tundra_dweller

I've run into the ghosting occasionally in X16 and haven't been able to pin it down either. My hunch is that it's connected to the poche function in some way or another. Hopefully the poche function gets refinement in X17.

Fantastic, glad I could help!

Yeah I think it would be the live views, I only ever use plot lines and update on demand. For any 3D renderings I put on my layouts I've been using the new screenshot tool in Chief and copying to my layout. I don't do any highly detailed renderings at this point, just screenshots to give the general idea of how things would look. This is what works for me and my clients, so far no one is interested in paying for intricate renderings.

Could it have something to do with the recent issues with Intel processors? It looks like you are using a 14th gen processor. https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/July-2024-Update-on-Instability-Reports-on-Intel-Core-13th-and/m-p/1617113

There almost has to be something in your layout/plan causing this I think. I opened up the Chief sample plan/layout "Bachelor View" layout and printed to pdf using Chief's "print to pdf" and it took 6 seconds at 300 dpi using the Lenovo desktop in my signature. Most of my layouts take 3-4 seconds to print to pdf. Unless I'm misunderstanding what your process is.

Great catch! Another setting I did not notice that existed.

I believe those are arc centers, which can be turned off & on in the Default Settings > CAD.

You're missing version X15 or X16. I think railing offsets were implemented in X15.

I think you need to go into whatever layer set you're using for your reference display and tell it what you want to see on the reference layer, ie cabinets etc.,. Here's a help article that may help too. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00475/using-the-reference-display.html

You bet. It's typically not set up that way out of the box, and the only time I usually change it is when the posts are to a beam or ceiling where I would consider them structural.

I learned something new today thanks!

Odd behavior for sure. Do you have shadow boards on? Shouldn't matter at all but you never know.

In my case I realized that you have to drag the tool directly from the toolbar customization window to whatever toolbar you want to add the tool to. I was dragging the tool from the customization window to a random place on the screen first, then trying to add the tool to a toolbar. Doing this seems to create a new toolbar that can't be joined to an existing one. Adding to or creating a new toolbar still works fine now that I understand the behavior correctly.

Interesting...if it is a bug it must have come in the last update because I'm almost positive I've dragged tools into toolbars in X16 at some point. I'm still not ruling out user error on my part.