glennw

Perry, Not quite exact. It depends on your "Living Area To" setting in the Plan Defaults. You can choose either Main Layer or Surface.

I think the problem is that you have specified the cable rail in the wrong spot. In the Railing Specification dbx, you have specified the cable rail in Newels/Posts section - this is incorrect. You need to specify the cable rail on the Newels/Balusters panel...Panels and specify Panels on the Rail Style panel. Why do you have your stair rails drawn on the level 2 and displayed on level 1?

Why don't you post the plan so that others might see if there is a problem. My bet is that it has something to do with a room definition or the like where Chief calculates the Living Area to the centre of a wall (as designed).

Adam, Mull a sliding window above a fixed window. Or, Use a double hung and place 2 lites across in the top section only. No lites in the bottom section.

You shouldn't need custom muntins to do that. You can adjust the window component heights in the Window Specification dbx...General panel...Component Options...Bottom Component Size.

If your fascia is 35mm thick you will want it to run on the face of the brickwork bump outs, so, yes, I would make all the fascias 35mm wide.

Perry, As far as I know, the 2 items you can't copy are the Terrain and cameras.

You can't copy a terrain perimeter at all (even within the same plan) - it just pastes as a polyline. BUT what you can do is save the terrain perimeter to the library and then place it in another plan.

I don't believe so. I think you need to use the floor settings to do that.

Use some 3D trees from the library (they cast shadows, just like your image).

You need to move ALL your roof planes out to a 469mm o/h.

Do an Orthogonal Floor Overview. 3D...View Directions...Top View 3D...Rendering Techniques...Standard

If you go Preferences...General...Folders...and click All Program Paths...Show, it will give you the path to User Library Database File. Ah...that could be compromised by the fact that you had a hard disk crash and are looking on a backup. This is my path in Windows, you may need someone with a Mac to give you the address. C:\Users\Glenn\Documents\Chief Architect Premier X6 Data\Database Libraries

Time to stop guessing and post the plan.

I think what Perry is referring to are the settings in the 3D Molding Polyline Specification dbx...Moldings panel...Selected Profile Offset section. Try changing the Extrude Inside Polyline setting and see if that does the trick. Or play with the Offset values if the above doesn't work.

You should be able to decrease the camera's Incremental Move Distance and/or the Incremental Rotate Angle settings to slow down the rotation. In Render Preferences, you could also try using Legacy Shadows, turning up Software Edge Smoothing, etc.

Unless you post the plan, I guess we will never know what was really wrong.

Looks like you have used I-joists for your floor framing. Use Lumber instead.

Wall Specification dbx...Roof panel...check Lower Wall Type if Split by Butting Roof

It depends whether you built the roof manually or automatic. If it was automatic, select the roof planes, open their dbx and on the General Panel...Measurements, check Mark As Edited. If you then go and rebuild the roofs automatically, you need to check Retain Edited Automatic Roof Planes. For manually drawn roof planes, and if you want to auto generate new roof planes, check Retain Manually Drawn Roof Planes on the Roof panel of the Build Roof dbx. Or, the other option, depending on your circumstances is to use the Roof Group option which you can find in the Room Specification dbx, on the General panel.

d dot, Yep, but the original post said:

In the Distributed Path dbx, you can specify the Angle as Random which helps hide their "sameness" when they were all oriented the same way.

Is it drawn on a different level? That's my one and only guess. Post the plan.

A Terrain Wall isn't really a wall. It is a tall and narrow Terrain Path that Chief calls a "wall", but it has none of the characteristics of a wall.

d dot, What do you mean Of course it's the perfect answer! The driveway doesn't make any difference - height is measured off terrain. A variation is to give the Terrain Feature a Height of 30' and a thickness of, say 1/2" and you will just get a floating thin plane that mirrors the terrain at 30' high.