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So my new laptop crapped out on a week ago. LCD screen died, thankfully not the computer. So while I'm without that one I've stepped back into my old laptop and and limping along the best that I can with this one. However I have a nagging issue with only Chief (that I can tell so far). When I go into an elevation view or a 3D view and close the window the 2D floor plan view basically is frozen in place. The mouse disappears whenever it gets in the area of the the open 2D window and doesn't reappear until you move it out of the window. You can't visually select anything in the window but if you randomly click on something you can get it to open(typically). So I have a big issue because I have two days left on the biggest project of the year and I'm basically dead in the water because I have to be back and forth with elevations and sections back to layout and it keeps freezing. The only way to resolve it is to restart Chief. Anyone ever have problems like this and were able to resolve them? All video drivers and windows updates are installed. GeForce GTX 670M is my video card

Yeah that looks right! Thank goodness that was fixed. It's was a huge barrier with working with other design companies.

Thanks, I'll check it out. I was unaware that the information didn't export until the architect responded after I sent his detail back and he was furious that all of his line weight information had disappeared. All line weight colors and thickness import correct into CA but I've been unable to figure out how to get it to retain the information during export.

So it was either version X8 or X9 I was having issues with line weight information exporting to a .DWG file when trying to export a plan to send to an architect. Has this issue been resolved with X10? Does anyone have autoCAD or a version that can import .DWGs that can verify that I'm not the only one that has had this issue or can anyone just answer that this is CA's standard M.O.? Thanks in advance.

Being a user since V8.5 I've pretty much understood the limitations of CA, but improvements have always come along and I guess I've just hoped this issue would be dealt with. We're now up to 5 draftsman and two designers and it's getting increasingly apparent that a system like archicad might suit us better for this kind of work flow and future growth into commercial. It's just challenging to think about giving up 12 years worth of experience in one software, I've become somewhat of expert and hate the idea of starting over.

So is there any anticipation of having CA files being able to be worked on at the same time by multiple users or is this a pipe dream that we need to let go? Currently we have to create numerous files in order to multiple people to work on the same project but we're limited to changing anything in the project without updating every file. This gets significantly difficult when we work on commercial projects. Anyway, we love CA and will probably continue using it with our residential projects but more and more we seeing the benefits of other software that allow for a multi-user access to a single file.

You're the man!

I did that for the default libraries but it kept the User Library in the installation drive with no option to move it.

Just curious, maybe a question for a programmer. Any reason we can't specify the user library location like we can for the bonus libraries now? Our team uses the same CAD catalogs and library objects, textures, etc and it's a pain when you have to constantly export your library to be able to update CAD blocks and other items in your User library to share with the team. What is the reason that it's not a possibility to have User libraries moved to a cloud folder and have each computer read the User Library from that folder. Seems to me that it would make for team syncing much easier. Given example: One of my staff is currently creating every ADA detail in the TAS 2010 Handbook so we have an entire library for our ADA details. Currently we all have to wait for him to finish and export his library to receive those files. If we find a mistake in one then we have to tell him, he updates it, re-exports the library folder, then we all have to re-import it again. Obviously you can understand how tedious this can be. Seems to be that the easiest thing would be to all share a user library file on our cloud/server and all we have to do is click on Update Library Catalogs and it would include updating the User Library file OR we just close and open CA again and it when it reads the User Library file it automatically updates to the most current edit of the User Library. I actually do have a way that I think I can make that work using Google drive. It would require making edits in the command prompt and setting everyone's computer to point to the right location. This is how I would do it, and let me know if this could be problematic. On each computer in our office we do the following... Take the user library catalog file out of the existing installed location (I will use mine for an example) F:\Chief Architect Premier X10\Database Libraries\User_Library Move it to new location in the cloud service, ours is Google Drive File Stream: G:\My Drive\Aeslin Design Group\5. Chief Architect\X10 Network Library\Database Libraries As admin open up the command prompt then run the following command: mklink /D F:\Chief Architect Premier X10\Database Libraries G:\My Drive\Aeslin Design Group\5. Chief Architect\X10 Network Library\Database Libraries This basically tells your computer that anytime a program wants to access the first location it will redirect it to the new location. I had to do this to actually relocate my local files for Google Drive because they don't give the option (yet) to specify the location of offline files and my laptop couldn't handle the amount of file I needed on my OS drive (Dropbox has this feature built in). So this command prompt redirect worked like a charm. Can any programmers on the forum confirm that this could work to share one User_Library between a network of staff?

