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Design Contest – Swimming Pools! Enter the Chief Architect Software Design Contest and win an hour of one-on-one online training with a certified Chief Architect Trainer ($125 value), and Chief Gear including a water bottle, mouse pad, 8 GB USB key, and a t-shirt ($59.95 value)! What is this contest? We’re finding inspiring design ideas! We want your creative submission for any Swimming Pool Design. Use any Chief Architect software product to create your own design or submit a photo of a completed project. Have fun with it! How do I enter? Send in your rendering or photo to submissions@chiefarchitect.com. Only one image per person. Please include your name, company information, the software you used and a brief description about the design. How do I win? 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. facebook.com/ChiefArchitect What will I win? You will win an hour of one-on-one online training with a certified Chief Architect Trainer ($125 value), and Chief Gear including a water bottle, mouse pad, 8 GB USB key, and a t-shirt ($59.95 value). Your design will also be featured in our newsletter. Are there any other guidelines? One submission/image per person Submissions must be entered by the deadline – August 18, 2014 Your free hour of training must be redeemed within 60 days. Questions? Send inquiries to submissions@chiefarchitect.com

You might try the Chief Architect video play list "Introductory Training". There are several other playlists to help (they are in a drop down list on the right side of the webpage)

You might try turning off shadows with Watercolor (preferences, render setting). In this sample plan, they are off. Another trick, since glass is not opaque in Watercolor, I put a slab behind the window, and painted it white to get an opaque look.

Leica's new $149 Disto(E7100i) seems to work well for basic functions; it has Bluetooth and will work with Room Planner 3.0 due out in the near future.

The 16.2.0.47 update is now available. Release Notes can be found below chief-architect-16.2.0.47-update-notes.pdf

I'm not sure I fully understand your question. The X6 Premier will not be able to Save As an older version, so the files will not open in X5. If this doesn't answer your question please call our sales department to discuss it further as well as your upgrade options. 800-482-4433 M-F 6am-5pm PT

Hi Mark, Sorry for the confusion. The email address has now been updated so you can contact us through this forum or sales@chiefarchitect.com. You can convert from Interiors X6 to Premier X6 for the difference in price, $700. Please call our sales department at 800-482-4433, M-F 6am-5pm PT to place your order. All of your X5 plans are forward compatible so you can continue working with them in Chief Architect Premier X6. Thank you!

To view a list of whats new in X6 click the link below: http://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/upgrade.html For those of you who participated in the Beta test here are the update notes for the new release: chief-architect-16.1.1.9-update-notes.pdf

Chief Architect has launched a new user forum replacing our legacy ChiefTalk forum. We will refer to the new forum as ChiefTalk. To post to the new ChiefTalk forum, you will need to sign up for a new user handle. Why a new ChiefTalk forum? A couple of reasons really. First, we are consolidating our login systems so you will only need one login for all Chief Architect properties. Currently, we have a separate login for your account, ChiefTalk and our support system, it’s time to fix that. Second, our current ChiefTalk has legacy information dating back to the 90s. While we could clean up this old data, our older forum technology makes that a time-consuming process. So, we have chosen a new forum technology that is more flexible and eventually will offer more features. What will happen to the legacy chief talk forum? You can continue to post new threads on the legacy ChiefTalk forum until the end of February. And, you will be able to read and search the legacy ChiefTalk forum through the end of 2014. If you want to migrate a thread from the legacy forum to the new ChiefTalk forum you can copy and paste between the two forums. Sign up for a new user handle.