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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.

Hey Joe, Is there a way to set that macro as a default in the layout box label?

I've been working on a basement ADU and been avoiding the parameters that trigger an AUP, which from my understanding takes nearly half a year to get through the city of Berkeley. On a side note, the parking parameters are still a bit more stringent than spelled out in the from "Kathleen Pender" quote. Existing dwelling units will still require additional off street parking if the property is outside of the half mile mark and doesn't meet all of the criteria laid out in the new codes. My particular project is being designed with a "wet bar" and "office in leau of a kitchen and bedroom respectively, so that I can get it through the city and built. Afterward my client will start the process for the ADU so that the space can be inhabited while Berkeley catches up to its huge backlog.

had no idea, thank you!

haha, cheers!

Thank you, I can't do a tutorial at the moment and don't have the plan file for that oven anymore just a thea object file. Here is a quick snapshot of a crude recreation of the oven handle. Basically created a cross cut sectional of the handle and added it to the library as a molding polyline. Then the circle next to the sectional is a 3d molding polyline with that newly created molding. You can see the result in the orthographic viewing window. I then added the handle to my library as a symbol where you can rotate and turn any direction that you need. same for the cooktop trays, just one big molding that was drawn as a polyline, converted to molding, and then wrapped around a circle. The size of the polyline circle can be changed but I often adjust the size by playing with horizontal offsets instead. Hope that made sense

Appreciated, the handles in this model were all moldings that were wrapped around a circle polyline and then converted to a symbol... I always keep a blank plan open to add a quick symbol on the fly :)....the main thing that is lacking for me in chief is the ability to create complex 3d shapes like textiles, but that was never really chief's intent...though I suppose if it is to remain competitive through the years to come it will have to adapt these tools as Johnny mentioned

Just thought I'd share, this oven was modelled entirely with chief polylines and moldings in about 4 hours... I agree that not being able to rotate in 3d without creating a symbol is frustrating but still workable.

I just tested the import on a second machine and it imported properly. This should be imported as a library item not as a symbol. If your system is set to download calibz files with chief then it should show up in your user catalog. If you have team viewer I can do this for you remotely, just shoot me a PM. Thanks

Offering affordable rendering services, based in the Bay Area California. I have a small render farm and export to Thea for rendering. Shoot me a PM VR Sample Rendering Video

David, I am in the Bay Area, you will save significantly on cost if you personally scaled the drawings and notated each measurement, as tracing is slower than producing a model from scratch and simply inputing values. I'd be willing to take a look, send me a PM when you get a chance