Dermot

This looks like you put the vent in the main wall and then moved it up to the gable wall. Try putting the vent on the gable wall instead.

My apologies for the confusion. This must have been a mistake on my part. We write information in the plan file showing the last version it was saved in. I could have swore that I saw 22.2 but I see now that it is 22.3. I may have been looking at an earlier version of the plan, or someone else's plan, or simply had a senior moment.

Sorry to hear about your Dad. Wishing all the best to you and your family. Family obviously comes first, but if and when you get a chance, there are a couple of things related to Chief that you might want to do. As for your plan, your layout is a little bit unusual so it's not too surprising that you are finding some anomalies. When you encounter problems like this, I would encourage you to report them to our technical support team so that we can look into them to see if we can improve the program in these areas. You can find more info about contacting tech support here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/ Also, I noticed that you are still using 22.2. I would strongly encourage you to update to the latest build (22.3) that was released in June. There were a number of good bug fixes that you are currently missing. For a full list of what was fixed in the latest update, please see these update notes: https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/pdf/documentation/chief-architect-x12-update-notes.pdf

You should report problems like this to our technical support team. If they can confirm that the problem is on our end, they will then log a bug for our content team to correct the library. You can find info about contacting technical support here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/

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I don't think this is correct. See attached picture below. - The auto exterior dimensions are showing the wall widths. This was setup in the Auto Exterior Dimension Defaults on the Locate Objects panel. - The manual dimension is also showing the wall widths. This was setup in the Dimension Defaults on the Locate Objects panel. No extra points were manually added. - The End-to-End dimension will not show the wall width by default. By definition, an end-to-end dimension does not locate any intermediate points. You can manually add new locate points to an end-to-end dimension line to make it look exactly like the manual dimension line if you like.

Just to clarify... You can turn off all framing labels and callouts by turning off the "Framing, Labels" layer in your Layer Display Options. You can control whether or not your framing displays callouts or normal labels by opening the Schedule Specification dialog and turning off "Use Callout For Label" on the Label panel. You can control whether or not individual framing members display a label by opening the specification dialog and turning on Suppress Label on the Label panel.

Then you might want to upgrade to X12 (this should be free since you have SSA).

Chief Architect is not 20-20 and you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet. X12 is very stable and has been since it was originally released. The posts you saw in February may have been due to an isolated incident or possibly a problem with a driver update. Regardless, I would not hesitate to upgrade to X12 at this point. Please be aware that when you bring your X11 plans into X12 and save them that you will no longer be able to open them back up in X11. More information can be found in our migration guide: https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/pdf/documentation/chief-architect-x12-migration-guide.pdf

There is no way to open an X12 plan in X11 or earlier. If you purchased a new license of the program directly from Chief Architect, it should have come with one year of SSA which would allow you to get the upgrade to X12 for free. Please contact our customer service or technical support team during our normal business hours for additional help.

Either your dimension defaults or your wall types are not setup correctly. You will get better answers if you post a plan demonstrating the problem. If all else fails, you can contact technical support during our normal business hours. There is a fee for this if you do not have SSA.

Try making the inside piece a different material. It doesn't actually need to look different, it just needs to be assigned to a separate material. So all you need to do is make a copy of the other material.

Performance problems can be particularly challenging to properly diagnose but are certainly a high priority for us. They can be the result of hardware or system problems, something that you have done that is very inefficient, or something that the program is doing that is very inefficient. Without an actual plan to test, then any speculation is probably a waste of time. If you want the program to work better, then I would encourage you to submit actual feature requests and/or bug reports when you find any problems. We don't monitor the Q&A forum looking for posts with hidden feature requests and bug reports. The least effective way to bring something to our attention would be to post some mostly unrelated comments on someone else's old thread. To make a feature request, you should make a post on the suggestions forum here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/ To report a problem in the program, you should contact our technical support team here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/

The size of your dimensions are determined by your currently selected (or active) dimension default for the view you are in. Whether you are using the manual or any of the automatic dimension tools. Technically, the currently active default will determine which default the dimension is linked to when it is created. You can always change your dimension later to be linked to any dimension default you want. So if you want smaller dimensions, change your active dimension default before generating them or group select your existing ones and change the dimension default they are using. I recommend reviewing this video: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/92/using-the-automatic-interior-and-automatic-nkba-dimension-tools.html?playlist=92

X5 is not supported on Windows 10. Windows 10 was not available when X5 was released over 7 years ago. That said, you should be able to get X5 to run on windows 10 without too many problems. The biggest problems that people see usually have to do with video card drivers. Another thing you might want to consider is that upgrades are currently 20% off. More information can be found here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/upgrade.html

Personally, I think it's easier to use a custom counter top or a cabinet since you can attach the molding directly to it. One advantage of using a cabinet, is that you can set the corner treatment to rounded and specify the width. One advantage of the counter top is that you have more control over the shape although it is possible to create an l-shaped column using a corner cabinet. See the picture below where the columns were done using wall cabinets with the face removed and the moldings added.

