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When I place a range from the Architectural-Appliances-Ranges-Large library I only get the outline of the range. It's missing the burners and control knobs on top. This happens for every range in the library. All of the ranges in the appliance-standard library shows correctly. Is there a setting in the Ranges-Large library that is preventing the burners and control knobs from showing up? Thanks, Mike

Thank You for creating the door. Mike

I am working on plans for a custom home. The client wants to use two residential hanger style glass doors. See attached picture. Does anyone know how I show this type of door in CA ? Thanks, Mike

Thank you. That works.

I'm working on a three-story house that has two exterior stairs. The stairs only show up on the floor I placed them on. How do I get them to show up on both floors? When I place the stairs on interior stairs and create a stairwell the stairs show up on both floors. Thanks, Mike

If I use 3D solids to create a mass model of a hillside residence I am working on, will the civil engineer working on the grading plans using AutoCAD be able to view it as a 3D model ? Or will the 3D solids be converted into 2D lines? When I receive 3D plans that were drawn in AutoCAD they loss their 3D properties when I open the drawing in Chief. Unfortunately I do not have AutoCAD to try opening the the model and see if the model retains it's 3D properties. Thanks, Mike

I imported a survey plan of a two acre sloped two acre lot that was drawn in AutoCAD. The problem I am having is the trying to do a perspective full overview. I get a warning "You have 22041 elevation points. The terrain interpolation will take a long time to generate. Would you like to use the linear interpolator instead?" I tried running the perspective full overview and it runs for hours. The file size of the imported survey plan is 38,441 KB. There are only 24 contour lines When I click on one of the contour lines I see that there are hundreds of edit handles along each line. Is there a way to smooth out each line by reducing the number of edit handles ? I'm hoping that might reduce the file size and allow me to do a perspective full overview. Has anyone experienced this before ? Thanks, Mike

I tried it and it doesn't work. Yes the windows do not show up on the floor plan. What does show is all the openings of the windows. In the plan view it looks like there is a lot of doorway openings where there is none. What would be great if CA allowed use do define a height of a cut plane in plan view like the cross section slider in perspective view does.

I tried that. On my plan the upper windows are narrower than the lower doors, windows and cased opening. The cased opening is 8'-0" wide. Above that are 3 - 2020 windows. Those high windows very clearly show up in the cased opening. This makes it confusing to who ever is reading the plans. On your plans you have all windows of the same width. Try changing the lower window to swinging doors. You will see a window symbol over the top of the door symbol. It looks like I will have to draw this room as a 2 story and designate it as open to below.

How would you show a clear story window over a front door and 2 side lights windows ? You do not want the clear story window to show on the floor plan. That would place a window symbol over the door symbol. That would be confusing when reading the plans.

This is one high one story room. I tried changing the height of the windows reference from floor to absolute. That didn't change anything.

I am working on a project where there is a 24' high turret. At the bottom of this room is a door and 2 windows. At the top is 8 - 2020 windows around the perimeter of the turret. These window are showing up on the floor plan over the lower door and windows. Is there a way to prevent the high window from showing up on the floor plan. I can call off the windows on the elevations. Thanks, Mike

I just started a project were the clients wants to build a small apartment building with a couple of attached shops. They want the style to be of an old Tuscany village. They built a model of the building with the colors an materials they want to use. I have attached a picture of their model. One unit they want destressed yellow plaster. Another unit they want it to look like brick walls that were covered with a yellow plaster that has been waring off over the years. The question I have is, how do I get the exterior walls in Chief to look like the walls in their model ? Are there patterns that look like their model ? If not is there a way to create these patterns ? Thanks, Mike

I was following along with this tutorial when I drew the plan. I did exactly what he was showing in the tutorial. His trusses sit on top of the top plates and mine sit below the top plates. I just called tech support. They said to copy the dimension shown in "vertical structure depth" and paste in the the "heel height". This will place the truss on top of the top plates. Thanks, Mike

I doing a small practice project using trusses. When I do a cross section I see that the trusses are not sitting on top of the top plates, they are sitting about 4" below the top plates. I'm sure there is a setting that controls how the trusses sit on the top plates. I don't know what that setting is. I'm using X15. I attached a copy of the plan. Thanks, Mike Truss Plan.plan