Dermot

The answer is in your picture.  Your library browser is only showing two windows and it should be showing 3.  If you look near the top, you will see a horizontal bar with a dot in the middle.  Select this and drag it down.

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My Computer has 32 logical processors, it benchmarks in the top 1% in terms of speed. I let the Ray tracing run. a few minutes before 3 hours it threw an error about photons (I think that's what it said) and never completed. But seriously 3 hours?!?!?!? Rendering to a WXGA+ resolution (440x900) 72ppi. nothing crazy. I was doing an interior render and I also tried an exterior and the same error occurred 2 hours into the render. I do not have any terrain or plants in my plan.

 

You should probably not ignore error messages when you get them.  My guess is that there is something in your model that is causing the performance problems.

Here are a couple of tech articles that might help you:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03093/message-unable-to-perform-photon-mapping.html

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00010/speeding-up-a-ray-trace.html

If not, then you might want to either post a plan or contact technical support.

It sounds like something is wrong with how you have modeled things.  I would suggest either posting the plan to see if someone can figure out what is going on or contacting technical support for help.

Your counter top looks fine to me, except that the back line doesn't actually follow the wall. I liked the way you used a molding to create your skirt.  You could also use many other ways to create the skirt such as a polyline solid, molding polyline, partition, etc.

I see you placed your sink as a cad block.  You should be able to place a sink symbol as a free-standing fixture and then just move it over the custom counter.  You may need to manually adjust the height if you want it to look good in a camera view.

I don't know anything about "Homestyler" so I can't comment about that.

You might want to look into seeing if you qualify for a student version of Chief Architect:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/academic/

Or, you might want to download the trial version of Chief Architect Interiors and give it a try:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/trial.html

Or, you might also want to contact our sales department so that you can speak with someone more about your specific questions:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/company/contact.html

If you think you have found a bug, then please report this to our tech support team.  Please don't ignore them or assume that someone else will report it. 

Also, it's best not to try and report them directly to me using this forum.  While I try to keep an eye on these forums, I really don't have time to give them my full attention and we have a whole team of people working in tech support to help with these kinds of things.

See this similar post:

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There should be a setting to make this possible.

Those things are controlled by layers.  Different views can use different layer sets.  So yes, you can draw a dimension or display a label in one saved plan view and not have it display in another one.  I would highly recommend that you also watch the video series I posted above.

Based on the limited information you have posted, this does not look like a bug.

Objects in schedules are grouped based only on the text information that is displayed in the schedule.  The preview image is not used for comparison.  It is just a representation of the first door found by the program.  

In your pictures above, it looks like your schedule is including the door label that includes the hinge side, "L" or "R".  Since the doors to the garage are mirrored, they do not match, as far as the schedule is concerned.

If you want those doors to be grouped together, you will have to remove the hinge side information.  If you have other doors grouped together that you don't want grouped, you will have to add some more information to the schedule that makes them different.

When you make a copy (or "duplicate") of a saved plan view, the program will not automatically make copies of the layer set or any of the other defaults that your saved plan view is using. 

So when you copied the Electrical Plan View and called it Plumbing Plan View it was still using the Electrical Layer Set.  If you then went and turned layers on/off and modified the settings, you were changing the way both views looked.  It was also still using the Electrical Dimension Defaults so if you made changes to them you would also affect how the dimensions work in both views.  The same with any of the other defaults.

So if you actually want to create a new saved plan view that is not sharing any layer settings or other defaults, you would also need to make copies of all of them.  One way to do this is to right-click on the new Plumbing Plan View you created and then use the Edit View tool.  If you go to the Selected Defaults panel, you will see that everything in your plumbing view is still using the electrical stuff.

You will find lots more information in this video series:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/#playlist-100

Just an FYI, the "Toggle Patterns" tool will just turn on/off the layer called "Patterns, 3D Views".

The view on the top looks like it is using the standard render technique.  The view on the bottom looks like it is using the vector view render technique.

Render views will display textures and vector views will display patterns.

It looks like your material has a texture but no pattern.  If you want it to display a pattern in vector views, you will need to add one.  You also need to make sure that the layer for patterns is turned on.  You also need to make sure that your pattern lines are not the same color as your material.

More information about materials can be found in this video series:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/170/materials-patterns-textures.html

If that doesn't help, then you should either post a plan or contact technical support for additional help.

