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How do you know you have trusses?

Edit layout lines is perfectly fine as long as you don't mind having to redo it every single time you make a change to the model that affects the elevation view. You could also just make a copy of the plan material you are using and use this material on the solids where you want the line. The program won't merge the surfaces if the materials are different. They don't need to actually look different so just making a copy should do the trick.

What does the "check knowledge base" button tell you? I think it means the file is probably hosed and you will need to find a backup or archive. Here is a tech article that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00960/message-the-plan-file-you-are-attempting-to-open-appears-to-be-corrupted.html And here is one that tells you how to find your archive files: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00099/accessing-your-archive-files.html

You can get kind of close using a left and right "radius end cabinet". I don't think there is any easy way to get the asymmetrical curved drawers though.

I think Michael is right, you will need two half circles to make a full circle with walls. You can open the wall dialog and set the radius to make sure they are both exactly the same. If you do want to create a polygon shaped room/building, you can use the "polygon shaped room" tool to set the number of sides and either the side length or the radius.

I think you can fix this by adding wall breaks to the walls that intersect the dormer wall. Currently, you have them drawn as through walls and then you have breaks in your dormer wall. It helps to turn on your layer for "walls, off in plan" to see what you are doing here. Also, I noticed that your wall definitions are a bit unusual. What would normally be marked as your framing layer is not set to framing and is set to have an air gap material. Not sure if you did this on purpose or not.

Did you try looking at the sheet metal materials? Or the metal siding materials?

If you zip it, it will be much smaller. Be sure it is closed when you try, otherwise it will be empty. If it's still too big, then make a copy and delete all the stuff that has nothing to do with the problems. Or, post it on the cloud and post a link.

You do realize that you can do that with one cabinet? Actually, any cabinet can have as many different door styles as you have doors. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00040/using-different-door-styles-on-a-single-cabinet.html

When the tray ceiling won't work for me, I usually end up just using poly solids and molding polylines. You can sometimes get soffits to work ok by butting the inside corners up against each other. Soffits will usually auto fill into the corners. Soffits also have the advantage of being able to put moldings on them so you don't have to draw them manually.

@GaryOhmer Is there a reason you like to use 2 cabinets for a situation like this? Unless I was going to actually use 2 stacked cabinets IRL, I think it is much easier and more accurate to just use one cabinet.

As far as I know, they only affect auto roofs so I don't think they will help with your problems. Not sure why you don't use auto roofs much because many times it gives me exactly what I want and when it doesn't, it at least gives me a good starting point. My guess is that those wall problems are coming from your interior walls. Might want to post your plan to see if someone can figure out why.

As far as I know, separations won't auto resize. You can either manually set the height of the separation or change it to a blank area.

Actually, it's pretty easy to do this. Just select the room with the crown molding and use the "make room molding polyline tool". This tool will convert the automatic room molding into a custom molding so that you don't have to draw it yourself. Then make an elevation view looking at the wall with the vault. All you need to do is add a beak point in the middle and just drag it up to the peak.

Even though Jason is using an old template (you can tell this by watching the video because of the warning message that pops up) and libraries that need to be updated, I don't think any of that actually matters in this case. In your pictures, it doesn't look like you first placed a base cabinet and then put the dishwasher in it. Chief has a very odd way of handling dishwashers and the library symbols are designed to go into cabinets instead of work as free standing appliances. As far as I can tell, the only reason that they do this is so that you will get the automatic counter top.

I don't think your origin is the problem. Looking at your picture, the x, y, and z coordinates on your status bar look fine. Every time I have seen a problem with the origin, the coordinates were more like 10 digits which means you are miles away from the origin. My guess is that this is a video card or driver problem. Did you recently update your computer or video card? And was the software working before you did? HD Pro 2016 is pretty old at this point but I don't know how much that matters for this problem. Here is a tech article that covers a bunch of different video card issues but it may not be as helpful for this old of a version: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If all else fails, you might want to try posting on the hometalk forum or even call tech support.

If you want vertical ones in your user library, you can just make a copy of the horizontal ones that are in the Chief library and then change the texture and pattern angle to 90 degrees. You can also do this in the plan (if you only need the vertical ones) by just editing the plan material using the "adjust material definition" (aka rainbow) tool

This is why people that answer forum posts and then later delete their answers should be beaten with sticks. If you have a foundation wall that is concrete and a separate interior wall that is framed, you need to make sure the framed wall is right up against the foundation wall without a gap. If you need a gap, then you will need to make a new wall type that has the gap built in. If the walls are snapped together than the window should go through automatically. If it doesn't you can check in the window dialog to see if the window is marked as "through". If this doesn't help you solve your problem, then you probably need to post your plan.

Not that I know of.

There is more than one way to solve this. The first and easiest way is to first place a base cabinet and then drop the dishwasher on top of it. This has the advantage of giving you an automatic counter top that goes over your dishwasher. The second way is to open up the dishwasher and adjust the origin and bounding box so that it behaves normally. If you do it this way, then you will have to manually build a counter top over your dishwasher. I see that Jason types faster than me.

In theory, that should work. Might be a problem with not setting it for the right room(s) or you set it for a floor but you are seeing a ceiling (or vice versa). I would usually set this up in my floor/ceiling defaults and then make sure all my rooms are set to "use default". If that doesn't help, you should post your plan and someone can look into it more.

The short answer is you can't easily create a corner joined door. I would probably just use a corner joined pass-thru and then manually place symbols for the door panels along the wall. If you want it to look more real, you would also need to place a track symbol manually as well.

You can try using the "reset to defaults" tool and check the box for "roof directives".

Use the "edit active view" button. Go to "selected defaults". Click on the pencil button for "notes" to open the "note defaults" dialog Chose the text style you want.

So just going to throw out some more random guesses... Are you working in a plan that was started with a template that was in imperial units? Are you exporting from a PLAN view or are you exporting from a layout or a cad detail? Layouts are always in paper space units and not real world units. When you are in the "export drawing" dialog, are you choosing inches ("in" ) or are you choosing some other units? Did you mess around with your "unit conversions" in your preferences? Assuming that you are exporting an imperial plan view, choosing inches, and you haven't changed your unit conversions, it should just work. You might want to post your plan and someone can see if they can tell what is going on. Other than that, I would agree with Ben and suggest tech support.