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You're absolutely right+1, or could do it with invisible walls...brain fart. @rgardner

He's referring to a hay hood, ducks beak, bonnet, widows peak, crows beak, I believe. No way to do this in CA, extend it manually and turn auto back on with retain manually edited roofs

I would actually love to know the RGB index of your handle fill...its a great color

Please do, I like Steve's videos, pleasant speaking voice...his wall fill however, gives me an aneurysm, haha. Maybe when I am "Over 60"

Should've done these stairs using shaped landings. Since you've come this far with the manual method you could either draw your railing with the 3d molding tool or convert your slabs to plain polyline and back to landings. You will need to connect one stair section to be able to better control your stair railing, riser, tired etc. Information

Gonna end up calling it the Bau-House..haha Thank you. Lot of work left to go, still working on its "flow." Then need to clean up all of the oddities that are created from split levels and add in structure, then furniture, entourage, lighting etc...ugh, probably another 60 hours. Didn't mean to thread jack, just thought it was relevant..so many levels, defaults don't apply

I was just thinking about split homes...if you guys care to play with a crazy split home I'm designing you can goof around- I'm 14 hours in on the design: DOWNLOAD

Well I'd be happy to help you out, plenty of examples on YouTube and my website, both of which are in my signature. I have references upon request and am a reputable member of this community. You can email me direct at renerabbitt@gmail.com or give me a call at (925) 300-7004. Appreciated the humor in your post, we'd get along Write me for some example plan and layout sets.. I'll try and dig up some in X-10

I really wanted to write you back, but I can't bring myself to let go of the CD productivity tools in X-12 let alone the massive changes that X-11 brought. It would be like drafting with both hands behind my back I've doubled my production speed since X-10. Anywho good luck! I'm sure you'll have plenty of offers

Is it the same ? Delete the left window and try a Copy/Paste+Reflect About Object on the right window.

Builder first, drafter second, I’ll put my vote in the kitty for dimensioning to sides. When I’m designing, not only could I care less about the dimension to center of window but also my client could care less. My client wants to know if their China cabinet can fit on the wall before it interferes with the window. I want to know if I’m giving a standard wall length in the bedroom to fit dressers. I want to know if I’ve got enough room to fit electrical next to a double king. I dimension to both sides of the window, if it says 36” in the dimension string where the window lives and the window label says 3030 I’m pretty sure an apprentice level framer could figure that out. Center of wall...on a furred bathroom wall for a pocket door and electrical on the bath side and an abutting foot of bathtub...why does anyone want to do that math or leave that to their framer? Sure you could adjust your standard for this but not for me, I like the same standard all through the draft set. I also know plenty of framers that run a higher risk of cutting a beam short to an interior bearing wall. Finally I would say this, I run my own beam calcs, why in the hell would I care about centerline when I am calling out to out or clear span, or cantilever. Makes ZERO sense to me. Weyerhaeuser must have a Canadian version

Sorry didn't see this. Your frieze or gutter or some other profile is interceding the room, you can split your roof and make a short section for that intersection at the hip with that profile turned off. Add wall breaks at your knee walls and that will fix part of the next problem. Your attic rooms seem to be driving the plate height. Lower those rooms and you will see the anomaly disappear. Consider manually editing these roof planes and then designate your knee walls as having no room definition and it may fix it.

