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I think the way it works is that the program will cut a hole in the terrain based on the building envelope for the floor the terrain is on. This will only happen if "hide terrain intersected by building" is checked in your terrain spec dialog. Sometimes moving the terrain to a better floor works but sometimes it doesn't, for example when the building has a stepped foundation on multiple floors. For all cases where the terrain hole isn't the shape you need, you can convert the auto hole into a manual one using the "make terrain hole about building" tool and then manually edit the shape. You can also just draw a terrain hole wherever you want.

Your zip file is empty. This means that you probably had the plan open when you tried to make it.

I think it does. If you open the window defaults and change the level back to 0, the doors will then work correctly. I have been burned by this before so my rule is never change the default stacking level.

In your window defaults, your "vertical stacking level" is 1. Change it back to 0. I think doors are always on level 0 so if you draw a dimension while on level 1 it won't pick up any openings that are on different levels. This is also why your doors are light grey instead of normal. You might also want to change any existing windows back to 0 as well if you want your dimensions to pick them up.

Try switching the drop down from whatever you are currently on to "linear length". My guess is that you have it set to something else. Here are a couple of tech articles that might help explain how this works: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/category/59/materials-list.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00095/creating-a-cut-or-buy-list-of-framing-materials.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00510/controlling-the-information-that-s-displayed-in-a-materials-list.html

Wrong on the screen? Or wrong when sent to layout? Or wrong when sent to a pdf? When you say "certain drawings", do you mean plan views, elevation views, cad details, or on a layout page? The reason I ask all of these questions is because depending on when and where this is happening it could be caused by a completely different problem. For example, if it is only wrong on the screen then it might be video card related but if it is only wrong when sent to a pdf then it is probably pdf driver related. You should either post the plan on the forum or get back with tech support.

I tried raising the door but I had to raise it 2x the plate height to get the bottom plate to go through. Of course, this will mess up your header height so you will have to adjust the door height to compensate if you want the framing correct. The other thing that happens is that you get a casing below the door that you can't get rid of. When all is said and done, I think I would just edit the wall detail and just pull the bottom plate across. Need to make sure you do this last and to make sure you get all of the wall details you can find them all in the project browser.

I don't know if you have ever played around with reference display (F9) but turning it on makes it very easy to draw walls on your second floor and snap to the walls on the first floor. It also makes it really easy to move a wall on one floor and then jump to the other and line them back up.

You could create your own custom door panel that has the mirror built into it. You could even build it our of an existing door panel and mirror from the library and just convert it into a new door panel symbol. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01808/creating-a-custom-door.html

Do you have contour lines turned on? If so, then it's at the line that says "0".

You need to turn off "auto refresh" for your exterior dimensions under "setup automatic" for the active dimension defaults. You can also just group select your dimensions and delete them and the program will ask you if you want to turn off "auto refresh".

Seems fine to me in X15. Might be a system or video card problem on your machine.

I didn't have time to look at your plan but I think in general you are better off moving the site plan image instead of the building model. If you do need to move a model around, you will probably have better results by using edit area (all floors) then trying to select things on each floor and moving them.

You could use a room divider to split a deck into different framing sections. You can also manually edit any deck framing, but that is usually a big pain. If that doesn't help, then you should post a picture of what you want.

Could be a few other things as well, such as your rooms not being connected/defined correctly or your terrain is on the wrong floor. That is why it is usually best to post the plan file when you have problems like this. Also, just as an FYI, if your auto terrain hole for the building does not follow the walls the way you want it to, you can convert it into a manual hole and then edit the shape. Look up the help for "make terrain hole around building". You can even just create manual holes if you need to.

You could use match properties or marque select similar. You could also put them in different plans and then use reference display to see them both.

There are some good tips in this tech article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00521/troubleshooting-slowness-in-chief-architect-plans.html#3DSlowness

Instead of opening all of the walls and changing the surface materials, you should try opening the wall type definition and change the siding and drywall layers there. If you need some other walls with different materials, I would then create new wall types for them. You can then keep all of your surface materials set to "default". My guess is that you will have far less problems. If you always draw your exterior walls with the siding on the correct side, there really is no reason for the program to ever reverse them (until you get to some more unusual situations). Regardless, if you don't want the program to ever reverse your walls automatically, you can turn off "auto reverse wall layers" in your general wall defaults. You would then need to manually reverse them when needed. I have never had any problems like what you are describing but from playing around with some different things, it looks like using surface materials and then reversing walls is probably the root of your problems. If you are really planning on going over to revit, then you can just ignore my suggestions. Best of luck though.

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Are your winders done with landings or curved stair sections? The short answer is yes, as long as you are using curved stair sections (look in the stair dialog). If you are using landings, the walk line doesn't show on landings so you will have to draw it yourself.

There are ways to "split" them using the poly intersection/subtraction tools but I'm not sure I would bother. I would just drag one corner onto another to make a triangle shaped landing and then use copy/reflect to make a matching one. If you need 3, you could also manually draw the center piece as a polyline and convert it into a landing.

According to the pictures you posted, Chief is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. The exterior wall surface says it is white and the interior wall surface says it is siding and this is what it looks like in the pictures. It doesn't matter what the wall type definition says since the wall surface materials always override the wall type materials unless they are set to "default". As far as I know, this is the way that it has always worked. So the only mystery here is how did you change the wall materials without realizing it? I am pretty sure it was not by placing a door or window. It also doesn't look like it is related to the problem Jason mentioned because your wall does not look reversed in your plan view (although I can't be so sure about this). So other than the obvious case that you used the material painter on the wall, I really have no idea how you got in this state. Regardless, the simple fix is to just set your wall surface materials back to "default" (as suggested by Glenn). Most of the time when you have wall material problems this is the best solution. For what it's worth, here is a tech article about wall materials that you might find helpful: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00005/changing-the-color-or-material-of-a-single-wall.html

Split the landing into 2 or 3 landings. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00884/creating-winder-stairs.html

Since you are using X12, you are going to be missing all of new features added since then and a bunch of the ones you do have might work a little different. Here are some pdf's telling you what was added: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02963/features-introduced-in-each-version-of-chief-architect.html

Your plan is too far from the origin. Move it and the export should work much better.