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Congratulations to Michael Leach for winning the Outdoor Living Design Contest! He has won a Chief Architect water bottle, 8 GB USB drive, t-shirt, one hour of personal training, and will be entered into our year end Design Contest of the Year for a chance to win an iPad Pro. Thank you to all who entered and shared your great designs!

Congratulations to Bryan Ramírez Arroyo for winning the Residential Design Contest! He has won a Chief Architect water bottle, 8 GB USB drive, t-shirt, one hour of personal training, and will be entered into our year end Design Contest of the Year. Thank you to all who entered and shared your great designs!

Design Contest – Vintage Industrial! The Chief Architect Design Contest is a fun way to share your work and win great prizes. Share your Industrial Inspired Space for a chance to win Chief Gear! Use any Chief Architect software product to create your original design and check out our Vintage Industrial Catalogs. Enter: Submit a single image file of your design to submissions@chiefarchitect.com. Include your name, company information, the software you used and a description about the design. Winner: Entries will be posted in a photo album on Chief Architect’s Facebook page. Fans of Chief Architect will be asked to “Like” their favorite entry. The entry with the most “Likes” will be declared the winner. Share with your friends to earn their votes! facebook.com/ChiefArchitect Prizes: 1-hour personal online training 8 GB USB drive Chief Water bottle Chief T-shirt Design Contest – Featured Customer Automatically be entered into our Design of the Year Contest! Rules: Vintage Industrial Definition: Vintage Industrial Style turns focus onto mechanical and utilitarian elements, especially those salvaged and reclaimed from warehouses, hospitals, commercial buildings, farms, or other bygone institutions. Heavy with reclaimed wood, metal, and masonry materials, Vintage Industrial designs highlight hardworking and humble spaces. Use any Chief Architect software product to create your original design. One submission/image file per person (can be single view or collage) Chief Architect reserves the right to refuse any contest entry. Your free hour of training must be redeemed within 60 days. Entry Deadline is July 18, 2016 Questions? Send inquiries to submissions@chiefarchitect.com

Now Available - Chief Architect has a new 3D Viewer product that is a virtual reality viewer on mobile devices for 3D models exported from Chief Architect software. The product is a Free app and runs under Apple iOS and Android. Here's a brief sample plan exported to the 3D Viewer More information is on the website To export a 3D Viewer model from Chief Architect you will need Chief Architect X8 Premier or Interiors, version 18.3. Once you have prepared your model for export in Chief Architect it will package up your model (textures and all) and put it under your Chief Architect cloud account. From your Chief Architect account, you can manage the sharing, deactivation, and deletion of plans you have exported from Chief Architect. The current number of plans you can Share on the cloud has a limit of (3) files. If you need more storage, you can contact Chief Architect sales and upgrade from the free to a paid cloud plan. To share your plans with another 3D Viewer user, click the ‘Share’ button associated with the plan you would like to share. You will need to provide the Sharing code that appears in the console. Or, you can click the ‘Send’ button to generate an email that includes the Sharing code as well as instructions for obtaining 3D Viewer and creating a Chief Architect account. Share your models with your clients using the 3D Viewer!

Hello Jason, I am sure there will be some Chief Users that chime in here, but I wanted to reach out to see if there are any questions we can answer for you. You can contact our sales department by emailing sales@chiefarchitect.com or call 208-292-3400. Also, feel free to reach out to me personally. You can simply ask for Derek if you call. We look forward to serving you as a Chief Architect customer! Kind regards, Derek Chief Architect Software

Hello Craig, Thank you for the question and for your interest in upgrading your software. Assuming that you currently own Home Designer Pro 2012, you can upgrade to Pro 2017 for $295. When you upgrade from HD Pro to Chief Architect Premier you get a $500 discount. The discount is the same when upgrading from HD Pro to Chief Architect Premier regardless of the version number. We currently have a special deal for upgrading Home Designer Pro to Chief Architect that is good through July 11, 2016. Please contact us for more information. You can email sales@chiefarchitect.com or call 208-292-3400 Kind regards, Derek Chief Architect Sales

Design Contest – Outdoor Living Spaces! The Chief Architect Design Contest is a fun way to share your work and win great prizes. Share your Outdoor Living Design for a chance to win Chief Gear! Use any Chief Architect software product to create your original design. Enter: Submit a single image file of your design to submissions@chiefarchitect.com. Include your name, company information, the software you used and a description about the design. Winner: Entries will be posted in a photo album on Chief Architect’s Facebook page. Fans of Chief Architect will be asked to “Like” their favorite entry. The entry with the most “Likes” will be declared the winner. Share with your friends to earn their votes! facebook.com/ChiefArchitect Prizes: 1-hour personal online training 8 GB USB drive Chief Water bottle Chief T-shirt Design Contest – Featured Customer Automatically be entered into our Design of the Year Contest! Rules: Use any Chief Architect software product to create your original design. One submission/image file per person (can be single view or collage) Chief Architect reserves the right to refuse any contest entry. Your free hour of training must be redeemed within 60 days. Entry Deadline is June 20, 2016 Questions? Send inquiries to submissions@chiefarchitect.com

Watch our quick video on Annotation Sets to increase your productivity with Chief Architect Premier. Here are a few resources to get you started. -Annotations (anno-Breckenridge.cadefs) -Layers (layersets-Breckenridge.layers) -Wall Definition (wall-definitions-Breckenridge.dat) If you're not familiar with importing these file types, you can simply go up to File>Import>Import Annotation Sets / Layer Sets / Wall Definitions Also, check out this Knowledge Base article. anno-Breckenridge.cadefs layersets-Breckenridge.layers wall-definitions-Breckenridge.dat

This year, Chief Architect was happy to participate in Fine Homebuilding’s Annual HOUSES Awards by contributing Floor Overview renderings for each of the winning homes. The renderings feature the Water Color with Line Drawing rendering technique that can be applied to any 3D or Elevation view created in Chief Architect. View the renderings through our album: Then check out all the featured homes and view the galleries here.