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  1. Ringos
    Ringos's post in Is There a Way To Have Art Show In Elevations? was marked as the answer   
    SOLUTION
     
    CA Support helped me with this.
     
    To show art in elevation views. Use standard view instead of vector view. Standard view might be a little dark but you can brighten up the scene using technique options.
     
    1. Open the elevation.
    2. Go to 3D> Rendering techniques> Standard view.
    3. To brighten the scene go to technique options 3D> Rendering techniques> technique options.
    4. Use a backdrop image to get great skys, use ambient lighting to get light in the scene, even put some hand drawn lines on it.
     

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    Ringos's post in chief architect window not showing width/height and schedule was marked as the answer   
    Solution:
     
    If you want to show both the window size (3050) and the schedule number on your plan view and/or layout...
     
    1. Create a cad detail of your window schedule.
    2. Go to the project browser and find CAD details under the name of the plan you are working on.
    3. Right click and add new cad detail.
    4. Go to tools>schedules and select the window schedule. It should show up in the CAD detail.
    5. Customize the view of that like you want.
    6. This is a great video for that. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1544/door-window-cabinet-schedules.html?playlist=87
    7. Click on the schedule, then open the properties for that schedule.
    8. Go to the Label section on the left, then at the top on the right area, select either Both Callout and Label or Label.
     
    If that does not work, open the properties for each window you want to show both.
    Click label and check that width/height is checked. Add a check mark on type if you want it to show the type (DH) of window.
    If you want both the size and call out to show on the window rather that call out check on the window properties and uncheck callout on the CAD detail.

    See screenshots below.
     

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    Ringos's post in multiple referenced files was marked as the answer   
    Solution:
     
    When you have multiple referenced files and they are all of one plan and you want one referenced file instead. Find the most recent which should have all the changes.
     
    1. Go into layout >tools> referenced plan files.
    2. Double click one of the older referenced files.
    3. A window will pop up allowing you to pick the new file to reference instead of that.
    4. Click the most recent which should have all the changes.
    5. CA changes all those links to the new file you just clicked.
    6. Do that for each of the older referenced files until you only see the new file as linked.