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    What a great compliment to get. I love hearing that. first two renders I ever did was about 12 years ago...and man did it take me FOREVER! Like 2 weeks and a month respectively. Both in chiefs ray trace and I was too stubborn to ask for help. I wasn’t getting paid or I would’ve likely been canned. The second one went through 14 redesigns as it was just a fictitious and completely unrealistic conceptual living room
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    I’m in complete agreement that the performance approach can get you around mandatory measures, mkennedy2000 is helping me get through some res software so I can get on your level of self performing the calcs. Still, I consistently find information that contradicts this approach. See attached: Exceptions may apply is never spelled out in this document. I would conclude that if you can reasonably show an overall performance package that satisfies the intent of the code, then the plan checker can get on board with it.
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    It's a shame that REScheck isn't compliant in Cali
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    Thank you for the resource, and how AWESOME is it that you can get water/vapor barrier assembly out of this Any problems you've run into using the spray foam. I wonder if the trade off is there for hiring a sub to spray or in-house install of rigid and a thicker wall assembly. Considering doing the performance method as Perry mentioned
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    Awesome work, that's gotta feel so good to get it so close to reality. Here's a budget rough conceptual render I just did for a designer. 5 hours on terrain/pavement/curbs/etc, 1-1/2 hour setting up the render settings for all future renders and additional imported items, and 1/2 hour rendering. Not realistic, but good enough
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    It's my understanding that all exterior wall assemblies going forward in climate zones 1-5 and 8-16 will require some form of rigid insulation greater than r-4 for a 2x4 exterior wall, and even in zones 6,7 will still require rigid to meet the u-factor 0.065
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    Additionally, has anyone incorporated the rigid insulation with a braced wall panel at the exterior side of framing?
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    I do drafting for a slew of contractors that use the big box stores for their materials. That being said, the prescriptive requirements of U-factor 0.51 for new exterior 2x4 wall assemblies specify cavity insulation of R-15 and continuous R-8. Welp, R-8 isn't all that readily available, so I downloaded an assembly calculator sanctioned by energy.gov that calc'd R-15 with continuous R-6 as meeting the maximum U-factor. Has this been anyone's experience, is R-6 meeting the mark for you California folks?
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    Thanks Glen, had a feeling that was the case.
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    best practice is to post your .plan file so we can take a look... just a hunch, do you have two duplicate slabs in place. try deleting it. but please, post the .plan
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    Love the wall hatching tool, I find it to be far more efficient than changing wall types for new walls, but I always end up changing the hatch to fill. I've even set up a wall hatching layer set with just wall hatching on so I can use the object painter and change to fill. All because I can't find the default dbx so I can change it as a global parameter. Anyone know how to accomplish this?
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    looks fantastic, truly awesome work, make sure to share the final. Might turn the f stop up, I would never shoot an arch-ext shot in an f-4 etc...more like an f-16, the bokeh is a bit severe and an actual camera would blur concentrically from the focal points whereas a rendering software often is planar in its implementation of the effect.
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    Very nice, appreciated !
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    Phone just started ringing, you're going to have to slip in the backdrp..I've gotta get back to work! cheers and good luck
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    you could make it look 100% real with 80 more hours, haha..but that's usually not worth the time spent
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    I found most of what I needed. here is a rendering with alpha mask for backdrop: Let me know what tweaks you would like and I'll adjust and do one more pass
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    could you zip and attach your materials from that export...specifically looking for the tree's textures
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    feel free to scale and blend with texture. enjoy! American Oak stock and scaled/stained, AMERICAN OAK PLANK.calibz: knotty oak is high res. download from my cloud,https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArIPOe8v1Srkh8cxdtBNn8hF-Ja6OA : stock:scaled and stained:
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    https://www.deltafaucet.com/for-professionals/product-resources/product-design-files/vero-bathroom best source is the source..convert from revit
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    I'd be happy to throw in Thea for you real quick for fun, wouldn't take any time at all if you export as 3ds and the results will come back looking very sharp
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    You would either have to make or download a 3d model and import it into Chief. It would lag a bit in chief as it doesn't handle high poly count models that well
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    It's all relative to the drawing size you are using. For an ANSI D at 1/4" scale I use a line weight of 1 = 1/400 in I set my wall exterior to 6, and interior to 4 or just main layer at 6 all layers in sections are set to 2 keep in mind you may need to re-do CAD details if you mess with your drawing sheet weights. You should setup for your most common sheet and scale sizing. or make a custom set for each setup- takes a ton of work to do
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    Hello CA fam, This posting is for a friend upon my recommendation, she will follow up with responses. Seeking DD and CD's for 16 single-family homes in Corte Madera CA. Insurance and other requirements will be communicated via email etc. Hopefully someone here is interested and it works out. She will create an account here to check-in this week at some point
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    In my experience it came down to efficiency in producing renderings and design as well as construction documents for residential projects. What I appreciated most about Revit was its BIM systems. Fascinating stuff.
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    Best practice on these types of posts are to include your .plan file. this is definitely an achievable effect, so for the forums it's not a matter of how to do it but rather why there is an issue in your particular plan.