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Did you try the "check knowledge base" button? Did you have a look at this tech article? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html My guess is that if it just started happening yesterday that you may have gotten a video driver update and that is what is causing the problems. You could try rolling back your driver to see if that fixes it.

There are (at least) two different ways to do a finished basement. One way is to draw a foundation wall with a separate framed wall drawn inside the foundation and bumped up against the foundation wall. The framed wall should be marked as furred in this case. You can find more info here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00181/creating-furred-walls.html The other way is to create a new wall type that has both concrete and framing. If you are doing it this way, I don't think you want to mark the foundation wall a furred wall. You should not get any extra rooms because you are only using one wall (even though it has both concrete and framing built in). I don't know what is going on with the problem in the last picture. You probably need to post the plan.

Yeah those would be a little bit of a pain to model in Chief. Doable, but a pain. I always look for something close in Chief's libraries or the bonus ones you can download. If the light is pretty simple, I will model it myself using Chief. If it is more complicated, I will look to see if there are any available online that I can import. Why? I certainly wouldn't switch to vectorworks just to design my own lights.

I don't think you should make your foundation walls furred walls. Normally, like when you are designing a finished basement, you would make the framed walls that you butt up against your concrete foundation walls furred but I always leave the foundation walls alone. Also, if you make any wall furred, it won't define rooms which can lead to other problems.

I think you are looking in the camera dialog. Look for "toggle patterns" in the 3D menu or look for the "patterns, 3D views" in the layer display options.

I don't think you should read too much into why a person might be still using an older version. There could be lots of reasons. The bottom line is that it might not be worth trying to work with them just because they won't be able to open your plans and would have to redraw them over from scratch.

You can't save it into the library as a cad block and then use it for a molding profile. You need to save it as a single polyline instead. Here is a support article that might be helpful: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00166/creating-and-editing-molding-profiles.html

Check out this thread for more info about it including how to use videos: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/21560-custom-material-generation-with-substance-player/

Here is the link to the thread about substance player: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/21560-custom-material-generation-with-substance-player/ It's super powerful and it will allow you to create lots of different materials. It will even generate the maps and patterns you need if you want to make sure it will look good in all views.

Window dialog (or defaults), rough opening. You might also need to check the add for concrete cutout setting too.

Post the plan or at least a picture (of the floor plan and the view you are seeing).

In your preferences, under "render", you can uncheck "enable gpu raytracing". I don't have a video card that supports it so my option is always disabled. You might also be able to turn it off in the "render technique options", for either the camera or in the render technique defaults for all cameras. There is an option under "global illumination" to turn off ray tracing but I don't know if this works the same as turning it off in your preferences. This option is also disabled for me. There is more info in the help under "gpu raytracing". To be honest, if your card supports it, I don't know why you would want to turn it off. From the pictures I have seen, you should be able to get much nicer views.

I can think of several ways although I am not sure which way is "best". - you could use a molding polyline. - you might be able to use a stacked molding for the wall cap that also includes the bottom piece - you could create a thin cabinet just like we use for interior wainscotting.

Yes.

I'm not sure from your picture if that is what you want. If it is, then great, you're done. There are a couple of different ways you can do this, but I think a very useful tool is to use the reference display. You can display as many different floors as you like using what ever layer sets you want using the reference display. So if you have roof planes on different floors but you want to see them all in one view, you can create a reference display for each floor and use a layer set that just displays the roof. This can be used instead of the "display on floor above" tool. If all of your roof planes are displaying on one floor, but you only want to see some of them, you can put them on different layers so that you can just display the ones you want. But if the roof planes are on a different floor, you will need to turn on reference display to see them.

I believe that auto save for unsaved plans was added back in X13. I don't think this was Ben's problem though since I don't think you could send an unsaved plan to layout in X12 either. The only other thing that might have been an issue is if you did a save as on the plan and might be looking for the wrong backup version? I don't know if this will help, but there is a tech article about archive files here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00099/accessing-your-archive-files.html

Using reference display.

...and people have accused me of hijacking.

Just as an FYI for those that read this later with similar problems. The automatic migration of things like templates, toolbars, and libraries only works when you are installing the new version on the same machine as the old version. If you are installing on a different machine, you will have to do it manually. If you did not migrate everything you needed and then want to run it again, reinstalling won't help. You can go into your preferences though and use the "reset migration" button. The migration guide I posted the link to above also has lots of good info on how to solve migration problems.

I think the migration guide might be a good resource in this case: https://cloud.chiefarchitect.com/1/pdf/documentation/chief-architect-x14-migration-guide.pdf

I think you would have to create it yourself using something like photoshop. You might want to copy one of the button files that chief installs and then just edit it to look different. You can find them in the install folder under ".../resources/buttons". Look for "basecab.png" as an example.

Your attached file has no data. You might need to make sure Chief is closed before you try to zip it.

My guess is that you have messed up the wall layers. Pocket doors will normally cutout the framing layer so maybe you made this the outside layer of the wall or something?

You could try switching to "not filtered" instead of a filter with nothing hidden. It looks like you are missing one of the library browser panes (there should be 3 instead of 2). If you use "reset side windows" in your preferences, it should restore the browser. Also, if you are still having problems, I think tech support might be a good option.

Here's a dumb question, wouldn't that step up make it a little hard for a person in a wheelchair actually get into that bathroom? Using the sign as a texture in a material will only display in a render view and not in a vector view. You could try converting the texture into a pattern for the material but I when I tried I didn't think it looked very good. If you just need it to display in an elevation view, you could always just use File>Import Picture and use a picture box instead. Resize as needed and make sure you bring it to the front. Easy, peasy.