Overview of Chief Architect's 3D viewing tools
Setting camera position and movement properties
Moving the vector cameras
Controlling what displays in 3D views
Using backdrops and background colors in 3D views
Saving camera views
Placing and editing objects in 3D views
Recording an animated walkthrough
Camera views that use textures
Understanding the role of a video graphics card
Adjusting render settings for optimal speed
Moving and positioning the render camera
Adjusting render settings from within the render view
Rendering a semi-transparent, Glass-House view
Modifying materials for Raytrace views
Creating a Raytrace view
Applying and changing cabinet specifications
Defining special shaped cabinets
Changing cabinet door styles
Appling hardware to cabinet doors and drawers
Changing cabinet materials - in the specification dialog
Changing cabinet materials - from the toolbar
Using cabinet labels
Creating cabinet schedules - intro and defaults
Creating cabinet schedules - extracting the data
Creating cabinet schedules - the schedule
Understanding CAD drawing modes
Selecting and Deleting CAD Objects
Using 3D CAD objects in plan views
Using 3D CAD objects in elevation views
Maneuvering points and point markers
Drawing CAD lines - drawing lines
Drawing Cad lines - moving lines

Using the Spell Checker
Introduction to Annotation
Placing Text in a Plan
Text Defaults
Working with Hyperlinks and Text Macros
Using Text with Arrows
Formats for displaying dimensions
Converting auto-dimensions into manual dimensions
Controlling dimension display with auto and manual reach
Drawing angular dimensions
Using accuracy indicators for dimensions
Copying doors
Placing doorways from the library
Hiding and displaying door labels
Setting rough openings and dimensioning to them
Opening Indicators in section and elevation views
Creating a door schedule
Adding a transom over a door
Specifying door hardware
Creating door libraries
Recessing a door into a brick extereior
Adding casing profiles to doors
Adding lintels over doors
Arched doors
Placing doors in curved walls
Creating a pass-thru by arching and reflecting a doorway
Adding gable roof sections over doors
Using the Aerial View
Using grids as a drawing aid
Working with the Time Tracker
Using Time Tracker data for project costing
Working with electrical objects - overview
Placing outlets
Placing lights
Placing switches
Drawing connections
Creating an electrical legend
What are Layers
Working with Layers and Layer Sets
Redefining Dimension Layers and Text Layers
Using Layers in a Layout

Creating a new wall assembly
Adjusting wall heights
Using the default wall
Choosing wall options
Adding wall hatching
Working with railing walls
Aligning walls that butt end-to-end
Drawing short, free standing walls
Drawing walls at angles
Drawing curved walls
Locking a curved wall’s center
Aligning curved and straight walls across floors
Sloping or raking a wall
Sloping a railing wall along a staircase
Resizing walls without changing their dimensions
Exporting wall types to other plans
What is the House Wizard
Using the House Wizard
What is importing and exporting
Exporting a Chief plan or layout with associated files
Importing 2D files in DWG or DXF formats
Converting CAD lines to 3D walls
Exporting views to 2D DWG and DXF formats
Exporting a 3D model
Introduction to log homes
Determining log size and ceiling height
Making materials for log walls and corners
Placing 3D log corners
Adding 3D round logs to walls
Placing 3D logs on a gable wall
Creating exposed log rafters supporting a roof deck
Terrain overview
Creating a simple, flat lot
Hiding, displaying and deleting terrain views
Adding elevation data to terrain
Creating terrain breaks and retaining walls
How elevation data affects terrain surface contour
Creating terrain features
Clipping overlapped terrain features
Shaping terrain for a walkout basement
Copying a terrain model between plans

General roof-building strategies
Setting roof properties
Locking and protecting roof planes
Working with roof baseline polylines
Roof options for soffits, fascia and gutters
Roof options for frieze molding
Using the Gable-Roof Line Tool
Roofing an L-shaped house with gable ends
Building a Shed roof
Building Mansard and Gambrel roofs
Building a half-hip roof
Using the Extend Slope Downward roof command
Drawing small gables over doors and windows
Roofs over bay, box, bow windows
Setting the minimum alcove for roofs
Roofs over curved walls
Adding a porch or deck with a roof or ceiling
One and one-half story roofs
Building a Cape Cod roof that bears on 2nd floor walls
Building a Cape Cod roof that bears on 1st floor walls
Using Roof Groups
Manual roof planes - changing pitch and elevation
Hip roofs - drawing, editing and joining roof planes
When the join tool will not move a roof-plane
Manually roofing an L-shaped house with gable ends
Matching roof ridge elevations in an L-shaped house
Locating roof plane intersections
Lowering an entire roof
Joining roofs on different floor levels
Adding and removing roof plane edges and corners
Drawing a Dutch Gable
Manually building a Gambrel roof
Using the Ignore Top Floor roof command
Chief Architect’s two automatic dormer tools
Placing Auto Dormers
Adjusting ceiling height for Auto Dormers
Placing Auto Floating Dormers
Using attic rooms to build a dormer
Drawing a dormer with the Manual Roof Designer
Filling the hole in dormer side walls
Setting dormer wall styles above and below a roof
Drawing decorative dormers on an existing roof
Drawing curved dormer roofs
Drawing and copying exposed cathedral ceiling dormers
Modifying a dormer’s support walls
Drawing a shed dormer without interior support walls
Controlling shape and position of a curved roof plane
Working with curved roofs
Curving or flaring the eave of a flat roof system
Building a barrel roof
Building a domed roof on a round building
Adjusting the elevation of a curved roof using baselines
Sloping roof plane baselines to bear on rake walls
Building a flat roof with an overhang
Building a flat roof with parapet walls
Building a flat roof with a center drain and parapet
Using the polyline solid to create shaped parapet walls

