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I tried this last year, it did not do anything useful related to floorplans. Polycam was the closest I found to a working product, but it also uses the roomplan API from Apple, so only works on Apple(although it has photogrammery(uses a constant taking of photos to determine depth and distance as opposed to using lidar) mode, but in that mode it will not produce floorplans) but it also had issues with finding walls in the proper location for the lidar method. So i think to Rene's point, anything that uses the roomplan API is only as good as the Apple programmers make it.

curious, it looks like you measured every room manually. Why did you do this, vs relying on the program's measurments?

i've tried it a few times, and compared it to laser and to cubicasa. I do mostly basements, and it has trouble distinguishing bulkheads (sometimes thinks they are walls) and cantilevers where a 12" wall portion goes across the top. I'd be curious to hear your feedback. It uses the apple roomplan API, so I think it may be apple's limitations as opposed to CA It's nice though as it brings in windows and doors, so the elevations are less work, but based on my testing you would still need to take laser measurements for your area of interest

Most of my work is basements, sec suites, and the odd addition. The basements and sec suites are very straightforward. I find the details and RSI calcs for oddball assemblies on additions take the time, and looking up the actual requirement. i.e. for a detached garage that is heated, what is the wall and ceiling RSI requirements. what if there is a workshop in the garage, is that treated differently. And then the fire rated assemblies for stuff like soffit with 1'6 of PL walls within x of PL I have a bit of a catalog, but I would not consider it organized enough to quickly find what I need. I have limiting distance calc that works well, just adjust the pline already on the elevation camera, and set the window category to be included on the schedule. the schedule and macro logic does the rest. same with floor area. So I am ok there The other PIA is terrain elevations. I have an object that shows the elevation on the site plan and the section, but everytime the terrain rebuilds I have to open up each marker to get it to refresh. If you have an answer to that I'd be interested I also refuse to manually draw fake grade lines, so I use a terrain object 1" deep by 10ft high that slices the terrain, one for each elevation, but each has its own layer, so its a bit of a PIA as I need to maintain 4 layersets. If you have a better answer for that, I'd be interested. Then there is the whoie detail management. If I change the wall to have 1" foam, and the foundation to have 1" foam, am I manually changing all the details to ensure they match. You'd be surprised at how often I get,, oh go put some purlins on that roof so we can get some airflow or uhh ,make the roof 2x10 so we can get more insulation. Then I have to change the roof structure, and the details. Ultimately I would think I would want notes put on the cross section with W1.1, and an associated detail called W1.1 and its RSI, same with ceiling and floor. but that doesn't cover the detail where the truss heel is, so not sure what the answer there is

I've seen this before and I thought I was just going crazy. good to know it was not me.

I thought maybe that's what you were after. I checked mine and I don't have anything like that. I suppose you could assign to a global in or from the oip, but then you are having to spend a bunch of effort managing that , which you are probably trying to avoid in the first place

i don't see anything in the object properties of a mulled unit that would give you that

I use them in macros: custom_fields below. isElevationReference is an OIP but these are hand inputted, are you looking for results from a calc/macro within an OIP? if custom_fields["isElevationReference"] == "Y" ... or are you talking about something else?

i thought you could download a CA that was only usuable for the VR...its been a couple years since I've tried. I'll see it if I can find the thread

what scanner? some of the manufacturers produce DXF or PDF floor plans

so interesingly..in the Nvidia app it said there was not a driver installed. In device manager under display adapter it showed th edefault MS adapter. I went to Driver Results | GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU | Windows 11 | NVIDIA then clicked see more versions and installed the GR driver from Jan 2026 Driver Version:591.74 Release Date:Mon Jan 05, 2026 and now everything magically works and device manager now shows: ...ghost in the machine

