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Chief Architect 10

Chief Architect 10 is specifically designed for residential home design. Chief Architect software makes it easy for you to visualize your design ideas for your client's home or remodeling project. Move a wall, add a room, redesign a kitchen, change materials, estimate costs - all before you build.

- Automated and Manual Building home design tools for framing, roofs, stairs, foundations make quick and efficient work of the design process
- Create Plan Sets with the Layout tool and over 500 built-in CAD details
- Powerful 2D and 3D Home Design and Modeling tools
- Produce dramatic, photo-realistic 3D Renderings and Virtual Tours
- Design with over 10,000 Architectural Items, including Smart Objects like Cabinets, Doors & Windows - or import your own

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Chief Architect is specifically designed for the residential and light commercial design professional.

Chief Architect makes it easy - use the 3D visualization to sell a project to clients and use construction drawings to be more cost effective in your design work. Move a wall, add a room, redesign a kitchen, change materials, estimate costs, create construction drawings.

Chief Architect System Requirements:
Make sure your PC meets the minimum system requirements so you can start designing as soon as possible.

Operating System
Chief Architect X1 works with Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista.

CPU and Memory
Your computer must have at least 1 GB RAM and a 2 GHz CPU to run the software. Systems with more memory and faster processors will run the program faster.

Hard Drive and DVD-ROM Drive
You must have 2 GB of free space or more on your hard drive plus a DVD-ROM drive for installation.

Video Card
Chief Architect is a graphic-intensive program, so you need a video card with at least 256 MB of on-board memory.

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Contents at a Glance

Chief Architect 10
Powerful Building & Design Tools
3D Design and Modeling Tools
Powerful CAD Tools
Plan Sets and Construction Drawings
Kitchen Bath Design Deck and Landscaping...
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How to Uninstall Chief Architect 10
You can use Chief Architect to make mone...
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Powerful Building & Design Tools

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Chief Architect has automatic building tools that use the typical building defaults - or you can define your defaults. For every automated tool you will find manual tools to customize to your specific needs.

Some the tools include:
- Automatic Roofs: hip, gable, shed, saltbox, gambrel, gullwing, half-hip, mansard. Create any style with the manual roof tools including curved roofs
- Ceilings - flat, trey, coffered barrel
- Automatic Dormers and Roof Returns
- Materials Lists for cost estimating and bidding
- Material Schedules: Windows, Doors, Cabinets, Rooms, Fixtures, Furniture and Plants
- Dimensions for One-Click Auto Dimensioning , End-to-End, Interior, Point-to-Point, Baseline, Angular and Centerline
- Built-in wall types with layers: interior, exterior, pony walls, ICF, SIPS or design custom walls types
- Advance stair tools for curved, flared, split and straight
- House Wizard to quickly layout plans or for space planning
- Automatic Framing for walls, roofs and floors
- Electrical and HVAC tools
- Design with Smart Objects (BIM) windows, cabinets, doors, framing have properties and behave intelligently

3D Design and Modeling Tools

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- Seamless and simultaneous editing in 3D or 2D
- Photo-Realistic 3D Rendering
- Artistic Rendering - watercolor, painting, line drawing, technical illustration, duotone and Glass House
- 3D views for elevations, overviews, cross-sections, framing and Doll House
- Material Painter - apply colors, materials and textures from any image or website
- Color Chooser - Choose manufacturer colors, materials or textures for your design - or from a digital photo
- 3D Model Maker
- Record 3D views for virtual tours

Powerful CAD Tools

Chief Architect 10

- CAD solids - to produce slabs, moldings, shapes for customizing and detailing designs
- CAD drawing tools for lines, polylines, splines, arcs, sun angles, shapes and points
- Convert CAD objects to architectural objects - draw a molding profile and save as a molding to apply to cabinets
- Visual CAD Snaps
- Over 500 Built-in CAD Details
- CAD-to-Walls Import; import an AutoCAD, DXF or DWG and easily map the layers
- Cross Sections Elevations

Plan Sets and Construction Drawings

Chief Architect 10

- Create construction documents with the Layout tool - send any view to the Layout - define scale and link to the drawing to update as your design changes
- Multiple Layers and Layer Sets - mask layers to create the view you need
- Use a PDF print driver to print to any size paper
- Electrical, Audio, HVAC and Plumbing plan tools
- Terrain Modeling, Landscaping Tools and Site Planning Tools
- ICC - International Residential Code Checklist
- Time Tracker to monitor time spent drawing on specific projects

Kitchen Bath Design Deck and Landscaping Tools

Chief Architect 10

- Create any style of cabinet with powerful Cabinet Designer tools. Select from a library of hundreds of door and drawer styles - or choose from specific manufacturer catalogs
- Smart Cabinets - Design with Smart Objects (BIM) windows, cabinets, doors, framing have properties and behave intelligently
- Create shaped cabinets, custom countertops, back splashes, cabinet feet or choose fixtures and appliances. Over a 1,000 Styles or Choose from the Built-in Cabinet Library
- Create any custom cabinet including curved cabinets
- Curved Cabinets and Cabinet Hardware
- Block cabinets and other like objects together to create architectural blocks - for future use - a great time saving feature! Great for kitchen islands

Deck Landscaping Tools:
- Automatic deck framing
- Customize deck planking and materials
- Choose from a variety to deck railing styles
- Set the north pointer and define seasonal settings for realistic shadows
- Complete set of terrain tools - easily import or create terrain data
- Over 3,700 Landscaping Plants
- Plant Encyclopedia, with detailed information about each plant including integrated Hardiness Zone Maps

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How to Uninstall Chief Architect 10

Chief Architect X1 is software used for professional 3D home design. If your copy is no longer working properly or you want to install a newer version of Chief Architect, you'll have to remove the older one first. Windows makes this process simple by automatically removing all the elements that came with the software when you choose uninstallation. Be sure to back up any important files made in Chief Architect before removing the software.

Instructions

1) Open your "Start" menu and click "Control Panel." If you don't see it, check under "Settings."

2) Open the "Add/Remove Programs" icon, or the "Programs and Features" icon.

3) Select "Chief Architect" from the list and click "Uninstall" or "Remove." When asked to confirm, do so. If the system prompts you to remove shared files, click "No to all."

4) Reboot your computer once the uninstallation process is complete.

You can use Chief Architect to make money!

In the State of California, you do not need to be an architect to design homes. According to the California Architect Practice Act Section 5537 Exemptions: a non-registrant may prepare plans and drawings for (1) single family residences wood frame construction not more than two stories and basement in height. (2) multiple dwellings containing no more than four dwelling units of wood frame construction not more than two stories and basement in height.

If your design falls under those exemptions, appropriate for you to sell your work. Also be careful not to misrepresent yourself and your services of an architect. You are not allowed to use the term "architect, State certified, licensed" or any verbiage that may be misrepresenting.

For tax purposes, you are required to have a federal tax id number. Your accountant should be able to help you with that.

The most important question you need to answer is "why would anyone pay for your work?". You're going up against a lot of established people in the trade with many connections. I'm not saying do not pursue this venture, but you need to identify your clients/market.