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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

Michael kind've pointed out what I was looking for- macros don't work when you put them in the plan view name that I know of

Alaskan son/Michael has been doing some of his famous one-on-one Macro teaching with me and I've managed to write my own super simple label macro. Searched through 3 pages of search results and couldn't bring up the thread I remember reading about. Is it possible to use my own macro in place of the automatic label for plans sent to layout without having to open up the label in layout and change it manually? Here is the Macro: Layout Label.json

CHECK THE OBJECTS ELEVATION REFERENCE

that only works for one side of the door..I usually avoid using that option- you can do one side only as kbird1 explained but it shows up funny in plan view- I prefer 1/16" casing with a material region for recess- nearly indistinguishable in 3d

while you are dragging your cursor to drag the wall/poly line section etc., you can move the cursor left to right and snap the main outside layer to another object/wall/any snap point etc. Your wall/poly line won't move left to right- but it will snap to what you have you're mouse hovering over while holding the left mouse button down for drag.

mind posting your .plan file?

Do you have a screensharing app like teamviewer/mikogo/splashtop?

I've maxed out on custom library buttons across my various templates unfortunately. My layout is certainly not for everyone but it works very well for me. big 40 " screen plan: 3d:

I also designed this kitchen with inset granite:

yes budget, and yes time consuming- We got it done pretty quick once. We installed windows and doors, then made a flooring template(piece of laminate with the foam underlayment staple to the bottom) placing our baseboard with a reveal channel ... on top of our floor template loosely, then nailing the base in which locked the channel in. Then spray the reveal and base and do the drywall last.

no it cuts the wall material completely and places a 1/16" material to your main layer directly

I usually can do a whole 2000 sq. ft. home with this method in about 10 minutes, and it looks fantastic in 3d. Not to mention it looks perfect in plan view as well- unless you are trying to graphically represent the recessed moldings in plan view

the base material I created has a 1/16" leg up -see picture EDIT: it doesnt look like it in the picture but it does have a 1/16" leg