glennw

If you go to Preferences>Materials List, are all the categories checked? Or, when in a Materials List view, go to Tools>Materials List Display Options and make sure all categories are checked.

One picture showed the light spilling down the wall - you will obviously need a light to get that effect. The other picture (without the light spilling down the wall) could be simulated with just a Molding Polyline with a high Emissive property.

Looks like they are there when I do a Calculate Materials For All Floors.

I would try cranking up the Emissive property of the of the light's material.

Place the outlet on a wall. Select it and Convert Selected To Symbol (on the Edit toolbar). You can now place it anywhere in the plan - it doesn't need to snap to any object.

If you are in a view (2D or 3D) and you create an object with it's layer not displaying, Chief will ask you if you want to display that layer.

Chopsaw, That was pretty close to what I did. I opened Chief this morning, opened and then saved the plan and it is now down to about 2Mb.

More like this? I will attach the plan so that you can deconstruct it. Find the small Room Divider wall running across the screen at the end of the pony wall (same width as the pony wall and drawn in line with your cad line). I stripped this plan down as much as I can, but still can't get it below about 27Mb - not sure why, it should be much smaller. Irvin Whitney GLENN.plan.zip

You should be able to clean up that wall intersection by using the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool.

What are you trying to say I don't understand these comments. Why isn't what a toggle? What are you trying to toggle?

The drop down toolbars are hard coded and can't be edited.

In your 3D view Layer Set, is the Terrain Perimeter layer checked to Display?

I am not sure of what your problem is because I can't open the .wmv file on my mac. But is there any reason why you have some very short invisible wall sections in your plan?

My guess is that you did not select the wall in the 3D view. I think you selected the room instead, and then deleted the room. Go to Preferences>Architectural and check Select Wall Before Room in 3D. Try selecting one wall. Or you can use the tab ket to swap between the selected room and the wall.

What do you mean by this? On one side only...of what? Do you mean a newel offset to one side of a railing? Do you mean like this?

You can do this using Winders. The trick is that you need the stairs to be contained in a room (invisible walls) for winders to work - including a very thin wall at the join line between the flights. Are you aware that if you do the stairs following your attached sketch, the treads on the sides will be smaller than the centre treads because you have made the join line at 90deg to the building. To make the treads the same size on the centre flight and side flights, the join line needs to bisect the angle between the stairs (as I have done on the left hand side). The right hand side is as per your sketch.

Molding Polyline?

Go to Preferences>General>Folders> Under All Program Paths, click Show. Scroll down to Preferences Folder and click Show In Finder. You should see the .ini files for all your Chief versions. Foe each Chief version you should see Chief Architect Premier X11.ini and Chief Architect Premier X11 Dialog Sizes.ini Do you have finder set to show hidden file extensions?

The quick and easy way which may give you what you want is to select one of the walls that form the box and designate it a No Room definition wall. Then drag the bottoms of the box walls up in a 3D view.

You should be aware that with the OOB defaults, if you left click and drag the Back Clipped Cross section camera, you will get a Vector View. If you right click and drag, you will get a Standard View.

Newell, What are the details of the 1 hour party wall. Probably best if you create a new wall type for the party wall and then repost the plan.

Chopsaw, You can certainly create a custom unit and have it available in a Units dropdown. Is that what you are asking? Are you needing to dimension with a greater fractional than 1/128”?

That sounds like an Elevation Line or spline to me. An elevation line is really just a series of elevation points at about 600 centres which is much easier to control than a series of unconnected points.

You probably didn't do what I said. Did you select the elevation data as well as the terrain perimeter?

Cut and Paste (Hold Position) the Terrain and elevation data from floor 1 to floor 2. In doing so, you will lose your terrain definition, but the terrain polyline will still be there. Select it and Convert To a Terrain Perimeter. All your other terrain information should still work.