Help Database

To change the Default Settings:

1. First, launch Chief Architect and choose to Open your plan.
   
   
   
2. Select Edit> Default Settings .
   
   
   
3. In the Default Settings dialog, click on the plus + sign next to Dimensions.
   
   
   
4. Click on Manual Dimensions to highlight it, then select the Edit button to display the Saved Manual Dimension Defaults dialog.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Choose the appropriate Current Default, and click on the Edit button.
   
   
   
   

   Helpful Hint: To learn more about working with Annotation Sets, see the online tutorial training videos available on our website to current SSA members.

   
   
   
6. Select the Locate Object tab.
   
   
   
   
   To learn more about the options in this dialog, within the software itself, click on the Help button located near the lower right.
   
   
   
7. Once you have finished making changes, click OK to apply them.
   
   
   

If you do not want to change your Default Settings for all of your dimensions, but rather perhaps just need to adjust a single individual dimension line, you can do this as well.

1. First, launch Chief Architect and choose to Open the plan that has the dimension that you want to modify.
   
   
   
2. Zoom in on the end of the dimension that you want to adjust.
   
   
   
3. Using the Select Objects tool, select the dimension, then click and drag the edit handle to the wall layer that you want to dimension to.