DBCooper

I don't think a soffit can follow the ceiling and also be flat on the bottom.

Try playing around with those tools that control the preview. You can switch the rendering style as well as the preview object. It looks like you are currently using a plane and you could try switching to a cube. Also, could try switching between standard, PBR, and vector. Might be a video card or driver issue too. I assume you rebooted but you should if you haven't tried that yet. Not sure about how mac handles drivers. If that doesn't help, you should probably contact tech support.

You could just fill it in using a poly solid. You could also draw a wall there and then make a doorway or a pass thru for the cabinet to fit in.

These kinds of problems are much easier to figure out with the plan. You might want to post it or a link to it. If I was to make a guess, I would see if it has something to do with the invisible wall that joins that stub wall.

What do the caution symbols say? I'm guessing that it says something about having joist direction lines in the same platform. You might be able to get what you want by drawing bearing lines to split up the platform and then the joist direction lines might work. If that doesn't help, you should probably post the plan.

You can do it with the material painter tool in a camera view. Just select "use default" and then you click around to reset the materials back to the default.

There are a bunch of training videos and tech articles that cover active defaults and saved plan views. Might want to start here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03184/understanding-saved-and-active-defaults.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03185/understanding-saved-plan-views.html

I have never seen something like that happen that wasn't something you did to cause it. Do you have reference display turned on? Did you import a picture or cad file of a plan and are then drawing on top of it? If it is not one of these obvious things, then you should post the plan and I bet someone can figure it out quickly.

You need to use different materials. They don't need to look different though so all you have to do is make a copy of the one you are using.

Not only is "rabs drywall" duplicated 3 times, but you have lots of other materials that are duplicated. Go into your plan materials, purge the unused ones, and then merge all of the duplicates. Extra lines are almost always caused by duplicate materials.

Yeah, the only "cheat" I know would be to draw it using Chief's parametric objects instead of simple CAD so it would just work.

Might depend on what your roof is doing in that area. The program will usually fill in spaces that it needs to with "attic" walls but there are many ways you can mess it up (like if you try to manually edit wall top heights). Might want to post the plan so someone else can see what is going on. You will probably need to zip it up and you should only do that when the plan isn't open. Also, if you have lots of extra things like fixtures and furniture items, you should always get rid of them if you want to post because they take up lots of space.

You can also use simple math in most dialogs. So if you want something to be twice as big you can just type "*2" or half as big you can type "/2".

Rumor has it that they have started the private beta test for X17. My guess is that we will start hearing more about it early next year.

Assuming that you want everything the same height for each floor level, then all you should need to do is set the default heights for the floors and then use the "reset to defaults" tool (on the main menu under edit) to make sure everything is actually using the defaults. If that doesn't work, then you might want to post the plan.

It just looks like you selected the "exterior room". It's always there (as long as you made a closed box with walls), even if the layer is turned off, but it shouldn't be noticeable unless you have selected it by clicking near an exterior wall. It should go away if you select something else or just hit escape. If it doesn't go away, then something else must be going on and you should post the plan. The only thing locking the layer will do is make it so you can't select it. Turning off the rooms layer might cause other problems too.

Short answer, maybe. You might be able to use a custom macro to do this. Depends a bit on the naming conventions and whether you have all that info available through the name value pairs. For something as simple as what you are showing above, you could just modify the default label for base cabinets to use the automatic label and append the BD, as in %automatic_label%BD. For some special cases, you might be better off just setting the label manually and then saving the cabinet in your user library for reuse.

I did not take a look at your plan but you would need to have some kind of 3D object to apply a material to. So you might be able to convert the cad lines into closed polylines (or draw closed polylines over them) that you could then convert into solids. The closest thing that Chief has to a "flood fill" kind of tool would probably be the wall material region or custom backsplash tool but that is really only designed to work on walls.

Don't forget about the find object in plan tool which will help you find the windows that are showing up in the schedule.

I would search the knowledge base articles or call tech support.

You could try making it a hinged door instead of a garage door which should then double the panels. This has a bunch of other side effects though. The other thing you could do is make your own door symbol with twice as many panels.

Try this: Draw a couple of lines using different sizes Turn on print preview Change the drawing scale and see what happens.

There is also a preference setting that controls whether color off is only black and white or shaded.

I think they will bump against wall corners and ends based on the casings. There is also a setting in your general plan defaults that allows you to ignore the casing when resizing them.

I think you might have better luck changing the scale instead. You can do this using the rescale button or using the layout box dialog