Materials overview
Setting material defaults for Chief Architect objects
Choosing a calculation type for each material
Adjusting the size and position of a material pattern
Learning to work with the materials list
Adding price and supplier information
Controlling what displays in material lists
Calculating materials for all or part of your model
Using polylines to calculate materials
Exporting a materials list
Using materials from earleir Chief Architect versions
Converting images to materials with textures
Placing and resizing skylights in a roof
Changing skylight curb and materials
Copying skylights
Using skylights with sloped ceilings
Resizing stair sections
Merging stair sections to form subsections
Stair treads - locking tread width
Stair treads - ignoring subsection boundaries
Stair treads - retaining the number of treads
Showing and hiding a directional stair arrow
Drawing walls beneath stairs
Viewing objects under stairs
Creating a basic stair landing
Customizing stair landing shapes
Locking the position of a stair landing
The Auto Stairwell tool
Displaying newels and ballusters in plan
Drawing curved stairs
Specifying tread width at the walk line
Configuring curved stairs
Aligning a curved wall to fit curved stairs
Aligning curved stairs to fit a curved wall
Aligning curved stairs across floors - draw and align
Aligning curved stairs across floors - edit area
Building winder stairs in a corner
Building U-shaped winder stairs
Controlling walls beneath winder stairs
Enclosing only part of a staircase between two walls
What is Symbol Development
Practicing with sample symbols
Creating a new 3D symbol
Importing a 3D Symbol into Chief
Importing a 3D Symbol of the OBJ file format
Converting Chief 3D objects into 3D symbols
Using symbol stretch planes and symbol stretch zones
Modifying a symbols 2D block
Creating a new light-fixture symbol
Using the 3D molding polyline to create log rafters
Expanding and filleting a Room Molding Polyline

Setting Initial and Dynamic window defaults
Specifying the Window Type default
Controlling window assembly materials and colors
Adjusting sash, frame and jamb
Adjusting casing, lintel and sill
Creating a white vinyl window with wood casing
Displaying Opening Indicators for windows
Recessing windows into a wall
Copying windows
Hiding and displaying window sizes
Displaying sliding, casement and recessed window styles
Setting rough openings
Creating a window Schedule
Creating libraries for your windows
Replacing windows with the Replace from Library tool
Using manufacturer’s window offset
Using frame and rough opening sizes in window schedules
Stacking windows with window levels
Adding gable roof sections over windows
Creating an opening without glass
Arched windows
Adding casing profiles to windows
Specifying lite styles
Creating custom muntins
Changing the shape of a window
Creating corner windows
Placing windows in curved walls
Window curtains, blinds, capitals, sills and shutters
Block mulling side to side window units
Block mulling stacked window units
Creating an arched top for a mulled window unit
Creating several arches for a mulled unit
Setting mull depth in a mulled window unit
Changing properties of a mulled unit
Automatically mulling windows
Placing and sizing Bay, Box and Bow windows
Specifying labels for Bay, Box and Bow windows
Controlling window position for Bay, Box and Bow windows
Controlling dimensions of Bay, Box and Bow windows
Creating bench seats and soffits in bay windows
Using walls to draw Bay, Box and Bow windows

Cathedral ceilings
Vaulted and curved ceilings
Trey-Coffered ceilings
Dropped ceiling with a grid
Ceiling de Jour
Using the reference floor
Adding and removing floor systems
Cutting a hole in a floor platform
Setting platform depths - by floor or by area
Making the floor bear or hang on walls
Building a floor that hangs inside the foundation walls
Dropping a floor and raising a ceiling
Changing multiple levels of joisted floors to slabs
General Framing Strategy
Specifying joist bearing locations
Mixing joist depths and directions on the same floor
Specifying a mudsill
Drawing with the beam and post tools
Framing a roof
What is a truss
Setting truss defaults
Framing a truss roof system
Framing a cantilevered truss roof system
Using a truss base to truss intersecting roofs
Hip trusses - building a step-down hip
Foundation walls and the foundation floor level
Foundation walls with footings
Foundations with a brick ledge
Crawlspace foundation with mid-span bearing wall
Crawlspace foundation with partial basement
Foundation with part basement and part slab
Split-entry foundations