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I have seen that before with two rooms that were both marked as garages that had a wall with a door between them. I can't remember what the workaround I used was. Might want to try changing one room to a different type but if that doesn't work you could always just fill the hole with a poly solid. I can't make this happen in X18 so it looks like they might have fixed this.

Are you automatically building the wall framing or are you manually building it? It's pretty easy to just select a wall and say "build framing for selected object" to build it. If it doesn't actually build any framing, then it is something wrong with your wall. 99% chance that you did something to the wall type when this is the case. Most likely you don't have the main wall layer set to be framing*. If it's not that, then you should probably post your plan. *In Michael's picture above, note how the "framing" checkbox that is below the table is not checked. You need to make sure that it is checked for the wall's "main layer".

See if this tech article about making a split level entry helps: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00269/creating-a-split-level-entry-with-a-landing.html

Have you tried moving the panel around using the "panel offset"?

Yeah, I think that's what doors do when they are in railings. It usually looks fine when you are putting a gate into a railing or fence but looks silly in this case. One thing you could do is just make a section of lattice as a symbol and then manually place it above the door. You might also want to send it into Chief and ask them for the ability to make the wall cutout above the door optional.

In your picture, it looks like it should work. Make sure both stairs have "allow wrap" checked. Make sure both stairs are the same length. Make sure that both stairs have the same top and bottom heights. Other than that, you might need to post the plan or contact tech support.

@KilianDrafting You might want to check out the preferences for new plans. There are some settings that might help. I haven't really played with them but this is what the documentation says: ../../../Resources/img/num/num03.pngDesigner/Client InformationSpecify where initial Designer/Client Information is drawn from in plan and layout files. See Text Macros. Default Designer/Client Information - Click the Define button to enter the global default designer and client information that applies to all Chief Architect plan and layout files. Instead of using the global defaults, you can specify that the information in New Plans and New Layouts be drawn from the template files used to create them. See Plan and Layout Templates. The Copy Designer Information from Templates for options let you specify whether Designer Information is drawn from templates or the global defaults. The Copy Client Information from Templates for options let you specify whether Client Information is drawn from templates or the global defaults.

Try using the "edit active view" tool while you are in a material list. This should let you turn things on and off. And if you always want your material lists to be this way, change your material list defaults in the "default settings" dialog.

I think you are doing it the hard way. All you really need to do is create a new dimension default that locates your electrical objects and puts them on the right layer. Then if you setup a saved plan view that switches to that dimension default and the layer set you want you should be good to go. You could also setup other defaults so that your text and cad all go on the right layers as well. Check out this tech info about using saved plan views: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03185/understanding-saved-plan-views.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2421/saved-plan-views.html

When you select a railing you should see a tool called "move newels". This should let you move the newel posts around to where you want and you should be able to add an extra one if you need it. This tech article has some basic info: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03195/manually-adjusting-newel-posts.html

Not that I know of. We have some new ways to add fill styles to rooms in X18, such as using layers or setting them up in your defaults, but they still won't go into doorways. You might want to report this to Chief and maybe they will fix it some time. For now, one workaround you could use would be to generate room polylines, add the fill style to them instead of to the rooms, and then manually edit them to go into the doorways. Need to make sure the polyline is set to draw in the back and you will still won't get any fills for your door panels or trim (which is another thing I wish they would add).

Are you using X17 or X18? If using X17, are you on the latest update? If not, then you should get it because if it was a bug then it may have been fixed. I just looked through the update notes for X17 but I didn't see anything that looked like it was related though. I also played around in X17 for a bit but I did not get any point markers. I tried everything I could think of with the point-to-point tool and nothing showed up. The only other obvious thing you should check for is to see if you have accidently turned on arc centers. If you are using the latest version of X17 and you don't have arc centers turned on, then you might want to post your plan, or at least a picture of what you are seeing, or maybe tell us what you are doing that causes the points to appear, or if all else fails, then contact tech support. Other than that, I can't think of anything else that might help.

You need to look for something that is creating a break in the ceiling platform, such as a hole or room divider or whatever. See if you can spot it using cross section views. If you can't find it, then try posting the plan for someone to poke around in.

My recommendation is to get rid of everything in the plan that takes up a lot of space. For example, I would get rid of all of your furniture and any other interior decorations. If you need to create any decorated views for marketing or whatever, you can always make a copy of the plan with only the rooms needed and none of the other bloat, so that you can "stage" your views. Or even better, you could take your clean views and use AI to generate the presentation views. You might also want to get rid of any data that was imported into the plan, such as cad, images or pdfs. You can keep things like this and all of your stock details in a separate plan file to keep it out of the main plan file. Here is a tech article that has some good general info about dealing with large projects: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00521/troubleshooting-slowness-in-chief-architect-projects.html

So Chief really has two different ways of designing a house. One way is to use the space planning tools to place room boxes that you would then use to layout your plan. Once you have them organized the way you want, you would then use the "build house" tool to create walls around these spaces and at that point you would be done with them. This is a tech article that has some more info about using the space planning tools: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00349/using-the-space-planning-tools.html The other way, which is probably way more common is to just draw your walls to create the room spaces. You can then go into each room and set the room type if you want them to have labels and other properties specific to that room type. For example, designating a room as a garage or a deck will have very different properties by default than say a bedroom. As for getting started, I recommend the quick start videos (especially the floor plan basics one): https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/playlists/138/quick-start-video-series.html