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Oh, they're not greyed out, the controls are shifted. Try them, I bet they work fine. Not sure if that's an X13 issue, I don't recall having that problem. Might check program updates.

As @DBCoopersaid before, yes %scale% will adjust as you zoom, but it will print what the printed scale is. Just ignore that it looks wrong on the Layout, once its printed it should be right. %box_scale% will always report the scale of the layout box itself, but I think that was a recent addition, I don't think X13 has that.

Libraries don't get removed when the program is uninstalled, so it'll just pick them up automatically like that. Ok, starting off simple: you're saying the Move check box is greyed out, so you're unable to use any of the Deltas? Or, by chance, did you just not check Move first?

Why that there's a Shadow Board molding. Not sure if there's a specific tutorial but they're basic molding profiles like any others.

Yeah, it looks fine in X15. I certainly don't have any versions that old, sorry I got no idea what would be causing that.

I don't believe that affects Dimensions though, only normal text like labels and such. I think Dimensions always face "down" and "right". I'm curious why the view is rotated that direction? All text is Upside Down with respect to the title block.

Probably the quickest/easiest: Edit Area/All Floors, Copy/Paste.

Huh. I honestly hadn't poked at it that hard. But out of curiosity, here's that same layout drawn from different starting points And sure enough the last-placed, highest in the order, comes in separated.

But only sometimes! It's a tricky little devil.

Absolutely, you present an excellent guide and I commend you for it! But, some would argue that that's no proper cabinet. Maybe some day we'll get fully editable cabinet boxes. O' to dream!

Let us always remember: what's unnecessary to one may be a godsend to another. We don't all use the software the same way.

What kind of object are you trying to affect? What kind of view are you in? As Dr Evil once said: "Need the info!"

"Chief Architect x12" -- If this is still accurate, then disregard this If you are in fact on X15, then this is what Chris is referring to: (and also please update your signature so we can assume correctly in the future )

That's a very lengthy way of saying "Cabinets in Chief Architect can only be Box shaped objects and cannot be shaped in the manner depicted"

No schedule or Object Information, so nope. As far as I know everything with space planning is all hard coded, and you're absolutely right it's adjusting size because the intent is not how you have your boxes arranged in your screenshot, rather it's reducing size because it's going to build walls where the boxes meet. ex: take something like this: and turn it into this: It's giving estimated room sizes - your job is to just mash the boxes together and let the program magically make a house. It's just unfortunate that room boxes aren't editable in any way. Great if all your rooms are perfectly rectangular though.

I think Joe nailed it, albeit perhaps he wasn't entirely clear. Documentation is accurate, "Every time a file is saved, the current archive file is overwritten.", meaning that it will overwrite the current archive on an hourly or daily basis, or "previous save" will save a new one every time you save. So Diane has it set to Archive Hourly, but if she's only hit the Save button once, she'll have an up to date Auto Save but a very old Archive. Note the Time Stamps on her first screenshot: The point joe was making though was: There's a BIG distinction between Auto Save and Auto Archive. Auto Save happens automatically, every x minutes, and always overwrites a single "auto_save" file, where Auto Archive history will only be built as long as you're manually pressing Save. If you're working on a file for several DAYS, I hope you've been hitting Save here n' there. If not, then Auto Save is your only parachute in case of catastrophe. Not ideal, but at least it's something.

You bet. Walls can individually be set to balloon frame or hang the platform above inside each room, etc. gives a lot of flexibility.

Assuming you followed this article? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02899/manually-installing-core-catalogs-for-chief-architect-premier.html Step 4 talks about Referenced Files, that's the textures. You might follow the steps there to browse to that location on your system to see whats there currently, but it sounds like those files just aren't there.

Yeah don't do that. Pretty much ever. I'll double-down on my previous suggestion, if you have Floor 1 defaults set to a 9' ceiling height, then copy/paste/hold position the walls up to floor 2, set that whole right side to Open Below, and adjust all interior walls as needed, setting ones you only need to build up to 10' as solid rails, while others that need to reach to the roof can remain normal walls.

I recall seeing somewhere a suggestion for something like this by creating a "blank" second floor. Set the Floor 2 default floor structure to take the place of the Ceiling framing for all the rooms below. Plus it sounds like there may be some different height walls up there, seems like that would give you a lot more specific control of those kinds of things.

Hey, I know it!! But yes as Joe mentioned (and I almost did before), you'll want to be sure to drag that Next Page button over the Change Page one so they'll combine into the same toolbar. The little dotted handle next to it indicates its a totally separate toolbar.

Yeah, it's not the most obviously located tool icon

Still no specific method built-in, but this topic comes up often enough:

Press F1 (Help > Launch Help). The program has rather robust documentation on every feature.

Not really. There's no good way to do this. The program simply doesn't have an option or setting to make this happen automatically. Quite frustratingly, the opposite is rather simple: simply draw a wall under your stairs, or set a half-wall to "Follow Stairs". Done! For this though, you'll need to manually break and re-shape the bottom of the wall. I would do this in a cross section looking at the wall from within the stairs ex: In that elevation you can break and shape the wall. It'll even snap to the underside lines of the stairs, which make it easier: What it WONT do is cover the underside of your stairs, or more importantly, the exposed underside of your wall That can be covered up with a 3D Solid, Soffit, Custom Ceiling plane... But hey, you're already in an elevation to do this, so might as well create a 3D Solid while you're there.