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You need to turn off "auto refresh" for your exterior dimensions under "setup automatic" for the active dimension defaults. You can also just group select your dimensions and delete them and the program will ask you if you want to turn off "auto refresh".

Seems fine to me in X15. Might be a system or video card problem on your machine.

I didn't have time to look at your plan but I think in general you are better off moving the site plan image instead of the building model. If you do need to move a model around, you will probably have better results by using edit area (all floors) then trying to select things on each floor and moving them.

You could use a room divider to split a deck into different framing sections. You can also manually edit any deck framing, but that is usually a big pain. If that doesn't help, then you should post a picture of what you want.

Could be a few other things as well, such as your rooms not being connected/defined correctly or your terrain is on the wrong floor. That is why it is usually best to post the plan file when you have problems like this. Also, just as an FYI, if your auto terrain hole for the building does not follow the walls the way you want it to, you can convert it into a manual hole and then edit the shape. Look up the help for "make terrain hole around building". You can even just create manual holes if you need to.

You could use match properties or marque select similar. You could also put them in different plans and then use reference display to see them both.

There are some good tips in this tech article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00521/troubleshooting-slowness-in-chief-architect-plans.html#3DSlowness

Instead of opening all of the walls and changing the surface materials, you should try opening the wall type definition and change the siding and drywall layers there. If you need some other walls with different materials, I would then create new wall types for them. You can then keep all of your surface materials set to "default". My guess is that you will have far less problems. If you always draw your exterior walls with the siding on the correct side, there really is no reason for the program to ever reverse them (until you get to some more unusual situations). Regardless, if you don't want the program to ever reverse your walls automatically, you can turn off "auto reverse wall layers" in your general wall defaults. You would then need to manually reverse them when needed. I have never had any problems like what you are describing but from playing around with some different things, it looks like using surface materials and then reversing walls is probably the root of your problems. If you are really planning on going over to revit, then you can just ignore my suggestions. Best of luck though.

Are your winders done with landings or curved stair sections? The short answer is yes, as long as you are using curved stair sections (look in the stair dialog). If you are using landings, the walk line doesn't show on landings so you will have to draw it yourself.

There are ways to "split" them using the poly intersection/subtraction tools but I'm not sure I would bother. I would just drag one corner onto another to make a triangle shaped landing and then use copy/reflect to make a matching one. If you need 3, you could also manually draw the center piece as a polyline and convert it into a landing.

According to the pictures you posted, Chief is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. The exterior wall surface says it is white and the interior wall surface says it is siding and this is what it looks like in the pictures. It doesn't matter what the wall type definition says since the wall surface materials always override the wall type materials unless they are set to "default". As far as I know, this is the way that it has always worked. So the only mystery here is how did you change the wall materials without realizing it? I am pretty sure it was not by placing a door or window. It also doesn't look like it is related to the problem Jason mentioned because your wall does not look reversed in your plan view (although I can't be so sure about this). So other than the obvious case that you used the material painter on the wall, I really have no idea how you got in this state. Regardless, the simple fix is to just set your wall surface materials back to "default" (as suggested by Glenn). Most of the time when you have wall material problems this is the best solution. For what it's worth, here is a tech article about wall materials that you might find helpful: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00005/changing-the-color-or-material-of-a-single-wall.html

Split the landing into 2 or 3 landings. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00884/creating-winder-stairs.html

Since you are using X12, you are going to be missing all of new features added since then and a bunch of the ones you do have might work a little different. Here are some pdf's telling you what was added: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02963/features-introduced-in-each-version-of-chief-architect.html

Your plan is too far from the origin. Move it and the export should work much better.

Yes, I think it would be cool if you could choose symbols that are already in the plan, just like you can for materials and cad blocks.

I don't think you can, at least not without jumping through some hoops. With some objects, you have an "add to library as" button that lets you extract the various pieces and add them to the library by themselves. Place a cabinet and check it out as an example. Railings don't have this. What you can do is to set the railing style to "open", remove the top and bottom rails, and then turn off the end post. This should leave you a rail with just a single post. Then you can use "convert to symbol" to make a new library post.

You just need to select the wall layer that is marked as framing (usually in the "main layer"). If your wall type does not have a layer marked as framing, then you won't get any wall studs so the spacing doesn't matter.

I googled "gola" and all I got was shoes. Maybe you should post a picture of what you are looking for.

Framing spacing can also be set in the wall type definition. If it is set to "use default" it will use what is in the framing defaults. If it is set to something else, then you are overriding the wall defaults for every wall using that wall type.

See if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01846/using-a-leica-disto-device-with-chief-architect-software.html

The other thing that can work is if you select the arc and open the dialog you might get the "selected arc" panel. You can then uncheck "auto facet angle" and change it to a smaller value, something like 1 degrees instead of 7.5.

See if this helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00095/creating-a-cut-or-buy-list-of-framing-materials.html

So somehow you were able to convert all of your automatic ridge caps, fascia, and gutters into manual 3D molding lines. I'm not sure how you did this. I know you can do it by unlocking their normally locked layers and manually editing them. When you do this, you should get a warning message telling you that this is what is happening. There are probably other ways to do this and maybe some of them are not as obvious or don't have the warning. Or maybe X13 works a little different than X15 does now but I don't ever remember running into this problem before. Regardless of how you did it, the way to fix it is to do what everyone else has said. If you unlock the layers, you can then select them and delete them. It might be good to figure out how you got into this state though so that it doesn't keep happening.

Hmm, that doesn't seem very helpful, Robert. So the first thing I would try is closing Chief and then opening it back up to see if the problem doesn't magically go away. You could also try things like rebuild 3D and rebuild floors and ceilings but closing Chief is much more likely to fix problems where the 3D is just in a messed up state. If that doesn't solve the problem, I would take a look at the settings for your frieze, shadow boards, and ridge caps in your roof dialog. You can mess things up pretty quick by just putting in bad values for the vertical or horizontal offsets. The only other thing I can think of is if you are using a custom molding profile that is messed up. If that still doesn't help you solve the problem, then you probably need to post your plan.

Hmm... very interesting. Not sure what "compatibility mode" does but if a normal 3D view is having problems without it, then it still sounds like something that is system/hardware related. How many plot lines get generated for the view that you are trying to update? Maybe you are running out of memory or maybe you have some bad memory? I remember having problems a long time ago with an elevation that had way too many pattern lines from a custom pattern. Can you create a very simple plan and update plot lines on that machine? Might be something that is plan specific or something related to the plan size? Could still just be a Chief bug related to making the plot lines and you are getting lucky on one machine and not the other for some reason. Not really my area of expertise so just throwing some things out that might help. I would keep working with tech support until you get this resolved though.