DBCooper

See this recent post where someone else was doing something similar: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/42315-garage-to-living-space/

Try clicking on the "gear" tool and see if you can turn everything back on.

Yes, it's a good thing that TeaTime pointed that out. Maybe if someone had suggested that sooner this problem would have been solved a long time ago?

Go to the window frame settings and turn off the post by setting it to "mitered".

Try adjusting the "cut off angle" to make the cone shape larger and then increase the "drop off rate" to fade the edges.

My guess is that when you remove the column that the door is then getting merged with another door and the quantity is increased. Schedules group objects based on whether the text in their rows match. If you don't want them merged, you can turn this off or you have to show something in the schedule that makes the doors different.

1. My guess is that your elevation view is using a different layer set than the other camera views and the layer is turned off in that set. 2. Not sure. Maybe post the plan? 3. I am definitely seeing materials in your pictures above (otherwise you wouldn't see anything). Maybe you want to see the textures instead of the patterns? Or do you want to see both? By default vector views only show patterns but you could use a different render technique that will show you the textures instead and if you want to see both you can add lines on top of the textures. Here is a basic video about render techniques to get you started: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6150/rendering-techniques.html

Select your terrain perimeter. Use the "make terrain hole around building" tool. Edit shape as needed.

Madcow, you just need to pay attention to what is on your screen when you click on a dimension. On the right side, you should see two buttons. The button with the 2-headed arrow will just move the side of the poly and the button with the 4-headed arrow will move the whole object.

Your signature says X11 but I am guessing that you are using something newer. As for your backdrop, are you trying to use a normal image as a spherical backdrop? I think this would end up stretching the picture all around the building which could make it look more pixelated. Just a guess though. As for the missing plant images, I think I have only seen this happen with real time raytracing and I was able to get the images to show up by turning off the "rotate to face camera" setting. I wasn't all that happy with how they looked and got better results using 3d plants though.

Ok, I have a new guess. Your wall cabinet is using an actual door and not a panel otherwise you would not see the opening indicators. My bet is that you have setup the handle for the cabinet but that your particular door is set to "none" for some reason. There are two different ways to set hardware (and door styles) for cabinets. If you set it up on the "door/drawer" page, you are setting up the "main style" to use for that cabinet. If you select any door, and then use the "specify" button, you can override the settings for any particular face item. This is what you do if you want a cabinet with multiple doors to have different styles for the doors or hardware. It's pretty easy to override the settings for a particular door by just "painting" the door or hardware from the library. You can also get them into all kinds of different states using the match properties tool or style palettes. You should be able to open the dialog, click on the door, click on "specify", and in the "door face item" dialog make sure the door and handle are both set to "use default". If it's not this, then you need to post a plan file for someone to take a look at. And, like TeaTime said, make sure you close Chief when you try to zip the file.

So most of the tools you mentioned are "edit" tools that will only appear on the "edit toolbar" when you have first selected an object. Since they depend on what kind of object that you have selected, you will see different tools if you select something like a cabinet compared to something like a layout box. They can also depend on what you have done to the object. For example, if you just select a normal base cabinet, you should see the "set as default" edit tool but if you select a corner cabinet, you won't. I am still not clear about what the problem is. Are you not seeing some particular edit tools that you are expecting when you select an object? Or, are you not seeing any edit tools when you select an object? I assumed from your first post that you were not seeing certain tools because those tools will only show up for particular objects in some situations. This is probably just a case of not understanding Chief's complicated rules for when these tools show up. If you are not seeing any edit tools, then it is probably a case of your edit toolbar just not being shown on the screen for some reason. I think VHampton is assuming that this is the problem you are having. Most of the time if you have a missing toolbar, all you need to do is go into your preferences and reset your toolbars to get things back to normal. In some cases, you might need to do more things and this tech article can help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00467/troubleshooting-missing-toolbars.html

A "device removed" message is almost always a video card problem. Chief has a tech article that should help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If all else fails, then you will probably want to call tech support.

Usually best to start new threads for new topics. The short answer is that it all depends on how the door symbol you are using was set up. If the symbol has a separate material for the panel then from the frame, then you should be able to assign a glass material to it. If you can't find one that works, you could always build your own. Here is a training video that covers the basics: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01808/creating-a-custom-door.html

What does it say in the status bar when you select the box? Does it say "layout box" or does it say something else? If it doesn't say "layout box" then most of those tools will not be available. For example, if you sent a view to the layout as an image or if you placed a cad block directly on the layout.

Could be a few things... Maybe the symbol is messed up? Try taking a cross section view to see if it is embedded in or behind the door. Maybe it's not really a door? If it's a "door panel" or "end panel" it won't have hardware. For other things you might need to post the plan.

The edit area tool can sometimes help with this kind of thing. You can shrink or stretch various parts of a house by creating an edit area polyline and then moving it around.

Glad you found it. In your pictures above, it's easy to see that your dimension line is going to the main layer of the wall instead of going to the surface. The room interior dimensions would always go to the surface so that is what the difference is. Changing what your temporary dimensions are locating is one way of solving this problem. You can also change the locate settings for your interior dimensions in your dimension defaults if you always want to have them going to the wall surfaces. You can also just draw a manual dimension and then move the end from the main layer to the surface.

Works for me. What are you trying to draw? Only some things actually use the current cad layer. For example, text does not. It uses the layer that is set in your text defaults. So do all of the other things that you can see in your "selected defaults".

Try using the rebuild floors/ceilings tool (F12). If that doesn't work, then try posting the plan.

Technically, if he pays the $200, he is not using a "trial version". He is just subscribing the same way any other new user would with no commitments beyond that first month. The biggest problem is probably going to be the learning curve. If he is used to sketch up, he will probably go crazy trying to figure out how to do what he wants in Chief. You may get a few "how do I..." types of calls. Of course there's always the risk that he actually really likes Chief, decides to keep subscribing, and then stops hiring you to do his plans.

If the main problem you are trying to solve is placing your wall cabinets, can't you just place them lower in an elevation view and then just drag them up?

Changing the rendering technique is completely optional. You can use whatever technique you want. The key is creating an "orthographic" view and then using the "top view" tool. Also, it is usually better to put pictures directly in your post instead of putting them in a pdf that needs to be downloaded and then opened.

You can edit items in your user library by right-clicking on them and using the "open object" button. But this won't help change the orientation of an architectural block. You will probably need to place it into a plan, explode it, rotate it, re-block it, and then save it back to the library.

I just realized that in X16 you can now connect electrical objects to fixtures. I think in your case even if you are using X16, you probably still want to re-import your object as an electrical object so that you can add lighting information to it.