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Maybe this will help? Pay attention to the tool that is selected in my edit bar there and see if it helps and answers your question. To help you understand try looking up Material Painting tools in the help file.

Nope sorry you are wrong. This is the proper place for this question. Sorry @solver, it is directly regarding a best practices question with chief architect. Not asking about what the best service for getting proper as builts but what services can be used and “imported” into Chief specifically.

Sorry Eric I tend to disagree here. Yes it’s great to have his signature filled out and I agree on that point 100%…. However as to where this should be I do disagree with you. The OP is asking specifically for ones that import into Chief not just services who offer as built dimensions/scans.

Are you offering to pay someone to find the design criteria for this job? If not this is not the right forum for this request. Btw the AHJ for that specific site is always a great location to start.

You will have to talk to chief architect sales.

Or open below, or remove the floor in this room option.

Looks like you used the apply materials (spray can) and made it an invisible material such as "Insulation Gap, or Opening No Material). Show the materials panel of that dbx to see if that is the case.

Template plan. Chief has global preferences which is for system preferences Separate are Plan specific settings that you save in a template plan to begin each job with.

Or right click on an empty part of the toolbars and change the configuration there.

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I am sorry but you are using software from 6 years ago. I would venture to say since at least X10 and most likely before that due to my skill set improving with the use of the software that there has not been a regular basis need for editing plot lines. I have found without exception that 99.9% of the times those errant lines are on there is because the model is not accurate or built how chief is designed to work. It can be done. I do probably a good hundred plan sets a year from large full customs, additions, kitchen and bath design, etc. I cannot even remember last time I have had to use the edit plot lines tool.

This is a contradictory statement. I have maybe one job in a year where I may need to cover an errant line or use the layout remove plot line tool. That is honestly being generous as I really can’t remember the last time.. accurate model will not have those lines.

Open to below room outside of the invisible railing with the floor set to the depth you want the posts to go below the adjacent floor (12" lower in this example). You have to set your newel height to the different height as well.

Railing tool alone, invisible, just posts, just glass all railings. 5 minutes so not exactly what he is looking for but it can be done.

I disagree. I think three railings or two and an invisible wall would do this just fine…. Just need to set two of them as partition. One for the newells and one for the glass custom panel.

Next time just add it to the cabinet and select 50% open and you can show open and closed and have the specs built in.

Think of it as a shelf.

Setup a Layer set for your 3d view that turns off the roof. Then you can change what level you are on as well. in X11 at least and it may even be available in X10 (I just cant remember) there is an OOB Layer set and camera view that will allow a "doll-house" view which you are describing. It is called the "perspective floor overview" camera.

Locked layers? Reference display item? etc. If restarting and checking those two options probably best to post the plan file.

If you are in the habit of creating a full backup of the plans in a dated folder and duplicating the folder (changing date only) for any revisions, then this issue would go away. The AB, New, layout files will all remain the same name and all the referenced files stay in the folder.

All or none. Pretty sure you will need to model this you will need to select it as no soffits and then place ceiling planes for the enclosed soffits.

Those are no longer rafters but roof beams in chiefs modeling world. They will be placed manually. The roof framing is the foam section of sips.

This is totally doable but very separate in nature. Better to post this as a separate post. There is many ways to accomplish it and one would be a custom material instead of individual backsplashes. In this way you can set it so all grout lines line up in the X,Y axxis. Post it up and you will have lots of support.

I have seen the menu bar disappear when having a 3d view up but have never been able to reproduce the issue so even though I reported it they don't have a way to find out the issue to fix it. Typically I can flip through my screens and select the different views I have open and eventually it will pop back up. Never the same thing and very sporadic maybe once every two weeks at most.

Although there are some benefits to doing this I have had issues with several window companies adapting this to their window orders. Marvin and Pella being two of the ones that refused to have different numbers for identical windows. This honestly would be my preferred although in some of these bigger houses the window schedule gets really long... But I have had so much push back that I continue to keep the similar ones checked and when I need to differentiate I will either have a comment on that door (even using a macro for swing or hinge, etc.) so as to separate the minor differences.