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  2. Have you tried looking for architectural references online? It might also be helpful to consult with experienced architects or builders in your area who have dealt with similar challenges.
  3. Firstly, really nice work. Did you spend a lot of time with lighting and materials to get these shots? Secondly, I’m not as hopeful as you are with Mac ever getting realtime RT, but I appreciate the encouragement.
  4. Today
  5. You have uploaded a file that is open so it has no data , save the file close chief and upload again.
  6. use fixed glass doors. you can mull them together and they will report to schedule:
  7. Looking to the greater CA community for help. I have read the posts about retaining walls and terrain spiking, which mine was, so I changed the wall to a foundation wall not a retaining and added a terrain break but I still must be doing something wrong. The terrain needs to slope from -8 at the parking lot to -146. I have deleted everything from the drawing except what I need to show so it's going to look weird when you pull up a camera view. I have attached the plan (CA Pro X15) and an image of the problem. Thanks in advance for any help! drawing terrain_sample.zip
  8. Thanks for the help. Did you have to do anything to get the lines to show in the blocks to make it look like grout?
  9. are you on a PC and is your PC using OneDrive, and if so, is your Chief archive in My Documents. If so..thats probably the cause of the issue, but also, you might be able to revert to an older version of that particular archive from onedrive online in version history
  10. Check out this video: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/335/using-a-framing-reference.html?playlist=93 If that doesn't help, then you probably need to post your plan.
  11. Post the plan and someone can probably figure it out.
  12. Hi @HeatherMcK, this design of yours has raked ceilings as shown by your section and this becomes a special case. As @solversays you can achieve that by lowering and raising your roof planes accordingly to the desired floor to rafter pitching point height. To get to 6 foot 4 inches on the wall where your arrow is. You would need to cut a section through your model and draw that line exactly where it is on the section above. That dashed dotted line is not at your floor level so you need a dimension from that line down to the floor as well. That should give you a reference point to know if your current roof height is set correctly. In order to help, you need to provide a dimension directly under the 6’4” dimension down to the floor level. Have fun. Edited: Here is an official training video that just might help you adjust your roof height and your ceiling height in your type of scenario ? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1605/designing-a-one-and-a-half-story-roof.html?playlist=95
  13. Any Update on this? I'm having the same issue, however it's on a strait exterior wall. I can place another deck right next to it without issue. Problem started when resizing room.
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  15. Did you find a fix to this? Because I have same problem.
  16. I find that RTRT gives the client the best feel of what their house is going to look and feel like. The only challenge can be just having the graphics card to keep up with it even at a low sample rate when presenting live to a customer. I don't put as much detail in my designs as many of the very talented people on here do, but I try to put just enough in to give them a picture of what their home is going to feel like. I personally like PC and the capabilities that come with it. However, I have been told that very soon MAC users will have most if not all the same features we have with PC when it comes to rendering. This is an example of what I do for basic renderings.
  17. You might want to let other people know how you solved your problem in case they run into the same thing in the future. I think all you really need to do is to create a custom material using the image. This tech article covers the basic idea: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00007/importing-and-applying-a-custom-picture-to-a-frame-computer-or-tv-screen.html
  18. Well, I tried one other thing and I solved the problem.
  19. I am fairly new to the software but exhausted everything I can find for a solution. I am trying to build some general 3d object shaped to represent the footprint of various objects I need to place in a plan. These are simple primitive objects I am creating in a solid modeling package such as 3d cubed and rectangles. The issue I am having is I would like to place on the placed object in CA an image file mapped to the face of the object so I can easily see what the object is when looking in camera view. I have tried everything with no success. I am sure there is away to map an image to a solid but I cannot find it. It would be nice to have it as part of the 3d model as I have placed them in my user catalog. Any help would be greatly appreciated
  20. Doug_N

    Dormers

    Post a plan file, and I will let you know why a dormer won't build.
  21. Here is a quick video...(plan attached) Jambruins - Auto Build Roof #2 - Watch Video Filion house - auto roof try 1.plan.zip
  22. thanks. can you post the plan here so I can see what you did
  23. The results are in! Congratulations to our 3 winners in the Kitchen, Bath, & Interiors Design Contest! 1st Place – Diego Rosa of Dezign Spaces2nd Place – Jesse Gould of Design Texas Studios3rd Place – Kelly Trotz of Lifestyle DesignWe enjoyed viewing everyone’s design and want to thank you all for sharing with us and our community! Varying prize packages will be awarded.
  24. Yes...all auto. A little manual cleanup required to make it correct.
  25. Steve, can you get it work with this plan? I tried to gable line tool but I can't get it to work. Thanks for the help. house.zip
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