Chopsaw

Yes. New feature in X11

Do you recall what it was you entered for scale ? I can try to reproduce if you like. P.S. It is always a good idea to save before printing as I have miss entered scale when doing that and it can crash the program.

Yes they are quite taxing to even the fastest system for some reason. You can send as image or one trick is to set them up and then switch to Plot Lines while you are working and then back when you are ready to present or print. Update on demand should be manageable if you don't get too carried away.

Fill window maybe [F6] or CTRL Z to undo. If you are way beyond that hopefully you had saved fairly recently and you could close without saving.

Marque select the layout box or CTRL select and use the little control tab at the top. Or hold down the X key and drag a corner. Drag a side and position with point to point tool. Rotate/Resize about current point works like the software did back in X9 if you hold down the X key it will resize proportionally about the anchor point.

Is it possible that your layout box border layer is locked in layout ?

Post your plan file and I will give it a try for you. But first what codec are you using ?

The most obvious thing might be that you have "Auto Rebuild Walls/Floors/Ceilings" turned off in 3D View Defaults.

Unless of course you left that to the very end and then import it all from a warehouse layout so it is all preformatted.

Sounds like that could work but unfortunately no way that I am aware of to merge without a 3rd party PDF editor.

Wow. I try to avoid details as much as I can but it sounds like you have no choice. You might import as many as possible directly to layout and then once you have a layout template set up then try to do as much of your work as possible in the plan file.

It seems that you are stuck in your ways so likely the best thing you could do is let Chief Architect know that this is the way you work and it would be great if the software could preform they way you need it to. I have had troubles with single PDF imports so I can imagine the frustration you are experiencing. Even Adobe and Blue Beam seem to have issues with PDF management so it might take some time for Chief to get it worked out. While you are waiting conversion to .png has been quite successful for many and ultimately anything you can draw in chief or display as live details will likely serve you and your clients with the best solution in the future.

You are likely used to working with "Auto Rebuild Terrain" turned on. So you could turn that back on in Terrain Specifications>General. Or if you are working on a really complex model that is taxing you computer setup and slowing it down significantly you could turn off "Behavior Indicators" in Preferences> Edit> Behaviors. But remember to turn that back on later or you could get messed up on another type of cursor icon warning that you might not want to miss.

Dimension Defaults> Locate Objects> Openings> Select "Sides"

No not in Chief but you can record several walkthrough paths and edit them together with a 3rd party video editor if you like.

Use a Perspective Full Overview.

Open X11 and go to Help> Download Program Updates... then you also have access the update notes. It should work the other way but unfortunately does not and confuses a lot of people.

You might have some luck with the walls by taking an existing framing member and copying it and editing the material properties and then multi copy to fill in what you need.

That depends on how you have defined your SIP's. If they are part of the wall or roof definition I think you are in trouble. I sent in a feature request for pony walls a while back but nothing yet. Just fooling around with a test plan it might be possible to take what chief can do and manually edit a bit to make it look correct. Maybe post a test plan file so others can have a go.

What type of Door Style are you trying to adjust the lights in ?

Thanks for sharing AJ. Will definitely give that a try some time as it gives an attractive effect. Glad we at least got the Technical Illustration and gradient background part right.

Plan Defaults > Framing> Plan Display

Good observation. Possibly the whole image was softened using Chief's Watermark tools ?

Sorry they did give us that already. "Note Type Management..."