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Low voltage is a pretty typical installation and so the question is, where are you locating the transformer? thats what I usually show on a plan along with a standard cad detail showing relative heights

Sorry kwhitt you're absolutely right about the distinction of a function of an area light in terms of its lighting quality. I was more speaking to the function of a add light tool such that it is an invisible light source and has the ability to turn off shadows. I would add that it would be nice if the add light tool could specify a shape so that it was not a shadow catching object or receiving object which we can do in some of the high end rendering softwares. Would be nice to set an object shape and size in the add light tool

I am referring to the add light tool which is more closely related to other rendering software's area lights as it is not a shadow catcher or receiver like what you have shown:

we've had area lights for as far back as I can remember. So I am as confused as DB about the request to add them. Have you used them and you didnt like them? Or you were unaware that we had them, in which case, congrats, we have them, haha

see video 241126 (5).mp4

In terms of focusing on interior design I would just fully commit to Chief Architect unless you plan on working for a larger architectural firm. Cost of software product for the suite of tools to do renderings in autodesk based products is not really sustainable in North America. Chief's built in rendering capabilities are up to par with most commercial grade rendering products, though not as robust as endscape. Ultimately though, chief is far more efficient as rendering is far more dynamic then a third party plugin renderer. I have been a rendering artist since 1999. Chief rendering for context:

You would open the symbol on click on "never" before you resized it

You can restrictively select material regions by having material regions as the active tool and shift marquee over your entire plan in a plan view and you can use transform replicate to uniformly raise all of them in the z delta.

Assuming you've tried going through chiefs video archive and reading the interactive help? You can checkout my video shorts and other tips and tricks:

241118 (5).mp4

Professional plansets. Let me know if you'd like a quote for drafting your next project

or just use an opacity map in X16

sent you an email

sure, link a standalone callout to your camera and put your camera on a hidden layer. place your standalone callout anywhere you would like

this post should be in https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/9-symbols-and-content/

Did you change the vector color of your glass material?

you cannot denoise a view that is already denoised

thats essentially what I am doing. I am assigning an initial value in leau of have a nil condition or error, but that doesnt change the fact that I still need to open the row object to initialize a change based on schedule number unfortunately. Same thing happens if you use a text box to reference a schedule number from a note, you still have to open the text in order for it to initalize a change even though the text box itself confirms the change before you ever open it when the schedule number is changed. So something with the way it is accessing the info

same problem if you use component_code

the basis of mine: $wall_framing2 ||= '2"X4" DF#2 @ 16" O.C.' # UPDATE GLOBAL VARIABLES BASED ON 'schedule_number' AND 'type' begin if schedule_number.include?("01") && type.downcase.include?("wall framing") $wall_framing = custom_fields["Macro Input 1"] end and yes its very frustrating