Dermot

Try unchecking "Walls, Main Layer Only".

First, before I would even try to fix the stairs, I would fix the walls. You have brick-6 walls on the interior of your building. Surely, that can't be intentional? Next, your landing and stairs are not connected because they are overlapping. If they are not actually connected, they will not create a proper staircase where the automatic heights can do what they are supposed to. I find that it is easiest to snap stairs to landings by using the point-to-point move tool or by dragging the stair end handle using the middle mouse button. You can also use the dimension tools to properly locate the stairs and landings. Next, your landing and stairs are overlapping your walls. I would make sure they are properly bumped up against your walls rather than overlapping them. In general, stairs work best when bumped against the surface of the wall but overlapping the drywall layer can work as well. If you intend to have walls underneath the stairs, I would always make sure that you overlap the walls completely. As a general rule, stairs will give you the least amount of problems if you are very accurate in how you lay them out.

You probably need to go into your General Cabinet Defaults and turn on "Show Closed Doors/Drawers in Plan Views". By default, the program will only show cabinet doors and drawers when they are open. Unfortunately, I don't think there is any easy way to dimension to the cabinet face items in plan views. You can dimension to the cabinet box or you can dimension to the counter top but not the face items. You could use the point-to-point dimension tool or use cad lines to show the dimensions you want. Maybe some of the other kitchen designers might comment on what they typically do to handle this case.

The easiest way to create that staircase is to place a U-Shaped stair, select the upper section, and use the Reflect About Object tool to reflect it about the landing.

Select your door in plan view. Look at the status bar. What layer is it on? Open your full camera view. Look at your layer display options. Is that layer turned on?

Your missing doors are on a layer that is turned on in plan view but are turned off in your camera view. Every view in the program has the ability to use a different layer set. Every layer can be turned on or off independently in every layer set. This allows you to have some views showing some things and other views showing other things. This is very basic Chief functionality. I highly recommend that you review the training videos regarding layers and layer sets. As for the picture of the office you posted above, this is not what I am seeing when I open your plan. See my picture below. I can't think of any way to get the image you have shown using the same plan. Turning off the windows layer should still leave a hole in the wall above the door. This leads me to believe that the plan you posted is not the same as the plan you used for your image. You may want to double check your file management system to make sure that you are opening and posting using the same plan files. As for your performance problems, my best guess is that these are related to your system settings. Most likely your video card or drivers. Could be lots of other things though. Might be a problem with one or more of the graphics files you are using. Since you just posted the plan file without the graphics files, this can't be investigated.

That video was recorded in X7. In X11, just set the rail type to "Open" and then uncheck "Include Top Rail" and "Include Bottom Rail".

The only things that the program will automatically draw in open below rooms from the floor below are actual parametric stair and landing objects. The spiral stairs that are in the library are really just interior fixtures. You can show the spiral stairs by either using the reference display tools or by inserting the cad block for them using the cad block management dialog.

For elevations and cad details, yes. If you are sending floor plan views, and you are using saved plan views, you can also change the color on/off setting in the saved plan view specification dialog. It looks black and white to me. My best guess is that you have a very dense pattern that is making it look solid black. If this is not the case, you will probably need to post the plan so that some one can help you figure it out. Or, if all else fails, contact tech support.

You can also turn on Print Preview to see your line weights. The advantage of the print preview mode is that it also shows you your page layout. It can be useful to adjust your line weights for the page scale that you expect to print out at otherwise you may not get the results you expect.

Your room structure is hosed.

My best guess is that your main problem is related to your video card and the drivers. There were some posts regarding dialog label problems related to nvidia graphics cards over a year ago. You might try a search on this forum for related problems. You should also see if this help article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If all else fails, you might want to contact tech support.

You can use a custom object field with the built in macro called %simple_schedule_number%. schedule numbers.plan

"Also is there a manual way to control the post spacings..?" Yes, use wall breaks.

Just open each wall and change the "Display In Plan View" to something other than "Default" and it will override the setting for the view.

Just to clarify... The "Display In Plan View" setting in your Pony Wall Defaults is remembered by both Saved Plan Views and Layout Boxes. The only caveat is that you can override this setting for any particular wall in your plan. So as long as your walls are set to use "Default", all you need to do is change the setting in the Pony Wall Defaults and save your plan view or send it to layout and the program will keep the setting.

This is just an FYI for some of the more advanced users. If you don't have a good understanding of saved plan views, layer sets, or reference display, I would skip this. There is a somewhat hidden way to control fill styles using saved plan views, layer sets, and the new reference display capabilities in X11. The basic idea is that when you display something in a reference plan, you have the ability to control whether or not the plan details (such as fill style) will display. Now that you can display the same floor as part of your reference display this allows you to take advantage of this ability in new ways. So when you want to display the fill styles, you just display the object normally by turning on the layer. If you don't want to display the fill, you turn off the display in the normal view, turn on the display in the reference but with the details turned off. See attached plan and picture for a simple example showing the roof fill turned on in one saved plan view and not in the other. controlling fill styles.plan

Control-A only selects the objects on layers that are turned on in the current view. This is not going to find everything. Layers can be used by objects in other views, such as other floors, cross sections, cad details, and even inside of cad blocks. You could create a layer set with just the layer you are trying to find turned on, open up every view, switch to the layer set, and then do a Control-A to see if you can find the object(s). This should find most of them (but still might not find layers that are hidden in cad blocks). As for defaults, there are lots of defaults to look through when trying to find layers. I would start with the Default Settings dialog and work your way through the list. Another thing to note is that if you are using a layer in a cad block that is not being referenced in the plan anywhere, this will probably be marked as being used in defaults. You might want to purge any unused cad blocks to eliminate these. Cad blocks are a common place where layers can be used but can be hard to find. Cad blocks can be on one layer but can have child objects that are on other layers. These child layers may not actually be used unless you explode the cad block which makes them particularly hard to track down.

See if this article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00467/troubleshooting-missing-toolbars.html

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Try this:

Another thing you can try is to use the Make Parallel tool on the dimension line to make it perpendicular to the line.

Are you trying to display the center point or create a dimension to it? You can turn on the display of arc centers in the CAD detail using View>Arc Centers and Ends. You can also draw a Point Marker located at the center point which would give more control over the display. As Eric has pointed out, you should be able to dimension to the center of a circle or arc. If you are displaying arc centers, this is much easier. If you are not, then the program will probably not pick up the center by default and you will have to drag the end of the dimension to the center point. Send it to another user or post it here on the forum? To send the plan to another user, I would recommend that you use the Backup Entire Plan tool. If you are trying to post it on this forum, I would recommend that you remove unnecessary data from the plan first and then put it into a zip folder to take up less space.

I suspect that on one machine, your toolbars were migrated from a prior version and on the other they were not. It's relatively easy to make sure both machines have the same out of the box settings. Simply rename your "Chief Architect Premier X11 Data" folder and then relaunch the program. This will make sure the program is using all of the out-of-box toolbars, hotkeys, templates, etc. You may then have to manually migrate any custom libraries and plan files. More information about migrating settings can be found here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00001/migrating-chief-architect-to-a-new-computer.html If you have any problems, I would highly recommend contacting our tech support.