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If your leg is symmetrical, you could create it yourself by drawing the profile, saving it as molding in the library, create a small round counter top, and use the new profile as a molding on the counter. If your leg is not symmetrical, as in a queen anne, I would look for a 3D model on the web that you could import.

I don't think you will get any kind of ceiling structure until you build either a roof or floor above. Then it will show up in your cross section views. You might be able to get the look you want by building the roof and then turning it off in the cross section. Or, if all else fails, just draw it in using the cad tools.

If you are trying to draw your own hole using the custom counter top hole tool, you can only add it to a custom counter top, not to an automatic one. As Joe pointed out, you should automatically get a hole for your sink if you are using one of the library sinks. If you have made your own sink and need a different hole, you need to put the hole in the cad block for the sink.

Not sure why it's doing that. It could be that you turned off auto adjust heights and that caused the stair start to be floating. It could just be Chief messing up. If you post the plan, I'm sure some one could figure it out though. If all else fails, there's always tech support.

You can have two stairs go up to and join with a landing. You will need to adjust the shape of your landing (using the break tool) to give you a straight edge where you want it to join and then you need to draw the new stair going up to the landing.

I'm not sure what you are trying to get, but in Glenn's picture, you can see that there are two vertical lites in the upper section and only one in the lower. The trick is to make sure the "auto adjust" is turned on and then set the number of lites to what you want in the lower section. The program then automatically adjusts the number in the upper section to make them close to the same size. The other thing you can do, if you don't want any lites in either the bottom or top section is just turn them off.

Unfortunately, no. Your client can either upgrade to X6, or he can use the free X6 viewer, or you can redo all of your work in X5.

I don't give a damn about my bad reputation! It had to be said.

It's the door symbol you are using. The symbol was made with different materials on each side. If you don't want to have two different materials, then use a different door symbol or use the "panel" door style.

Here is my guess, x = 0, y = 0 is the plan origin. You can find it by placing a point marker or temporary point at (0,0) in the plan. Try moving your walls and everything above this on the screen. You can use the edit area tool to move everything. I'm not sure it this will fix your backsplash problem but it's worth a shot.

I am guessing that the problem isn't the resolution (4000 dpi is ridiculous). It's either a problem with your pdf writer or maybe a problem with your plan/print scale?

Pretty shameless advertising pitch Chris. Borderline spam in my opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if a moderator dumps your posts on Monday. Chief has been able to export various 3D files (including vrml) for many, many years. Each 3D file format and each viewer all have their pluses and minuses. I don't think there is any one of them that works great without any problems. One big advantage of the Chief viewer is that it works the same way Chief does which means it's very easy for a Chief user to explain how to use it. Another advantage is that it allows notes and markups to be made directly in the plan file. One big disadvantage is that you have to send them your unlocked plan file and all of the textures and images that need to go with it. There are lots of other possible solutions that might work for various situations. GoTo Meeting, or one of the many other similar apps, would let you communicate remotely without your client having to know much. If you have a client that is really not tech literate, you can always just send them screen shots as JPGs.

I would be careful doing that. If you have a window/door that is in more then one schedule, you can have two different schedule numbers. Look at the window callouts in the first picture. You can move them around in X6 to keep them in sync but this can be a pain and if you forget you might have a mess on your hands. If you want a schedule on each floor, then open the schedule and make it for that floor only and you won't have this problem.

I would divide the rooms like it looks like you have done. Then, in order to get the deck planking to go the directions you want it, you need to trick Chief into treating them as separate deck areas. I do this by changing the floor height by 1/16". As long as the floor heights are different then Chief won't join the framing.

I think it saw that in the beta version but haven't seen it since. I assume you are using the latest version but did you start the plan in the beta? In any case, I would report it to tech support because that shouldn't happen.

If you manually delete the living area by selecting it and then hitting delete, it can be tricky to get it back. What I do is open the plan defaults, turn off the living area label, click ok. I then open it back up and turn on the living area and it usually brings it back. If this doesn't fix your problem, then you should either post your plan or contact tech support.

Not that I know of. I think you can only tell the program to use the callouts in the camera defaults. As far as I can tell, there is no way to change any of the other callout settings in the defaults.

I'm not sure what Gerry said or did but he obviously knows a lot more about macros then I do. I don't think you need to do anything very complicated to get what you want. This is how I did it: I created a new macro called "layer set" in the text macro management dialog. All the macro has in it is "layer_set" (without the quotes). I also checked "evaluate" and made sure it was set to "referenced object". I created a text object on the layout page with an arrow attached to the layout box. In the text object I used my new macro. You now have text that displays the layer set name that you can turn on/off using your layers. Easy peasy (once I figured out how to make the macro).

"The upgrade is not yet installed on my computer's technician and the bug is not present on his computer." Does he have the exact same hardware, video card, drivers, and preference settings on his machine? If not, then this does not really prove that it has anything to do with the update. The only thing that really matters is that if it worked for you with 16.1 and it doesn't work in 16.2 (on the same machine with the same drivers and settings). I'm not seeing this kind of problem. I bet it's related to your video card. You might try updating your video card drivers to see if that helps. If it doesn't, you should continue to work with tech support to see if they can help you solve it.

Yes. There is a built in macro for the layer set name. The easiest way to do this is to use the layout box label. Change it from auto to specify and then use the insert macro tool to pick the layer set name (%layer_set%). Just make sure to turn off the layout box labels before you print. If you still want the normal label to print, then I think you need to setup your own macro to show you the info.

I guess it all depends on how you look at it. If you think that the callout is owned by the window, then you would expect to only have one callout for each window. If you think that the callout is owned by the schedule, then you would expect to have one callout for each schedule. Based on how it works, it looks like Chief made it so that the schedules own the callouts, not the windows. This is probably backwards from the way most people think but they do seem to behave much better then they did in X5.

Perry's tip is the key. You can't draw a round house with one wall. You need to use at least two. Also, the "polygon shaped room" tool will let you build a "roundish" house by using as many straight wall segments as you want.

If you use Glenn's method to merge your floor 1 changes with the other floors from the original plan, be sure and use "paste hold position" to make sure the floors all line up.

Two schedules = two labels. In X5 you would only get one label, but you could never tell which schedule actually controlled it. Sometimes one schedule would and sometimes the other would. If you don't believe me, go back and do this in X5 and set one schedule to use a different shape for the callout then the other one. You will see the callout on the window change depending on what you do (add a new window, open the schedule dialog, etc.). Sometimes you could even get different schedule numbers on the different floors. Basically, it was a mess. In X6, you will get one label for each schedule. If you don't want two labels then you need to get rid of one of your schedules. If you want a schedule on each floor, then you could always set each schedule to be for that floor only.

You can turn off the automatic cabinet fillers in the general cabinet defaults. I probably wouldn't do this though. I would just manually place a cabinet filler in the gap between the cabinets instead.