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See if either of these help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00467/troubleshooting-missing-toolbars.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00654/restoring-the-size-position-of-the-side-windows.html

I just tried this and it worked fine for me. I placed a chair symbol into a plan, added a custom field and value, and then saved it to the library. When I placed it in new plan, it still had all of the info. Might have something to do with the object type. Might have something to do with editing it in the library instead of the plan. Might have something to do with the version of the program you are using. You could try posting the plan to see if someone else has the same problem.

Start here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00766/creating-cad-details.html Or here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/77/cad-basics.html Another thing that can help in cad details is to change the size of the snap grid and reference grid. If you are trying to draw something smaller than 1" but your grid snaps are set to 1", you can have troubles.

Your probably not actually using the layer set you want. Double check your reference display settings in your view that doesn't look right. If you can't figure it out, then post your plan.

You can set the maximum samples for the current camera view or in your defaults for new cameras. You should probably check both just to make sure they are less than 500. When I tried using the file export picture, it seems to always use the same setting as what's in my current camera and not what is in my defaults. I think it only uses the defaults for when you make new camera views. When you use the export picture, you can specify the resolution you want so you can make it "full screen" or whatever you want. The bigger you make it, the longer it will take to generate it though.

I would try using two walls. I would make a doorway on the one side with no casing and no jamb. The pantry door can then be marked as "not through". You could also try it without the doorway and mark the pantry door as "enlarged" but I think this will always make the opening the same size as the casing which may not be what you need.

z-fighting is what you get whenever you have two surfaces occupying the same space in a camera view. In the picture below, I made two soffits that overlap and have different materials. The program can't really figure out what material to use where the overlap happens so you get strange results. I think something slightly different is going on in JDorow's plan. I think the extra line is coming from the interior ceiling surface that is poking through to the outside of the wall. I'm not really sure what is going on in this plan but if you look at that location from the inside, you will see some extra lines that shouldn't be there. See picture below. Making the siding thicker shouldn't be necessary but in this case, it helps to hide the real problem. I thought it might be a problem with the wall type definition or room structure but I could not find anything that was obviously wrong. Maybe someone else could poke around and see if they can spot the problem? If no one does, you might want to submit a bug report to tech support and see what they have to say. Everything might be right and the program is just getting confused (because sometimes it does this kind of thing).

Take a look at my picture below. It has 3 different door styles listed on the materials page. The upper door was set to the beaded inlay door. The lower door was set to the framed double panel door. The other framed panel door is the one that was set as the "main door style" for the cabinet. It's not currently using the main door style but if I was to add a new door somewhere or change one of the other two to "use default" then it would. Whether you are using the main door style or not, you can still set the materials for it. Basically, any time you use a door, drawer, or end panel style from the library in a cabinet it will then show up in the materials. How many sub-materials show up and what the names are depends on how the person that built the symbol set it up.

Not really sure what AI has to do with X17 and didn't y'all beat that horse to death already? https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/45722-i-think-im-done-rendering-in-chief/

Do you get a room label and will it show the room area? If you don't, then there might be something wrong with your room which might make it not work for the living area. Other than that, you might want to post your plan.

Here are a couple of reasons why this might happen. - The walls are not aligned between floors. - The wall types don't match. - The materials for the walls are not the same. And by the same, I mean the exact same material and not just two materials that look the same. - The wall tops/bottom actually overlap. This can happen when people edit them manually and can be reset back to default in the wall dialog.

You can't, at least not easily. The best way I have found is to do things like start a new plan with your imperial template and place objects like cabinets, windows, and doors into. Then save them into the library. Now open your metric template and place the objects you want from the library and use the set as default. At least this way you can get your main architectural defaults. No way I know of to copy things like annotation defaults.

Try turning shadows back on.

Instead of turning off the jamb or fudging your door size/RO, why don't you just change the door from "door size excludes jamb" to "door size includes jamb"? When you have a glass patio door, the jamb is going to be part of the door unit that you buy so you don't need to worry about the size of the jamb. By changing this setting, you are basically telling the program to treat it more like a window unit.

Maybe you made the standard glass green, but I kind of doubt it. My guess is that you made the door style "panel" instead of "glass panel". A "panel" style door will not use the glass material. If it's not one of those, you should probably post the plan. Also, seems kind of silly to mark your question as the solution.