Alaskan_Son

I would personally just use polyline solids. For the "dogtooth" part just use Distribute, Transform/ Replicate, or Multiple Copy.

You're very welcome!

Open your North Pointer and then in the lower left hand corner, click on Number Style. Then you can select from the various options. See attached screenshot...

In the future, maybe consider selecting the room and then clicking the Make Room Molding Polyline tool if you run into a similar circumstance. It will create that moulding around the room for you. All you have to do is click Suppress Molding On Selected Edge where you want the molding removed.

For anyone experiencing the same problem, I managed to fix it although I'm still not sure why it happened in the first place. After following Brian's instructions, I opened Task Manager and noticed that X7 was named as one of the background processes. I clicked "End Task" and restarted my machine. All has been well since.

Those moldings are a result of the invisible wall and room created by the dormer. Without spending too much time with it, I think the quickest solution is to select your kitchen room, click Make Room Molding Polyline and then suppress molding on those 2 edges.

Thank you Brian, this solves part of my problem. I still can't open X7 without holding down the control key though. It is acting as if the program is already running. I reboot every night too so rebooting doesn't fix it.

Can you attach the plan?

Thanks for attaching the plan. I think the problem now is that no one really knows what your terrain is actually supposed to look like and therefore we don't know the best advice to give in order to fix it. I tend to think the elevation data is incorrect and needs adjusting. One thing you can do to address at least part of your problem though is to uncheck and then check "Flatten Pad". You can also try to insert some terrain modifiers like Lowered Regions or Flat Regions.

I wouldn't even consider using HDP if your goal is realistic lighting design. I'm relatively certain you're going to need the ray tracing that is only offered by Interiors and Premier. Download the trial version and take it for a test drive.

I'm having the same issue. I've just gotten into the habit of holding down control while opening Chief and just clicking yes when the extra box pops up.

To fix the lighting issue, it depends on which version you're using. In X8 we have the option under 3D>Lighting>Adjust Sunlight to check "Sun Follows Camera". In previous versions I would just suggest either... a. 3D>Lighting>Adjust Lights>Default Sun and play with the Tilt Angle and Direction Angle settings b. CAD>Lines and put both a Sun Angle and North Pointer into the plan. Once you do that...Window>Tile Vertically (or Tile Horizontally), and play with the North Pointer and/or open the Sun Angle and make adjustments to the various settings. Adjustments made in the sun angle dbx. will change the 3D view even while the dbx is still open (thus the reason for my suggestion to tile your windows...so you can see the changes as you make them).

The "shiny" areas you are seeing are what we call z-fighting. Your roof sheathing is showing through the roofing material. This is usually caused by a model that is built really far from 0,0 or by some errant object really far from the origin. It can usually be fixed by either... a. moving the model closer to 0,0 b. deleting the errant objects c. increasing the thickness of the roofing material

Which version are you using?

Have you tried playing around with transform replicate much? You can get some pretty similar helical shapes by setting the number of copies to a very high number and then playing around with the move and rotate numbers. You can also get some pretty interesting results by exploding a cylinder.

Is that part of the stairs or the result of a primitive solid or moulding you created?

I would personally recommend that you seriously consider just going straight to Premier. I think its money well spent. We do mostly kitchen and bathroom remodel projects and I love using Chief for kitchens. I would however note that we use local custom cabinet shops almost exclusively so our ordering process may be different than yours. I know there are quite a few Chief users who use standard cabinet manufacturers though and they still prefer Chief over the alternatives. I think some still use 20/20 (or similar) as a supplemental program, but it seems that its becoming at least a little less necessary.

I was having problems as well.

As Joe said...because you can't just drop a window into the plan. It has to be inserted into a wall. Speaking of Joe, here's a thread he started about a roof accessories schedule that might also be useful to you... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5531-skylight-symbol-roof-accessories-schedule/?hl=%2Bskylight+%2Bschedule

I don't think there's any way of having this happen automatically. Only thing I can think of is this... 1. Create a custom window symbol with the appropriate sizing, description, etc. and add it to your user library. 2. Draw a wall off to the side of your plan somewhere and drop your custom window symbol into it. 3. Drag the label over to your actual skylight. Just an idea.

I have a feeling the person who made that post was simply referring to the toolbar configuration (not realizing there are several). We have the kitchen and bath configuration in Premier which has several pre-defined cabinet styles to choose from as well.

I believe you guys, but for what its worth I wasn't able to recreate the problem on my system. Even tried pulling the plan WAY far from 0,0 and still couldn't get shelves to show through.

Sherry is absolutely correct.

That takes all of about five seconds though. Besides, I find that I have to reset my shortcuts every update anyway.

Your plan appears to be corrupted. Try attaching again or send in to tech support. Might be related to the problems you're having with roof. I'm not sure because I can't open plan. Thanks for posting plan though!