DavidJPotter

Do a "Search" at You Tube for "Chief Experts", lots of great free help there as well in the form of helpful tutorial videos by Dan Baumann. DJP

Thank you, I wonder why it just messed up at Chief Talk and no where else???? DJP

Never mind, I found the "Zoom" control and that brought it back to where I can see the print. DJP

Just today, I started having trouble using Google Chrome to access Chief Talk. I have been using Firefox instead for the mean time. What happens is that the web pages of Chief Talk appear tiny in the browser window, so small that I cannot read the words. I looked in "Settings" for Chrome but could not find anything to help. Can any of you help with advice? DJP

I just checked the Chief Architect website and they now only offer stuff back to X3 (nothing for X2 or earlier). Contact me privately and I will share my X2 stuff with you if you like. DJP

Just draw a wall directly under the edge of the stairs, the stair object will cut off the wall top to follow the underneath of the stairs automatically provided you align the wall properly. DJP

The last time I had a 3-monitor set up, I also had two video cards to accomplish this. My main card ran two monitors and the second card ran the third monitor. If this is also true for your set up, then it is probably the lack of quality of the second card. You might try updating its dirvers and looking at what specific adjustments you might be able to make with it. DJP

I usually use a CAD ARC with an arrow on it pointing upstairs or downstairs with the text that says "to light or switch above" as the case may be per instance. Not elegant but workable since no Chief Architect can do what you expect or want. You can use a three-way switch from the Library Browser when that is your need since the automatic function change will not do it for you, you do it manually yourself. DJP

Here is a short You Tube of my fix: https://youtu.be/lM8tN7SHhSg DJP BBB SCOTTS CABINET ELEC OUTLET CHALLENGE 1.plan

Place an invisible wall and then attach the outlet to that wall, you adjust the wall to fit the intended position of the outlet on the island. Another way is to place the outlet on a nearby parallel wall to the intended island cabinet surface and then extend that outlet from the wall (via its dialog box) so that it associates visually with the island from the wall. DJP

By converting PDF views to image format (.jpg) you can then control DPI and image size in terms of Kb. You would then have to decide if those extra steps were worth the time spent. DJP

The wall elevation camera excludes the roofs by default and by design. To include the entire building and its elements one would use an elevation-cross section full camera which is designed to include all objects from the created viewpoint of the camera tool, provided that all intended object layers are checked "on" for that view. DJP

Which Home Designer software do you have? There are existing tutorials in the Knowledge Base of help articles on how to do this kind of stair. DJP

Yusuf, as usual you have done a great job of finding how to get the software to do what needs doing. The ability to see or confront beyond the usual abilities of software is a brilliant, creative, helpful and useful thing to do. It shows an unusually high level of creative intelligence that you have and share with us. Thank you. DJP

Very Well done! DJP

It depends upon the project for me. If the project can be properly portrayed on letter sized paper then I format for color for obvious reasons, letter sized printers almost everyone has. When doing larger projects that require Arch C or larger then I stick to b & w since my clients will be paying for the print services (the only size documents I print myself on paper is letter sized, larger ones I print to PDF). DJP

Very kind of you to share your creative intelligence with us, thank you! DJP

Here is your edited file (attached) and a link to a You Tube video of me editing it: http://youtu.be/sIQls4E5Hek DJP SPEC 1 (curved great).plan

No, currently the only way trusses come into existence is manually. Do your roof editing manually, it is easier to do once you get the hang of it. I always auto build roofs and then manually edit that result. DJP

Steve, I do not see how that could be done but, like you, I think it would be a good idea. DJP

First off, once the plans and layouts are complete, be sure and turn off any "Automatic Settings" (Auto Rebuild roofs, foundation, decks etc). The first person to disarm is yourself from shooting yourself in the foot. DJP

The current CAD layer is part of "Annotation Sets" so if you change a view, that probably also changes the "Anno Set" as well. Pay attention not only to your layer sets but also Annotation sets and set them all up in your profile plan so you will start clean next time. DJP

What version of Windows Operating System are you using please? I have Chief Architect Premier 7, 9 and 10 running on my XP x32 hard drive with no trouble, more modern versions I have installed on my Windows 7 hard drive. What precise steps are you taking that do not work? DJP

Yes, just change it manually. DJP

Manually you can edit dimension strings all you need to whether automatic or manual, adding and subtracting dimension points. This You Tube video might also help clarify what you can do:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6mra1PpSL8 DJP