MarkMc

I've had this several times, have sent in , not easily reproduceable. Also get lock ups when a perspective and an elevation are side by side or on two screens. Lock up occurs most often when changing or editing materials. About to send that in again since it occurs more often; am just checking for software conflicts first.

This kept me amused for a while. Outlined in red- furred thick pony wall (partition wall), bottom is room divider, surface set to match soffit material then applied wall material region (hold off the front edge) Wall thickness determined in elevation to work with fascia height (is 16 and change here) White is 3D molding line (always a PIA)

Look into the symbol smoothing angle, solve at least one I came across

It does appear that the EULA indicates the program is licensed to a single person. I wonder if that means that when I had an assistants and got a secondary license I should have gotten a second full license for them to use ? even though I only ever had one assistant at a time. From the EULA: (a)Software: Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, Chief Architect, Inc. grants you the right to use one copy of the Software on only one computer at one location at any one time. This software is licensed for use by you and only you. You may not share your license of this software with any other person, and you agree not to allow any other person to use your license of this software. In order to use this software, each person must purchase their own valid license; Then there is this other bit. (d)Upgrades: If the Software is being licensed to you as an upgrade, renewal, or update to software previously licensed to you, you must cease using the software previously licensed to you, including any and all copies installed on your computers, once you have successfully installed and commenced use of the upgrade, renewal, or update software. You may not transfer, give away, sell, or loan the software version previously licensed to you to any other person or entity. Any unauthorized attempt to transfer or sell the software previously licensed to you will result in automatic termination of your current software license. You may, however, maintain a copy of the software previously licensed to you for your own archival purposes only; How many of us only keep the current version active? never use an older version to assist a client? keep an old version on a secondary machine like a laptop or home computer? wonder why the answer to folks asking if it's okay to uninstall older versions never mentions this? "What's so funny about peace,....."? Elvis C

I think Steve has the right idea. I'd just convert a side and a top to a cabinet door symbol', then flip the copy and flip the side symbol while also changing the side that the stretch plane used to keep the width from changing from positive to negative. It's a bit more work but allows you to at least slightly change the size of the cabinet once made. Not that altering the size is a bit limited in range as the miter joint begins to be off as you go but still better than making lots of new ones. Plan attached- this was made for the U361350 (made from the original tall cabinet which gets rid of the bottom) Open the cabinet DBX and each symbol DBX and examine ALL the settings carefully. Then maybe play a bit with copies of the symbols to see what happens. Scallop edge cabinet.zip

No, you exported it as a dwg file (CAD). To see the issue you have it needs to be a native Chief file, a plan file. With the plan file open use-File, Backup Entire Plan- check backup plan files only and send backup to zip. IF the resulting zip file is larger than 14 MBs you can't post it here. Then either place on cloud with a link or strip it down to the problem room(s). FWIW- when I've gotten weird things happen, that nobody else has seen yet, I've had them go away after either close and re-open Chief or better still after a full reboot. Hence they can not be reproduced. This is on Windows, we have no idea what OS you use?

Is this what you are after?

You have no idea how much I hate doing vids. While you watch it keep a plan open and consider what you may have missed. Usually when I post things I think folks will open all DBX and ALL tabs to understand what is going on. I believe in the long run that is more useful but I relented here. Vid in tips For some reason audio did not come through, like I said I don't do vids, sorry.

This is for Gene and anyone else who wants. Note I left out the back- either make it as none in X13 or opening in earlier versions. Tall filler.mp4

That was established a while ago when I noted the layer being the issue and not the DBX. Figured you'd get around to seeing that.

Not the same as I replaced opened the original in 13 and replaced it here. Left side shows what you show which is not what was asked for. What are the several ways?

I'd really like to see that. Why don't you post one that works using the standard base cabinet layer so we can all learn.

Only difference I found was place on secondary layer with blank lines. Had already matched all of the setting in DBX

At one point was fiddling with a separate layer trying to get fill on the doors. Wonder if I left it there. That could do it.

Interesting, now do it from scratch

@genedavis Just talking with knird and found can't make it in X13 but the one made in X12 comes over properly

Edit replaced file with same in X13, one as asked and one not. X13 Filler.plan

Try hitting the tab key after starting to drag something. There is also reflect, center, transform replicate, multiple copy, copy paste with secondary functions ( Reflect, center, Pt to PT) , and you while I keep grid snaps OFF all the time I do set the grid snap distance. That setting is then used when moving an objet with the arrow keys when moving something with- for instance doing lots of wall work I set it to 1/2" (the thickness of sheetrock}

Macro pasted into a text box needs to have % at beginning and end so that Chief knows what it is. There may be exceptions I don't know about but this works for what you are after. %$floorarea="\n"% %$temp=owner.internal_area.to_sq_m.round(2)% %$floorarea= $floorarea+ $temp.to_s+" M2"% And Yes, you can get decent precision out of Chief. I keep grid snaps OFF for that, I'm in Imperial so would need decimal. Even with Grid Snaps off things often will snap at 1/32 or 1/16 inch when dragging to resize which can be annoying. I've done work at 1/32 imperial without a problem

Plan views and camera views are very similar in how they work and what they save. Just plan views save defaults as well.

I'd use cabinets to make both. Search forum for stuff I posted on making cabinet doors in Tips or Symbols.

I've had issues with Logitech software with Chief and other 3D programs in the past. I would be able to fix it by rolling back to an earlier version of the Logitech software. Might be worth a shot and/or test completely removing it temporarily to see if the standard OS drivers solve it. (Same for Synaptics). Another thing I'd try if connected by a dongle would be to move the dongle to another usb port. My number pad works better on usb 3 ports despite the dongle being usb 2. Finally if hardwire is an option I'd try that too. Maybe none of the above but any work it might help narrowing down the issue.

Saved camera will remember the placement, rendering type and settings, light set, sun, backdrop, location of camera, zoom and angle. It will also remember what layerset is used. IT will not change what the layerset shows. IF you turn off furniture for "camera view set" then open another camera that uses the camera view set the furniture will be off because it is off in that layerset. IF you want to have a camera that shows furniture and another that does not they need to have different layersets. So instead of just turning the furniture off in the "camera view set" copy the set, name it something like "camera_no_furniture" and use that layerset in the camera view.

A bit more awake now. Changed default lights to 100, set to kitchen light set, trimmed off portion of rope light not in view. Adjusted sun down even more than above, experimented with sun OFF. Ambient set to around 35 instead of 0. So that gets the rope lights to show. While at it merged plan material "lighting white" then replaced with library version having better emissive so you can see it. Here is what rope lights look like with invisible wall between kitchen and living room. Here is after removing invisible wall, Note that the light is hidden behind the pot hanger even though you can now see the rope light since it is emissive.