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The callout tool can produce a callout that can link to an elevation camera and post its reference information such as the sheet it was sent to

The issue here is fundamental: adjusting the backdrop intensity is not the equivalent of changing your camera’s ISO, aperture, or shutter speed...it’s the equivalent of physically dimming the lights on a physical backdrop. In real‑world production, if a backdrop is 12,000 lux and your interior is 500 lux, you don’t dim the backdrop to 500 lux; you expose for the interior and bracket or shoot separate plates for the backdrop. Why? Because the moment you drop the backdrop’s physical brightness, you lose its colour fidelity, contrast, and detail...exactly what happens in the render when you slide that value down. In other words, 12000 is not too high and is an appropriate level for many hdris, 500 on the other hand is quite low but is often used for some of chiefs backdrops that have a larger concentration of green pixels to avoid color casting...and consequently, limit the effect of more dynamic and natural lighting. What’s actually occurring when you lower the backdrop intensity to “normalise” the view is: 1. You reduce the light emitted by the backdrop. 2. The camera’s auto‑exposure (or the render engine’s exposure compensation) sees a darker overall scene and opens up. 3. The interior brightens—but so does the noise/grain in the shadows, and the backdrop remains dull because its native light level is still being crushed. For me personally that’s not a solution I care for but I have additional tools at my disposal; it’s trading one problem for another, exactly like trying to shoot an HDR scene with a single exposure, no bracketing. The proper photographic workflow—whether on set or in post—is to capture multiple exposures of the same frame and combine them where the content of each is correctly exposed. In a render engine that lacks native exposure stacking, the equivalent is to render the backdrop and the interior as separate passes, then composite them. This is quite literally what I do with a real camera in a real world application, it takes some skills to shoot an interior shot where a bright exterior is in frame and you don't want it blown out. That’s why I’ve repeatedly requested features like: · A separate intensity map for backdrop elements, independent of the main scene lighting. · Object / texture ID masks that let us isolate the backdrop in post. · The ability to output the backdrop on its own layer with transparency (alpha channel). These aren’t “nice to haves”—they’re the digital analogue of a cinematographer flagging off the backdrop, lighting it separately, and shooting plates. Until then, the only reliable method is to render with transparency enabled for the backdrop, export a file where the window opening is alpha, and composite the backdrop at whatever exposure you need inside Photoshop (or After Effects, etc.). That gives you full, independent control over the backdrop’s brightness, contrast, and colour without compromising the interior exposure.

please provide your .plan file so we can help diagnose, also loading pdfs forces us to download them to our machine, you can always just share a screen clipping instead

I would suggest you draw your houses in 3 separate plan files and then reference them to each other, that way you can draw all houses at a subfloor 0

you either are in a PBR without raytrace or you have an emitter on your materials are my guesses, please upload your plan using wetransfer or a cloud service

They don't You have a setback requirement, in this case 4' you have an easement, in this case 6' you could build up to the 4' setback, if their were no easement, but there is one, so you cannot encroach on that easement. All the planning dept will do will check to see if your setbacks match criteria, and are unaware of an easement on your particular property...hence the lawsuits

Send your existing(reference ) files elevation, and in the shame sheet space, send your proposed elevation. Just one elevation on top of another

Most counties have a GIS and for each property on the GIS their is typically a link buried somewhere to the assessors map of record

As Chris said, this is a standard convention in the AAMA and NFRC for labeling fenestration. It will be in most architectural textbook you can find as well

Seems as if your still renderings are using a different rendering technique from your walkthrough. For reference this looks like a PBR rendering technique(without raytrace possibly because of outdated gfx card) Helpful if you put your machine specs in your ChiefTalk Signature

It's just one extra button press per material if you're using the interactive material tool in component scope, not as daunting as it sounds

Rename them from the project browser. Also, let me suggest a change... Switch to a callout "rose" which is a callout with 4 "arrows" and no number used. Then label your elevations left right rear front. So your elevations show up as laundry right, laundry left, and you have a single callout indicating that there are 4 laundry room elevations on page A-5 such that your callout shows LE/A5. You'll never have to worry about numbering them again

the real CA King Of Cabinets has entered the room

Sorry Mike, I didn’t mean that as a correction I know you knew that , just letting people know in case they were trying to do something else with the measurement before an output

Great tip, and just for anyone's FYI this does output as a string, and is no longer a "measurement" class

try again

You can always use wetransfer for free to share files This is just an automatic cad conversion from a top-down projected orthographic view Depends on your scope of work, but the most common approach would be to re-draw it in Chief. Sketchup floor plans or nearly next to useless In other softwares for creating condocs, just like a chief file would be useless to a Revit user. You can use it for reference, which btw, I would import this into a separate plan file and reference it. I'm going to make this video free for today only, its usually in my paywalled YouTube It's for matterport but the same concepts apply

You didnt need to create a custom door, you could instead use a framed glass panel door and change the glass material to a classification of air gap, such as insulation air gap. Regardless, to answer your question. Change that from an opening to a right or left door and apply your custom door. Let me know if you need more specific instructions

its not set to anything because you didnt provide your global number formatter

Nice you got it figured out. You can cad block your polyline and notes and even turn this utility into a conditional switch btw...kind of a fun utility for some. I'll have to find it but I did put into YouTube or this forum a script for calculating curvature of earth and polar conversions for correcting from sheet space to world coordinates. Might be able to find it or punch that into an ai script utility. It would only really matter for larger lots

If your devices like your keyboard or mouse can create macros then you can have it punch in a sequential shortcut to toggle the library browser then type in some prefix code for your library object. That's the only way you can accomplish it, their is no native hotkey assignability to library objects

Thank you I appreciate that thanks as well. I love trying to develop some thick skin and an open mind. this thread made me realize that I wanted to move the title block info closer on the rolled edge for non-standard right sidebar layouts..so hey I got something out of it

FYI my templates come pre-packaged with 6 different title block styles in various sheet sizes and include different color washes for the first page Non traditional title blocks still have an information block at the rightmost roll-edge (To the negative reaction. Not sure why I earned that, my name was used to describe a layout style that does go against the typical standard, and I have many different styles, of which are designed and offered up here for free for reference... show some love, same team!)

file sizes are monstrous because it pulls in all of the textures for your files. Please note, if Chief does introduce their cloud management system in X18 it will rely on managed mode, so it might be a good time to switch over in a few months to start getting used to it FYI you can pull those assets out of the calibz file with a winzip utility Theoretically we will be able to authorize another account holder for any project of our choosing from within managed mode. In terms of knowing what to send..think of "Export" as "Save As" which then requires one more step..deleting your project from project management since your exported copy is the most up-to-date