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Depending on what you are looking to accomplish. 1.) Edit>Edit Area>Edit Area (All Floors) copy and paste into new plan, but you will have to set your floor defaults that way (unless you use the import default settings from the old plan assuming it is the same version) 2.) Import your wall types, layer sets, saved plan views, & Default sets from your new file to your old file assuming they are the same version.

@DavidJPotter May do this???

Not sure of your capabilities since you are using Home Designer and this forum is for Users of Chief Architect Premier and Interiors. Hometalk (https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/) is for the Home Designer series of products and would have better information as most of us are not current with HD anymore. Those users will no better how to assist you. In Premier I would use an "arched" or curved Ceiling plane and set the wall to be cut by roof above. Making sure the ceiling plane is drawn and extended out so it goes through the wall you want to have the curve in.

Search the help file for: "Active Layer Display Options" select the camera after you have ALDO open and see what layers show for it. Hint: one of those will change the text size.

1.) Select the room (will automatically select the stairs first. 2.) Let go of any buttons. 3.) Hit tab key until it changes from the stairs to the room (in the bottom status bar it will show what is selected. Once it says room. 4.) Hit Ctrl+E or use the open button on the edit bar at the bottom to open the room. 5.) Follow Erick's directions to change the name of the stairway.

It is highly varied throughout the country. Many areas use window companies that are 100% customizable so when you enter a 3040 window they make the window exactly 36"x48" and the RO is 37x49... This is actually the reason why all my windows are dimensioned to the center of the windows. I will set all of my windows at my 84¨elevation throughout the plan and will go back and adjust the windows to the exact window size once I have the window order. If you set your default for windows to have the rough opening allowance for that particular window company (Almost everyone has a different amount.) There are hundreds of window manufacturers so pretty impossible for them to set it. In conjunction with that some window types with some window manufacturers have different rough opening allowances for sliding versus Double hung, etc. So what happens then? Sounds like it might cause a possible problem... Your idea of a sizing option could be a suggestion you can make to chief as it probably would not be a hard thing to program as chiefs input boxes are capable of doing math. However just as in everything else I am not sure if it is something they would put a lot of emphasis or if other designers would be supportive of this option as it could cause issues with incorrect sizing potentially. Again why I recommend the center dimension and the universal header heights. If we want something different we have to take the time to input the windows per the specifications of the manufacturer that we are specifying.

Setup your window defaults to reflect it. Hint you can actually set your manufacturer series etc in the defaults. Doing so you can set your rough opening to 5/8” and set your actual window size. So if it’s a 34 3/4” window you would input 34 3/4 and the ro would be 36

That picture I am showing is of your plan. All I did was open a wall elevation camera and place a backsplash over it. Didn’t have to change the wall covering or so it after the backsplash. It just needs to know which wall you want it on. If it’s not sure you can’t just simply click on the wall but have to click and drag out the backsplash.

Yeah you may want to add some "foundation" to that floating sidewalk...

The key to placing custom backsplashes and wall material regions is the angle of the camera. Chief is not sure exactly which surface you want it to cover. Try using a wall elevation camera which is directly at 90deg to the wall:

Highly controversial question. I generally suggest you use what you feel comfortable with. I am 100% mac and very strongly feel that way as most do because it just works and I never have down time which means I get to finish earlier, hit the pool, beach, or go fishing more... That being said if you don't want the jet engine nothing is as quiet as a mac when it comes to working but for chief (a highly gpu & cpu use program) I recommend getting the best you can afford which means 4-5k for the high end macbook pro max chip 16" with the max gpu available. It will last you some time.

Just to clarify: With a mac you still have CPU ray tracing just like it has had for every version since it came out. You will not be able to take advantage of the NEW IN X13 Real Time Ray Trace feature at this point although with the new AMD chip for the mbPro MAX chipsets the technology is available but chief has not developed that portion of x13 yet.

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I am in the same boat. My Drobo NAS drive died a few months back and although I have everything on icloud I don't have a regular time machine backup setup currently. I need to remedy that for that one time... BTW a good UPS for a desktop computer is pretty essential as it also protects against voltage spikes and brownouts as well as the occasional power outage that was not expected.

If you are on a mac by chance do you have time machine setup? go back to before the power outage and grab one of the autobackups and copy the detail over???

I was thinking the same thing that it was a copied texture and thus using the same texture file, that is using it but the texture files are two totally different files. Didn't spend that long but I couldn't find it either.

THIS^ Draw a 3 sided railing wall using a glass wall tool, use the barn door with a slab glass door type, add hardware from the catalog that Chop shows....

Did you check every room type?

Yes it is a known issue across all platforms as mentioned:

This is an issue with x13 across both platforms. Make sure your mac has the latest x13 update available, it helped on my system. When you switched to your PC you may have downloaded it directly after the update thus the difference. Worth checking!

Just to confirm because you are using a laptop which has TWO GPUs an integrated and a dedicated you have it set to be using the dedicated GPU for chief correct. Because that will happen if you are using the integrated chip. Sometimes the power settings can get tweaked and it makes it use the integrated which is for easy stuff like web browsing, etc.

Check your other post for the roofs and examine this plan.1741573854_LPPSAddition_RG.plan

1.) Please do not make a pdf to put pictures up. This forces people to download from many times someone they do not know a file to their computer. If you use a .png or jpg file you can post them directly. Try using the screen grab tool in osx. 2.) Lots of issues in your plan that I am guessing is due to you trying to get this to work. But you set the independent roof pitches on the eave wall where the roof plane lands. So once you reset all of your walls to default top and bottom height (Structures panel top option in each wall dbx) to fix the issues set your left wall to a 4:12 pitch, and the right to your 3.067.. pitch. 3.) Turn your auto build roofs back on but pay attention to the settings I am showing. BTW Best practices for schedules is to place them into a CAD Detail page not right on the plan. Although some do place them right on the plan it is not the recommended way per chief.

I use an older Mac and other than not being able to use the new RTRT which is a new feature so something I don't even know what I am missing really. And I 100% agree that the improvements in x13 are 100% worth it. X13 has been an extremely stable release on my machines.