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I never said thank you for this, much appreciated, I remember reading this and it lighting up my day, best to you too. Dig in, I have a back log of things to upload here, it's been a while. Enjoy!

Just diggin into Orinda, CA's municipal code of ordinances. Anyone have a crash course on what to expect/feasibility of a minor subdivision in California? or any other State. I've got the perfect project for it. Let this be the conversation starter with more info to come as I work through it.

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I'd love to work with you on this, will send you a PM when I get back in the office, else you can email me PDF/plans to take a look at or call Rene Rabbitt Behance.net/renerabbitt renerabbitt@gmail.com 925 300 7004

In order for us to see your material you need to include the texture source file. Common ways to do this is choose File/Backup Entire Plan/ with the active plan opened. I'll show you a 2 row brick pattern to illustrate the solution: There is no offset tool in CA, you must create the offset in your texture

I deleted my post after seeing Dermot's post, you resurrected it somehow!

I posted a highly debated method for creating CDs using only the plan file. Saved Plan Views were a large part of that method, they made it very simple to navigate and organize especially utilizing the new referenced file tools. I still hope that one day the layout file is nothing more than a PDF compiler, we get closer and closer to it with each release. What I would recommend to all of the late adopters....learn Saved Plan Views in and out, they are simple stepping stone to a much larger change that I think is coming in a few years, as methods such as kanban, and collaborative tools finally gain more traction in the residential sector.

Sent you a PM, cheers

Quoted the wrong post, haha, not my design

+1, let's revisit this...please people send in a bug report. Used to work as the OP stated

Did it for ya NEW-William Dowdell-fixed.zip

You should check "replace existing defaults/overwrite existing defaults" Since you are establishing a SAM .plan no sense in keeping the existing defaults as these are .plan specific only, as opposed to global program parameters/preferences/defaults. I'm going to be doing some house cleaning myself soon. I'm actually getting requests from people looking to purchase my anno sets and as such have noticed some problems in my old methods. What I'll tell you is this, down the line you may want to keep as much of the OOTB naming conventions as possible to be able to coordinate with a greater number of end-users. My existing Annos all use custom names that are a standard of practice in my jurisdiction, but pose problems when working with a global market. My two cents Good luck!

Just going to add my two cents- For this SPECIFIC scenario I personally would do as follows to ensure everything is aligned. Draw a CAD line(or point) to the corner of your structure on your reference floor Copy that line and paste-hold-position onto your 2nd floor Select all on 2nd floor(optional but not necessary-shift deselect the CAD line) Point to point move to the CAD line. That whole operation takes less than 30 seconds..When I train I always remind people the power of a making temporary, simple CAD lines...it can be used as a bump stop, reflect about line, and reference markers plus much much more.

Sent you an email, Thanks for any consideration, Rene

Are you familiar/experienced with any photo editing softwares? If you are looking to produce a still image then it is a quick process to export an image as .png with transparent background checked and drop in a backdrop behind your main layer. Spherical backdrops in CA are severely limited by conpression,...a good spherical backdrop would be 7k and CA simply won't allow it. That's why most of CAs built in backdrops are pixelated

This was 3rd party software, but you could do this with an orth-view in CA

I'd be happy to fix that beds texture mapping if you want. Just send it my way

Welcome to the boards..maybe start here: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2300/creating-angled-windows.html?playlist=200 solver's second post is certainly a good clue, and filling out signature with your computer/mac system specs and Chief Architect version helps us give more accurate device..Cheers!

I definitely have a purpose built and expensive machine, chief simply doesn't have the capabilities and would need a huge overhaul to produce such images. I still think we're a long way off from needing that in the residential Industry...very few adopters per capita. I only get a render job once a month or so.

How do you convey a sense of space to a client, what method do you use to say give a client the feeling of "flow" in their home, the traffic areas, the pinch points etc.? I do love that method for cabinet layout as shown, very clear and to the point...I have clients that simply cannot connect elevation and plan views to a sense of overall movement within the design...they need perspective imagery and to see the way the light interacts with a room. I did a rendered cabinet elevation once..kinda fun/funny:

I believe the room planner app has that capability if he uploads the .plan file and enables viewing/invites you. Might create another thread in that section of this forum.