DBCooper

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/

You could create two schedules and use the room filter. This only works if you don't need to combine cabinets from multiple rooms. If you need multiple rooms, then you can create custom categories and filter the schedule by object categories. See if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03120/creating-custom-schedules.html

It would help to show a picture of what you are trying to model. You might be able to create a symbol that has both the balusters plus the wood slat and use that as either your baluster or panel symbol in the rail.

This is very doable in Premier but I think in Home Designer Architectural you are going to have to do a save as and just delete the stuff you don't want to show.

Go to page 0.

You can also use the "lock" to control how it rotates or moves when you make changes in the wall dialog. It does help to pay attention to the start and end though.

You should be able to use an angular dimension as well. You have to draw the angular dimension manually, then select the wall you want to rotate, and then click on the angle to change it. Works basically the same way that moving a wall by clicking on a normal dimension works.

You can set the wall angle to anything you want in the wall dialog. Personally, I would probably use the make parallel tool. Just click on the tool and click on the property line you want it to match. For a slab, or pretty much any poly object, you can also set the angle of any edge line in the dialog. If you are using the make parallel tool on a poly, you can click on the make parallel tool a second time to set whether or not the edge line or the whole poly rotates. This is one of Chief's best hidden features.

You could try using the window arch controls.

Yes, you can add electrical objects to soffits. So you could convert your vent into a wall mounted electrical object and then it would work. Not sure it's really worth the trouble though because if your vent is just a fixture you should be able to just place it in the plan and bump it against the soffit.