rlackore

No. You can either select a cabinet door that best fits your needs (from the default, bonus, or manufacturer catalogs), or create a custom cabinet door.

Adjust Sunlight>Use Sun Angle has a drop-down box. It is never populated with any choice other than what the current Sun Angle is set to: Am I missing something? Is there a way to designate multiple Sun Angles so I can select which I want for a particular render/raytrace without having to use the Edit option?

Glass door. Adjust Panel Frame Options>Bottom.

Select all the walls on the floor, then Build Framing for Selected Objects.

It's a very common issue. The only reliable method I've come up with is to change the material of my main wall layer to the same as my door jamb. Smarter people may have a better solution.

"Camera Bumps Off Walls" doesn't work, period. It doesn't work with Dolly, Pan, or Orbit.

It looks to me like a line weight issue. Open the Layout and toggle Line Weights on; and check the object and layer line weights also.

As you noted, this setting doesn't appear to work.

Okay, now I get what you're asking. I agree, there appears to be no automatic method for changing the pattern line color of a specific material in a Line Drawing render.

1. Start a new Plan and save it somewhere. 2. File>Import>Import Drawing (DWG, DXF...) 3. Step through the Import Drawing Assistant; when you get to the Select Layers tab uncheck everything except the title block layer. 4. Once the data is imported, Copy it to your clipboard. 5. Open a new Layout and save it in the same directory as the Plan file. 6. Paste the contents of the clipboard into Page 0 of the Layout. 7. Move/scale/tweak the data to finish setting up the title block on Page 0. 8. Save your work.

Larry, I guess I don't understand what a plot line view is. Isn't it this? Do you mean a Line Drawing rendering technique?

Changing the material def works for me: What doesn't work for me are the Edge Line Defaults and Pattern Line Defaults in the Layout Box dbx: The Reference Manual says these settings are recommended only for legacy files, but they've never worked, and I've been using Chief since X5.

I suggest posting a picture of what you need; this will help us with providing suggestions.

Pictures of the issue, or posting the plan, will help us to better understand and respond.

Try unchecking this in Preferences>Edit>Snap Properties:

Not for me. Even with no backdrop I get a white background. Importing into GIMP demonstrates that no alpha transparency is present: This is what I would expect to see using Chief's export with Transparent Background: Maybe my expectations are wrong, or I simply don't understand the intent (or functionality) of the option.

Joe, Are we talking about this dbx? Because I don't see any fine print. Maybe we're referring to different export methods?

Not according to all of my experimentation. Try it yourself. Export an image with a backdrop and the checkbox selected, and you'll still get the backdrop. The Reference Manual clearly states: "Check Transparent Background to produce alpha transparency in the spaces between objects that can be seen in the current view." Doesn't that imply that Chief must "know" what an object is, and which objects are in the current view?

Joe, Perhaps I mistunderstood Scott's question. I assumed he is referring to EXPORTING, not importing. According to the Reference Manual: To me this implies that when exporting an image from a camera view the background should be transparent (and I'm assuming a backdrop is NOT an object and should therefore not be exported).

Can you attach the plan (or at least the material definition as a library item)?

There is this option: when saving the image, but I can't get it to work. Every picture I export with this option checked still yields a background. The Reference Manual provides no insight.

Also works fine for me.

I use Microsoft OneNote (very similar to Evernote). You can create checklists, store emails and webpages, annotate and format, etc. Collaboration is accomplished by "sharing", but obviously whoever you share with must also use OneNote.

It's important to remember that CA includes the sill plate (mud sill) within the defined height of the stem wall. Here's an excerpt from the Reference Manual:

Have you tried raytracing to a file instead of to the screen? That may help diagnose whether it's a graphic card / display driver issue.