse setup. Access notice: Template Tuesdays is a free live event, and the replay is free for the first 24 hours. After that 24-hour window, the replay moves into the paywalled members-only section of my YouTube channel and requires a paid channel membership.