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Yeah, they don't look so good. I would send in a bug report and maybe they can fix them. I played around with the line endcap length and even tried converting it into a segmented polyline and neither of these really looked much better. Maybe someone else knows a better work-around?

I found a couple of problems: 1. Your deck room is marked as having a floor finish that looks like mahogany on top of foam. Not sure if this was your intent, but if you check the "default" box it will go away. If you want a wood floor on top of your deck, then you probably don't want to make it "framing". If you don't want planks, then why is this room even a deck? You might be better off making it a porch or something else? 2. Your deck structure has planking that is marked as "joists" and it should be marked as "planking" instead. 3. Your deck defaults are a bit messed up since your deck structure does not have any framing (joists).

OK, lot's of changes in X18 and most of them are for the better because they made room labels work like all of the other labels and added a bunch of new tools that mostly work for all labels now. As Molly said, you can resize any label by choosing a new text style for that label in the dialog. If you want to resize a room label like you could in X17 and before, all you need to do is first select the room and then you need to click on the "edit label" button. Then if you hold down the "x" key, it will automatically resize the label when you drag a corner handled just like it did in before. You can also do this in the dialog by first turning off "use text style" and then setting the "character height" to whatever you want it to be.

There are at least 4 settings that help to control this behavior. 1. Go into your wall general defaults and look at your "resize about" setting. This setting controls what happens when you change the wall type . 2. Go into your wall dialog and look at your "algin pony wall" setting. This controls how the upper and lower part of the pony wall are aligned to each other. 3. Go into your wall type definitions and look at your "dimension to exterior layer" setting. This controls where a dimension line will locate the wall. 4. Go into your dimension defaults and see if your walls are set to go to surfaces or the wall dimension layer. If you are set to surfaces, then it won't use the layer setting from #3 above.

You should find it in the general plan defaults.

Try playing around with the "edit area" tools.

Try changing the number style to decimal inches. Then if you type in -13/32, it should display -.40625 and that number should stick.

You didn't give us much information so it is going to be hard to give you any help. When did your floor heights change and what did you do right before then? When you say you are missing elevations, where are you missing them? Does your plan have different floor heights on the same floor level or are they all the same? You might need to post your plan with more details about what you are having problems with. Since you are a first time poster, I am going to assume you are new to Chief. This tech info might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00579/controlling-wall-floor-and-ceiling-heights.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00938/how-the-height-of-floors-relate-to-the-height-of-the-terrain.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02989/message-ceiling-values-may-not-be-changed-as-the-floor-above-this-room-has-varying-heights.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01855/modifying-garage-floor-and-stem-wall-heights.html

I think it is only rounding the display in the dialog to the nearest 1/16". Use the number style button and change the display to decimal inches and you should see the actual values.

You didn't really say anything about when it is crashing. If you are mostly crashing making camera views, then it probably is a video card problem even if you are not using a 40 series card. If it's crashing doing something else, it could be almost anything from a problem in your plan or a bug in X18. Is it only crashing in one plan or does it crash even with a brand new 4-wall house? Really need some more info before anyone can give you better help. FWIW, I've been playing around with X18 and so far I haven't had any Chief crashes.

I couldn't come up with a way for this to work with a railing and door that follows the stair. It seems that as soon as you put a door in a railing, it will no longer follow the stair. Even with just a solid rail that's not a pony wall. Not sure why so you might want to report that Chief as a bug. I tried a few other things and they didn't work out either. I would probably just fake it with a fixture symbol like you did with the other triangle shaped door. I didn't try this but you may be able to get the symbol to cut out a hole in the wall without it messing up the railing. Maybe someone else can come up with a clever trick that works?

Open the sink dialog and make sure it is set to "inserts into countertop" and the vertical offset is set appropriately. If this doesn't help, then you should probably post your plan.

I don't know of a way to set it up so that the "arc with arrow" tool will automatically put it on a different layer than all of the other cad line tools. I suppose you could setup either a "default set" or "saved plan view" that changes your default cad layer, switch to that, draw your curved arrow, and then switch back but that hardly seems better than just changing the layer after drawing it. A better way would be to use the "text line with arrow" tool (or just drag one out using the diamond edit handle) to create a straight arrow on the right layer and then curve it after drawing it. All you need to do to curve it is to hold down the "alt" key while dragging the arrow head.

I didn't down vote you. Please don't make accusations about me without any evidence.

Do you realize that snarky comments don't actually help anyone? While I agree with you on what a print preview is supposed to do, I haven't ever really noticed any differences between the print preview on the screen and what I actually got when I printed it. I was mostly curious if it was just a problem with Joe's macros (which I don't use) or if there was something I needed to pay more attention to.

So is the only difference you can see between the print preview in a plan view and the preview in the print dialog is whether or not your macros work?

As far as I can tell, it mostly just turns on line weights and the drawing sheet. If these are already on, then it won't look very different. It can also turn off the display of things that are not going to print, such as temporary cad points and active cameras. It may also turn color on/off depending on your printer settings.

I am 99.99% sure it is this.

The control that says "Floor Plan Layer Set" is not actually a layer set and it is really a saved plan view. You can tell this because it has a "P" in the graphic. Seems like a bad name for a saved plan view. The control that says "Light And Ventilation Set" is actually a default set. You can tell this because it has a little wrench in the graphic. You probably don't need this control if you are using saved plan views. The control that says "Floor Plan Dimension Layer Set" is your current layer set. I think the problem is that you are getting these things confused as to what they are and what they do. I recommend looking here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03185/understanding-saved-plan-views.html

Normally, Chief will automatically fill that space with a wall for you. The easiest way to do this is to use a room divider and then just mark one room as not having a flat ceiling. Since it looks like you want to show a partial wall you could use a half-wall instead. In the picture below, I used a combination of a half-wall and a room divider. If you need more help, you might want to post you plan.

You should be able to create a custom molding profile to do that. Just create a profile that represents both pieces and then use it as your lintel. Will probably need to turn on "wrap" to make it look right.

The short answer is that yes, you can make your own outlets that look like that. Basically, you need the 3d data that will show in a camera view and a suitable cad block to show in a plan view and then you can build your own electrical symbol. It will be much easier to find the 3d data, maybe from the manufacturer or somewhere else online, than it would be to build it your self. If one of Chief's cad blocks will work for you, then you can just reuse it for your outlet otherwise you can draw your own pretty easily. This tech article goes over the basics: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00117/locating-and-importing-3d-symbols.html If you are really lucky, someone here from down under might already have one and be willing to share it. You might want to check out the symbol forum to see if someone there has one: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/9-symbols-and-content/

I think if it doesn't work the way you want it to that you should send in a bug report or feature request.

If you want to turn off the auto fillers for just one cabinet, hold down the shift-key when you select it and make it into an architectural block. This will not let the cabinet attach to any other cabinets or walls outside of the block.

For the dome, I would just create it as a symbol that cuts a hole in the ceiling. I built this one using a 3D sphere, made a smaller copy and then subtracted it out of the bigger one, and then cut it in half by subtracting a larger box. You then convert it into a symbol and set it to be from the ceiling. I used the tool to edit the cutout shape in plan view and used the fillet tool to make the cutout match the circle. All in all, it was easier than I thought.