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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

Click in the bathroom and then look at the status bar to see what you have selected. It is probably one of the following: 1. A "Room Label". Click the "next" button or use the tab key to select the next thing below it. 2. A "Room". Click the open button and take a look at the fill style. If it has a fill style, turn it off. I'm guessing it's not this since the room fill style should always be drawn in the "back" so it won't hide other objects. 3. A "Room Box". This means that you placed a space planning room box to create your bathroom. Unless you are trying to create your whole floor plan using the space planning tools, this really isn't how you make a room a bathroom. Generally, you draw all your walls and then you open up the rooms and change them to the type you want. Just delete the room boxes you created and change your room types manually. 4. A "Standard Polyline" (or some other polyline type). If you created a polyline type on top of your room and it has a fill style, it can hide objects in your room. It's often better to use the room fill style instead but there are times when you need custom polylines because the room fill won't be exactly what you want. If you have a custom polyline in the room, you can always change the draw order so that it is drawn in the back and other things will display on top of it. My best guess is that it is #3 since it looks like you are a new student user. If it's not one of these, then you might want to post your plan so someone can poke around in it.

See if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00321/matching-building-and-terrain-heights.html

Actually, you only need to single-click on the floor number. Another way to get to the reference display settings is to use the "edit active view" tool. This lets you change lots of other settings for your current view, such as the layer set or all of the current defaults. This is the same dialog you get if you are editing your saved plan views.

Try this: 1. File->import->import settings from plan/layout 2. Choose the file you want to import the settings from 3. Expand the drop down for layer sets (or saved plan views) 4. Choose the layer set(s) you want or check the top box for all of them 5. Choose "replace" or "rename" if you are trying to replace the existing one or if you want the imported ones to have different names. You can find more info in this tech article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00386/importing-settings-from-an-existing-plan-layout.html

I think I can tell what you did just from your pictures. You swapped your rows and columns and you set your minimum rows to 10. When swapped, it should probably say "minimum columns" instead of "minimum rows".

You might be able to get the wall the way you want by editing the shape in an elevation view. I had ok results but it was a bit of a pain. You could always just create the piece of wall using a polyline solid and that might be easier.

Try here:

Yeah, they don't look so good. I would send in a bug report and maybe they can fix them. I played around with the line endcap length and even tried converting it into a segmented polyline and neither of these really looked much better. Maybe someone else knows a better work-around?

I found a couple of problems: 1. Your deck room is marked as having a floor finish that looks like mahogany on top of foam. Not sure if this was your intent, but if you check the "default" box it will go away. If you want a wood floor on top of your deck, then you probably don't want to make it "framing". If you don't want planks, then why is this room even a deck? You might be better off making it a porch or something else? 2. Your deck structure has planking that is marked as "joists" and it should be marked as "planking" instead. 3. Your deck defaults are a bit messed up since your deck structure does not have any framing (joists).

OK, lot's of changes in X18 and most of them are for the better because they made room labels work like all of the other labels and added a bunch of new tools that mostly work for all labels now. As Molly said, you can resize any label by choosing a new text style for that label in the dialog. If you want to resize a room label like you could in X17 and before, all you need to do is first select the room and then you need to click on the "edit label" button. Then if you hold down the "x" key, it will automatically resize the label when you drag a corner handled just like it did in before. You can also do this in the dialog by first turning off "use text style" and then setting the "character height" to whatever you want it to be.

There are at least 4 settings that help to control this behavior. 1. Go into your wall general defaults and look at your "resize about" setting. This setting controls what happens when you change the wall type . 2. Go into your wall dialog and look at your "algin pony wall" setting. This controls how the upper and lower part of the pony wall are aligned to each other. 3. Go into your wall type definitions and look at your "dimension to exterior layer" setting. This controls where a dimension line will locate the wall. 4. Go into your dimension defaults and see if your walls are set to go to surfaces or the wall dimension layer. If you are set to surfaces, then it won't use the layer setting from #3 above.

You should find it in the general plan defaults.

Try playing around with the "edit area" tools.

Try changing the number style to decimal inches. Then if you type in -13/32, it should display -.40625 and that number should stick.

You didn't give us much information so it is going to be hard to give you any help. When did your floor heights change and what did you do right before then? When you say you are missing elevations, where are you missing them? Does your plan have different floor heights on the same floor level or are they all the same? You might need to post your plan with more details about what you are having problems with. Since you are a first time poster, I am going to assume you are new to Chief. This tech info might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00579/controlling-wall-floor-and-ceiling-heights.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00938/how-the-height-of-floors-relate-to-the-height-of-the-terrain.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02989/message-ceiling-values-may-not-be-changed-as-the-floor-above-this-room-has-varying-heights.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01855/modifying-garage-floor-and-stem-wall-heights.html

I think it is only rounding the display in the dialog to the nearest 1/16". Use the number style button and change the display to decimal inches and you should see the actual values.

You didn't really say anything about when it is crashing. If you are mostly crashing making camera views, then it probably is a video card problem even if you are not using a 40 series card. If it's crashing doing something else, it could be almost anything from a problem in your plan or a bug in X18. Is it only crashing in one plan or does it crash even with a brand new 4-wall house? Really need some more info before anyone can give you better help. FWIW, I've been playing around with X18 and so far I haven't had any Chief crashes.

I couldn't come up with a way for this to work with a railing and door that follows the stair. It seems that as soon as you put a door in a railing, it will no longer follow the stair. Even with just a solid rail that's not a pony wall. Not sure why so you might want to report that Chief as a bug. I tried a few other things and they didn't work out either. I would probably just fake it with a fixture symbol like you did with the other triangle shaped door. I didn't try this but you may be able to get the symbol to cut out a hole in the wall without it messing up the railing. Maybe someone else can come up with a clever trick that works?

Open the sink dialog and make sure it is set to "inserts into countertop" and the vertical offset is set appropriately. If this doesn't help, then you should probably post your plan.

I don't know of a way to set it up so that the "arc with arrow" tool will automatically put it on a different layer than all of the other cad line tools. I suppose you could setup either a "default set" or "saved plan view" that changes your default cad layer, switch to that, draw your curved arrow, and then switch back but that hardly seems better than just changing the layer after drawing it. A better way would be to use the "text line with arrow" tool (or just drag one out using the diamond edit handle) to create a straight arrow on the right layer and then curve it after drawing it. All you need to do to curve it is to hold down the "alt" key while dragging the arrow head.