DBCooper

Soffits (and cabinets) can do weird things when they overlap. In the lower left picture above, it looks like that is what you did. See if butting them up to each other solves the problems. Sometimes just flipping a soffit around can solve some of the issues. You can tell where the front is because you should see an arrow indicator when you select it. If neither of these help, then I recommend posting the plan.

In the picture below, I used a clipped cabinet box corner for the cabinet on the left and a separate angled front cabinet for the filler on the right. Either way should work but the angled front filler has an advantage if the angle needs to be something other than 45 degrees.

I think that is just the way that Chief handles the toe kick for all of the corner cabinets. With an L-shaped corner cabinet (or filler), they probably don't need to do this but for a diagonal front I think they want to extend the side toe kick to keep the diagonal front at the same depth without having a jog. There are a few things you can do if you really want to change this. One thing you can do is to make the corner cabinet an "architectural block" (by clicking on it while holding the shift key down). This prevents the side cabinets from connecting to it and extending the toe kick. It will have other side effects though so you will have to use a custom counter top and you might want to check whether or not your sides are marked as finished (if you care) and you might have to muck around with the arch block if you need to see it show up as a corner filler in the material list or schedule. Another thing you could do is build the corner filler by itself and convert it into a symbol object. This pretty much has all of the same side effects as the architectural block though. Another thing you could do is to remove the toe kicks from the cabinets, raise them up, and then build the toe kicks manually.

As far as I know, the only way to make that happen is to manually edit the wall top. The fix then is to open the wall dialog and check the box for "default wall top". If you are somehow getting a wall to do this automatically, you really need to post the plan because I have never seen the program do that.

Have you tried just typing in "+ 3/16" to both sides?

Are any of your railings set to "no room definition"? Is your room set to be a "deck" and "auto regenerate deck framing" is turned on? Are the layers for the deck planks and structure turned on in the camera view? If not one of those obvious things, then you are probably going to need to post the plan.

Try this: 1. Create the custom backsplash on the wall the shape you want but make sure to make it smaller by the molding size. 2. Copy and paste in place. 3. Convert the copy into a molding polyline. In my case, my molding polyline jumped so that it was no longer in the same place as the backsplash but it was still in the same plane as the wall. I was able to find it and move it back on top of the backsplash. I think this is a bug because I don't think it should have moved and this might be what is happening to you. 4. Choose the molding profile you want and remove it from any edges you don't want it on. You will probably want to change the material and make sure to turn off "extrude inside polyline" so it goes around the backsplash.

When you quote someone, you should be able to manually edit it to remove parts you don't care about. Not sure if it still sends them the notification though. You can also tag someone using this format: @Builder921 if you want them to respond.

I don't know of a way to do this. It's pretty easy to take a 2 panel door and setup a stretch plane so that one panel is a fixed size and the other panel will vary depending on the height of the door. I can't think of a way to design one so that you can adjust the size of upper and lower panels independently though. Maybe @Renerabbittor @MarkMcmight have a trick (both of them are very clever at figuring out these kinds of things). It really wouldn't be that hard to create a new door symbol every time you need a new one though. You can create a door symbol plan that uses cabinets to build the door model and then it would be very quick to adjust it and generate a new door panel symbol. This thread here has more info about how to do that:

I think by "full version", it's probably going to be the public beta. That means anyone should be able to download it and try it out instead of having to "apply" to get on the private beta and sign an NDA. My guess is that they wouldn't let anyone else join the private beta at this time since it looks like we are getting really close to the public beta. I did a search for the announcement about it and it looks like it was removed.

Still not sure exactly what you are trying to do. If you have a T-shaped house with gables on the ends, the ridge lines are only going to line up if the ends of the house are the same size. If they are not the same size, then you can adjust the pitch to get the ridge to line up. See pictures below as an example.

Like I said, it's pretty basic.

Not sure about macs. Check the system requirements to see if your machine is supposed to work: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/sysreq.html If it does, then you should probably call tech support on Monday.

It's pretty basic and will only change the handrail that goes up against a wall. This picture shows a normal railing, one with extensions, one with extensions/returns, and the last one with just returns.

According to the help documentation, it isn't supported. Looks like you might need to submit a feature request.

Never noticed it was missing before but I agree with you that it should probably be there. Did you send Chief a bug report or feature request? I am pretty sure they won't respond to a random post like this.

Might be one of those cases where the view is drawing off the screen. Try hitting "fill window" (F6) to see if that makes it show. The other thing to check is if you are using a layer set that has everything turned off. If not one of these things, then you might want to post the plan .

How did you get what you are already showing? Assuming you are using a "specified" label, you should be able to use %elevationf% to get the same as the automatic label. If you want it formatted differently, you can use %elevation% and add your own formatting options such as %elevation.to_ft.round(0)%. If you need something more complicated, then you would probably need to write your own custom macro.

I played around with it for awhile to see if I could figure out a way to cause the kind of problems you are seeing and I couldn't. This sounds like a case for tech support.

Here are some tech articles that have more info that might help: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00973/message-unable-to-open-the-file.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00099/accessing-your-archive-files.html

Are your angle snaps turned on? You can usually tell when they are off because you will have a symbol that looks like the angle snaps button following your cursor around. Are you in "alt" mode? You can usually tell because you will see "Alt" following your cursor around. You won't see this if you are just holding down the alt key, or using the right mouse button, or the control button, or maybe even some others. Did you mess around with your allowed angles in your general plan defaults? If you did, this could cause the problem you are seeing. If it's not one of those things, then you might want to post your plan or contact tech support.

Your plan is unavailable. Maybe you had it open when you tried to upload it.

I hope you mean X6 because I don't think you can import anything from version 6. Even X6 is old enough now that I would expect to find some problems with whatever you bring forward. You might want to make a fresh start instead.

As Chris and Larry both showed, you can just choose the arrowhead style that goes the other way. Another thing you could do is not use the cross section line with an arrowhead and use the leader line instead. Just select the callout and drag the diamond handle at the bottom to create it the same way you can for text objects. This should let you move the callout wherever you want.

Nope. You can use the search tool which is waaay faster than scrolling. You can also use the ALDO which will only show you the layers for the object you have selected.