Dominic900

Hello TLC_VIT, You can no longer buy approved chief architect licenses any more from any CA user (the term user is an anyone that bought from CA in the past) and any you find online does not have CA approval as you can no longer transfer licenses between users as CA no longer allows this. You must buy (from CA) a subscription to use CA premier lineup. Please give them a call for further details. CA changed this in 2022/2023. Thanks

Hello Gary, CA might release more info about X17 features at the IBS show in February 2025. Maybe see full release of X17 in 2nd quarter/3rd quarter 2025 is my best guess.

Hello Michael, X16 has been quietly released. Why I say quietly is because it has not been officially released by chief by way of email or here in the forums. Normally they announce it here in the forums to make it official. But it does look like it on CA website. :-) and you can also download the full release as well. Chief Architect Congratulations on X16 release, I like all the features of X16. Thank you for making a great product. :-) Dominic

Rene Rabbitt, You do an excellent job on rendering. I wonder as well, That would be great if that was all done in chief X16! = No outside rendering software. :-)

Hello everyone, I talked with sales and they said that private beta has started in the middle of February and we should see (if no further issues found) public beta by late spring/early summer. I have not seen any updates on new features either. Sadly. Sales is very tight with sharing any info as of yet.

Anytime I get that error code or warning it usually means your video card drivers are out of date. I had a three month old driver and had to replace or update my driver in order for CA X15 to work. CA any version can display that warning when your video card drivers are in need of updating.

Hello Todd, Have you put on a roof as that may help with the light bleeding. I used to use CPU Raytracing before upgrading my computer anyway that should help by putting on a roof. That's what I did and that helped a little bit with light bleeding. Also have you let it render more that 100 passes? If I recall correctly you have to give it more time for the image to improve. Please let me know if that helped you. Thanks. Also enjoy your long three day weekend. :-) Dominic

Heard the same thing but they may push it out if they find something wrong with the public beta as they want it to be perfect before they release to general public was told. Talked with sales last week and still have a release date for x15 sometime in the spring of 2023. Dominic

Hello Levis, Yes, CA Interiors was discontinued when I asked CA about it last week they said "why not give them the full version of CA Premier for the price of $1,995/yr." So yes they no longer sell CA Interiors. Sorry for the bad news. Dominic

Hello Frompok, CA does not allow reselling of a used license of home designer. Also due to license changes after Jan 9th 2023 (not before that date) You are not allowed to resell CA software anymore because of it going subscription. Dominic

Thank you Dermot for the update on beta testing round 2. Looking forward to testing X15 soon. Dominic

Hello Bob, I recently just purchased Maxwell for sketchup version 5.2.2. While not ment for animations it renders pretty nicely. Export to sketchup (2017 to 2022) and then using maxwell settings window in sketchup you create a rendering after applying material settings then render. Example shown below at sample level 15.00. About 20 minutes on my computer. price is about $595.00. To buy go to novedge.com and call Calvin Lok to get a quote. They are in CA. USA. Novedge is where I purchased maxwell render and had a great experience. Maxwell render has a 30 day trial to test features before you purchase. I hope this helps you. And this is not an ad, but novedge had the best deal and treated me very well. Dominic livingroommaxwell3d.bmp

Hello Kbird1, I heard or read a post about selling older versions of home designer pro or any of the HD products that you cannot sell them or give them away as it is tied to your account and uses your product key is the same as your Chief Architect key. They did that I think when x9 or x10 came out. Also it is against their copyright policy. Just an friendly FYI.

Hello all chief users, Was told by sales about a month ago that X-14 might be released in the Spring 2022 as was told by sales that in November private beta has not yet started for x14. However they might be doing in house beta. Sales could not share specifics with me when private beta would start. Sorry for the bad news for those looking forward to the release in Winter 2022. Should say early 2022. Dominic

Hello everyone, Just talked with CA and it looks like release for X-13 may happen before the end of June 2021. (Please NOTE: Dates given can change at any time so this was today that I talked with CA) Unless they find something wrong with the beta. Public Beta should happen about a month before release. Hopes that this info will help you look forward to release. Dominic