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Chief Architect X4 Premier Versus Home Designer 2012

By on 11/22/2012 in Articles, Chief Architect, Featured

I often get asked if the Home Pro 2012 program that Chief Architect makes is a good option for me to use for drawing plans or should they get the Chief Architect Premium package which costs more. Here’s my take on it. For those on a tight budget Home Pro is an Excellent choice for getting [...]

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Emotional Triggers To Use in Your Marketing

By on 12/23/2010 in Marketing Your Business

Emotional Triggers to Use in Your Marketing When developing your website, blog, or email campaign, these are some of your client’s “emotional triggers” that your marketing efforts should target in the content that you add to your website and in your marketing. You can even use these triggers when selling your design services with Chief [...]

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What is Your USP? (Unique Selling Proposition)

By on 12/23/2010 in Marketing Your Business

If you use a CAD Program like Chief Architect it might help set you apart from your competition is you including it at part of your Unique Selling Proposition USP

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Planning your 3 main website topics

Building a Website – Planning Your 3 Key Website Topics

By on 12/15/2010 in Technology

Have you ever visited a website and wondered “what in the heck is this mess!” You land on a page full of confusing ads, text and pictures that make no sense. After about 10 seconds you click out of this site and continue on your search for what you’re actually looking for.

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Chief Architect Technique #1 – 7 of My Favorite Keystrokes

By on 10/09/2010 in Chief Architect

Learn 7 popular Keystrokes that will save you time when you’re working on a plan in Chief Architect.

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Chief Architect Technique #2 – Use Chief to Measure Building from a Photo

By on 10/07/2010 in Chief Architect

In Chief Architect you can import a photo, scale it to full size and using Chiefs build in measuring tools you can find out the dimensions of a building.

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Chief Architect Technique #3 – Tracing over a Blueprint with Chief Architect

By on 10/06/2010 in Chief Architect

In this video you’ll discover how easy it is to import a blueprint of a plan and trace over it. This will save you a lot of time.

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Chief Architect Technique #4 – Quickly Layout Your Ideas in Chief

By on 10/05/2010 in Chief Architect

Here are some ideas that you can use when you’re layout out a plan in Chief Architect. These shortcuts will help you experiment with different ideas.

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Chief Architect Techniques #5 – Dimension then Draw to Save Time

By on 10/04/2010 in Chief Architect

When you’re working on your architectural design project using Chief Architect it’s important to understand how dimensioning works. Discover some cool dimension then design techniques for your plans.

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Chief Architect Technique #6 – Copy and Paste In Place – A Huge Timesaver

By on 10/03/2010 in Chief Architect

One of my favorite tools that was introduced in Chief Architect X1 is the Copy and Paste in Place function. It is a huge time saver when working on a plan.

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