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If it looks right on layout when you send the cad detail to it, then your drawing scale or page size is probably wrong in the detail. Just open the detail and go into your "drawing sheet setup". Also, the start and end pieces are controlled by your preferences. Take a look at your "endcap printed length" and you can make it smaller if you want.

Is that really a landing? If I was to make a guess, I might think you created that landing by some other method or that your stairs are not actually connected to it. Or maybe you created the landing on the second floor instead of on the first floor? You should create all 3 stairs and the landing on the first floor and then they should show up on both. If you want anything other than guesses, post your plan.

Always best to start a new thread with a new question. Also, the "export image" tool will let you choose the resolution. A screen grab won't.

Or check out this tech article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00907/specifying-the-on-center-oc-spacing-for-wall-framing.html

Or you can get the beta now!

X15 Beta is out!

If you are selecting a material in the library, if it doesn't have texture, the blend toolbar button will appear. If it has a texture, it won't appear and you can only replace the existing material.

Ok, so here is my opinion. You have a right to your opinions but so do the people that disagree with you and downvoted you. That does not make them "shallow minded". I think the company giving the Interiors people a free upgrade to Premier is a good thing. They bought their program and they paid their SSA just like everyone else did. I think they even had to pay the same for SSA as everyone else even though they were paying for less features. I really don't see how the company taking care of them is a "kick in the pants" to any one else. I actually think that it shows that they still care about their customers. They could have just said "Sorry but if you want to upgrade to Premier it will cost you $$$" instead.

Last I heard, it is still in private beta test. I suspect that we will hear about public beta in the near future though. Once it goes public, you will hear lots more. As far as new features, there was this post a while back but I haven't seen much else: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/37945-new-x15-features/?tab=comments#comment-287976

Both you and Mark have been around long enough that I trust your guesses are right a lot more often than not, but any guess without a plan is still just a guess.

If you are trying to import cad and the program is automatically moving it to the origin, then you can just turn this off. See picture below. If you are opening up an old plan and the program is automatically moving it, then the only thing I can think of is that it is so far from the origin that the program has decided it is foobar and is trying to fix it for you. It shouldn't really do this kind of thing without asking you first though. You might want to post a plan or report this to tech support.

So you might have accidently placed it on your layout, either on page 0 (like Chopsaw guessed) or maybe on your current layout page but on a layer that is locked (less likely). It's easy to see if it's on page 0 by just switching to page 0 and seeing if it shows up. You might have also placed it on your plan but it seems like it would not show up so far outside of the layout box if you had. If it was already on the plan when you sent it, then it probably would show up though. It's easy to see if it is part of the plan by just temporarily deleting the layout box and seeing if it goes away. If it doesn't, then it is not part of that plan view and if it does, then it is somewhere in the plan. You should be able to open the plan, switch to the all on layer set, and see it when you use the fill screen tool. If you want people to make any thing other than random guesses, then post the plan and the layout and someone will probably figure it out in a couple of minutes.

According to the help: I think this means that it only works for decks and landings and it won't work for a room with a lowered floor. I would just do it with landings, especially since you don't need any railings. I would use two with a miter if you want to make the tread material look right.

Chief is programmed to automatically change a normal switch into a 3-way switch when you connect two of them to the same light using electrical connections. You can turn off this behavior by unchecking "automatically change switch type when wiring" in the switch dialog. Unfortunately, I don't think you can turn this behavior off in your electrical defaults. To get around this, you can create your own library of switches and place them from the library instead of using the "switch" tool that places them from the defaults. You can also setup your own custom toolbar button to always place your custom switch. As for using custom symbols, you can modify either the 3d look of the switch or the 2d cad block used for plan views. Just copy the switch you want into your user library and then modify it.

Chief don't do that. I would probably just fake it by manually placing two doors and moving them into place. Or, just add notes to the plan/cabinet schedule. I'm sure that if there is a way, that @MarkMc would know how. He is the king of cabinet workarounds.

In X11? It's a PITA, but doable. I think all you have to do is create two different but unconnected stairs and then turn off the automatic heights. You then have to manually set them to the right heights and line them up to get what you want. It's been a while though. In X14, you just add the complete break and pull the side of the lower stair out. As for the base molding, I think you can convert the room molding into a molding polyline and manually edit it to stop where you want. You can't trim the end of the base molding at an angle though.

First, see if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00085/troubleshooting-printing-issues.html If not, then I would call tech support. If that doesn't help, then I would just print to pdf first.

RIP Chief Interiors. I barely knew you but I think I always liked you. Maybe your friend could try HD Pro? You would still be able to share files (as long as you check the magic box that lets you share). I think you can also get a trial version of pro to try before you buy and they even have monthly rentals available.

It is possible that the object did not move because something was in the way, like an object on a hidden layer. When you selected everything and copied it to a new plan, you might not have copied the thing that was hidden. If you still have the problem plan, you could post it here and someone would probably be able to give you a better answer than a guess. If it's too big, then zip it up or remove things from it that are not relevant to the problem. Also, just as an FYI, there are lots of ways to move objects: - drag it using the "move" or "center" handle. - "nudge" it using the arrow keys. - drag one of the corner or side handles while holding down the middle mouse. - start dragging the move handle, then hit the tab key, then you can specify a relative move distance. - point to point move tool. - transform/replicate dialog. - move it an exact distance from something else by first selecting the object and then clicking on the dimension number that you want to change. This is probably the best way to make sure your dimensions are accurate. If you don't have a temp dimension locating the object, then sometimes I will add a manual one temporarily. I am probably forgetting a few more.

Just to add to what Susan said... You can actually make an architectural block act like a single object by checking "treat as one object" in the arch block dialog. You can then choose how you want it to go into the schedule either as a block, or as a cabinet, or even as something else. If you want to make changes to one cabinet in the block, when you first click you will select the block but then you can use the tab key to select the individual cabinet. You can then open the dialog to make changes to that cabinet. If you need to rearrange them, then exploding the block is the thing to do.

Plan views sent to layout are always "live" so they will auto update any time you make any changes to the model. There are two easy ways to create a "static" view that will not update: 1. Send the plan view to layout as an "image". This will just be a picture or snapshot of the plan so it will not change. 2. Use the "cad detail from view" tool to convert the plan view into a cad detail. You can then send the cad detail to your layout. It won't ever change unless you manually change it. Chopsaw mentioned these in the second post but I don't think he explained them very well. Hope this helps.

I am a bit confused. Are you building 3 different foundation models all in the same plan file? As in one is a slab and another is a crawl space. Or are you trying to show 3 different levels of the same foundation model? As in you have a stepped foundation and you want to show the foundation for each part separately. Maybe a picture or posting your plan would help.

Actually, I think the program is pretty flexible because it lets you make any arched shutters. You just can't make an arched shutter using a library symbol though. Think about this for a minute. A symbol is just a collection of 3D surfaces. You can setup "stretch planes" which will let the program know how to make it fit any rectangular shape. How would this work if the shape had any curved sides though? They could either "warp" it or "trim" it to fit the shape but neither of these might look like how the shutter is actually made. I think this is a case where you are better off building a new symbol that matches what you would have IRL.

There is nothing in your zip file. Be sure that your plan is not open in Chief when you try to zip it.

Or is the problem that you are turning things on/off in your layers and seeing this affect your views on the layout? The solution is to make sure your layout views are using a unique layer set so that when you make changes it won't affect all of your views.