Welcome to the final installment of our "10 Mistakes Chief Architect Users Make" video series!

We’re wrapping things up, focusing on a toolset that many users overlook or underutilize—the Edit, Save, and Save As View Tools. These handy icons are essential for creating and managing camera views, ensuring your layouts are clear, consistent, and professionally organized.

In this video, Dan demonstrates how to efficiently create, save, and adjust multiple views of your project. Learn to name your views for quick reference, link them seamlessly to layout pages, and troubleshoot common hiccups like refreshing views and realigning elements. With these tools, you’ll streamline your workflow and save time, ensuring your designs are polished and presentation-ready.

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Transcript:

Use the edit, save, and save as view tool. I'm not sure if people realize this is there. If not, I'm about to show you quickly. Let's go back into Chief and take this view. I'm going to make it full-screen.

Let me click on it. There's my view—just a lovely little house with a roof floating in nowhere. Let's zoom into it. That's the view I want to put on my layout page; I will click on this view. I'm going to click on this icon. I'm talking about these three icons right here that you will see on all the views you view on your computer.

I will click on one of those, the one with the pencil on it, and I will name this camera. So I will call it overview number one, front side, backside, or whatever I type there so that I will remember what that view is.

Then, I'll click OK and the center icon to save everything I did. Now, I'll click on this third icon, a save-as icon. I'll create a new camera and call it overview number two, left side, right side, or whatever you want.

Then I'll click. Move this view. Save it. Done. Next view: Overview 3. Click OK. Move it. Save it. Done. I created three views—one more. Click number 4. OK. Click here. Save it. Done. Close that. Hit save.

Now, layout page. Take any viewport on the layout page. Make a copy of the blank page. Page 20, and I'll put that here. There's that viewport. All right, that's for a different plan. It's not even for the plan I just worked on.

Let's put one of those views in that viewport. I'm going to open the dialog for that view. I will re-link it to something else, which would be the plan I'm working on, which is my 10 Ways Plan. I just did a camera overview, and I created those four views.

Now I'm going to click okay. You should keep things in the same folder. Sometimes, you have to hit the refresh button down here. You have to click on a little refresh button, and it'll put the view there now. I could copy it, hit multiple copies, and make three more. Equally spaced, drag this over. Of course, it's not gonna fit on the page quite right. Now I can open the dialog and link that to view, and click OK. Click this and relink it to view three. They're not showing up right away, which it does sometimes. We have to go into manually refreshing. Group select all three of those. For all four of them, hit the refresh button, and now all your views will be there for those different cameras we just created.

If something is not quite in the right place, you've got three icons down here. Click this icon to roll that view that I created. If that one is slightly off, I'll grab and reposition it. Double-click on it now, open it, and reposition it, and I'll be ready. So there you go. That's what those three buttons are for. You could do that with any view using those icons.

That is your Save, Edit, Save, and Save As view tools, so pay attention. All right, that is the end of my presentation.

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