Chrisb222

Please send any glitches to tech support, that's what the public beta phase is for. Thanks

Just to add, in X12 if you want to use the Cross Section Slider with a Vector View appearance, you can use Watercolor technique with Line Drawing on Top w/settings as shown: Then Toggle Textures OFF. With X14 and later, you can also do similar with Standard render, but it appears you cannot toggle the textures off. Not sure why that tool was removed, I never noticed until now.

You still have to do as Michael said and change the Wall Specification back to "Use Default." I made the changes to your plan as he suggested, and it worked as you want it to. Be sure to Save the changes to the SPVs after changing the settings.

So my hunch has been correct all along. Basically any computer capable of running X15 can perform PBR ray tracing, it's just that some cannot do so in "real time." (Even though real time is a misnomer, since even RTX cards are not performing in "real time.") But, those cards are fast enough to get away with using "real time" as a marketing term, which is a buzz word in the industry right now. So the feature has been disabled in systems that perform under a certain threshold, in order to be able to leverage the buzzwords. Chief Architect: This doesn't mean it's impossible to perform ray tracing on Apple hardware, but it does mean it will do so much more slowly than other hardware.....It's a complex business decision

They will. Something is wrong in your settings. Did you exactly follow Michael's instructions?

The "style" that is being "un-overridden" by not checking the boxes, is the style of the object in its natural state, which is defined by layer and object settings.

Yes, those checkboxes are "on/off buttons." As you can see when you first open the camera DBX, there is no effect applied to the below grade lines until you "turn on" the feature by checking the box(es).

I don't have any advice for you except I build it in Chief the same way I do in real life, a wall cabinet with side panels on either side. There was a thread on that same question recently, but I'm not at my computer now.

To further on the above, it extends the dimension string to the next dimensional object(s), while retaining the last marker it's pulled from.

You're welcome! I was a long time Photoshop user in another life, and yes, it's quite different.

I use Gimp. https://www.gimp.org/

Simply delete the "bad" roof plane, select the "good" plane and hit Copy/Paste: then click the Reflect About Object tool, reflect the new plane centering it on the building (I will sometimes use CAD objects to center to, if having difficulty getting the alignment location): Finally, select one of the planes at the ridge edge, and use the Join Roof Planes tool to properly join the planes by clicking the ridge edge of the other plane. I like to drag the ridge edges away from the center first, if they are touching, just to make sure the program is doing the Join properly:

The attachment is empty. You have to close Chief Architect before zipping the file. If the file is under the size limit (14MB) you don't need to zip it.

From the part I bolded, it seems you're wanting the layout to pull client info from the plan file. If so, it won't do that. So yes, for the macro in layout to pull the client info, you have to enter it in the layout file. That's the same now (X15) as it was in X14. Generally, people don't often enter the client info in the plan file because it usually doesn't get used there, and it doesn't populate from plan to layout and vice versa. X15 introduced a new feature where Client info can be stored in global Preferences and thereby accessed for all new plan and layout files, but it seems that would only be useful if you are making new plans for a regular client often. In that case I would just create a custom template for that client, but perhaps others are aware of another use for this feature.

I noticed they stopped showing the version in the videos a while back, I guess so the videos don't "age" like they used to. In other words, when you can see that a video was made using say X9, it makes the video seem out of date.... which it is. But it would be a gargantuan task for Chief to redo every video each time a new version is released, and some of them don't need remade. The problem there is that some of the older videos show options that have been removed, and don't show features that have been added. It's a darned if you do, darned if you don't kinda situation. Out of curiosity I checked a few training videos and the oldest I found with the version number shown was X9, the newest was X13. So I guess they stopped showing the version with X14.

I had that same thought. I didn't go all "kicked in the pants" mad, but did feel it was a slightly unfair benefit. I mean, when I skipped SSA for a couple years, I had to pay DEARLY to get back on the wagon. So I see your point. I also upvoted you, because getting downvoted simply for stating a reasonable opinion sucks. Now, have I downvoted a couple of posts regarding the price change topic, because some guy was going around spamming every thread with nonsense whining? Yes because it just got really old. But one simple post with a reasonable opinion?

It wasn't mentioned earlier, so I'll just add that you don't have to open each string individually, one at a time. Draw all your dimensions, then shift-select all the strings and change them all at once. Takes two seconds.

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Because in lighting circuitry, multiple switch locations require special switch devices, and the name of the devices used in a two-switch situation is "three-way switch." If you add a third switch location, all locations will utilize a device called a "four-way switch," and adding a fourth switch location also uses a four-way switch. So does the fifth location. The software is automatically specifying these special devices for you. Ain't that neat?

In my world yes, pulling the upper structure over to the "ridge" of the lower section is the proper solution. The attic wall wouldn't be framed into the ridge. The way I would do that, using trusses, is the upper roof would be built into the lower roof with a girder truss, then the "shed" portion would be built against the gable wall of the upper section. No offense but the cricket idea, IMO is ill-conceived no matter how it's implemented.

I just saw you're using X11. If I recall correctly, the break tool was added to stairs at some point recently. It may not be available in your version. In that case I believe we used to create two separate stairs but my memory is really old. Someone with a better memory can maybe explain how to do it in X11...

That's exactly what you do. Select the stairs, hit the Add Break tool then the Add Complete Break tool and break the staircase, move one section over.

Same thing I ran into. Even though everything was set up to print how I wanted, it still came out long-ways and I had to trim the paper. GRRR I concluded it was a "Chief Thang" and just gave up. Like so many other "CT"s

I experience that same thing, along with other issues, so I always print from a PDF. HP T520 here.

If you moved just the fascia edge of the roof by selecting that edge and moving it, and didn't move the entire roof plane, that edge will follow the pitch of the roof- move in and it moves up, out and it moves down. If you want the fascia height to remain unchanged, move the entire roof plane then adjust the other edges back to where you need them.