Working With Multiple Floors

Classroom Design Project Training Video: Deleting, Rebuilding and Exchanging Floors

When Chief Architect starts, it opens a blank plan. The plan name is Untitled 1.plan. If you draw walls and save the plan, the current floor becomes the first floor.

Once the plan file is saved, the title bar displays filename:Floor Plan, indicating:

Any model can have up to 30 floors, plus a foundation and attic. Floors can be added, deleted, copied, and swapped. All floors and the foundation are visible in most 3D views.

The Current Floor is the active floor. There can be only one active floor at a time.

The Reference Floor is a single floor, other than the current floor, that can be shown for reference, similar to an overlay. The reference floor is visible but not editable. Objects snap to the reference display, helping align items with other floors.

All other floors can be shown in 3D views but not floor plan view.

To view more than one floor of your plan at a time, open the plan file again. This creates a new editable window of the same file that can show any floor. Changes made in this new window are also reflected in the original window.