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This may help: Select “Force Light” to use Light Mode in Chief Architect regardless of the system settings, or “Force Dark” to use Dark Mode in Chief Architect regardless of the system settings. In the Windows version of the software, this change does not affect a few interface elements until you restart the program. Select “Custom Color Theme” to apply a color theme to the program interface and select its characteristics below. In order for "System", "Force Light", or "Force Dark" to take effect on all elements of the interface, you must restart the program.

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Have you tried toggling No Room Definition in the wall specification dbx?

Try Preferences>Appearance>Tool Bars>Button Size Or maybe your version is just too old

Gene, The reason for the different height beams is that you have different height ceilings for the porch areas.

Gene Without going too far into it, the ability to place a window spanning 2 different wall types was included many versions ago. I am not sure that it means anything to your situation though - maybe a wall inside is getting in the way?

You can use the wall's edit handles as DBCooper says. You can't break the vertical end of the wall so you need to break the bottom of the wall and drag the corners around to get the shape you want. Not perfect, but may do the job. Here is a quick one.

Just a heads up that the S key has been available for many years as a hot key to disable Object Snaps and Extension Anchors. It looks like they have extended the functionality to dimensions.

You can do that with a Wall Material Region using Cut Finish Layers of Parent Object. So...place a standard square topped window and then in elevation view draw the Wall Material Region to the shape you want to cut out the arched brickwork above the window.

I tink you firstly need to extend the retaining wall at 90deg to the end of the existing retaining wall. You can then use the terrain elevation tools like Elevation Line to shape the terrain around the corner.

Does exporting as a Metafile work (.emf or .wmf)? I can't try it out as metafiles are not supported on mac.

My guess is that they are Point Markers left over from deleted Point to Point dimensions.....or something similar.

There were some changes made to the stair tool about v10 - do you have V10 or v10b? Try this: Draw a straight stair section containing the number of winders you need. Mark them as Winders. Right click on the stairs ( or left click+Option on a mac) and drag them around to form the winders. They need to be contained within a room so that the winders can extend out to the walls of the staircase room. This is in V10:

The large eave overhang is a result of chief trying to maintain the same height eave as the rest of the house. Go to Build Roof>Roof Height Uncheck everything except Same Height Eaves, then rebuild the roofs. I think that is correct - just have a play with the various settings.

I think it is the wall definition. The horizontal width of the birds mouth cut is dictated by the width of the main layers in the wall definition.