Chrisb222

When I open your upper pony wall and Copy the wall type, and change the shingle layer to .875 but change nothing else, it does not move the main layer. Not sure why that's happening, seems like a bug, but I would simply create the new wall type, change all the exterior walls to use the new type, and move on with life. "It's a Chief Thang"™

Easily done, once you understand how it works. Difficult to explain in a few lines, here's some homework for you: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03185/understanding-saved-plan-views.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00765/understanding-layer-sets.html

Turn off Grid Snaps: Or, you can edit the Grid Snaps settings here: There is also a toolbar toggle button for Grid Snaps on/off.

You have to change it for every window already placed in the plan. Multi-select works if you select all single windows at once and change their labels, then select all mulled windows at once and change theirs. You can't change labels if you select single with mulled. Then if this is what you always want, just add that label to your default window and it will work for singles and mulled.

Not sure exactly what you're after, but if it's just a visual of the plywood in 3D and you can calculate the qty another way, that's easily doable: Change your OSB material to have an offset grid, then in a 3D view use the Delete Surface tool (3D > Delete Surface) to temporarily remove the surface material (which doesn't truly delete it, it regenerates automatically).

Has that been requested? https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/

If it's just a text Callout object, you should be able to switch to an arrow facing the opposite way:

If the current arrow direction represents the view direction of the section view, I would not change it. That would have a high possibility of causing confusion on what the view depicts, and you don't really want that. Why not just scoot them to the left, so the arrows point to the posts, and also stay consistent with the section view?

I'm confused. You're asking about a template layout, but show a SS of exporting a PDF. Export of PDF is only available in a .plan file, not a .layout. Typically we "print" a PDF from a layout using the Print command. You'll get help with a better explanation of your problem, and/or posting the problem file.

The stock X16 Residential Template file has a "Kitchen and Bath Dimension Default" which conforms to NKBA, and has more flexibility than the old NKBA settings. Check for it under your Dimension Defaults.

That video is from an older version and those settings have been relocated. Auto Exterior Dimensions now adopt the settings of the currently selected Dimension Default. You'll find those settings within each individual Dimension Default, in the Locate Auto Exterior panel. This was changed to allow more control over how Auto Exterior Dimensions are generated, which is now based on which Dimension Default is currently active instead of a single global setting.

Try this Knowledge Base article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00773/creating-a-custom-in-ground-swimming-pool.html

Try this setting: It looks like you have it set to Locate Primary Wall Side.

Sure, just select it and pull out another segment, turn it into the wall:

Don't know, I just tried and it allowed me to put 2026 in a shopping cart for the same price I paid for 2025...? Maybe I should buy it....

Just for fun I'm going to repost the same image I did above, but include the original image sent to ChatGPT: Original image: ...and the prompt: add landscaping to this picture, make it more photorealistic without changing the architecture, add more realistic grass and a wooded background Result: Beautiful, but not even remotely usable. "Simular" I would call it...

That's been my experience: beautiful, but unusable. I'll try some of the suggestions here to see if it will work eventually, the quality is worth the time trying if successful.

I've tried exterior renderings using the free version of ChatGPT. They looked beautiful, but the architecture got transformed into a Frankenstein mess that looked similar to my design, but if you've seen much AI rendering you know what I mean... just weird. Maybe the paid versions would be more true to the original, and less goofy?? No front door and no way to get to it if there was. And a driveway for motor scooters. Beautiful though... I wish I could render in chief like that, and as fast.

Normal method would be Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom: That didn't work for me, which I suspect is being caused by the roof hole for the dormer, but I was unsuccessful at getting that setting to work. I did however succeed at "faking it" by changing the wall to Interior 4 and manually dragging the attic wall down to cover the drywall: I would roll with this, but if it really bugged me I would send it to tech support.

Yep, that looks much better, I'd like the ability to specify the underline offset, and the line weight. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/ Good luck!

Yes it's close, closer than I'd like, but not touching. CA PDF driver output matches the screen:

It does not touch the text for me, in plan or layout, Arial on a Mac. I also tried a couple different fonts, no thouchie.

It's something to do with the wall type there, which is specified as Deck/Fence, and the standard Railing/Fence wall type is not in your plan. If you change that to one of your interior railing styles, and change the layers to the same as your Deck/Fence type, the roof doesn't generate: I noticed in your file, that extra line I talked about wasn't there and it's always there if I use the normal Railing/Fence wall type. That's what tipped me off, and you can see the lines in my screenshot. I don't know what's different about those wall types causing the different behavior, but that's what's causing it.