DBCooper

Do you have "auto rebuild foundation" turned on? If not, every time you make a change that would affect your foundation, you would need to manually update your foundation. If this doesn't help, then I'm not sure I fully understood your questions. You might need to attach a plan with revised questions.

You can still use layers to control the material list. Instead of a column, you just need to use a custom layer set now. See this tech article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00510/controlling-the-information-that-s-displayed-in-a-materials-list.html#Layers

If you change the door style to "panel", it will follow the shape of the opening. A door symbol won't. You will lose the middle rail though. Not sure there is any easy way to get the hinge and handle locations exactly the way you are showing. Can't have one handle at a different height than the other on a double door. You could always place them manually though. I think if you wanted to model that door exactly as shown, you would have to create some custom symbols and jump through some pretty tricky hoops.

To answer the original question, sort of. You can go to the arch page and use a dog eared arch on half the door. Unfortunately, this will always be at 45 degrees which may or may not be good enough for you. You can also use a half tudor arch to slope the whole top of the door. In either case, you might need to change to a "panel" or "slab" door since a door panel symbol won't follow the new shape. You could also just use a pass-thru window to make the wall opening because windows have the "shape" page which would allow you more control. You would have to manually place the door panels inside the wall though since you can't have a door in a pass-thru. Other solutions using symbols would be possible but probably more involved.

You should avoid using "custom" for your text style, it is better to create a new text style or just modify the "room label text style" if you already have it. Changing your room label defaults only affects new room labels (as noted by Chris). To change your existing labels, you will either need to select them all and change them, or force them to update by turning the label off/on (as noted by Brett and Mick), or if they are already using a text style, then just change that text style. Just remember that if they are sharing a text style with any other objects, then those objects will also change when you change the text style .

I think the reason you are seeing a sill is because your door is not sitting on the floor. If you lower it, they should both go away. You can also uncheck "use sill/threshold" but then you will get a normal wrapped casing on the bottom (when your door is not on the floor), which may or may not be what you want. Not sure how you got a different sill on the interior and the exterior. Although I am guessing that you did this using the object eyedropper. If you want a sill on one side and not the other, or you want to change the properties on one side versus the other, you can use the object eyedropper to take the sill properties from a window and apply it to the door. This is kind of a hack because doors don't really give you the same sill controls that windows do but apparently they can still build a sill just like windows. Not sure how you got your door to be hidden, unless you changed the material to an invisible one. Also, you might want to update your signature since it says you are still using X10.

It all depends on how your room labels are setup and how you change the font. For example, if your room labels are setup to use a particular text style, and you change the font for that text style, then everything in the program that is using that text style will also change.

Maybe not, but it still smells like a video card issue. Maybe your not using the latest driver or maybe the latest driver is the problem? At any rate, I would try this tech article first: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If that doesn't help you solve your problems, then I would call tech support and ask for help.

Maybe so, I just clicked on the "help" button in the dialog and it says this: Click in the Extension column to type how far the selected layer extends past its default bottom elevation, either at the bottom of the wall's bottom plate or that of the floor platform it builds on. Only available for Exterior wall layers, the highest Extension value is also applied to the wall type's Brick Ledge Depth, set on the Wall Properties Tab. My guess is that the tech article you found wasn't fully updated for X15 because it doesn't really say anything about it even though it shows up in the picture.

There are two different settings, one to show doors open and one to show drawers open. My guess is that one or both of these is probably still on. If not, then you probably need to post the plan.

You don't really need a custom macro just to display a comment. If you use %comment% in the text box with the arrow, this will do exactly what you want (in a plan view). There are even tricks you can use if you don't want the arrow to display. But as far as I know, this doesn't work in elevation views and so you would probably have to write a more complicated custom macro to make this happen. You could also just add %comment% to the cabinet label, but unfortunately, this would show up in all places that the cabinet label shows up. You could also just use the cabinet schedule itself to show the comments (which you could put directly into the elevation view as well). Another thing you could do is use a note schedule. I think this could work good if it was going to be just for a particular view and the comments are just on some of the cabinets. And don't forget, you could always just add some text to the elevation view and be done with it. Sometimes the simplest solution is really the best one.

Did you try turning it off on the "structure" page of the roof plane dialog?