Yes, actually it is. We have a separate forum for the Home Designer products but this site is for all Chief Architect users, including Premier, Interiors, Lite, Viewer, students, and even potential future customers.

Looking at your picture, I can see at least 5 different moldings. If the main problem is the column, you might want to model this as a countertop, soffit, or cabinet pushed into the opening. If you have problems with the molding getting cutoff (because cabinet moldings can sometimes do weird things when they span rooms), you could create the column somewhere else and convert it into a symbol. Also, maybe this tech article can help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00166/creating-and-editing-molding-profiles.html

You can only export plan views as images using your current screen resolution (or more accurately, your current window size). In theory, this image should not look distorted when brought into power point unless power point is adjusting the image size for some reason. You could try making the image larger in a photo editing program that might do a better job of enlarging the image with less distortion. Other things you might want to try would be to use a format that is vector based rather than raster based, such as DWG or EMF. If power point can't import either of these, you could maybe use another program to convert these into higher resolution images. Just as an FYI, you can export camera views to an image that is much higher than screen resolution if you like. I know that some people use top down floor overviews for making presentation floor plan views.

First, if you are still using 22.2, you should really get the latest update, 22.3. A number of important bugs were fixed in this update and you're not doing yourself any favors by not getting it. Second, if you are trying to select the component window of a bow window in a camera view, you need to click on the primary component window. This should be the right-most window when viewing from the outside and the left-most window when viewing from the inside. Yes, this seems strange to me but apparently, that is the way it currently works. If you are trying to select the component window from a plan view, you should be able to click on any of the component windows. The bow window will be selected first and then using the tab key should select the primary component window. If this still does not work for you, then I recommend that you post a plan and maybe someone can look into more to see what is going on. If all else fails, then I recommend contacting technical support during our normal business hours.

Just to be clear, door and drawer styles are dynamic defaults. This means that as long as your cabinets in your plan are set to "use default" you can change the style in the default and the cabinets already in the plan will be updated. The box construction is not a dynamic default though. If you want to change your cabinets from framed to frameless, or your door/drawer overlay from traditional (3/8" offset) to full overlay, you will need to modify every cabinet that is in the plan. There are a variety of methods to do this including group select, match properties, style palette, replace from library, etc. A very easy way to do this would be to do a marquee select while in full height cabinet mode to select all of the cabinets in the plan (base, wall, and full height) and change the box construction just once per floor.

If you turn off the electrical layer in one view and it also turns off the electrical in another view that can only happen for a couple of reasons. Either you accidentally had "Modify All Layer Sets" checked which means you turned the layer off in all your layer sets or that your views are using the same layer set (the more likely case). There may be other more obscure cases but I really can't think of any at the moment. Either way, I recommend that you review this help information about layer sets: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00765/understanding-layer-sets.html If you would like some better guesses, then I would recommend that you post a plan and layout. Or, if all else fails, you may want to contact our tech support for more help.

"...struggling to break the stairs in X10, am I missing something obvious?" My apologies, I did not notice that you are still using X10. X10 does not have the ability to create two independent stair sections that can still connect together to form a staircase. In your situation, I would probably just turn off the whole rail on that side and then manually create your railing.

Unfortunately, the program is not designed to cut off stair railings when they run into a ceiling. If this is something you would like the program to do, then you might want to make a formal suggestion here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/ Regarding Mark's comments about using the complete break tool on stairs, this tool actually does create a complete break so that you will have two independent stair sections that can have completely different attributes. If the end of one stair section is reasonably close to the start of the other one, then the program will still treat the stair sections as if they are part of the same staircase and enable a lot of automatic behaviors. If you would like to modify some of the settings of one stair section and not modify any other ones that may be connected in a staircase, there are a couple of easy ways to do this. First, you can just drag the end of one stair away to temporarily disconnect it from the staircase, make your changes, and then reconnect them. The other way is less obvious but I think is even easier. Just hold the shift-key down when you select the stair section you want to modify. This puts you into group select mode and when you open the stair dialog you will only modify the selected sections rather than all of the other ones that might be connected in a staircase.

If you want different views to display different things, then you probably need to use different layer sets. See if this help article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00765/understanding-layer-sets.html