scottharris

I would guess your attic wall took on the invisible wall properties from below. Try changing it to 'visible' and verify the wall type.

Mow Strips using the Grass Region tool allow you to color and set a mow pattern. And… you can use the ‘extend to horizon’ to avoid the ‘floating effect’. Have you tried using the offset reference display? Here’s an example using the neighbor’s house (see video).

Larry, you can use the general Q&A forum now that X15 is available to all customers with current SSA thru March.

Can you post your plan?

Can you post a simplified version of the plan? Sometimes wall heights can be modified; you might check the wall dbx, on the structure panel it has a 'default top and bottom'.

Try changing the "clip surfaces" distance to say 1". That way you should be able to zoom close to objects.

Larry, we have made a number of snapping improvements in X15. I took a quick look at the Point-to-Point move using a solid, and it seems to work well in a plan and elevation view. That version is due out this spring.

You can get close – using layers to what you want. The out line of the cabinet box & it’s thickness you would probably need to draw with the CAD tools.

There are a couple of ways to change the information on an appliance/fixture w/i a cabinet. 1) open the cabinet, on the component panel, change the description and 2) my preferred way is in the schedule open the object and type in the information. Plan is attached. mw.plan

If you are still seeing issues, I suggest reaching out to our tech department for a solution.

It looks like your layer for 'casing, interior' is turned off. See if that solves your issue.

I had been getting an “internal rendering error” frequently on my 3070TI laptop. It was solved by 1) using the mid November 2022 NVIDIA “studio” driver*, and 2) what most likely was the issue: right click on the Chief Architect icon and “run as administrator”, close the program, relaunch it normally. *NVIDIA has a known bug that they are working on to resolve the issue with Chief Architect. It’s recommended, if you are seeing issues, that you use the mid-November (526.98) release until they get a fix.

If you are going to IBS/KBIS, be sure to stop by our booth. We have several presentations, a User Breakfast Wed AM, and Training following the show. Here's the schedule.

We have addressed this request in X15 (due out in Q1). There’s a setting for omitting the framing in the wall’s structure panel. In X14, manually editing the framing is the way to remove the joists. If you’re interested in beta testing X15, see this thread.

In placing the standalone vanity on the layout page, it’s a very similar process to the steps above for the bath materials (vanity plan is attached - no materials due to the size limits of chief talk). Here are the steps: 1) copy the vanity from your main plan into a new blank plan 2) take a 3D view 3) export the image from the camera 4) place the image on the layout 5) add text on the layout Hope this helps! Bath Vanity.plan

Wendy, The thumbnails for the large doors & windows on the bottom of this layout page are created using the tool ‘CAD Detail from View’. Here are the steps: 1) take an elevation view – say of the front of the house 2) use the tool ‘CAD Detail from View’ 3) in the CAD Detail that is created, delete all of the lines not related to the front door (using the front door as my example) 4) once the front door is isolated, I block all of its lines (this makes it easy to transfer and manage) 5) I then create a new detail and copy this ‘front door’ CAD block into this detail and place descriptive text below. I then delete the temporary detail above created with the ‘CAD Detail from View’ because its no longer needed, and I don’t want the clutter. (BTW, I have this detail in my template plan; it’s called ‘Door-Window Elevations’) you can see this in the Austin Sample plan 6) repeat steps 1-5 as needed for all the doors/windows 7) send the detail ‘Door-Window Elevations’ to your layout page Hope this helps!

Hi Wendy, To create the materials for the bath, I typically have an external ‘materials’ plan (attached). Here are the steps: 1) I use solids, take a 3D view, and then paint them the respective materials 2) save the camera (for future projects) 3) export the image from the camera 4) place the image on the layout 5) add text on the layout for the material names Hope this helps! bath-materials.zip