Preference and default settings control many aspects of the user interface and tool behavior in Chief Architect. You can use these settings to customize the program to suit your personal work style.
For more information about defaults and preferences, see "Defaults & Preferences".
Preference settings let you change program behavior to suit your workflow. For example, you can:
Preference settings are global, affecting all plan and layout files.
Most objects in Chief Architect derive their intial properties from their respective default dialogs.
For example, a newly placed Window 
gets its initial values from the Window Defaults dialog and a newly placed Hinged Door 
gets its initial values from the Door Defaults dialog.
Once an object is placed in a plan, its initial properties can be overridden, but setting up your defaults before you begin drawing can save you considerable time as you build a model in the program.
Default settings, unlike Preferences, are file specific.
Dynamic defaults are values that affect existing objects in a plan.
In specification dialogs, dynamic default values have a Default checkbox beside them or a [D] in their text fields. As long as this checkbox is checked or the [D] is present, changes made to the default affect the object.
To edit an individual object, you must delete the [D] or uncheck the box in the specification dialog. Objects you edit in this way do not update if you change the default.
To restore a value to the default, click to place a check in the Default checkbox or type a "d" into an edit box.
You can set up an otherwise empty plan with the default settings of your choice and use it as your template for new, blank plans. See "Template Files".
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