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Just sharing some of my go-to symbols as I sort through my own library...enjoy! MANY additional textures included to create a full library of highly detailed books, these textures were grabbed from a variety of sources and have been formatted by myself to work with the models included BOOKS_WITH_BINDING.calibz

Just sharing some of my go-to symbols as I sort through my own library...enjoy! Simple Shower Door.calibz

of the two, the top one is THEA, and the bottom is the rendering that HUMBLE CHIEF posted using Chiefs built in Ray Trace

I setup a similar scene to show some difference in quality from Thea to Chief, Note I missed a few details(including forgetting to change the cabinet texture to something with better settings) Overall time in Thea was 20 minutes to setup lights and materials 18 min render I could've gone into more detail with materials and render settings to get a more realistic shot, which would've taken a few more hours of setup and 5-10 hours of render time, but for the comparison I thought this would suffice

Modeled entirely in CA but rendered in Thea Studio 5

Thank you very much, I had the camera set to 6' tall but I think the focal point being wide angle makes it feel much taller, also had a heavy tilt down, I was trying to frame the carpet but I think you're right, made the scene feel a bit elongated. this one took 17 hours primarily because of the wall paint being so many layers.

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The red slots are your Sata 3 slots, the blacks are the much slower sata 2... so it's good that you have them plugged into the red.... general note on this topic, I think it stands to reason that a heavier investment in coding from chief could speed everything up... ever notice how an apple iPhone can suddenly become faster or slower on each new iteration of its OS... they either fix or add bugs... cleaner codes, no redundancy, better implementation... you could see your hardware fly again if chief refined its coding... which it would probably happily do if it's client base met the demand... I hope we get there on a side note, how is your dual processor set up? Do both processors compete for the ram and hard drive, I think I remember their being several ways to implement dual processors and sometimes they can be a detriment as they try and fight for resources dependent on the setup

is your 850 pro fed into the red sata slot? or the black ones

After digging a bit and analyzing my own systems, I came to realize that my laptop's speed on the grandview plan is very formidable. Without digging in too much, I think it may have to do with my distribution. I have one of those lightning fast samsung 950 m.2 drives as the OS, but my temp and undo folder are set on my secondary drive. When I delete in the Grandview plans I see spikes from the CPU, and both hard drives. If I set the undo folder to its default, the OS harddrive spikes quite a bit more. Maybe the hard drive is the bottleneck for some systems

this is looking pretty darn good, two suggestions, put one of the eased edge moldings on your countertop to soften it up a bit, and add a bump map to the carpet..you can grab a simple one by googling carpet bump map

All understood, yes the 1080 is certainly overkill for chief, nice for Lumion or Thea though. Thea uses CPU and GPU together in their new rendering engine Presto, which tickles the heck out of me. Your particular setup is similar to mine and just flies in Thea(with a few trade tricks). Biggest benefit for me personally is the power consumption and temparature stability. I have a mini-itx water cooled xeon with that card in it and the 980 ti used to bring the temp of all the components up to 70-80 celsius in a hurry. Now with the 1070 its a cool machine.

So often in plan sets I don't need wall or flooring layers, I suppose you could make a streamlined base plan by deleting underlayments in room specs and creating wall assemblies without any layers...this is all good info, thank you!

what program are you using to render? chief is CPU based, whereas you would see a huge improvement over the 780 with Thea's Presto engine. Plus the Pascal architecture of the new card draws less juice and runs super cool even after 24 hours of rendering....my 1070 never breaks 30 degrees Celsius vs my 980 ti that consistently gets into 80 degrees Celsius after just 2 hours

Even with an overclocked 14 core xeon my system lags when rebuilding a complex model, as Humble chief mentioned the cores don't necessarily matter though I thought the massive cache that comes with these high core count cpu's would make a difference. After reading these posts I'm curious to see if locking layers would help anything and/or if manually rebuilding would change anything...One of my biggest gripes is the lack of an UNDO drop down history list, so I could scroll to the change state I want to revert back to

It took a very long time to be what I would consider "decent" at terrain...one thing I believe to be true as someone kind've hinted at, is that you have to look at the terrain model as an art piece. Lines need to flow, elevation markers have no place in the model, you must shift elevation splines to make contours that make sense in terms of molding a piece of clay. ACCURACY COMES AFTER YOU HAVE MOLDED EVERYTHING. Make sure your intervals are set for larger spacing and your terrain details set to low or medium while you are working the model. Also copy and past your splines instead of drawing new splines and this will help keep the model uniform while you set things in place. Often times you can set more splines then necessary and after you have your basic contours in place you can delete them and the model will hold together. Manipulate the terrain with a 3D view in a second window to track the changes...I've attached a couple of examples of some more difficult terrain models as well as one I am currently working on, each of which had their aggravating moments

Mark I love this, what a fun project, so much more love goes into a project when you have to accommodate 19 of your best friends

Sounds like their are multiple problems here, a couple of thoughts regarding multiple topics within this thread: 1) Camera view options still exist under the 3d Tab including turning off shadows 2) I would turn off all enhancements in 3d view by selecting the camera and opening it/unchecking bloom etc. 3) Turn off ambient occlusion for greater stability 4) Tune your system for running processes, ray-tracing is very taxing on a system, check services tab and clean up. Possibly set priority of chief architect to high in task manager 5) Limit raytrace to use 2-3 cores for your raytrace to test stability 6) Update to Windows 10, it will speed your old girl up in many ways and has better implementation for RAM designation. Other people know more than I do, chime in. 7) Reset all setting in chief? backup first 9) Update your BUS and chipset drivers, as other people have said, ray-trace is CPU and good luck! your system is plenty powerful enough, biggest recommendation would be windows 10

Client just requested that I design one of these in to her new kitchen, I imagine I could figure out a few different configurations but I'm always on the lookout for better ideas. Maybe a toe kick drawer with food dishes, automated food dispenser etc...does anyone have any experience with this, any bright ideas?

You can also use the iPad Pro with desktop software "duet" or teamviewer to use the desktop as a server and the iPad as a client. It works quite well with the right networking setup...

Diane, more specifically, Joe is looking for object layer properties to see if you possible have these walls on a layer other than the standard "walls, foundation" layer. Care to share your plan file so we can take a look?

Send me a PM when you get a chance, lets hop on a remote viewing session and I'll get you headed the right direction

+1 I've got the G752VL, added an M.2 950 pro and it boots to chief in 20 seconds.

You can share the file so we can take a look and possibly fix it for you, happy to check it out.

A new one modeled in chief x8, rendered in Thea, Post production in procreate, 14 hours from a PDF set of drawings.