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I am sure there would be a number of people here who would welcome extra CAD Details for Chief, perhaps a Post in the Symbols and Content Forum would be the best place to do that. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/9-symbols-and-content/ Mick.

Yes , as far as I am aware Baseline is just Chief's Term for HAP M.

What Eric said ......here in the Plan Defaults............ set this in your Template Plan as well ...so it is always the same.

Rob's post above of the Basalt Drystack Wall No# 3 works pretty well , and I am sure with your SU Skills you could enhance it if needed..... I had a play in Chief and Updated the Materials somewhat with (cheap) bumpmaps and made the materials Matte. I also added a "shadowboard" p.solid with Loam (dirt) as the material ( could be Gravel\sand\matte black etc too) as the gaps in the stones let you see right through the wall. Although it is a straight wall, it might be enough to show Clients the "idea" at least. Plan File : Symbol : Is in the Plan.... Basalt Drystack Wall Symbol Plan.plan

If the materials are in the same folder as the Plan, then Chief should find them.... Mick.

Did you unzip it into a Folder or into the same Folder as the Plan and Layout? Chief always looks in the folder the Plan/Layout are in 1st for materials , then the Textures Folder in the Chief Data Folder. M.

Intresto looks like it has some nice Models , not sure about the poly count though, as I have not downloaded them all.... Might be an Idea to Copy this over to the Symbols Forum Rob , with a few tags to make it easier for others to find in the future...

No, it is the Wall Plate Hgt eg 16' (192") ( PLUS the VSD - Birdsmouth Depth if a Cut Roof ). So you are forcing the Roof Plane down into the Building , by setting the baseline at the Ceiling Hgt, which is why you don't see a Top Plate in some of your DBX's. , this is one GOOD reason to always let Chief Auto build the Roof Planes 1st then do some clean up and any changes as needed. As long as you set the RWD's 1st the Autobuild should get you 50% - 85% of the way there and save you time.

Yes , but as you haven't done you Forum Signature , nobody know which Version and sometime Answers are Version Specific..... there is no "needed" reason to retain the Older Versions Data Folder , though it may pay to for example copy everything in each ones Texture Folder to the latest Version's Texture Folder , and not allowing "replace existing" , as some older plans may still try looking for files in previous versions' folder if not already in the folder the plan is in or the current version's Texture Folder. The Data folder also has your Archive Copies ( plan and layout backups ) copy of old User Libraries etc which you may want to backup "just in case" or at least check out rather that just delete whole Data folders willy nilly.

DWG is just the 2D CAD normally , but the .OBJ should import as a 3D Symbol , though if thatis it above it looks like you need to set the Symbol's XYZ correctly to insert it into a countertop. Mick.

Thanks, I try not to add whole Directories if I can to Whitelists, in Windows Defender I have added just .plan and .layout Files as Exclusions. Malwarebytes Free only allows Applications, so I have added the X13 and X14 .exe Files to it's Allow List too.

Did you try the User Group Forum ? https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/14-local-user-groups/

It should be in everybody's Digital Locker, it just isn't activating the normal Update notice we normally get, I assume because it is an emergency fix for a single issue only...this one.

Are you sure the box isn't actually 30 1/4" sitting on a 4 1/2" Kick to allow for 3cm ( 1 1/4") Quartz Counters? for the standard 36" height ?

Most Manufacturers now supply them as Standard Practice, so I am not sure if perhaps there is a need for a Schedule Column or not ? but I don't think "Views" need to show them , especailly since CA does not handle multiple CAD lines well ( speed ) and Elevations would be effected I think. M.

No the lockup Issue has been around sometime , some seem to have it some not , it rears it head for me predominantly in Old Plans brought forward, but not sure what the difference is with X14 only Plans, I'm not going to claim success yet but the Whitelisting I mention in my post above yest. seems to be helping today even with Time Tracking On ( another Issue some are having with crashes. but not sure if all are related?) Mick.

Yep , been using that method myself when needed for 4-5 yrs now

True , I scale my 2K monitors and have other Issues like blurriness in Elevations too. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/34389-x-14-slowness/?do=findComment&comment=271551 Mick

Perhaps Rolling out the Fix slowly for "Testing" since it is a single (Hot) fix Update for this specific issue.... Mick.

Strangely X14 is not finding this Update automatically for me even with the Check enabled, just luck I read this thread......

It maybe the Known Issue of having a REALLY wide Terrain Perimeter , there are a few post on the Forum about this happening. M.

I have seen others post that this freezing Issue maybe a Virus Scanning Program Issue eg McAfee and the Chief .exe file being labelled Malware by Windows Defender and not even allowing Installation of Chief , which got me thinking Whitelist and with Windows Defender Exclusions , so I have added both Chief's File Types to the Exclusion list to see if this Helps since the plan i am in this week is bad. You can try adding an exclusion to Windows Defender too Jeff ..... for Chief itself (process) or for .plan and .layout File extensions which I am going to try. Mick. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion-to-windows-security-811816c0-4dfd-af4a-47e4-c301afe13b26 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-add-a-file-type-or-process-exclusion-to-windows-security-e524cbc2-3975-63c2-f9d1-7c2eb5331e53

Thanks Jeff , wish I had know to try that earlier today , was a day from H*** back in an Early X13 Plan for me, will try that tomorrow as turning off the MWB Tray App , has not helped me at all. Mick.

It is still possible that the Missing Texture is not in ( any of ) the Textures Folder's as earlier Versions did not add the Texture to the Textures Folder automatically like recent versions do ( or are able to ). The Error message may give yo a hint where to look though.... Mick.

Did you not allow the Migration of the textures folder when installing X14? * you can just copy everything in the Textures folder for X13 into the Textures Folder for X14 manually though, in fact you can copy the contents of any Versions' Textures folder into the most Current Version's , probably be plenty of duplicates , just say no to replacing anything already in the Current version, so you have the latest , then you can delete the old versions folder if desired. M.