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Thank you so much for this reply. It helps to hear the thinking behind this change. And honestly, it wouldn't be nearly as frustrating if I could make copies without getting this error. I've tried this in several different plans, projects and files, and I get the same results. I don't think it's a file corruption issue. What's the best way to get in contact with support to try and get this resolved?

Hey all, I'm working in Chief Architect x17 on a Mac and one feature is really driving me crazy. I like everything about managed projects in x17 except for the fact that I can't "Save As" a project. I know that there is the "Make a Copy" feature now to create new versions of my plan as I iterate, but sometimes I'm working on a plan and I start making a bunch of changes and realize that I've changed the plan pretty significantly and I should create a new version. When I try to make a copy of the plan in that current state (without saving because I want to retain how the plan used to be before I just made all these changes) I get this error (attached image). The only way around this appears to be to save "v1" at the point where I decide to make a new version, use the "Make a Copy" command to create a "v2", and then undo all of the changes I made in "v1" until I get back to its original state and then save again. This is such a pain. Am I missing something here? There's gotta be a more intuitive, simpler way to quickly iterate and version a plan. Any help?

Thanks for all of these suggestions! I'll try some of these and see if it accomplishes what I'm after. So many workarounds. Seems like it should just be something built into chief. I may be back with some questions.

I'm finding it incredibly confusing and surprising that I can't create some kind of label or text box in my plan that will add up all of the living area from all floors of my project and dynamically display it for me. I've tried so many macro tutorials, chatGPT methods, and workarounds and I can't get anything to work. Where I'm often designing with tight square footage boundaries I need to stay within, it would be tremendously helpful to have a label like this that can track the changes I'm making and give me updated square footage numbers. Is this just not possible? Am I stuck forever doing this manually on my calculator as I switch from floor to floor? I'm working on Chief Architect Premiere X17. Any tips would be appreciated!

Oh my gosh, thank you! That solved it. I don't know that I ever would've figured that one out! Not sure how or why those shadow boards ended up so backwards.

Here's a stripped down version of this plan that demonstrates the issue. Hopefully this helps in diagnosing what the problem could be. RoofOverhangProblem.zip

That doesn't seem to change anything...

For some reason, the surface of my roof is hanging past the fascia by 3.5" and I can't figure out why or how to fix it. I guess it's actually that the fascia and subfascia are stopping short of the end of the roof by 3.5" as it seems as though the roof surface is hanging past the baseline the correct amount. What setting do I need to fix to get the fascia to build in the proper spot so there isn't so much roof surface overhang?

That seems to have worked perfectly @robdyck. Thank you for that tip!

Does anyone know if there is a way to change the field of view setting of a walkthrough camera? When I open up the camera settings of my walkthrough camera, it looks almost identical to a standard overview camera settings dialog box except that there is no setting for changing the field of view. Am I missing something? Is this not possible? Any suggestions on how I can do this?