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I started with HD Pro and after a month I upgraded to CA X8. There is so much more flexibility with CA than with HD Pro -- polyline solids just to name one. Yes you can start with HD Pro and then get a $500 discount off CA when you upgrade. Alan

Make the one wall that will retain the sheetrock a different style from the others. Then edit the three wall style and remove the sheetrock. Alan

If you want to upgrade I believe (and you may want to contact sales) that CA will give you an allowance for the existing version and deactivate its license. I upgraded from HD Pro to CA X8 and was given a $500 allowance. Alan

You can also move things in the increment snap using the arrow keys -- one click moves one increment in any direction. Alan

I used ACAD Architecture for years and in my opinion Chief (or HD is much easier to use. Alan

I had the same problem when I came from England -- the guy at the auto parts counter couldn't understand me when I asked for a rocker box gasket for my MGB. Alan

That is uncalled for. Eric has helped lots of people on this forum including me. I think the bold text was to grab your attention as many people post questions and without knowing what version they are using it's just a shot in the dark. If only they would read the sticky at the top then it wouldn't be necessary to remind them. Alan

Rod I could tell you are from down under as soon as you used the term "bench top". I guess your closets are robes as well. Alan

Are you referring to the height of the floor? If so then select the room and go to the Structure DBX and change it in the Finished Floor Height box Alan.

A lot of walls I've seen in California homes (watching the Flip or Flop series on TV) seem to have a knock-down finish -- sort of like they do with stucco. Not sure if HD has similar textures. Alan

As Eric said -- just add the second floor addition to your existing second floor. You may want to make a new wall definition for this addition so they are easily identified as new. Just take the existing wall that you are using and make a copy then change maybe the hatch to distinguish it from the existing walls. If there are walls to be demolished you may want to separately identify them also. Alan

If a plan was drawn in Chief Architect it cannot be edited in any HD products unless it is selected to do so in CA. Alan

I guess it would only be of any use if you do an interior rendering -- but who does that for a garage? Alan

I have the same issue. It seems as if the stair gets a little too wide (no idea why) and if I pull in the width then the winder section pops backing shape. If I go back to it later then sometimes it has stayed put but then on other occasions it goes back to what you are experiencing. I would send the plan to tech support and ask them to look at it. If you lookout the second screen shot it appears as if that wall is cutting into the stair at its LH end. If you pull that back then the stair winder section should correct itself. I should add that I was using Chief but they both have the same basic programming. Alan

Don't know about metric but there is an option in Imperial to have the smallest dimension at 1". Have you tried to do that in preferences? Alan

IMO The difference between laptops and desktops has narrowed in recent years. I run a 2008 Mac Pro with two quad core Xeon CPUs and a GTX 285 GPU. I just purchases a laptop to run games and it has an Intel i8 processor and nVidia GTX 970M. The laptop is faster because it is 2016 technology and the Mac Pro is 2008 technology. Having said that I recently built a PC with the i8 processor and high end graphics card for my flight simulator and I can honestly say that the laptop is just as fast. I don't know if it was coincidence but when I switched to Chief Premier from HDPro I found that it runs faster. Alan

You can try this sire. Alan http://www.geoplaner.com/

Eric Low rent ??? LOL I decided I needed more flexibility -- particularly for the layout sheet sets and my contractor has more or less said I can do his design work ( I guess i'm too cheap and I would do this for nothing as I enjoy it so much). I was watching a CA video and noticed that I can turn off that layer which answers my question. Alan

I did a search but couldn't find an answer. Is it possible to turn off by default the tag for the windows in the layout set? I find I never use them and it's an extra step to click on Suppress Tag every time I send an elevation or plan. Thanks Alan

Yes it was and it was answered Alan

Yes for site plans the 1" = 10'/20'/50' is quite normal as you are looking at large areas to fit in a drawing. With elevations it's important to print to scale so you can add say vertical dimensions to identify tops of foundations and heights of ceilings and floors as that is one way or letting the framer know what room heights are. Not sure if you can scale a watercolor view. Alan

I needed to have my elevations to scale (on a 11x17 paper it was 1" = 10'). When I tried to send my elevation view to the layout it was too large and would not fit. In my camera view (elevation) I was not in Vector View so it would not scale properly. To test this out choose a camera view to get an elevation then go to the 3D tab on the toolbar click on Rendering Techniques and choose something other than Vector View. Click on Send to Layout and you will see it's not to scale. In Vector View you can click on Print>Drawing Sheet Setup the you can set the scale you want when you send it to your layout. Hope this helps. Alan

Thank you thank you thank you Kat -- you are a lifesaver. I would never have thought about that even after doing a search in the HDPro help area. Alan

I am trying to send my elevation view to my layout page. The page size is 11x17 and my elevation is 60' wide so I set the page layout to 1" = 5' so it will be around 12" on the layout. However it is way to large at 24" wide. What am I doing wrong here? No matter what scale I select the image on the layout is still 24" wide. Please look at the screen shots. The first shows where I set the 1" = 5' scale and the second is where I send it to the layout -- btw I cannot select anything other than "send as an image" which I really don't want to do as the other options are not selectable. Thanks Alan

Have you tried the 3D Warehouse site they have a lot? https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=christmas+tree&backendClass=entity Alan