DBCooper

It's hard to tell because your plan views are so small but my guess is that you have drawn your retaining walls actually crossing over your elevation lines. Retaining walls seem to work better if you have elevations on one side and the other without them crossing. They can be close, but not crossing. If that doesn't help, you might need to post your plan.

I am not having any problems placing one from the library. You need to post an actual plan file so that someone can see what is going on in your plan. A pdf with a picture doesn't help in this case.

This tech article goes through some of the basics of creating a fireplace: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00058/creating-a-custom-chimney-and-fireplace.html This article covers the vaulted/cathedral ceiling: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00471/creating-a-cathedral-ceiling.html This article covers having exposed trusses: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00416/creating-decorative-exposed-trusses-in-a-cathedral-ceiling.html The exposed trusses is probably overkill for what you are doing. You could probably create the basic beams using framing tools, sloped cabinet soffits, or plain old polyline solids. Give it a try and then ask more questions if you get stuck.

It makes some sense that it selects leader lines since they are really just lines. It does not make sense to select the text though. I also noticed that it only selects rich text and not plain text. I think it has always done this but you should still report it as a bug.

The most common problems that causes weird wall framing is that someone messed up the wall type. If you mark the wrong wall layer as framing, or don't mark the right one as framing, it will cause problems. If it's not that, then you should post your plan.

Post your plan and someone can probably figure it out way quicker than just making guesses.

I was told that the Chief symbols were done in a more advanced 3D modelling program that allows them to setup custom texture mapping so that when they import it the materials will look the way they want them to. Unless you have access to something like that, it's pretty easy to just use two different materials where one of them is rotated 90 degrees. That said, you might want to experiment with using different types of objects to create the pieces. Robert suggested using framing members but you could also try other things like cabinet pieces or molding polylines. Basically, anything that has well defined rules over how the texture looks. Just need to make sure that all of the materials look right in Chief and if you are lucky they will keep the original texture mapping when converted into a symbol.

This is most likely a problem with your video card or the driver you are using. You can probably solve it by updating your driver but in some cases you might need to roll back to an earlier version. This tech article might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If you can't get it solved today, then I would contact tech support tomorrow.

Did you use one solid for the drawer front, or 5? I think you need to use 5 in order to make it work right. Also, you might need to assign different materials to the different pieces if you want more control over them when you convert it into a symbol. For example, you may need to assign one material to the panel and then use a different one to the stiles and rails. You may even need to use two different ones for the stiles and rails so they don't get merged together. This tech article has a lot more info but it doesn't really say much about how to keep the materials separate for each piece: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01808/creating-a-custom-door.html

Just an fyi, this will depend on what rendering technique you are using. The rendering technique can be setup to use the backdrop or not. The key thing is that the background color is only used when the backdrop is not used. Also, you can change this for any particular camera view using the "edit active view" tool or you can change it in your camera defaults if you always want your new views to look the same. On a side note, not sure why you were downvoted but maybe it's because your picture is missing?

Yes. See if this video helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10287/3d-dimensions.html

The default wall heights will only be available if you have manually changed the wall top or bottom height in a camera view. Normally, you wouldn't do this for a railing wall though. It looks like your railings are currently 36" above the deck surface: If you want to change the railing height, you can do that on the newel/baluster page: Also, I had to rebuild the deck framing for the stair landing to show.

I don't think it's actually a bug because this is the way schedules have always worked in Chief. Chief will group objects together just based on the text displayed in the schedule. It ignores what the objects might actually look like. So if you want your windows to be separate rows in the schedule, you have to add something to the schedule to make them different. Michael's solution is easy and will work but you could make it more automatic by changing your labels to use the built in macros "%automatic_label%-%arch_side%" or by adding some info to the OIP comments such as "%arch_type_name%-%arch_side%".

You could just use rope lights as long as you don't need to go up at an angle (like to follow a gable). Rope lights can only be in a horizontal plane. It would be nice if they could follow any path just like a molding polyline. Other that that, an emissive molding polyline might work although it will glow the same all along the path. Maybe you could use a symbol for the molding that had alternating parts set to emissive?

A picture of what you are trying to model would help. Have you played with the tray ceiling tool yet? You should be able to set the material on the top and sides to anything you want. Here are some things that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/99/automatic-trey-ceilings.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00201/creating-a-tray-ceiling.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00738/creating-a-coffered-ceiling.html