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It might be you. You definitely don't want to use "cad detail from view". All that will do is turn your schedule into cad which is fairly useless. I put all my schedules in cad details and then just send the cad detail to layout the same way I send all of my other cad details. If you make a habit of using the project browser, this is actually pretty easy.

I didn't get any errors either but I did see some problems with how you setup your rooms and a wall alignment issue. I really can't think of a reason why you couldn't use auto roofs with this plan and even auto rooms. All I think you need to do is build the second floor exterior walls to match the first floor ones and then just designate the big room as "open below" and then you probably wouldn't need to mess around much with the rooms. See if this basic tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00078/creating-an-open-below-room.html

You can change how things look in the dialogs by clicking on the "number style" button. This is only temporary though and will get reset the next time you launch Chief. I don't know of a way to change it permanently.

Nor sure what Eric's answer was, but as long as you don't have "always present" checked, the program should already work the way want. If this is not working for you, then you probably need to post your plan.

Oh, I love this game. What do I get if I win? Maybe your roof planes are actually on another floor? Maybe your view is not using the layer set you think it is? Maybe your roof planes are not on the layer that you think they are? Maybe you are using a line style or color that doesn't show in plan view? Maybe your roof planes are actually in a different plan that you have turned on using reference display in the camera view but not in plan view? I could probably come up with some even more obscure cases if it's not one of these. Of course, you could always post the plan but how would that be any fun?

Yes, of course they do: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/ https://www.chiefarchitect.com/training/ And there is also this forum, which in my opinion is one of Chief's best resources for new people and long time users. Also, just my opinion but based on many years of using Chief, Chief is easy to "learn" but hard to "master".

You can use "edit active view". Or, you can click on the camera in a plan view and use "open object":. And, if you always want your floor overviews to work this way, you can change it in your camera defaults.

Nope.

Are you using X15? If so, just click in the room you want and you will see "auto room dimensions" on the edit toolbar or menu. If you want more control over what the dimensions locate, here are some tech articles: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00941/changing-what-dimensions-locate.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03162/generating-automatic-dimensions-that-follow-nkba-standards.html

Actually, the jog is happening because your railings are not aligned with each other in plan view.

For your rocks, it looks like you are using a distribution path. If you open it up, and use the "edit" button, you can change the way the rocks work. If you make them relative to the terrain height they will sit on the terrain whatever height it is. Looks like Robert beat me on the rocks but since I beat him on the fence, I call it "win" for both of us.

You can also just turn off "automatic heights" for the stairs and then adjust the top and bottom to be whatever you want. If you make your fence "no room definition" it will fix your deck railing. Not sure why the fence affects the deck though. Might want to fix the alignment on the deck rail that joins the invisible deck rail because you have a slight jog.

You could make one yourself pretty easily. Just create a simple object that is the right shape and size and then convert it into a light symbol. Or even easier, just make the object and set the material to be emissive so it looks like it is glowing.

See if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00575/creating-a-plot-plan.html

Take a look at the cross section view. That is the floor slab under the door. In X14, the floor would butt into the stem wall and in X15 the stem wall is lower and floor slab builds on top of it. It is really only noticeable because you painted your concrete walls blue and your floor slab is still grey. I don't know if there is a way to make the floor slab work the same way that it did in X14 but you can change the floor slab to use a concrete material that is blue instead of grey.

Robert, I hope you have a little bit of a laugh when you realize it is just a cad marker. Markers do show up in the menu/toolbar with the other text tools.

You probably hit the "X" button to close your other windows. Click on the "gear" button and turn them back on.

Or maybe your walls are not closed or have no room definition so that the roof is being built on top of the basement. If it's not one of these things, you should post the plan.

According to your picture, that's an interior door but not sure that matters in this case. You might want to check the rough opening settings and if that doesn't help you will probably need to post the plan.

As far as I know, you can't. The stair defaults are set to "automatic heights" and I can't find anyway to turn this off. Most of the time you shouldn't need to because the stair should just go from floor to floor and automatically adjust the riser height so that it works. Are you trying to do something special? You probably just need to turn off the jamb. If the door size "excludes" the jamb, and you have a jamb, the program will use the size of the jamb as the minimums for the rough opening.

You can use polyline subtraction if you want to cut out part of a roof plane. In the example above though, I would probably use the make parallel tool instead.

Yeah, I forgot that you could even change the opening indicators in the cabinet defaults. You must have turned them off at some time and forgot about it. As for the dashed lines for shelves, I don't think you can do this automatically or very easily. I know there have been posts in the past showing various workarounds so you might try a search. For me, I would probably just draw them in manually.

Yes, and no. You can't shape a cabinet any arbitrary shape you want like you can with the counter top. There are a number of things you can do that are built in and more with a few workarounds. If all you want is a triangle shape, you could use an "angled front" cabinet and then set one of the sides to 1/16".

You realize that those two statements contradict each other, right? You are using a new OS so the machines are definitely not the same and software might not work the same. Regardless, my guess is that you are having a video card, or more likely, a video card driver problem. I would bet that 99% of the crashes that people talk about here are video card related. First thing to try would be to update your video card drivers to the latest from the card manufacturer. If that doesn't make the problems go away, then check out this tech article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If all else fails, then I would contact tech support.

White will look grey unless it has a lot of light shinning directly on it. If all you have is ceiling lights that are all pointed down, you are not going to see much definition. Try playing around with adding some more lights (using the add lights tool if you have it) or maybe even making the white material slightly emissive to make it look brighter. BTW, home designer has it's own forum here and other users might have other suggestions: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/