I don't think this has anything to do with the M1 but I don't really have enough information to make any good guesses.

I would recommend that you either post your plan for someone to take a look at or contact tech support for more help.

Assuming that you still meet our qualifications, yes.  See this web page for more info:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/academic/

If you still have questions, please contact our sales team at at 208-292-3400 or email sales@chiefarchitect.com.

Framing should work the same on all OS versions.  X13 supports horizontal framing but previous versions do not.

See if this training video helps:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/200/creating-horizontal-wall-framing.html

You might want to check out this tech article:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html

If that does not help you solve your problems, then I would recommend that you contact tech support:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/

The default roof rafter spacing can be specified in either the Build Roof dialog or the Build Framing dialog.  The actual roof rafter spacing that is being used will be shown in the Roof Plane Specification dialog.

If you change it in the Build Roof or Build Framing dialog, and your plan already has existing roof planes, they won't necessarily update.  This will depend on whether or not you have Auto Rebuild Roofs turned on.  If you want to change all of your existing roof planes, you could also use the Edit All Roof Planes tool.

Once you have modified the rafter spacing, your roof framing still won't update automatically unless you have Automatically Build Roof Framing turned on.  If it's turned off, you will need to manually rebuild your roof framing to see the changes.

Normally, if you change the rafter spacing in the Build Framing dialog, you should see this message:

Auto Rebuild what?

Walls, floor and ceilings?  Roofs?  Framing?  Terrain?  Dimensions?  Foundations? 

Joe is correct but maybe he was not clear enough.

- Select the camera symbol in a plan view.

- Open the Object Layer Properties dialog box.  The layer called "Cameras, Labels" will control the label ("Elevation 1").  The layer called "Cameras, Wall Elevation" will control the camera symbol ("E1").  If you have put either your camera or the label on a different layer, then this dialog will display different layers.

- Select the "Cameras, Wall Elevation" layer (or what ever layer your camera is on).

- Select the appropriate size text style you want to use.

If this does not work, then you should either post a plan or contact technical support.

I don't think that is possible,  If you can reproduce that problem, then you should send in a bug report.

You can't get rid of system layers.

The Layer Display Options dialog will give you a hint if you hover over the "used" column.

Cad details and Cad blocks are obvious hiding places.  You can use the Cad Block Management dialog to purge any unused cad blocks and open each block to see if the layer is used.

Just looking for things on your layout pages might not find things that are off the layout page.  Select All or Fill screen might help with this.

You could also have things on random pages that you were not expecting.  The Project Browser should help you find these pages.

Any layers in linked views are not an issue because they should not show up as used in the layout.

In X13, a door will be either an interior door or an exterior door based on where it was placed initially.  Moving it to another wall or changing your room types, will not change the door type the way it did in older versions.

You can adjust the casing on both sides of an interior door just like you can on an exterior door.  All you need to do is check the "Separate Trim and Materials on Each Side" option that Eric is suggesting.

From the documentation that pops up when click on that dialog button called "Help":

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Global Illumination

• When Use Ray Tracing is active and checked, multiple samples of indirect lighting in the scene are created, improving the lighting quality with each sample. This setting and those below it will not be active if real-time GPU Ray Tracing is not supported on the system. See GPU Ray Tracing.
• When Refraction is active and checked, light will bend when passing through a Transparent material.
• Specify the Maximum Export Samples, which is how many samples to run for a view that you wish to export as a picture or send to layout.
• When Cap Live Samples is unchecked, a GPU Ray Traced view will run samples indefinitely. Check this box to instead stop running samples when the Maximum Export Samples value is reached.
• Specify the Daytime Background Intensity, which is the brightness of the view's background color or backdrop image when the Sunlight is toggled on. See Backdrop Panel.
• Specify the Nighttime Background Intensity, which is the background brightness when the Sunlight is toggled off. See Generic Sunlight.

"The only things you should put on your layout pages are the things that should be part of the page itself, like page borders, title bars, and what not."

The "what not" I used in this statement was deliberately open-ended.  There are a number of other things that probably only make sense on layout pages, such as your page table or your revision table.  You may also want to put custom view labels on the layout page rather than use the automatic layout box labels or make these labels part of the view.  (On a side note, layout box labels will have some nice improvements in X14 that may make using them more appealing for many people).  Regardless, it's really up to you to decide if something is part of the view or part of the layout.