Please upload your .plan file so we can have a better understanding of the issue

Appreciate the mention, thank you Michael. @Jay900Rendering is a funny topic, one of the most subjective in our industry. People have any number of reasons to choose Chief as their software of choice, and needs for rendering run the gamut. My work has never been photorealistic, there just isn't a budget for it in the market segment I target. I achieve good results for a good price. For the cost of a very polished and processed PBR(biased) I can produce an unbiased trace with a high sample rate and little to no AO. Budget for that type of thing ranges from $200-$1000. Photorealism is more in the range of $2K to $10K and up. An individual is simply not efficient enough on their own to produce such results for interior scenes, a team is typically involved, or access to an incredible number of assets. I myself have 1000's of hours invested in materials and models and still can't produce a photorealistic couch without blowing the budget in the residential market. For the money, you can't beat CA's parametric BIM-based modelling. I've raced some very proficient modelers while they were using Sketchup or Revit/2020 etc. It just doesn't compare when you get a Chief expert behind the wheel. I myself am very proficient in Sketchup and other software's and I'd rather rebuild an entire model in chief than pick up where someone left off in their software. Just today I built a very complex model in 3 hours to replace a model someone built in Sketchup over the course of several days. Chief exports to all of the major 3d model types. Rendering is never an issue and certainly not a reason to keep from purchasing the software. The built in PBR engine is sufficient for most client presentation if it doesn't already exceed expectations. Take a look at any number of my YouTube videos where I am simply fooling around in the software and you will see you can get some very desirable imagery-Example below, CA PBR Besides chief, there is the free Twinmotion 2020 that works quite well with Chief models-Example below, modeled in X-12 Clip 05.mp4 As well as 3rd party renders such as Thea Render for Sketchup or V-Ray-Example Below-Modeled in X-8, rendered in Thea Above all else I would offer this, you'd be hard pressed to find a more helpful, professional culture. The people that use this software encourage growth, offer their time and expertise generously, and are some of the most intelligent humans I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. Please ask any questions, happy to help. Chiefer, or Jintu as Michael mentioned, does an incredible job at exterior renders, and a lot of what goes into it is an established scene and assets. With the right landscaping, any 3d model can look incredible, he's been doing it for tens of years and it shows...it's not something that is achieved OOTB. FYI 3ds imports really well into SketchUp. Architectural components in CA are preserved as components in SketchUp for instance, and all naming conventions are carried over as well as the diffuse map. The only thing CA doesn't do well is UV mapping, other than that, results are quite desirable. The above office render is an environment that exists in a catalog of commercial style buildings that I present to FF&E designers. They choose from any number of workspaces to showcase their workstations. It's the scale-ability that makes photorealism achievable. Comparing a company that has 100 hours into their renderings vs that office that was built and rendered in 7 hours is a great example of bias that goes into rendering. Next time you see an incredible rendering, ask yourself how many hours went into it? It's a great question, along with..was it worth it? I love rendering, but more often than not, photoreaslism just isn't necessary unless you need marketing material or your targeting the residential development market. I still want more rendering jobs though, it's quite addicting seeing your designs come to life RR

Email sent, thank you for any consideration

Wait for the Surface Book 3, one of the few options that check all of the boxes you just mentioned

Open to new work. I've been working remotely for clients for years and can easily navigate the issues that present themselves from remote work. I have plenty of references and videos demonstrating my various services. The following images are snippets from my site at www.RabbittDesign.net I offer training-while-drafting services in Chief Architect as well as training in Sketchup, Thea Render, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Procreate. I tend to cater to experienced designers and drafters in Chief Architect, many of which benefit from and are quite pleased with anno/layer sets, library items, toolbars, and a more cohesive folder structure and .plan and .layout files. A few hours of my service may cut hours off of every project you have going forward. Feel free to check out my YouTube channel dedicated to all things drafting, designing, modeling and rendering in my signature below. Take a look at some of my recent design work in the Gallery Also, take a look at the extensive Free Content Thread and continued free content YouTube Series:

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Responded to your other post, Email the full set if you wouldn't mind and I'd be happy to take a look. Renerabbitt@gmail.com

I'd be happy to help. Samples of my work at www.RabbittDesign.net can send over a PDF to renerabbitt@gmail.com References upon request. Cheers

I think the trick Ryan is mentioning from that post is for a preemptive workaround vs the fix after the issue occurs: "The only work around I know of is to switch from auto width , expanding the width of the text box manually and hitting the return key to fudge your text box width.....thus negating the word wrap" " A simple text marco will word wrap correctly to its formatted rich text box width" Those methods can be used to avoid the issue all together for anyone interested. Though I find them to be more cumbersome for my workflow...Easier to marque select similar,select all, hit ctrl+e, then alt+enter.

I just opened it on my end, no issue saving it to library as the the correct dimension and dropping it in. I could login to your computer and help a bit later when my household wakes up(we partied last night)

@rgardner Not in front of it right now but try unchecking Interior Door Spec/Framing/Header/Default and see if that works

You're importing your anno sets every time then? Just my two cents, the new X-12 Save As Template tool is absolutely fantastic. I do most of my keynotes, schedules, details in CAD Details.. the new Save As Template can retain my CAD Details and delete all unwanted geometry etc. Love it!

Eric beat me to it. I was doing the same thing, anytime there is an issue just copy and paste to the default Residential template. No problem on my end drawing this exact same house. Something somewhere is goofed up in your plan...maybe Wall Types.