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Yeah, you must have accidentally dropped it onto that cabinet - it's showing on the Preview because it belongs to it. See on the Accessories panel at the bottom there?

10 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

I dragged over a cook top into the plan and didn't place it into a base cab

You sure about that?

It depends on what you mean when you say "Render."

Using CPU Ray Trace you can queue up different processes by setting time limit before.

Check out https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1975/ray-tracing-cpu-camera-settings.html

43 minutes ago, sthieldesign said:

How do I restore the Library search bar?  Somehow I deleted it and can't restore.

Looks like you're missing a lot more than just that!

Clicking the Gear icon gets the same menu as right-clicking the blank space

Also for what it's worth, those panels are really easy to close accidentally since the X for the panel is right below the X for the whole side window

Lock Panels will remove the X to avoid that from happening.

4 minutes ago, mberry3167 said:

Tried reseting Side Window Drag Docking in Preferences to no avail

What about Reset Side Windows in Pref> Reset Options - should revert all side windows to their original positions.

5 minutes ago, DeLayDesign said:

Could be a graphics card issue

I'd say it's rather probable that it is.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html

Classic mistake: You checked Framing on the B&B layer:

Be sure you select the Framing layer and set it to generate framing

Once checked, make sure spacing/width are set right, or default

Did the same thing on the Brick-4 wall type.

Just guessing but you'll probably want to adjust those too

Make sure your framing layers are checked to generate Framing

46 minutes ago, Kellmoo said:

Chief Architech Premier X7

didn't exist back then - have to do separate horizontal and vertical resizes.

Huh, as far as I know that should work the same - make sure "Evaluate" is checked and Context is "Owner" ?

5 minutes ago, DefinedDesign said:

Thank you, I created the Note and it doesn't seem to be linking to my custom schedule, the note doesn't show a number and their is no field for the Volume in the schedule.

It has no number because it's not linked to that schedule, likewise with the Volume column.

If you select the Note there's an Edit button on the bottom toolbar to "Create Note Schedule from Note" - that'll make one that inherently includes that Note type.

That schedule should have a Volume column to include (so long as you added one to the selected note)

Sure enough - that break between two roof planes won't allow the dormer any higher.

This gets more complicated but you'll need to manually cut those two roof planes.

Select and Explode that dormer, you can re-use it's roof planes, but the Hole it made needs to go. Dormers are on Floor A, hole is on Floor 1.

You'll need to manually break and shape out an area from both planes. It's gonna get complicated though because having two pitches means it can't be a straight V shape, it'll have to be broken into a pentagonal shape.

Something like 

Yeah, technically all schedules are the same. A "note schedule" is just set to include notes by default. Custom Schedules are just not set to include anything automatically so you can do whatever you want with em.

Sorry correction -- its not the same for both because Callouts can't be in a Schedule which is why Rob said he uses Notes.

Use Notes.

Place a note in a room, open the Note, add a "Volume" field and set it's field value to %room.volume%

Place a Note Schedule and add the Volume column

1 minute ago, DefinedDesign said:

Do you mean the Callout I created?  If no, I'm sorry I don't understand what a Note spec is.

Yes sry it was Rob that mentioned Notes. But same thing for both--really anything that can be in a Schedule will have Object Information where you can create custom fields for.

Schedule columns are based on the information the can gather from the objects the schedule is set to include. If the Schedule only includes Notes, then only Note information can be gathered and displayed. Open a Note spec and you'll see Object Information has a Custom Fields section.

Then it's hitting something else - it's hard to tell in that screenshot if there's two roof planes in that space? Dormers can't span across two planes. If there is, then that's the problem.

If you attach the .plan file itself then we can see it and not play whack-a-mole on a forum all day  

Of course. All roof heights are a product of width and height. in the dormer dialog, on the Walls panel you can set the width of that front wall, and on the Roof panel you can set the pitch.

No worries. Yeah that message means that it just doesn't fit.

Though it's usually something like this 

But even then, a dormer totally CAN fit within that space, if it's shorter/smaller.

Open it and decrease the wall height - that's how you'll achieve that style of dormer anyway.

A few questions regarding the dormer tools - are you using Auto Dormer or Auto Floating Dormer?

1 hour ago, Jarenand said:

I keep getting error messages

What's the error? There are several possible so just knowing that it's generating "an error" unfortunately doesn't tell anyone much - need the details.

1 hour ago, Jarenand said:

and it wont let me manually draw one either.

Again, need details. what's happening when you do?

Just now, Jarenand said:

Here is the picture of where im at now.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but whoever said that wasn't talking about Chief Architect -- post the plan and we can see what's happening. instead of guessing.

What I'd probably suggest is to use an Auto Floating dormer, even if it errors you can open the Dormer box that appears and modify wall height, pitch, etc. So if it's erroring because it doesn't fit, then you can shrink it down - but they normally shrink to fit. Just need more details to know why it's failing.

On 8/2/2023 at 9:01 AM, DBCooper said:

 

The only other thing I can think of to check is if you have "display openings in non-display parts of walls" set to "always" in your pony wall defaults.  If it's not this, then you should probably post your plan.

14 hours ago, DeLayDesign said:

Chief's response:
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3. Change the Display of Openings in Non-Displayed Parts of Walls to either Outline or Hide and click OK.

Now the real question is who replied first? Gotta know who won!

The little touch buttons in the lower left go in and out as well. This looks like classic "z fighting" to me, chief often has issues when two surfaces are right ontop of one another. I'm actually less surprised that it's happening and more shocked it hadn't been happening all along. But if it was fine in X15 before this last update, then maybe something they fixed ended up breaking this - you should probably send it to support.

That view doesn't look like PBR. I'd guess video drivers need updating or rolled back.

Side windows aren't toolbars, so Locking them has no affect on this whatsoever.

As for the sizing, I assume there's something with the new Library Browser, but I can't say as I've encountered that myself (can't stand them stacked like that, myself)