DBCooper

Open the dialog. There should be a "show path" checkbox.

Yeah, if those red lines are from the ref display, they are showing the walls on the floor above (or below) and telling you that you have a wall next to the stair but not actually aligned with the stair support wall. This is probably what is causing the ceiling issue. It will also probably cause the framers to scratch their heads and say bad words. Might want to also take a look at the wall above/below the bed/bath.

Does it go away if you delete the fireplace? It looks like it is lined up with the side of the fireplace which makes me think it is related. Regardless, if you want something better than a guess, you should post the plan.

Don't change the drawing sheet info in the plan (because this affects all plan views). Just change the scale in the layout box.

Are you changing it using the temp dimension, in the wall dialog, or just by dragging the end of the wall? If you are using the temp dimension, there are extra buttons to the right of the dimension that have arrows showing which wall end changes. If you are using the wall dialog, there are some radio buttons that control which wall end changes. If you are dragging the end of the wall and both ends move, then you are probably in "concentric" mode. Just change your edit behavior back to "default". You should know when you are not in the default mode because you will usually find something extra following your cursor around.

I don't know if home designer architectural actually has the polyline solid tool. I am not even sure if it has any other tools that might be able to design either of those details easily. You might be able to model it in a separate plan using walls and roofs and then converting it into a symbol (if you can convert to a symbol). I think those details above the windows might also be a bit of a challenge even in chief. I would probably try to do them with a wall material region. You might try asking over on the home designer forum here: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/ Other ideas would be things like upgrading to home designer pro, seeing if you can download a symbol somewhere that is close enough, paying someone that has Chief to build these as symbols, subscribing to Chief for a month, ...

I think this was a bug in X13 that was fixed in either X14 or X15. Try a search on this forum and you might find some workarounds.

If you got a new computer, then your user library should still be on your old computer but it won't be transferred over to your new computer automatically. If your old computer is still running, then you can still make a backup of your user library and then transfer it to your new computer. If your old computer died but you made a backup of your user library at some time, then you should be able to restore it but you may lose everything you made since your last backup. If your old computer died and you didn't make any backups, then you are probably out of luck. The only thing that might help you is if your hard disk is still functioning well enough to extract the data that might be still on it. The only other thing that might help is that if you have any backups of your plan files that are using things from your user library, you can always open the plan and then add these objects back to your new user library. This can be pretty tedious when you have custom objects spread out through lots of old plans. The bottom line is that you should make regular backups of anything you don't want to lose. Here is a tech article explaining how to backup everything: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00001/backing-up-chief-architect-content.html Here is the article explaining how to restore everything that you have backed up: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00091/restoring-chief-architect-content.html

Yeah, you can't delete any of the built in system layers. It's always worked this way, even back in 1998 if I can remember correctly. If you think about it for a bit, Chief is really an architectural design program and not just a cad program. What would they do if you placed a cabinet after deleting the cabinet layer? Put it on the cad default layer? That might be pretty lame. Regardless, I think if you want Chief to consider your suggestion, you need to post over here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/

TeaTime is probably right but it *could* be other things too. Temp dimensions could be turned off. Your "selection line" color in your preferences could be white or fully transparent. If it's not any of those things, then I would look into your video card or driver. You might want to try updating the drivers to see if that helps. If not, then I would probably contact tech support (like Ben suggested).

Your stair doesn't look right in plan view because your room is too small and cutting off the side of it. I think all you need to do is move the invisible wall that you are using to create the open below room out a bit farther from the stair. It's probably ok if it has a jog in it and you can even turn off the layer if you don't want to see it. Another thing you might want to do is fix that 2" gap between the top of your stair and your deck.

See if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00893/creating-a-window-well-for-an-egress.html

If your plants are really just images, they can't be converted into plotlines. You could also try using 3D plants but they may not look quite as good as you would like.

Probably easiest to make each step a landing.

You can either use a curved stair section or individual landings. Personally, if I want the layout of the winders to be accurate, then I will use individual landings since you have more control over the position and shape of each step. Here is a tech article that has some good info: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00884/creating-winder-stairs.html And here is a video with some basic info: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/394/creating-winder-stairs.html?playlist=89

You can manually export all or some of your user library objects from one computer and then import them on the other computer: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00001/backing-up-chief-architect-content.html#User You can also put your user library somewhere where both computers can get them: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03090/moving-library-content-to-the-cloud-or-other-custom-location.html

Well, just off the top of my head... Maybe you accidently deleted it, moved it, or renamed it? Maybe you are working on multiple computers and only added it to the user library on one of them?

I am betting that you are having the same problem with doors. My guess is that your dimension is going to the top of the door and your door height is set to be from either subfloor or finished floor and your dimension is probably not going to the same place. Of course it could be other things, but without the plan, or at least some more pictures, I could only make guesses.

Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?

I would start here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/48/creating-layouts-and-construction-documents.html

There's always these: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/samples.html The nice thing about them is that some of them have "how to" videos.

I don't think there is an easy way to do that. You could try putting a custom ceiling plane below the roof plane.

It works the same way for ceilings that it does for just about every other poly object in the program. You select the ceiling plane, you click on the subtract button, and then you click on the hole. This assumes that you have a custom ceiling plane. If you are creating a vaulted ceiling by just turning off the ceiling, then you would select the roof plane instead. BTW, if you hover over the tool, the status bar gives you some simple instructions. If that is not enough, then you can always use the F1 key to bring up the help.

I tried Eric's method and the hole was converted into a polyline with two half circles. It did not work until I converted both arcs into faceted polylines. Might be a little easier to convert the circle into a faceted poly first and then do the subtraction.

Here is the short answer for the next person that does a search and finds this thread: If your "door style" is set to "library", your door panel is just a symbol and it won't be shaped to fill the opening the way you want. Just choose one of the other door styles, such as "panel" or "glass panel", and the program will build it properly.