glennw

The problem is because your Terraces are defined as Bedroom room types - which are interior rooms. In your door schedule, go to "Objects To Include" and check "Interior". Or, alternatively, define the Terraces as an exterior room type like Court or Balcony.

Did you read this post from Chopsaw?

You must be doing something wrong. Can you post a pic of your Transform/Replicate dbx?

Michael, I don't understand what you are saying or your logic. You are telling Chief to make a copy of the wall. Chief does not make a copy of the wall, so how can you say "it does work".

Michael, OK, I see what is happening. Not a Mac thing. Chief is being very smart! In the Transform/Replicate dbx, I have Rotate/Resize/Reflect About set to Object Centre as my default. This of course prevents Chief from doing the copy as it is trying to place a copy of the wall onto itself. It works if I have Rotate/Resize/Reflect About set to either About Absolute Point or About Current Point. Copy+Rotate also work because Chief can copy and rotate the wall over itself at a different angle.

This all sounds logical to me. The "toolbar at the bottom of the screen" is context sensitive and will only display tools that are relative to the selected object. Isn't it better to be only presented with the tools that are relevant than having to search through menus to find a command?

Transform/Replicate works for walls if you use Copy+Move (enter a distance)+Reflect. I think you need the Move so that Chief doesn't try to place the copy on top of the original wall. Or you can do a normal copy/paste it and then Reverse Layers.

Johnny, It's a bit hard to figure out what you have done there. Can you post a plan.

No matter what way you try and build that stair, it will take a lot of work - or is that example more complicated than your actual stair? You can use a Curved Stair with the Single Stringer option. You can control the depth of the stringer with the Stringer Bottom setting.

Those settings for the grids are defaults - not preferences, and as such, have to be saved in your template plan if you want a new plan to have those settings. Same applies to all the default settings (as opposed to Preferences which aren't saved in the plan but are remembered by the program).

Ahhh. I am not familiar with that detail. So they are fixed to the cabinet and the door closes in front of them?

There is something like this in the library if it helps any.

Or...Reverse Plan

A Carriage Return is invisible and adds a blank line - pretty normal behaviour if you are not displaying the formatting characters (which you can't in Chief).

Chopsaw, If it was in a text box, you would see the blank line in the text box. No more guessing for me until there is a plan to work off.

Why can't you just add a molding to the room. The molding will follow the curved wall. Not hard to create a custom molding to do the wainscoting and any trim in one go.

Go to Tools>Project Information>Client Information, and make sure that you don't have a carriage return after the Street text (or any of the other entry boxes). I can duplicate your problem by placing a carriage return after the zip code in the Street text.

Can you post a simple plan?

Or you can display the layout box scale as a label by using %box_scale% macro.

You have the settings correct - making the wall a Bearing Wall and Create Wall/Footing Below. You just need to Build foundation and the footing will build in the foundation. The wall will look like a normal wall on level 1 and you will have a wall/footing in the foundation. Unless there is a pressing reason not to, I would always leave Automatically Build foundation toggled on.

I bet if you posted a plan which displayed the above problems someone here can guide you with solutions as it sounds to me like thee are easily avoidable problems and are not normal Chief behaviour.

You can download the Chief X8 Viewer from the Chief website. This will open the old plans and save them in the new .plan and .layout formats. From memory, it will do multi-floors in one go - ie, open one floor and Chief will also open the other floors automatically and save all the associated floors into the new .plan file.

That is a symbol from the library. Resize it as needed. What type of 2D drawing do you want - plan, elevation......? I am not going to do a video as there is plenty of information regarding the production of a 2D drawing. You will need to do a bit of homework and find out how the program works.

Have a look in Coronado Stone>Irregular Shaped Stones>Creek Rock and River Rock. For those that are not aware, after doing a search and finding some textures, you can locate the textures in the library structure and find out the name of the Catalog by right clicking on a texture and select Show In Browser. Colorado, Rio Grande and Yakima can be found in the Eldorado Stone>Stone>River Rock. River Rock-Multi and River Rock-White are in Chief Core Catalogs>Materials>Landscaping and Roadways>Decorative Rock and Gravel.

There are Atrium Window symbols in the library that MAY help. They have fairly restricted configurations though.