Chief Architect is the industry leader for residential architectural home design software. We have focused the past decade on making this progr easy to use for the building professional. Chief Architect will help you be more productive, and we guarantee it. In today s environment, you need to be both competitive and productive with your design work and your clients expect professional designs. Establish more business, be more productive and ensure more satisfied customers using Chief Architect on your next design project!
New Features in Chief Architect X2
- Non-photorealistic rendering techniques for perspective and elevation ceras – Watercolor, Squiggle Line Drawing, Technical Illustration, Enhanced Lighting, Painting and Duotone
- Define Rendering Technique settings to create a variety of artistic views with the new Rendering Techniques
- Auto generate exterior elevation and room elevation ceras
- Support added for manufacturer catalogs of doors, windows and cabinets
- New Cabinet Display options to conform to NKBA standards – countertops, line styles, and more
- Define Cabinet End Panels and Cabinet Fillers – use the automatic tool, or manually place and specify fillers
- Display Countertop lines in Plan View and control the display of the Layer
- Dimension to lower part of Pony Walls, control the display, and show or hide openings for doors and windows. Door and window schedules will list objects in Pony Walls.
- Improved Dimension tools with several new features – accuracy to 1/128", Feedback and Previews when creating dimension lines, formatting, and more
- Automatic Fring – turn on automatic fring for walls, floors, ceilings and roofs to update your fring plan as your design changes
- Exposed rafter tails and custom rafter tail cuts – choose from a molding profile in the Library or draw your own profile; rafter tails display in 3D views
- Steel Fring for walls, headers, joists and rafters – automatically creates C-Channel and U-Channel shaped fring members for typical commercial fring
- Control the display of roof fascia and generate sub-fascia fring to more accurately show construction details
- Specify symbols to attach to a ceiling or roof, such as a solar panel or light fixture and choose to rotate and match its slope
- Flush mounted electrical items will also auto-rotate to match pitched ceiling – such as placing a recessed light in a vaulted ceiling
- Rich Text tool allows you to format your text with a variety of options and you can also copy and paste text to and from external applications while preserving the rich text format
- Line Style Editor – create and define your own custom line styles
- Nudge Tool – use the arrow keys to move a selected object in small increments
- Distribute Objects tool allows you to distribute any item such as a plant or a CAD object along a line, or within a polyline
- Ability to reorder Layout pages for construction drawings
- Import Terrain and Elevation data in one step – import all layers including elevation data and terrain perimeter
- Mass Import for symbols – import an entire group or folder of symbols
- Over 3,200 new Library Objects have been updated or are new objects with the latest styles
- New Library Browser organized to more easily find items – searching speed is significantly faster
- Rotate and Zoom the Library preview – exine Library items before placing them in your plan
- See visual feedback for the size and orientation of Library objects as you place them in either 2D and 3D
- New Plant and Room Finish Schedules
- Support &p; Software Assurance provides priority technical support, catalog downloads, online video training access and new software versions
- Green product development

System Requirements
Minimum:
- Windows XP/Vista
- 2 GHz processor
- 2 GB of Memory
- 8 GB of available hard disk space
- 256 MB of video memory
- OpenGL: 2.0
- Internet: High speed for Videos, and Catalog / Library downloads
Recommended:
- Windows XP/Vista (Vista 64 is the best choice, followed by Vista 32 and then XP)
- Multi-Core CPU (Celerons are not recommended)
- 4 GB of Memory
- 8 GB of available hard disk space
- A newer NVIDIA or ATI video card supporting OpenGL 2.0 or better with at least 512MB of video memory; more is better