Bump... anyone?! Anyone else have this issue?

Once again I'm having this issue and can not seem to figure out why it does this. When ever I export a model to Sketchup with arched doors or windows it does not import the arched doors or windows into sketchup. If I export in a .dae file it fails to import at all into sketchup. If I export to .3ds it imports the model except for the doors and windows that are arched. If I export to .dwg it works but it doesn't retain the textures and does not import as components making it very difficult to work with. Any ideas? see the attached pictures. Using CAX9 and Sketchup 18. I've had this problem in X8 too.

Is there any way to make a new arrow and have it in the list of arrows? I tried making one using the new line tool but no luck.

Nevermind, figured out that I didn't have anything on those sheets yet and they wont display in the table without information on them. Hope my tired brain flub helps someone here.

I've added some pages to my layout table and have them checked to include like all the other pages but they are not updating in the table, even if I add a new table

Anyone know how to keep text boxes from resizing when opening a file that was worked on by a different user on a different computer? I'm assuming because I'm running on a different resolution their text resizes and causes them to push to an second line and some of the text is missing. A simple open and close of the object fixes this but it's very tedious when you're trying to wrap up a project and there is a lot of back and forth to add information and every time I open it I have to fix the text. Tab get off too. I have text perfectly aligned on my screen and when they open them the tabs are all out of alignment. Any way to fix this without defaulting my resolution to theirs?

I've moved the location of program during install but there are no options for moving the library that I saw.

I can't seem to figure this out... any step by step help would be appreciated. My libraries still go to the OS drive no matter what I do and I don't see any way in preferences to map the library location. It shows where it is but you can't do anything with it.

Is it possible to move the library files to another location and reference them from there? It seems that every time I try to move them there is not way to point the program to reference the new location of the library files. I use a SSD drive for my OS and a separate SSD for my program installation. This keeps my OS running really fast. However my OS drive is only 120GB and the libraries are 12GB and takes up a lot of space on my OS drive and I want to keep them on my program SSD with the CA installation but it keeps wanting to put them in the folder "Windows 10/Program Data/Chief Architect Premier X9" on my OS drive. I'm assuming I'm probably stuck with it this way, but I was just curious if it's possible.

ha ha, here's a new one... it leaves one window in an arched mulled unit...

here you go. I already finished the render which I'm attaching but I'm still dealing with this issue for all of my other models. Really would like to get it resolved it's a time killer. Artistry Parade Home Render Model.plan

Here are two versions of this house. Will someone please try and import them into Sketchup and see if the arched windows import. If they do then I know it's an issue on my end with sketchup, if they don't then it must be something in CA that's causing the problem. Artistry.3ds Artistry.dae

No it's there, just those specific items, ceiling sf, wall sf. windows, etc are not displayed only linear footage of walls.

v8 in Sketchup? Interesting this is what happens when I import arched windows, you'll see even the casing doesn't import. The casing over the garage was a molding polyline so it stayed but you'll see that the window and sill are gone. This is Sketchup 2017 been happening to me since 2014 version. Imports fine in Lumion BTW

I've had issues with this in the past and am wondering if anyone has ever had luck with this situation. If you have any arched (rounded) door or window the door or window will be deleted from the model when imported to sketchup from a .3ds file. If you export to .dae file it will have an error pop up that says "import failed" and doesn't import at all. The only way I have found it to work is to export to .DWG, but the textures don't export that way. So I have to open a new file, copy the wall with the arched window and door. Export those to .dwg and them import them into sketchup, delete the walls leaving only the window / door and then move it into the model of the house where it was left out. Obviously this is ridiculously tedious and completely ridiculous. Am I missing something, can someone verify this, if so can we get this fixed please?

Exporting to .dae file fixes this in sketchup too.