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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.

Haven't seen this myself. Might be a video card/driver issue. You might want to post the plan to see if someone else can see the same thing. Also, it usually works better to post pictures directly instead of as a pdf. You can just do a screen capture or use the "export picture" tool.

Do you mean like this? This is in X16, BTW.

You can select "use default" with the material spray can tool and paint all of your walls at once in a camera view.

Try temporarily changing the fence into a solid railing. You will need to make it form a room and be sure and set the height to what you want and then you can make the shadows for it. The shadows should stay when you change it back.

Default Settings -> Materials. Assuming that all of your cabinets are set to use the plan material defaults. If not, then you can use the material painter (or eyedropper), and then click on the button for either "room mode" , "floor mode", or "plan mode". Here is some more info: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00793/using-the-different-material-painter-modes.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5439/choosing-material-painter-modes.html?playlist=170

You can also look in the help manual for the section on using the union, intersection, and subtraction tools. These tools can be used with either 2D polylines or polyline solids and are super useful. There are also some training videos that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/305/subtracting-polylines-that-overlap.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/304/merging-polylines-that-overlap.html

Your soffit is oriented the wrong way. They will only slope front to back, not side to side. You need to pay attention to where the front arrow is pointing.

That looks like your drawing sheet. You can tell because it has the blue lines showing you the printable area and the shadows on the borders. You either turned on the drawing sheet or print preview. Both of these can be turned on using hot keys or by clicking on the toolbar buttons (that should be on the right side of your screen if you are using the default toolbars). You should be able to turn them off and the drawing sheet should go away. What I don't understand is how you can be seeing this when you open a plan. If I save and reopen a plan, then the program automatically turns them both off for me. The only time I know that it is on by default is for a layout page and it doesn't look like that is what you are doing because I would expect to see your layout borders. You might want to post your plan if you want someone to look into that more (or contact tech support). The other thing that I can tell by your picture is that your drawing sheet is not really setup correctly. If you tried to print directly from your plan view, you wouldn't get anything since it is not on the page. If you open up the "drawing sheet setup", you can adjust the paper size and/or the scale so that your drawing will fit on the page. You can then use the "center sheet" tool to put the drawing on the page. You can also click on the edge of the page to select it and just drag it around. This really only matters if you want to print directly from the plan view but setting it up right will help when you want to send views to layout pages. Here is a tech article about drawing sheet setup that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00725/defining-the-drawing-sheet-setup-for-printing.html

Ok, it looks like you can use one of these in a text box: %room.internal_area.to_sq_m.round(2)% %room.standard_area.to_sq_m.round(2)% and as long as the text box is in a room it should report the correct area in square meters. I was trying to use %room.area.internal.to_sq_m.round(2)% which does not work for some reason even though %room.area.internal% will give you the area in square feet.

If you started a plan in imperial units, then it will always be stored in imperial units and you can't easily convert it into metric units. You can modify your dimensions to display all lengths in metric units though. If you are displaying both metric and imperial, you should just be able to make the primary format metric and turn off the secondary units. If you need to show areas calculated in square meters instead of square feet, you might be able to use macros for doing this. For example, if you have a polyline with a label, you can use "%area% to display the area of the polyline in square feet and %area.to_sq_m.round(2)%" to display it in square meters rounded to 2 decimal places. I haven't figured out a way to make this work on room areas directly though so I usually end up make room polylines instead.