KirkClemons

The issue is with the roof planes over the front porch area. You need to cleanup the roof plane connections so that the larger gable isn't just resting on top of the main roof. And the smaller roof plane on the left side of the lower gable, is cutting into the wall a little too much. Instead modify the roof lines so that the gables can all be joined together. Image with lines overlaid for reference. The flooring disappears when this condition is met.

Open an orthographic full overview, then select '3D> View Direction> Top' from the menu.

Select 'File> Print> Drawing Sheet Setup' from the menu. Select your drawing sheet size and print scale.(See this article for choosing scale: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00651/setting-the-print-scale.html ) If you want Chief Architect to remember the last printer you used check 'Remember print settings after printing'. If you want Chief to remember a specific printer and paper size uncheck that option and click choose printer. Click print and always check to make sure that these last settings are correct, then click print again.

If by "pro" you are referring to the Home Designer Pro Trial, then that is why you do not see the ray trace tool. Home Designer does not have any ray tracing tools, you need Chief Architect Premier or Interiors: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/compare.html

I typically just place some point markers and then download the data as a GPX file. The point markers are then imported as elevation points in Chief Architect.

Nice! I've also used this site as well: http://www.geoplaner.com/

Well, to muddy the waters a little more, in my experience I receive fewer video card-related calls on NVIDIA Geforce than I do on ATI Radeon. My personal recommendation is to find any card where the second number in the model number is a 6 or higher. The 6 cards are all in their high-performance gaming line. You can see from this graph that most of the Geforce *60 cards rank pretty high in comparison to other cards out there: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html I would avoid Quadro and FirePro lines though as they are not optimized for gaming. They are engineered with computation in mind. The high-end models seem to work most of the time but it's hit or miss. If 3D modeling and rendering are your primary focus, stick with a gaming card from the Geforce or Radeon lines.

This will always be one of those topics that come up as software advances. The best advice I can give for the long term is to keep your purpose for your computer in mind when deciding which one to buy. We are accustom to walking into a retail store and just buying something off the shelf but, you can usually find comparable prices for better systems online. For example, I found my HP laptop during cyber Monday for less than $500. It came with a 1GB gaming card and has been running Chief without a problem since version X3. I'm sure I'll reach a limit at some point but 5yrs. is not a bad return for the price.

I'm a hobbyist Blender user and one of my favorite instructors has launched his new texture website: https://poliigon.com/ Thought it might prove useful since all of these are seamless and ready to import as a new material in Chief. Also, they all have an optional 'displacement' map which is perfect for using as a bump map in Chief, you would just need to invert them in most cases to get the right effect. Hope you find it useful.