ComputerMaster86

Here in Michigan, I don't believe I ever tried to run a set plans through the building department without a section view of the stairs. Well over half of the projects I deal with that include a stair will usually be an L-shaped stair. If I don't verify my headroom height it can come to bite me in the behind. I usually do detailed stair sections to avoid headroom height issues during a build. Sounds like some other chief users do the same. Many of the building departments here in Michigan are not super picky but, there is one county building department that would be in the running for competition with you California people.

Out of curiosity, do you create sections views to show stair details for the building departments or do just rely on your stair info box? I tend draw section views of my stairs which is a bit of work about allows me to verify I am not having no headroom clearance issues. I have recently wondered if others go to that trouble to provide their building department stair information.

Wednesday's release fixed a bug I had with the new 3D cladding, along with some other things that people have reported. Renee mentioned in his video some things he personally reported and some other things he didn't get around to reporting were fixed. I'd say go in head first and try her out. I honestly haven't had any major troubles the past few weeks. They even added a free little desert in Wednesday's release. Basic Math for input boxes that contain angles.

How do you uncheck "Treat as Door" for mulled unit windows? I created some mulled-unit windows not realizing "Treat as Door" was check-marked in the new mulled-unit defaults dialogue box. Now, I realize my custom macro for mulled-units doesn't work since chief is treating the mulled-units as doors. I need a way to tell chief to treat my mulled-unit windows as windows.

It's a little tricky but chief as the ability of rounded ceiling planes.

If I close the Chief Architect program and reopen it, it will not remember the dialogue box size, location and panel sizes. It remembers for the duration that the Chief program is open. I don't think it works any different than it did for X17. I personally wish it would remember its dialogue box size, location & panel sizes as you describe for the next time the Chief program is launched. I can't seem to get it do that. Maybe I am doing something wrong. I tried every number of settings in this dialogue. Both "Always" and 'Each Session" give me the same result, or so it seams. I wonder what the difference is between the option "Always" and "Each Session".

That was fixed in X18, if I am not mistaken. I doubt they fixed it X17.

Even though we have these fancy new "Layer Based Fill Styles" in X18, some objects in Chief still do not have a "Fill Style" panel. I think doors, windows, casings and corner boards where items I noted without a "Fill Style" panel. I wonder if Chief ever thought about adding a "Fill Style" panel for doors, windows, casings and corner boards during the implementation of layer based fill styles?

I once made a comment / suggested this a long while back. I wish more things related to the plan were categories listed under our plan and layout file names in the project browser. Especially macros. We now already have sub-folders for these item category folders. I would even add wall type definitions to this list. I would love to see this become part of the next version of Chief Architect.

In the "Wall Specification Dialogue Box" we have the option to extend exterior wall layers by entering a positive or negative number in the numeric value field labeled "Extend". However, if there is not a wall present below the wall we are editing, then I believe entering a value into this field does absolutely nothing. I am trying to confirm that this is indeed the case. If I could raise the bottom edge of my steel siding by entering a negative value for "Extend", I could imitate a bit of the grade board "Bottom Girt" being exposed below the siding. I usually don't have a wall below the currently selected wall in this scenario.

I will have to try your suggestion and see if that works on my end. This is looking like I need to send in a report to Chief. I have not run into this issue with other dialogue boxes.

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Sorry to say but that doesn't seem to be true. It's indeed rounding the value I typed in. In other dialogue boxes Chief will round the display without rounding the value. For both the vertical and horizontal offset for molding profiles Chief seems to be rounding the actual value. I realized this after typing in values that used 32nd's and 64th's of an inch and my profile would move more than I wanted it to or wouldn't move at all, compared to the last value I typed in.. It was driving be batty. Then I realized it was only moving in increments of 1/16th's of an inch.

This is a little frustrating. I can't be as precise as I want to be using the both the horizontal and vertical offsets. Chief is rounding values to the nearest 1/16th of an inch.