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Great idea @kkitch. I'll check into some places where we can meet and set a date. No worries @tambolina. We will share design, business, and life experiences as well as CA tips.

There have been several comments on an older post regarding Tennessee users getting together. Let's make this happen!! Having a meeting / working session in person would be great. Another option is doing this online, like through Zoom or some other platform. If in person, date and city will need to be decided. Nashville is an awesome place to do this . Once I have an idea of how many people will be coming, I'll research location ideas and associated costs. As for date, share your thoughts on doing this late June or early July, or another month. Southern Kentucky, northern Alabama and Georgia users are welcome as well. In addition to an in-person user group meeting, I have been exploring ways to set up a virtual co-working environment for local Chief users. I see this as mostly working on our own, on camera, but also be available to trouble-shoot Chief issues, help with design mental blocks, provide motivation not to procrastinate, etc. The idea would be to help each other but not be a distraction so we can all get our work completed. I've looked into using Zoom for this and think it will work. It would be a join and leave as our schedule allows on a random schedule perhaps weekly or a few days a month. Is there any interest in doing something like this?

Keith, I'm in the southern part of Davidson County, just outside Brentwood. There are several other Chief users in our area and we've talked about ideas to do this. Also I'm wanting to get a user group meeting scheduled for local and regional users. I'll start a new post to discuss ideas and work towards getting something started.

Welcome to the Chief family!! I am wanting to get something going, either with in-person or Zoom get togethers. Maybe a combination of both. My schedule and life is a little less chaotic so hoping to get something started soon.

I'll send you an email.

@BriHarper This has not happened but I'm still interested in getting this started. Let's work together and plan the 1st one. Call me to discuss ideas on date and location.

I have reported this and will be happy when it's fixed. I was excited for this feature for sections but then disappointed that it's not working as expected.

Thanks so much for doing these and sharing!! They work great.

ha ha!! Well, maybe 2 "n's" is the right way

This is a great idea. I go to websites like Kohler, GE, etc to find a model number to search for what I need in the Chief Catalog. Not perfect as the bottom part does not include a panel but this works for flexibility with the lites and dimensions around the glass.

@Rich_Winsor This post made me laugh!! Love the follow up comments as well. Such as nice change from posts about not knowing how to do something or Chief not doing something.

Thanks so much for the tip on using the Clopay material for the woodgrain ship-lap siding. Perfect timing as I was looking for this as well. I increased the scale of the texture and chose Chief's pattern "planking 2x6" under framing, rotated and scaled it.

This is what I do. In addition to using the paint can for material options, I feel comfortable quickly showing design options. If needed, I'll do another save-as. All design elements and materials are then incorporated into the working plan.

Did anyone who watched this video notice the wall going through the closet door? Ha Ha!!

In addition to what others have mentioned, I was hoping for the ability to copy and to rotate / flip section and elevation cameras.

Top of the list: *** Brick patterns / materials for use around arched and half round windows that display correctly. *** Other than what you listed: Multiple coursing options - regular, stacked, soldier, multiple solider courses (half over full, etc.) Solider brick created to match the brick / mortar material Control over the size of the soldier brick (half or full brick) Agree!!

Thank you. I've used this in the past and will check it out again.

Dustin, I've watched the reply of Thursday's webinar. I've not used the substance player yet as currently we rarely get too detailed with interior materials. However, we do get detailed with exterior materials. Having a way to control brick materials with Substance Player would be awesome!!! Also, changing mortar color would be so helpful. I'm not sure if this tool would help in creating better solider brick for over arches, but if it could, that would be fantastic. Thank you for all the tips today. I especially found helpful using the box rather than a countertop for the bench so the top plane could be rotated.

This has worked for me, so far at least. For my laptop Alienware m17r3 the file location is: C:\ProgramData\A-Volute\DellInc.AlienwareSoundCenter\Modules\ScheduledModules\Configurator\BlackApps.dat

Thank you, Mick, for following up on this thread and posting the links.

Search the forums for Nahimic service. This is related to sound system. There's been several good posts recently with ideas to deal with this issue.

Thank you Scott and all others. I had to leave before the end. Date night with the husband.

Awe, 60's not old. Haven't you heard.....60 is the new 40 I was 51 when I made the switch.

That's great news, and not surprised. There's improvement with most every release, and a huge improvement since I started with X6

Hi Joe and welcome to the Chief. I'm not sure about it being life altering but it definitely will change work life for the better. We, my employee and I, transitioned from VisionRez to Chief in 2014 after discovering it in a magazine I think. My Vrez sales person had told me that Vrez will soon stop developing for AA and switching to Revit. I had no desire to learn Revit. I had been using VRez probably since or 2005. Before that used AA by itself, before that - straight Autocad. (I've been designing houses for a living since 1989). So a similar background as you. In the beginning VRez was being developed and improved, but then the company was sold. It was still so much better for residential than AA only but no comparison to Chief Architect Premier. With experience in Autocad / AA / VisonRez, the transition to Chief was not difficult at all, especially the 3D modeling tools. Everyday was awesome, finding features that were soooo much better than in VRez. The only learning curves I remember was getting used to how to dimension in CA, complete cd's, and missing the stair tools of VRez. Chief has improved stairs since X6 but still not as easy as VRez. For those that have never used VRez, p-lines could be drawn in any shape and converted to stairs. I do not remember struggling with railings either, but it's been awhile. As I remember, Vrez developed their own stair and roof tools rather than using AA's tools. CA's roof tools are better the VRez so it was a wash with the stair tool lacking. Back to the transition to CA: The modeling part was a fun and easy transition (except for stairs). We went through the User's Guide / Tutorial and was using CA exclusively in no time. If a project was still in the design stage, we started over in CA. In some cases, after showing our clients the better visualization tools in CA, we redrew almost completed plans in CA with the client paying extra for this. This process also helped us gain experience, speed, exploration of multiple tools by allowing us to focus not on design, but just the tools. I'm sure with your background, you'll have no problem and it will be fun. I highly recommend purchasing Chief, and with SSA. Awesome new features are added yearly, great support, and a great company.