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Just curious what screen capture software do you use?

PBR from what I can tell has limited checks when it recalcs. best practice is to keep materials confined to room as the lighting will bleed from the greatest light source. Would suggest building a p solid at every level for a chimney to keep them separated between floors. If you have zero lights on floor 1 but have a ton of lights on floor two it will be a coin toss as to which of the two provides lighting to the material

Haven't look yet, but typically this happens from a material breaking an exterior plane and picks up lighting from the sun/environment. If the beams or the fireplace penetrate the ceiling plane this will happen

Fav part: You have a floor plan and electrical plan, you save each as a plan view. Send the floor plan to sheet 1. copy and paste(hold position) to sheet 2. open the sheet dbx and change to the electrical plan. PRESTO, now you have a floor plan and electrical plan perfectly lined up across the pages.

You can make a camera view anno set to associate a camera view layer set and when you pull an elevation it will use that active layer..it is the inverse of what you described but should still serve your needs I believe?

so in layer sets you change it to use active layer set for camera sections and it will use the layer set that is active..so whatever anno set you have, if you have that set to switch to your preferrred layer set, then the camera will follow suit

enable the anno/layer set you want to change the camera-section layer for, then got to edit/default settings/layer sets and change there

Think that's cool, you can do some crazy stuff with spline distribution areas with random rotation and scale using rocks or cad blocks of plants

Please post your .plan file with some notes on how you would like your terrain to look. There are material catalogs on CA's website or you could always make your own. There are plent of different methods that can be used to create the look you want. If you dont care so much about accuracy in sectional views I would suggesting using solids and maybe moldings etc.

Gain a rapport with other contractors, be they design-build or not... I have always received work from other contractors who are overextended or aren't interested in a project. Especially those who don't do design-build. Its good to know budget contractors and high-end custom builders, all of it helps to pass work back and forth through respective channels. Same goes for your engineers, geotechs, civil, structural, architects etc.

strongly encourage a sit-stand desk!

refresh rates/hertz..higher the better, for antiflicker etc. Love my samsung 4k 40" working on getting a touchscreen to lay tv down like a drafting table

If you can point me to your preferred vendor I will make some(time-available)

Your bios must support and be changed to ACHI. Make sure to flash your bios with the newest firmware prior to the swap. Google should help you here

I earn substantially more on freelance over my typical 9-5. It really comes down to confidence in my own ability and presence, feel(ebb and flow) with your client. I charge by the job, which is where the confidence comes in...it may take me 9 iterations to get it right or maybe just 2, and sometimes I get it on the first try. I enjoy this method as I work through til the client is thrilled and I push myself in the meantime. People seem to really get into the handshake deal, most of my clients are referred to me. They feel they are a part of the process, that they have a say. The relationship is what matters, if you make your client feel that they are being heard and taken care of then they respect the value that you place on your services. Something I find to be very important, is being honest about your workflow and time available. Inflate your sense of timing, and then come in slightly under that mark. Granted I have the security of a well-paying 9-5, so I can gamble a bit on my freelance...but that gamble has more than paid off. I am upfront and honest about my limits in hours, walking the tight rope of just enough billing info to give to the client. Typically for a kitchen remodel and small additions I tell them it will cost between $800-1.2K for takeoffs/as-builts, $4-5.5K for arch CD's and design(which credits the as-built fee), and another $800-2.5K for structural if I can perform prescriptive work. Leave room to charge for additional services in case you are getting tanked by the agreement. I put place-markers for cabinets, and let the cab vendor do the finite details and add a couple renderings. If you would like me to design the cabinets and prep an order I will charge. If you would like additional renderings I have to charge for the potential income from my rendering machine being down..etc, etc Going over projected cost is all timing though, and hopefully you never need to. I explain that the design process is the fun part, and is inexpensive in retrospect to all of the annotation work and county req's. I manage my CA time log to get a feel for my target revenue. Hope this helped, a different perspective maybe

If you're intended upgrade is simply graphics and this machine is used primarily in an office than I would strongly encourage purchasing the Gigabyte Aorus 1070gtx egpu for around $600(if your laptop supports it)...it has served me very well for graphic intensive programs, otherwise I would take a look at some of the other laptop upgrade threads.

for reference, from the 2016 CEC, highlighting is from the adoption table and nothing to do with this topic

Distribution paths work well for landscaping, especially spline distribution ares with randomized rotation and scale: also with minimal effort you can do some vectorwork-ish stuff in chief using slab cylinders, transparent gradients and png materials:

I made these in CA using CA's blocks and some of my own modifications..simple really. Could be made to be color aw/overlays etc:

nice +1

Google drive will not support co-authoring/file locking/live-authoring, per several tech support agents I've spoken with whereas Microsoft onedrive and dropbox will. My user catalog and all of chief process' are in onedrive and work well for the most part except for this one glitch

Let me know their cost, maybe next time I'll compete

Post the 3ds and I'll have a looksie

I can confirm that nearly EVERY time I right click in an open/save window w/in CA, chief crashes. Windows 10 CA x10 saving in onedrive. I think there is a conflict with file locking