Chrisb222

Similar thing happened to me last week. Opened a plan and a layout, all the links were broken for no reason. Had 20+ dialogs telling me files not found, then the layout was mostly blank. I closed the plan and layout without saving changes, quit and relaunched Chief, opened back up and all was restored. Please report back what you find out from tech.

I don't think it's a room lighting issue. Look at the three columns, the one on the right is a different color. I've had that happen too. For example several cabinets all the same material, but when rendered in PBR one of the doors is the wrong color. Weird.

It's not an error it's a temporary point. Do I get a prize?

Did you check that the layer "Framing, Floor Joists" is indeed on in the views where they're missing, as Joey suggested? By default, chief has that layer turned off in elevation and 3D views.

I'm more concerned about where you go when you get to the bottom of the driveway, OP pic.

Yep that worked! Thanks

Is there a way to prevent polyline solids that touch and share the same plane from changing to appear as one? Each connection within the three circles shown are individual PL solids (2x4s), but in 3D vector views and elevations they lose the separating line. I'm wondering if there's a way to force the program to show the lines. I can do it by creating a tiny gap between the solids but that's a little tedious. I tried converting to a solid but no help. Thanks

This is how I do it. Lower window label Y offset is -12", uppers are -48" and yes my window schedule has the sizes and controls the labels.

Good luck!

Did you turn off Temporary Dimensions?

I just manually drag the extension out to the callout border. If you have a long string of windows, you can copy/paste the new "Gap Form Marked Object", or use "Apply To All" if you have other extensions at the corners.

Dimension to layer was set to studs. The software introduced a thickness to the house wrap in spite of it being set to zero.

Those lights are typically because the model has no roof and/or foundation. Did you try playing with Interior Ambient setting in the Standard Rendering - Techniques dialog?

Or change the HW thickness to 1/8" and the air gap to 7/8"

Or if you want to leave the HW just change that dimension's primary format smallest fraction to 1/1.

It's not 15/16 it's 49/50 and it appears caused by the housewrap layer in your wall definition, which is set to 0 but evidently has a 1/100" thickness. Delete the housewrap layer and it dimensions like you're expecting.

Yeah if you're trying to use the Material Painter, that ain't gonna work. Corner boards don't have a texture, only a color. The way I get ONLY the color of an object to match another color is using the Adjust Material Definition tool, click on the corner board, and use the color eyedropper to pick up the color I want. See the first pic, which is from a Mac OS but you should be able to translate it to PC if that's what you're on. The color still won't match exactly because the siding is various hues, but trial and error will get you close. See second pic.

Another great way to find answers, in addition to what has been posted, is a google search restricted to the chief website. Put this search into google, it will search all of the chief architect website INCLUDING this forum. I use it all the time: site:chiefarchitect.com [YOUR SEARCH TERMS] You can also perform a google search of only the forum using this search: site:chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com [YOUR SEARCH TERMS]

Ugh, so no easy way. Thanks for the suggestions but I think I'll make a "Suggestion."

Bump Still have times I want to show walls in plan view without windows and doors, and without their cutouts. Just continuous walls. But turning off the window/door layers does not affect the cutouts. Is it possible?

Specifying "Rail to Post" in the Rail Style panel works for 3D. Plan view shows one line connected to wall.

OP wants a setting in dimension defaults to control whether "Suppress Wall Width" is checked or unchecked when using the Interior Dimension tool. There appears to be no user-control setting for this and all interior and manual dimensions have "Suppress Wall Widths" automatically checked. If you want them displayed you have to go into each dimension string and uncheck it. In previous versions, if the dimension default was set to locate "Primary Wall Side" and using the Manual Dimension and other tools, "Suppress Wall Width" was automatically unchecked in dimension strings. That seems to no longer be the case.

I would try changing the material to Color - White. I've had issues with Color - Brite not looking as expected.

Both options are going to need foundation walls. Haven't done this exact thing but I would draw the foundation walls, use room divider to make a closed room so can define it as "open below" then draw stairs in the basement.