Joe_Carrick

You can use Cabinet Door Symbols - any thickness you want. I'm not sure it really matters if they are exact in CA. KCD is generally the software of choice for Cabinet Makers. Chief's not particularly good at Cabinet Detailing.

I'm with the Arial gang for the most part. Still use CB for a few things but not much. For tables I generally use "Courier New" just because it's one of the few "Fixed Length" Fonts available and it seems to be the cleanest. Here's a list of some other "Fixed Fonts" Consolas DejaVu Sans Mono Letter Gothic Std New Sans Mono Orator Std

Hi Vinnie, Try this: Shut down your computer. Restart your computer Start Chief without a Plan Click Edit > Preferences What happens? If that doesn't work reinstall Chief. I see you are on X10 so you don't have SSA to get help from CA - but you can pay for their help. Also, it's possible that an Antivirus program is interfering with Chief Architect.

Vinnie, Open Chief with a new plan. It's likely that there's something wrong with the plan you've been using. If that works then you know it's the plan itself. You may be able to go back to an archived version of that plan and get that to work. You can at that point try some of the suggestions BT made as well.

Yusuf's method works for outside railings and for inside railings on "U" shaped stairs. It doesn't work for the inside railing on an "L" shaped stair" or for contiguous connected "Landings". There are "geometric" problems that have to be considered for those cases. CA development would need to do some additional programming to make it work in all cases. Provide a extension of the stair sections at "L" stairs (approximately 1/2 tread depth) at the landings Recognize connected "Landings" (2 or more contiguous) as "Stair Sections" Maybe a couple other possible conditions.

Did you email the "plan file" or a "link" ? It sounds like you did the later.

If you emailed the file then she just needs to right click on the attachment at the bottom of the email and "Save As".

You should also be careful that a macro (maybe in a label or text box) is not inadvertently creating a "loop" condition with no way out. In that case the Task Manager will indicate the Chief is "not responding".

Use Molding Polylines. For the horizontal pieces you can use a series of molding profiles For the vertical pieces use 3D molding symbols. It will take a little work to get the pieces all correct but it works.

It could be that she's just clicking on the plan to open it. If that's the case her system may be trying to open it using X10. Ask her to first start Chief X11 and then open the plan from there. Sometimes when someone installs a new version they forget to set the file associations properly.

Does 1 Electric Meter equal 1000 Electric Millimeters ?

Per the Help - F! Key

Do what Michael said. You might have to resize in the Layout but that's pretty easy to do.

Really? I've never heard of this limitation. If you have a mouse with a "wheel" you can zoom in or out. Otherwise, there should be a magnifying glass icon (upper right of the screen) with a "-" that will "zoom out". Another option is to set up Hot-Keys for zoom-in & zoom out

Still could be a compatibility problem with Windows 10. You might be able to set Chief X5 to run in a compatibility mode - or it could be that X5 was only 32 bit and that's causing the problem. I really don't know, just throwing out possibilities.

Without the plan (and almost none of us have X7 installed) there's no way to know what you are doing wrong. That said, try the following: Draw a railing wall in the basement next to the stairs. Move that railing wall so that it's main layer is on the stair. Set the railing wall to "Follow Stair". That should work. If not, post the plan and maybe someone can do it for you. BTW, why have you not upgraded since X7? X11 has much more capability.

It's not inside the Stair dbx. It's a part of "Railing Walls".

You could create a Symbol (Exterior Fixture) that mounts on a wall.

Make each of those rows of tile a separate "Wall Material Region" -or- a "Molding Polyline" -or- a "Wall Covering". Either one will work.

In that case - just use a "Soffit" for the dropped ceiling area. No need for a separate room.

Steve, How thick is your invisible wall. Typically a "Room Divider" should be very thin and prevents this problem.

I'm just curious as to why you would use a PSolid instead of either a "Custom Backsplash" or a "Wall Material Region". Both tools are easier and are designed to do the job. You can use the "Pattern From Texture" tool in either case.

Why not just use a custom backsplash or wall material region in that area? You could then use a different material. IAE, you can copy the existing material and change both the texture and the pattern to suit what you want.

The bevels would be difficult. However, you can use a small "Wall Material Region" (transparent material) with "Cuts Surface Layers" to get a fair approximation. Another option is to use one or more Molding Polylines with several moldings stacked to add the Blocks outside of the wall finish layer.