Renerabbitt

I should've gone back and edited, after re-reading your post you were definitely clear about what you just said here. I would agree that emphasizing learning plan views is the right path forward

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You're very welcome- my brain doesnt like puzzle pieces-HA! which is how I've always thought of the layout process. Another user has requested multiple times that a layout should just be a powerful PDF editor, nothing more...I've always been fond of that idea

Made a complicated video for everyone to scratch your head at..really I tried my best on short notice Please allow 10 minutes for it to display in HD, otherwise the resolution will be atrocious! (YouTube needs 10 min processing time for HD)

With plan views you can truly use the .plan file to create con docs including your title blocks...making it easy to say- organize a 1":10' site plan or a 1/4 scale floor plan and place them exactly as you see fit- only using the .layout file as a PDF compiler-as it really should be.

+1 such a frickin bargain

I hearted that one, but I will say that I like annotation sets for the fact that I can use them to quickly draw CAD or text notes on a specified layer from the anno set while remaining in the same layer set- such as red line comments or a specific detail that I want in just 2 of my plan views per se. Yes you could accomplish that with plan views but that would really pump up the number of plan views and I feel its cleaner this way.

+1000

would encourage you to post your .plan file- easy to show you some quick improvements that way

ouch, that's a time killer you've got there- sorry useless response on my part, but interested to see if you get any takers. Following!

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2426/physically-based-rendering-technique.html?playlist=102

change the offset from ceiling in the light dbx..it will keep it on the 1st floor in plan view

would you mind posting your .plan file?

Quantity and speed of CPU cores, or you could always use PBR and adjust your material properties. I no longer use ray trace, just PBR Ray trace is doing just that, tracing rays...reduce the number of lights in a scene and it will go faster. Lights in confined spaces, lights behind transparent materials, they all increase time. Transparent materials also increase time.

Will you please post your plan so we can take a look

Too funny, it's been so long since my CA has been out-of-the-box that I forgot it's core structure...haha, probably shouldn't be trying to do tech support at 5 am

if you are using defaults then the layer named "electrical label" should have a text style you can modify. Alternatively you can get to this text style through edit/defaults/texts, callouts and markers/text styles scroll down to "electrical labels"

Please post your plan and fill out your signature so we can better help you

Cant really compare the two on equal basis as CA produces con docs, imagery, material lists, etc...so much more Thea has paid for itself 20 times over- but I have a client base willing to spend an extravagant amount of money on the service- it can be meticulous and time consuming--- furthermore for its newest offering you need to purchase a software like Sketchup as Thea V2 is only available as a plugin, Thea standalone studio may be discontinued. A case in point, a developer wants to market a home before they've even broken ground- they hire me to produce realistic renderings of the home to market so they can sell before the project is even finished. I enjoy rendering and it makes decent money after an extraordinary amount of time invested in material cataloguing- I make my money on design and CD's

Someday yes, I've been organizing like a mad man- I need to get resources for people to download good materials, that's half the battle. Might look into creating a website to host my materials...Prob is they aren't organized for an end user- someday! I know @Alaskan_Son is starting to train in PBR and he's an excellent coach- he just taught me how to write some basic macros and the benefit has been ten fold

Happy to, I use Thea Render plugin for sketchup- I still feel as if the Chief renderings are formidable in most cases and only my high end clients will pay top dollar for the photo-realism

off topic but have you considered uploading your model to CA and sharing your 3d viewer file via the mobile/tablet apps?

just found this website made this contour map in under 1 minute using data from google earth-

Foundation wall shouldnt be touched if I understand correctly. the upper wall with the columns should be changed to a pony wall...very rarely do I ever touch the foundation wall