Become familiarized with Chief Architect's User Interface; learn how to use and customize toolbars and hotkeys, customize program preferences and plan defaults.
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An overview of the user interface, highlighting the different regions
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This video covers the basic interface of Chief Architect, drawing, placing, and editing objects.
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Learn how best to use the Project Browser to organize and access the various components of your plan and layout files, and how to use the Library Browser to place objects from Chief Architect libraries, import or save custom objects to your own personal library to be used later or in other plans.
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Setting up defaults before beginning any project will improve your productivity and keep your project working smoothly.
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Setting Preferences will change the user interface to suit the way you want to work in Chief Architect.
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Learn how to identify different view types, and how to arrange them to increase productivity.
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Right clicking on an object will bring up a contextual menu with edit tools for that object. You can control how these menus work
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Add your most frequently used tools to your toolbars and arrange them as you want.
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Your mouse cursor changes appearance to indicate different editing functions or tool selections.
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Using the right or left mouse buttons to select objects in your plan
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Creating your project in the proper sequence is important for ease of completion and productivity.
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Hot Keys, or keyboard shortcuts are an excellent way to improve your productivity when using Chief Architect.
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Control layer display and properties for all your views with this side window.
