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Ok, I downloaded the initial Retail Release of X9 the other day to install, glanced at, skimmed the release notes and attempted the upgrade. I erroneously thought that the installation would either recognize and uninstall either the Beta X9 (which I have migrated to and is my primary version I've been using) I have on my system or Install over the retail release of X8 I have on my system. Nope both previous releases are still active and although the retail release of X9 said it was installed correctly it is nowhere to be found. I have again glanced at, skimmed the release and installation notes (as much as my short attention span will allow) and have not found out what I'm doing wrong. Maybe just completely uninstall X8 and the X9 Beta and do a fresh install of the X9 retail??? I don't have much in the way of anything custom to migrate except maybe my recent files list and I think I have to re-install the extra library catalogs anyways so I guess it's not a big deal.

I'm new to Chief Architect and don't know all the ins and outs yet and I'm working on a Restaurant that has a bit of commercial equipment to be laid out in it (Yes, usually a kitchen supplier does this, and my proposal said "kitchen by others".... but I'm doing it - not going to be anything fancy). I'm ok with either stretching similar appliances or blocking units out using primitives but I notice that with several kitchen equipment manufacturers, they offer Revit models for download. The couple I've looked at seem to only offer 3D in Revit, haven't looked at them all yet though and the model extension doesn't appear to be supported by Chief's import function. Any chance of a work-around?

Sorry for not getting back to this in a timely manner. I did end up solving the issue buy highlighting the wall and then draging grip boxes that appeared on the wall surface to close the void. I solved it pick and guess, no ryme or reason so I still don't know why CA created the void in the first place (or why what I did to fix it worked either). Now I have at least one interior wall intersection where the intersecting wall stud shows on the surface of the crossing wall and neither the trick I used to fix the problem above worked nor my attempt to use the material dropper to blend the stud out of the wall surface worked either. I'll figure it out over time as I get used to CA logic. Glennw: Your Thumbnail shows something similar to what I'm doing but I really want to have the brick show as flush on the return.

I just upgraded from home designer 10 to X8 for the purpose of legitimate Architectural drawing packages so I am not a total newbie and I have an understanding of some of the basics. I've already come across a couple of frustrations due to Chief Architect thinking it knows better than me. I am making a CMU block perimeter wall with brick facing on 3 sides with the 4th side being exposed CMU. I did short sections of brick wall returns on the CMU 4th side to have finished brick corners (and because that 4th CMU wall would always override the brick face walls into the corners - couldn't find a way to force the brick walls into the corners). I also have noted that the short returns I made have to be long enough to actually continue to exist, they will disappear if I compress them towards the corners with the 4th CMU wall always overriding. If anyone has suggestions on how to control my attempts to blend these walls better please let me know. Now my real question about all this is the WTF moment I've been having at the floor space of where the first and 2nd floors meet at the intersection of one of the two corners of what I have described above. Screenshot 1 shows my plan view to give an idea of what I've described above, screenshot 2 shows the one elevation without the problem and screenshot 3 shows the elevation with my problem in the ceiling/floor area between the 1st and 2nd floor.