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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

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but any Chief Architect files saved in any version after X10 can't be opened and then saved in X10. Chief has never been backwards compatible (and from what I have heard it probably never will be). The best you could probably get is to export a dwg or pdf that you could then trace over in HD 2019.

Rumor has it that beta testing has already started. I heard a few things about it from IBS but not much since.

Just to clarify, using the "3" key only works if you first select a wall and if you didn't change your hotkeys. You should also see the "add break" tool in the edit toolbar or on the right-click menu when you select a wall. Also, if you are trying to add the standalone "wall break" toolbar button to your main wall toolbar, you can't. You can add it somewhere else in your custom toolbars but you just can't put it into the "straight wall tools" family (or any other toolbar family for that matter).

I don't remember anything changing with this in either X16 or X17. I even checked the X16 migration guide and didn't see anything about foundation walls: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/documentation.html?version=26 You might have messed up something in the wall types or some other setting. You should post your plan so someone can take a look at it.

Open up the garage room. See if "show room label" is checked or not. If it's not that, then post your plan.

Open up the camera dialog and go to the render technique to find the "opaque window glass" settings. You should be able to set it to be a custom color if you want.

Look through the 3D walkthrough tools. You might be able to get what you want using the "create orbital walkthrough path".

There might be a better way, and someone that knows more about the material list might want to chime in, but you could try group selecting all of your cabinets and going into the "components" and just deleting all of the things you don't want. Then when you generate the material list it should just have what you want.

This tech article should help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03212/exporting-projects-and-disconnected-files.html

Do you still have the disks for X6? I can't remember if the core catalogs came on the disk or not but you should try there first If not, then you might want to try tech support. Just because they are not listed here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02899/manually-installing-core-catalogs-for-chief-architect-premier.html, they might still be available and they might be able to send you link.

This is almost always a video card or driver problem. Sometimes the most up to date driver is the problem. This tech article has a lot more info: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If all else fails, just call tech support.

You can change your window and door label to show the rough opening using the macros I show above. Below, I just added the rough opening size as a new line after the automatic label: You can change the windows and doors to add whatever you want for the rough opening by telling them to use "additional space". Below, I set it to add 3" to the window width:

See if this helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03211/backing-up-and-restoring-chief-architect-content-using-project-management.html If not, then maybe this: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03210/enabling-or-disabling-project-management.html

Chief only does exterior shutters out of the box. For any interior shutters, you will probably have to use blinds or just manually place your own symbols. I didn't see any in the library that looked very close though. You might be able to download some symbols from 3D warehouse or even make your own. I played around with making a shutter symbols using a louvered window and that might be a possible solution. You can even make an arched one if you wanted.

Copy it to your user library and then you can edit the cad block however you want.

I don't know if you can. You can control the layer your dimensions go on through your dimension defaults and you can quickly change these using saved plan views. I don't think you can specify that the auto room and auto exterior go on to different layers though. The best way to do this is to change the current dimension layer, generate your room dimensions, and then change it back to what you want for other dimensions. Someone else might have some better ideas though.

Is your rafter depth is larger than the fascia?

All that message means is that the program couldn't make the automatic heights work. Either it did not find the right start or end height, or it is not long enough so that the risers will be too high. You can always turn off the automatic heights and manually set the start and end height to whatever you want them to be. Stairs need to find a floor platform or landing at both ends in order to make the automatic heights work. If you are using a landing, the stair needs to butt up to the side of the landing for it work. If you are using floor platforms, then the stair would normally butt up against the platform edge at the top but it can sit on top of it at the bottom. It's hard to tell what the stair is finding just from your pictures. Since it is embedded in the floor platform, it probably isn't going to work like that. You might want to post your plan so someone can poke around in it. Also, this tech article might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00587/creating-a-split-level-entry-or-foyer-with-a-landing.html

Just picking low hanging fruit. I see lots of plans with framing problems because a wall, floor, or roof layer was marked as framing that shouldn't be or wasn't marked as framing when it should be. The other common problem with decks is room definition problems. Just make one wall "no room definition" and your framing goes bye-bye. After that, then you can start looking for all of the other weird cases and that can get very time consuming.

See if the pdf matches the screen better if you are in print preview mode. You will need to make sure your page setup also matches what you are using for the pdf. If it does, then you will can probably just adjust your line weights to get the results you want. If it doesn't, then you might want to try a different pdf driver instead. If all else fails, then you might want to post your plan files or contact tech support.

If you are getting weird winders, then you could always just turn them off. It should be pretty easy to manually create those two landings shaped like that picture.

Your floor structure is setup wrong. Your joists are not set to be framing. Once you set them to be framing, the decks should look better:

Ah yes, that makes perfect sense. Still doesn't explain how they became detached though. I just checked an old X15 plan I had and I didn't have any problems. It wasn't anything complicated though. If you still have the original X15 plan, you might want to report this to Chief.