The 21st century solution to solve all my problems...reboot...did not fix it, neither did the classic "repair" your installation. Any other ideas? I get this in the CA log file: 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.010450 Bootstrap 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.010611 Computer Name: "DESKTOP-1RAKJTT" 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.011984 Checking for multiple launch 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.012936 Multiple launch check did not find existing instance 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.013747 Loading Preferences 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.054477 Preferences Loaded 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.084307 Initializing error reporting system 06/16/2026 10:12:40 PM 0.085225 Check for registration 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.078354 Registration is good 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.089681 State has been set to UnsyncedManagedState 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.108598 Checking for upgrades 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.216547 Checking for updates 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.324426 Checking paths 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.357511 Initializing Spell Checker 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.433950 Initializing the Master List 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.434881 Loading paper sizes 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM 1.713160 ArtException.cpp(177): Error #272000009 "A serious error occurred (SEH). Please contact Chief Architect Technical Support with steps to reproduce. " 06/16/2026 10:12:41 PM Build: 27.3.3.12 Windows 64-bit 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.035764 Shutting down wait cursor detection 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.036177 Clearing library browser preview and models 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.036540 Terminating external help browser 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.036819 Terminating Print Device 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.037068 Shutting down the Master List 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.037589 Clearing CAD items 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.037882 Shutting down export services 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.038192 Clearing ManufacturerManager 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.038339 Shutting down the BatchTransactionProcessor 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.039305 Cleaning up the FileTransferManager 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.043578 Cleaning up the ManagedResourceMetadataPoller 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.044304 Waiting for pending analytics 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.385945 Clearing directory cache 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.402425 Clearing cursors 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.409192 detecting display resolutions: 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.411827 \\.\DISPLAY1: Monitor Rect: top = 0 bottom = 1600 left = 0 right = 2560 Work area: top = 0 bottom = 1528 left = 0 right = 2560 flags = 1 bits per pixel = 32 pixel width = 2560 pixel height = 1600 display flags = 0 display frequency = 64 cursor scale = 1.000000 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.515809 Shutting down PDF subsystem 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.516747 Clearing thread manager 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.517571 Clearing Qt Image cache 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.518524 Deleting temporary files 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.554553 Cleaning up the ResourceManager 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.629834 Stopping the Ruby Thread 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.630772 Stopping the Timing Log Thread 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.631728 Cleaning up curl 06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM 2.640194 === Ending Session (06/16/2026 10:12:42 PM) === and this in the render log: [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: Astral log initialized at C:/Users/janea/AppData/Local/Chief Architect Premier X17/Rendering Log.txt [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: ResourceSearchPaths::addSearchPath 'C:/Program Files/Chief Architect/Chief Architect Premier X17/' [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: ResourceSearchPaths::addSearchPath 'C:/Program Files/Chief Architect/Chief Architect Premier X17/Astral' [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: Initialized primary graphics backend for API: DirectX 12 [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: DX12GraphicsBackend::initializeDevices ... [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: D3D12 device found: 'Microsoft Basic Render Driver'. Attempting to create D3D12 device... [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: Successfully created D3D12 device: 'Microsoft Basic Render Driver' with D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_12_1 [2026-06-16 22:12:41]: NVSDK_NGX_D3D12_Init failed: NVSDK_NGX_Result_FAIL_FeatureNotSupported

did you find a resolution to this? My X17 just started doing this. X16 starts up

Yep, I was a continues wall before then. sounds like a software bug

so if you have to do full plans and elevations, you use matterport for the inside, and hover for the window sizes/placement and roof pitches? Today I measure the windows from the inside and distance to a wall, but it is a PIA

i've been given a few magicplan plans to draw up in CA, and usually my response has been "it needs some better magic" after comparing it to a video also given to me. Are you finding it actually works? or do you have to do a bunch of fixup, and if so, how are you determining which walls to move in order to fix? or are you getting an option that they give you a plan the next day (after the humans do their best to correct it) I used roofr.com a couple months ago, as it was free to determine roof pitch. Other than roof pitch, what else does hover get for you to do the model in CA...the last time I looked at them was a few years ago

did inserting the bay window break that wall

i've noticed this too, where there are some very odd widths..thought it was just me

sounds similar to what I do, but I'm not organized enough to keep them 1 to 1. But some of that is due to my details being semi automated (if the stud is 2x4 vs 2x6, I only change the label, I do not have a sperate detail). I would perhaps be interested in both. I get tired of making new details for different wall assemblies and the associate RSI calcs. I will send you a PM

do you(or any of the polyline people) have a trick for getting the living area polyline for a detached garage? it seems to only give room area poly line, which looks to be to the outside layer, not the main layer. ...other that the change the room type to something other than garage, then create it, then change it back. as that seems to be a bit of a workaround

Robert, did you create RSI calcs for all the floors, ceilings, walls to match the different details. I noticed you have them nicely named sounding like you would have them

curious, why don't you just scale when printing ? or does that not work I rescale them in layout, one layout box at a time

if I understand, correcty: If you go into your template project, then open up the template layout, and go to that camera, and click to update the view, it updates the layout with the elevation of the template plan. But if you copy your template project to a new project, and then go to the layout file in the new project anddo the same thing, you dont see the plan's elevation, and instead you get that error? You shouldnt. I assume you are using project management mode? you might need to post a screen video

are you using the tools->layout-Referenced plans/layouts from the layout menu? I use it all the time. ...but the better workflow I found is to just have a template project with the layout and plan file in it, already linked) Then just duplicate the project, and rename the project, plan, layout

centers on this dialog?