It looks like it is using the line weight and style from "cad, default". It gets the color from your preferences though.

Didn't you notice something funny chasing your cursor around?

You can use metric sized cabinets in an imperial plan but they may not be as accurate as you want. I believe the width will always be rounded to the nearest 1/16" no matter how you enter the size (as pointed out by Tea Time). This is the same for the depth but for some reason you can enter an accurate height if you want. First, change the "number style" to "decimal inches" to see what numbers Chief is actually using in the dialog. If you enter "450mm" into the cabinet width, the program will convert that into 17.6875" which is 449.26 mm. The Chief cabinet will be smaller then the real one by less than 1 mm. If you enter 17.75", this would be 450.85 mm so the Chief cabinet will be larger then the real one by less than 1 mm. There is no way that I know of to enter exactly 17.7165" to give you an accurate 450 mm wide cabinet. I think this has something to do with how Chief stores these numbers under the hood. In the real world, no one is going to care about being off by less than a millimeter. The biggest problem is that when you have a row of cabinets then these small amounts can add up to something that might matter. The way I would probably handle this is to use the slightly larger cabinet size (17.75") and then make sure I have a filler somewhere to make up any difference if I need to scribe to a wall or fill any gaps. At installation time, I think it is much better to have a real cabinet that is slightly smaller then to have one that is slightly larger. As far as what dimensions show in a plan view, you should be able to get those to show whatever you want. If all else fails, you can always just manually override them.

Is there a W04 in the schedule? If so, then try the "find in plan" tool. If not, then try the renumber. If that doesn't work, then post the plan.

Are you having problems just building the gambrel roof? If so, then all you need to do is setup a second pitch on the walls. Here is a video that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/6126/gambrel-roof.html?playlist=95 As for the trusses, you can just build gambrel trusses the same way you would build any other trusses. You have to draw the first one and then you can use the multiple copy tool to get the others. Here is a whole tech series on trusses that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/category/275/trusses.html And if you are having more specific problems, you will need to clarify your questions (as suggested by Robert).

Draw the wall all by itself in a blank plan. Create a vector camera view. Send to layout.

It looks to me like the lower picture is not displaying the block wall (probably because the layer is turned off) and that you are just seeing the framing for the wall behind it. If this doesn't help, then you might want to post the plan.

I think those images in the schedule are sized according to the column width. Since the column header is limiting how small the column can get, you need to rename it. If you open the schedule and rename "2d symbol" something like "2d" you can make the column smaller. You might also want to play around with the "scale images" setting. In your picture above, your fan is the same size as your outlet. If you use "scale images", then they will be the same relative size which will make your outlet much smaller than your fan. Without scaling them, the images will be as large as they can in the column. And if all else fails, you can always build your own legend by just taking the cad blocks from the symbols and placing them where ever you want. I think this is how the legend in your picture was made. All of the cad blocks should show up in the cad block management dialog.

If your wall was a simple block wall, you would be able to have a framed wall on top using a pony wall. It looks like you made it using a railing though, and I don't think you can have a framed wall on top of a railing using a pony wall. It is possible to get a short wall above or below a railing using floor and ceiling heights but I think in your case this might be more trouble than it's worth. You could always try just building a short framed wall section somewhere else in the plan and converting it into a symbol that you place on top of the block wall.

So somebody downvoted my "solution", anonymously of course, so I am really not sure why. I do believe my solution will work and I still think it is better than just drawing cad lines. You could probably even save this railing type to the library for reuse if you need this often. It might be nice if Chief gave us a better solution or even gave us controls over floor break lines using layers, but until then, this is the only workaround I have found. If someone thinks that they have a better solution, I would love to learn about it.

So I assume that you used room dividers or invisible walls to split the rooms. You could just turn on the layer, but then you will get two lines for the walls which is probably not what you want. So one thing you could do is use a railing instead of an invisible wall. Tell the railing it is "open", turn off the newel posts, and turn off the top/bottom rail. You should just have a single line showing you where the floor height changes.

It's just like any other cad block in that you can add lines, text, rich text, dimensions, filled polylines, or whatever.

Yeah, it's easier in X13 and newer because you can just use the "edit cad block" tool: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00805/editing-2d-cad-blocks-assigned-to-3d-symbols.html#X13