DBCooper

You might want to submit a feature request for this. Chief always says that they don't look for feature requests on the Q&A forum so basically they won't amount to anything. You can submit one by posting here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/ For now, you can either move the cabinet (or wall) to a different drawing group or you can move the label position/angle. You can move/rotate labels manually by grabbing the handle or you can move them in the cabinet dialog if you know the exact settings you want. If you setup your cabinet defaults the way you want them, then you might have less manual moving things around later. Label default settings are not "dynamic" like a lot of the other cabinet settings, so if you set them up before you place your cabinets, you won't have to change them all later.

Short of drawing them reversed, no I can't think of another solution. Sounds like you should submit a feature request to add wall previews to the schedules though.

It's not just you. I think they went away with the latest update. I'm guessing they didn't want to support two copies of all the sinks, one with faucets and one without. I suppose you can always place your faucets separately since there is a faucet library. You could also export the ones with faucets from X16 and import them into your user library. Or, complain to Chief that you want them back.

How did you get the wall previews to actually show up in your schedule? I just tried this and they won't show up for me. I think Jim is on the right track though.

If you want to have a different material for your lintel than the rest of your window/door trim, you need to pick a custom molding:

If you are using the default toolbars, it should already be on the right side of your screen. Easy to click on accidently.

If you already have your schedules in your plans (or even better, in cad details), you need to change them there. Regardless of where they are in the plan, you can always find and change them quickly using the project browser. If you are saving schedules to the library and then placing them in your plan, just edit the names in the library using open object and you should be good to go. If you are placing new schedules using the schedule tool, you can change the names in your schedule defaults. If you do this in your template plans, then you won't have to do this each time you start a new plan and place a schedule. If you are making the same custom schedules over and over again for every new plan, I highly recommend that you create them only once and then save them in the library or put them into a cad detail so they are always available.

Try checking the "sum similar rows" option to see if that gives you what you need.

Take a look at the "insert new floor" tool.

See if this helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00040/using-different-door-styles-on-a-single-cabinet.html

I think your right that this might be a bug but it doesn't do that for me. I just tried with a metric plan and while the plan is the active view, whether it is a plan view or camera view, when I edit an appliance in my library it shows me metric units. I'm not working in project management mode so I don't know if that makes a difference. Regardless, you might want to report it to Chief and see if they can figure out what is wrong.

I don't think this technically counts as a suggestion since it is in the Q&A forum so a plus one probably won't mean anything. You might want to post something on the suggestions forum instead.

Just make sure it meets the recommended system requirements listed here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/sysreq.html You might also want to check out this blog: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/blog/computer-for-design-and-gaming/

Are you talking about cad blocks or something else? Cad blocks have a setting for either "by block" or "by object" and depending on how it is set will affect your line weights. When it is set to "by block" then you can change the line weight for whatever layer the block is on and all objects should be affected. If it is set to "by object" then each object will use it's own settings so changing the block layer won't affect them.

You could use an auto bay window and then just make the window a slider. Setting "has lowered ceiling" will give you the soffit. Just tab to select the window and change it from the default type into a slider and then lower the bottom to the floor. See pic below. If you need it to show up in the schedule and material list as an actual door instead of a sliding window, then you could explode the bay window and then replace the window with a sliding door.

Chief also has some training videos/articles that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1605/designing-a-one-and-a-half-story-roof.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10248/roofs-1-5-story-multiple-roof-pitches.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00772/building-a-cape-cod-or-a-story-and-a-half-roof.html

Look in your preferences and see if your status bar is turned on.

Are these chief libraries or user libraries? Did you migrate your core libraries? Did you make sure to update them after? Did you put your libraries into the default location or use a custom one? So many questions with so many possibilities which is why this might also be a good issue for tech support.

Yeah, it would be nice if it was inches in fractions but I don't think there is an easy way to do that. It think it is easy to round it to the nearest inch but that might not be accurate enough. @Alaskan_Sonmight know a better way but I am sure you can do it with custom macros. I can live with the decimal inches just so I don't have to learn macros. Might depend on where you are using it or might just be a typo. I don't think the "room" macros will work right in elevation views.

Try using this built in macro instead: %room.floor_elevation.to_s("'-\"")%

If you want to import your wall types that you exported from an older version (as a .dat file), you can use the File->Import->Legacy Settings Import->Import Wall Definitions. If you are trying to import them from another X17 plan, you can use the Import Settings From Plan tool.

Don't trust what the internet tells you. Trust us. Project files are new in X17 so X16 doesn't even know what they are. And even if you did try to export a plan file from X17, X16 still wouldn't be able to read it. As far as I know, Chief has never been backward compatible and from what I have heard over the years they probably never will be.

I think the last version you could buy a permanent license for was X15 but you can't buy it anymore. If you had SSA and kept it current, you could "own" X17 because you could always get the latest version but as soon as you stopped your SSA you would be able to continue to use it indefinitely.

Works fine for me so it might be something weird going on in your plan. Here are some things to check for: - wall height is tall enough. - default outlet height is low enough. - try placing the outlet in a camera view instead of a plan view (or vice versa). - make the wall a normal interior wall, place the outlet, then change it into a half wall (solid railing). - other objects are in the way and the outlet is snapping to them instead? could move them out of the way or hide them, place the outlet, and then put them back. If all else fails, post the plan.

Try using %perimeter% which will display it in inches. I think you can use %perimeter.to_s("'-\"")% if you want feet and inches.