Alaskan_Son

Open your mulled unit, click on the Options tab, and adjust your Mullion Depth>Outside to something like 200 mm.

Click just outside your exterior wall. If you select a wall first, then hit the Tab key or click the Select Next tool until you see "Exterior Room" down on the lower left hand corner of your screen. When you have the Exterior Room selected, click on the Make Living Area Polyline in your Edit toolbar. This will create an independent polyline shaped to show you the exact area being used for the calculation.

To be clear, there are multiple areas with Display options in Windows. The one in question can be found under Settings>Ease of Access>Display. Also, just a quick tip for you fellas who couldn't find it. That Search bar is your friend. Simply starting to type "show animations" should bring it up.

You’re just not getting it. It can seriously be done in about 10 seconds.

Use a CAD mask. Just place a large polyline with a solid fill over your plan and cut a hole in it. Just make sure all your annotations are in a higher Drawing Group and it should do what you want.

Globals are stored with the instance of Chief, not necessarily with the plan or layout file so it should already work like you want. That being said, the variables need to be defined before you can use or display them elsewhere. To help ensure this is happening, it can be useful to place a layout box containing the items generating the variables in the first place off to the side on your layout page where the variables are being used or displayed.

You’re not missing anything. Door and drawer panels don’t carry their Component information over into the cabinet. You might want to report it if it’s a functionality you want to make use of. In the meantime, your best bet is probably to add a price code to the door/drawer front name and then either: A.) use a custom macro to automatically add the price change to the cabinet itself, and/or B.) use a cabinet schedule to break out the specific door/drawer front price changes. You can always transfer the info. to a spreadsheet for further manipulation.

What did they say when you reported it?

The symbol was probably made to be inserted into a cabinet as an integrated appliance and not as a freestanding appliance as you were using it. when an appliance is included as part of the cabinet then you have to set that Y offset and the bounding box depth to match this number…

For the freestanding microwave, you're overthinking it a bit. No need for any offsets. Put those back to zero and just put the microwave where it goes. You'll need to temporarily override bumping and pushing by either toggling it off or by holding down the Control key.

This is a long standing issue when moving files from one computer or screen resolution to another. It kinda sucks. Quickest thing is to group select all text using Match Properties tool, click Open, and then click Okay.

Never had version 10 but as long as I've used Chief there has been an Import>3D Symbol option to import 3D DWG files.

That's what the Reference Display is for. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the Help files. Click Help>Launch Help (or hot F1) and search for "Reference".

Specs all look fine. I suspect there's a hardware issue and my guess is that its an issue with the Hard Drive. That's just a guess though without having access to any of the files. I would run a performance test on the machine. I usually use this one... https://www.passmark.com/products/performancetest/ This should give you an idea of how the various components are working. You can also open up Task Manager and watch what's happening while Chief is being used. In addition to all that, I would make sure Chief is recognizing and using the proper GPU. Some systems have an onboard GPU. I doubt this is your problem but its worth checking out anyway.

This is definitely Chief. I see it all the time. I’ve taken to using multiple text boxes side by side for much better justification and alignment control.

The problems you're alluding to can be largely if not entirely eliminated by changing your Arrow Defaults in Layout so that only the Tail is set to Attach...

I don't know the answer to that. I barely even know what a "porch" is or under what specific circumstances people are using that particular room type. The term just seems to mean all sorts of different things to different people. At the end of the day, Chief gave us options though, both with regard to which Room Type we use and with regard to the various framing controls (Framing Groups, Retain Framing, Manual Framing, etc.). If you don't think the behavior is correct you can always send that in. I personally don't have a problem with it and I don't know...maybe there's a good reason for it.

That's because you painted the wall on the left side with a different siding material. If you are going to change the material type being used on you exterior walls then you should really create a new wall type. At any rate, what you need is for the finish layer of the front wall to run all the way through to the end. To get that to happen, select the wall and then click on the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool in the Edit toolbar, and then drag the finish layer through to the end.

It's just a behavior associated with the Porch room type. If the bottom of the defined floor structure in the Porch room is higher than the bottom of the defined floor structure in the deck room, then the deck will build through.

You snapped to your finish layer on the left side (the correct thing) and to your framing layer on the right side (the incorrect thing).

This is most likely because objects with similar materials are getting combined into a single material control. Can you post the 3D DWG?

Looks to me like your objects aren't properly aligned. Might help to make sure your various snaps are turned on, especially Bumping/Pushing...

You bet. Just a few extra little tips too... Boxes, Polyline Solids, and Solids all behave a little differently. Editing Boxes and Polyline Solids in certain ways will automatically convert them to Solids. When rotating and resizing Solids, it's important that you select the correct Face if you want to get the desired results. Group selecting the aforementioned objects before rotating will commonly have a different affect than a single click selection and can give you additional capabilities.

Yes. Just export those few required layers as an older DWG version. Easy peasy.

There are a few ways to do it and I believe the behavior has changed a bit since X10 but it used to be that the key was to start with a 3D box (not a polyline solid). In X12, we have more options using polyline solids but here's a method that still uses a box: Draw a 3D Box in plan view that is shaped appropriately to match the lumber size you'll be using. While the 3D Box Specification dialog is still open, adjust the Rotation by setting the correct axis and roof angle, and then click once on the appropriate Rotate+/- button. Switch to an elevation view and use Point to Point Move to set the object on top of the roof surface. Switch back to Plan View and rotate the Box to be parallel to your valley. This part is most easily just done freehand using the Rotate handle. If you want something more precise it requires some more complex extra mathematical steps that I don't want to get into.