Mikeman2016

Wow, Rich, you put this together so quickly? Impressive! I have looked into basic shapes and managed to build a cylinder, turn it 90° and remove its front "cover" to see inside. However, I'm lost from there. The back "wall" won't accept any windows and I also seem unable to make the wood "thick" like in your model (as compared to mine where the shape seems to be made of paper). Do you have any videos or step-by-step instructions where I could learn to work with basic shaped and the solid subtraction you mentioned? I'm coming from SketchUp, having found Chief Architect in my quest for a software that allows both versatility, polished looks and reasonably quick results, so I'm not above building the benches and interior etc. by hand once I know how to go about that. But I reckon I need to somehow learn how to do that and become proficient in my use of those tools and unfortunately the videos in the support section seem mostly geared more towards "standard" architecture situations. So any pointers you could give me, especially videos or instructions I could use to quickly familiarize myself with the basic tools for non-standard, custom designing, would be very welcome! Thanks very much, Mike

Hi, I want to design a large barrel (think oversized wine cask, lying down) as a "house" with suitable interior and exterior. I have attached pictures of a comparable project (mine would have different interior but maybe similar shape) also for clarification. Unfortunately, being completely new to Chief Architect, I find it very hard to find out how to get started creating even the basic outdoor structure (the round walls, or rather a curved ceiling and floor that touch directly). I have found that I can do a 1/2 barrel ceiling but this feature needs a normal room (i.e. straight walls) to connect to and anyway only gives me the upper half of the house, while I still need another half barrel to have the lower half. Could you give me a few pointers that could help me at least getting started? I think once I have the (normally relatively simple) basic structure of the barrel set up, I might be able to figure other things out using the instructions on the support pages. Completely lost at the moment and hopeful for help, Mike ---- Chief Architect Premier X7 Build 17.3.1.1x64 Windows 8.1