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In a 3d view, your mouse cursor position shows you the z value of your terrain's surface if the terrain is selected. that z value is the offset from your first floor. Thats a pretty quick and easy/dirty way of doing it. Example Video: 240606 (3).mp4

This is close to NKBA and is how I have it set up in my kitchen and bath templates and my pro plan's Kitchen SPV

more often than not someone is UV mapping a texture to an entire mesh instead of divisioning elements out the way we do in chief. This is common practice in order to reduce the texture resolution and maximize graphic memory resources. You would need to remap the texture. Also, 3dsMax supports really really high poly counts. I wouldn't advise purchasing them in the future as they can really slow down the program to a hault. Reccomended Cap is 50K poly assuming a low vector line count after smoothing is applied. A 300K poly item with a ton of vectors can hault chief. Sometimes I can get away with a matterport scan of 600K but its a real chore

Well..first off...its not NKBA if you are dimensioning to Cabinets in a plan view. Should be dimensioning to casing line 1, center of fixture line 2 then overall line 3. I like to add in cabinet labels personally

You and @robdyckdont use match lines? My muni wont take 3/16

different plan templates for different scales would be a lot easier

Rene or Rabbitt is fine So I read through the rest of the post. A couple of things to keep in mind. A room defined by room dividers set to a room type that has a mono slab may be a much better approach. Style Palettes can be created from a room type and a style palette can offer a single click spray for applying or swapping your custom fields. A style palette can only swap all custom fields, so its never a bad idea to utilize code/comment etc. as these can be swapped independently or in groups using style palettes, especially because they can be renamed in schedule as well as material fields and can also automatically report to a material list. Another benefit of this approach is that materials can generate their own designation of length and width of roll without you needing to manuall adjust a macro. see screenshot: Which means you could add a layer to your floor assembly in order to achieve this, thus further automating since you could make multiple mesh materials for a quick spray and swap. You could of course drop a text box in a CAD detail with globals for setting the values easily and then drop a callout linked to that cad detail on your drawing sheet for quick access to all of your global parameters so that its easier for your end user. Also keep in mind you can make a custom unit of measurement in preferences. All this to say you could have custom placed library objects linked to various style palette single click sprayers to adjust yoru settings with one click as well as other custom materials to adjust the reporting material also linked to custom placed library objects on your toolbar for single click actions. have fun

You can find several posts where I point out that we simply do not need a complete model(mesh) to create construction documents. it takes me roughly 30% additional hours creating a model I could do a takeoff from..simply not worth the time. Check the math on your end, a good framer will do takeoffs in 2-3 hours and cost a few hundred bucks, vs the several extra days of work it will take to do an accurate takeoff. I could name a hundred other users that would tell you the same, and even one recently that went for it anyway and just came back a year later and said the same thing. Please put your efforts into something else I beg!

How is the Xidax?

Custom_Fields is a hash so you would call it similar to other keys in Chief. It is in the Manual: here is a super quick video, hopefully helps: 240529 (3).mp4

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did you mull the two together?

snap a cad line just past your high wall and break on that line and drop the remaining sliver down to the lo wall

the original intent of this tool was to give basic elevation data to create a terrain top. It seems you are trying to plot an addition out? Without having the equipment or fully understanding the use case and problems that are occuring I can't really troubleshoot what is happening. This is a very rudimentary script and isnt taking into account a ton of things that a calculator build for gps based coordintate might figure out. It would likely be simple just to use an online calculator. JUST TO MENTION, this in no way can account for direction based distance that is linear and applied to a slope. Max precision that I know of is 1/256"

shouldnt matter. would consider posting your plan:

works on my end, did you delete old deck framing and rebuild? are you sure the room type is correct?

did you rebuild your deck framing?

its for this reason that we dont typically encourage the use of notes in layout as its far simpler to update a linked view from other plan or layout templates instead of having "dumb" notes in layout. If instead you had your notes in a cad detail from plan, all you would need to do is relink layout to an updated plan file

see if this works: GPS Polar Toolkit.calibz

I built this tool for someone specific lived in the contiguous US closer to the equator who when asked did not need curvature of the earth factored in and was only picking up points from a smaller lot, under an acre. this might be the issue that you are running into. It would need to be rewritten to take account for curvature as well as polar factors and gets a heck of a lot more complex

very few programs out there would benefit from dual cards anymore. a 4090 is already using 16x lanes so youre bottlenecking at the board and the gfx memory isnt shared and your software would need to write very specific and complex code for pipeline distributon. not worth it. I tried dual 7900 XTX's just because I had them and twinmotion saw maybe a 10% increase in speed at a huge impact to my energy bill, haha

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You should contact chief to get your moulding catalog in their available catalogs so that we can reference your product. That would be the best way to market your brand here.

as it should be, you are performing 3 path trace bounces as opposed to 1. But you can set AMDFidelity to a higher value to improve performance or decrease your bounce rate

can you tell me more? I have no clue as to what it even is