Video Content List
Introductory Training Videos:
55
1:48:54
1:59
1.37 GB
1 DVD
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- Chief Architect X1 Animated Tour
- Toolbars and Toolbar Buttons
- Preferences and Defaults
- Understanding Layers
- Walls
- Rooms
- Floors
- Basements and Foundations
- Navigating in 2D
- Automatic Exterior Dimensions
- Dimension Defaults
- Dimension Tools
- Camera Views
- Overviews
- Glass House Views
- Cross Section/Elevation Views
- Tiling 2D and 3D Views
- Navigating in 3D
- Virtual Walkthroughs
- Creating Photo-Realistic Renderings
- Saving and Restoring Camera Views
- Windows and Doors
- Stairs
- Automatically Generating Roofs
- Drawing Roofs Manually
- Auto Floating Dormers
- Customizing Dormers
- Vaulted and Custom Ceilings
- Automatic and Manual Framing
- Cost Estimating
- Cabinets
- Custom Cabinets
- Cabinet Groups and Kitchen Islands
- Special Shaped Cabinets
- Soffits
- Applying Materials, Colors and Textures
- Color Chooser
- Creating Materials and Colors
- Finding and Placing Library Objects
- Wall Coverings
- Custom Flooring
- Furniture and Appliances
- Electrical Objects
- CAD Tools
- Understanding Snaps
- Adding Detail to Cross Section Views
- Text and Callouts
- Creating Layouts
- Creating a Terrain Perimeter
- Adding Elevation Information for Sloped Lots
- Creating a Walkout Basement
- Terrain Features
- Plant Chooser
- Patios
- Decks
What’s New in Version X1 Training Videos:
46
6:55:38
9:02
2.44 GB
1 DVD
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- Overview of What’s New in Version X1
- Menus and Toolbars
- Building Toolbars to Place Library Objects
- Editing – Setting the Primary Mouse Movement
- Editing – Choosing Edit Behavior Options
- Editing – Alternate Mode Edit Behaviors
- Editing – New Edit Handles
- Editing – Type-in Editing
- Editing – Sticky Mode and Other Edit Sub Modes
- Editing – Discontinued Edit Commands
- Editing – Cut, Copy and Paste Edits
- Editing – 3D Editing
- Creating New 3D Objects by Merging and Subtracting 3D Solids
- Cabinets – Improvements for Working with Cabinets
- Cabinets – Updatable Hydrid Cabinet Symbols
- CAD – Editing Tools
- CAD – Snaps
- CAD – Line Styles and Line Weights
- CAD – Plan Footprints
- CAD – Details Library and Details Template Plan
- Camera Views
- Dimensions
- Doors and Windows
- Framing Decks – New Planking and Framing Options
- Framing Decks – The New Polygon Deck Tool
- Framing Walls, Floors, Ceilings and Roofs
- Layers – Layers and Layer Sets
- Layers – AIA Naming Convention Layer Set
- Layers – Layers and the Layout File
- Layouts
- Library and Project Browser
- Materials
- Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing
- Pictures, Images and Movies
- Roofs – Automatic Overhangs for Different Pitch Roof Planes
- Roofs – Dormers
- Roofs – Draw and Edit Roof Planes
- Rooms – Decks, Floors and Foundations
- Stairs
- Importing and Exporting 3D Symbols
- Importing and Exporting 2D DWG or DXF Files
- Terrain and Landscaping
- Text
- Trim and Moldings
- Walls – Double Walls
- Walls – Wall Editing
Classroom Design Project Training Videos:
96
14:34:07
9:06
4.53 GB
2 DVDs
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- Welcome to the Classroom Design Project Training Videos
- Using the Video Player
- Controlling Pop-up Contextual Menus
- General Mouse Commands
- The Chief Architect Interface
- Choosing a Toolbar Style
- Working with the Toolbars
- The Many Working Views of Chief Architect
- Customizing the Toolbars
- Understanding the Snapping Functions
- Cursor Behaviors and Crosshair Choices
- Learning Keyboard Commands
- Obtaining Program Updates
- Using the Help Functions
- Saving and Storing Plan Files
- Defaults and Preferences
- Choosing Edit Behavior Options
- Setting Defaults for New Plan Files
- The Plan Development Sequence
- Setting Defaults before Beginning
- Creating a Plan File from a Template File
- Drawing and Editing Walls
- Room Definitions and Key Room Properties
- Drawing the Initial Walls and Rooms
- Zooming, Panning and Using the Aerial View
- Creating Exterior Dimensions Automatically
- Selecting Objects with the Left or Right Mouse Button
- Positioning Walls Precisely Using Dimensions
- Using the Manual Dimension Tools
- Creating a New Layer for Selected Dimensions
- Editing Dimensions and their Extensions
- Building the Second Floor
- Checking the Second Floor Defaults
- Using the Reference Floor and its Layer Set
- Using the Vector and Render Overview Cameras
- Using the Cross-Section and Elevation Cameras
- Changing Materials in 3D Views
- Working with CAD in Chief Architect
- Drawing CAD Points, Lines and Splines
- Drawing CAD Arcs, Circles, Ovals and Ellipses
- Drawing CAD Polylines and Boxes
- Editing CAD Polylines
- Working with Object Snaps
- Creating 3D CAD Objects
- Displaying Multiple Views
- Introduction to Roofs
- Drawing and Connecting Roof Planes
- Building an Entire Roof at Once
- Preparing a Roof for Dormers
- Creating a Staircase
- Creating a Stair Landing
- Drawing Winder Stairs with Walls Beneath
- Building the Basement Foundation
- Deleting, Rebuilding and Exchanging Floors
- Creating a New Wall Type with a New Assigned Material
- Adding Wall Coverings with Assigned Materials
- Storing Materials in the Library
- Creating Pony Walls for Above Grade Brick
- Using Stepped Pony Walls for a Daylight Basement
- Finishing and Refining Interior Walls
- Creating Double Walls to Add Furred Basement Walls
- Creating and Copying Automatic Dormers
- Placing Doors
- Developing a Sliding Glass Door and Storing it in the Library
- Applying Selected Attributes of One Door to Several
- Adding a Doorway and Door Panel from the library
- Placing Windows
- Creating a Group of Blocked Windows
- Adding a Deck and Changing its Platform Edge Material
- Generating Deck Planking and Framing
- Drawing Stairs for a Deck
- Extending a Deck with the Polygon Deck Tool
- Placing and Merging Kitchen Cabinets
- Adding Appliances
- Working with Special Cabinet Types
- Adding Wall Cabinets and Soffits
- Blocking Cabinets and Adding Them to the Library
- Adding Drawers to a Cabinet Front
- Introduction to Framing
- Editing Framing
- Creating Text and Callouts
- Assigning Room Types and Running a Plan Check
- Placing Electrical Symbols and Circuits
- Creating a Window Schedule
- Adding CAD Details
- Creating Updatable Cross Sections
- Creating Fully Editable Cross Sections
- Creating a Site Plan
- Creating a Layout File for Working Drawings
- Drawing a Roofed Porch with Support Beam and Columns
- Indicating Room Floor Coverings in Plan
- Building a Terrain Model
- Working with Layers and Layer Sets to Get the Views You Want
- Presenting a Rendered 3D View
- Sending Plan Set Views to the Layout File
- Keeping Track of your Design and Drafting Time