DBCooper

If you open the deck room and make sure "auto rebuild deck framing" is turned on, then you shouldn't have to rebuild it every time you make a change. Can't remember if X12 had any bugs where you needed to force a manual rebuild even when it was turned on, but I know this has happened to me before (but it's been a while).

Or this: 1. select each cabinet and use the "make molding polyline" tool 2. edit the molding poly lines in plan view and join the ends

According to what I have read online, you can't run either revit or autocad on linux: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/installation-licensing/revit-in-linux/td-p/7774012 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-on-linux/m-p/7927729#M928989 Since linux only has a 3% market share on desktop operating systems, I can't see how Chief would get their ROI to do this: https://linuxiac.com/linux-hits-3-percent-market-share/#:~:text=Linux Operating System Achieved a,competition from other operating systems.

If you want to turn on the library preview, first click on the "gear" button at the bottom left side of the browser and then make sure there is a check in front of "preview". If this doesn't help, then you might want to go into your preferences and use the "reset side windows" button. Also, you might want to check out this training video that covers the new X15 browser: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/268/library-browser-overview.html

They already do show up in the material list, but I'm not sure how they are getting the size they report. In theory, you should be able to customize this to show you a count of each piece but this is not an area I know very well. Maybe someone else can tell you how to set this up. I don't think there is any way to include 3D solids in a schedule. You could model them using slabs since it looks like they are all the same shape vertically and you can put slabs into a schedule. Or, convert them into symbols like Joe suggested.

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It's probably not a layout box. Assuming that you used "file, import picture", then you have created a "picture file box" directly on your layout. If you see text below this box, than that is probably the label for the box. If you don't want to see any labels on any imported pictures or pdfs, then just turn off the layer for "picture/pdf boxes, labels". If you don't want to see the label on just this box, then open the dialog and check the box for "suppress label". This works very similar to how labels work on many other objects but the layer used for the label can be different. The easiest way to see what layers an object is using is to select the object and then use the "object layer properties" button. Or, if you have the "active layer display options" (aka ALDO) open, this will show you the relevant layers.

Did you try playing with the "minimum alcove size" in the build roof dialog?

1) I have found that "match properties" does not include all properties. I think Chief has said in the past that they will add more properties over time based on what people ask for. You might want to send them a feature request for things like this you want included, like arrowheads. 2) Yes, it's called copy/paste. Probably not going to help in this case though because you don't really want to match all properties. For cases like this, I would just select both lines and set the arrowheads the same. I would also make sure I had my defaults set up so that I would get the arrowheads I wanted from the start.

It looks like your porch room is building a mono slab foundation and your porch railing is building a footing underneath it. I think these are the "foundation extensions" you are seeing. Open your porch railings and turn off "foundation wall" and it should look better.

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.