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Finally, I get to disagree with you(though only partially). I fully agree with the methodology of coaching users to use the active default tools, especially when they are all struggling to transition to SPV's, however, I have an incredibly powerful workflow for dimensioning where I switch my active dimension defaults depending on what I am planning on dimensioning, especially when I am in other user's plans that do not have defaults setup like I do. I have dimension defaults for cabinets only, windows only, walls only, CAD only, 3 inch scale, etc and it is so easy for me to switch on the fly. I wouldn't have it any other way.

When I train people in Chief, this is the FIRST thing I add to the Toolbar Configurations. No idea why this isn't a default Toolbar.

Inference shapes correspond with the type of snap they are associated with. See edit\snap setting\ to view all snap shapes

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The method you happened upon has been around in other softwares for a while, and kudos to you for your natural discovery. Take it a step further by using materials instead of images. Create a symbol and apply a material with bump, normal, roughness maps and your grass will look even better, albeit taxing on your CPU.

Can you give us more information, rendering is a very broad term. Do you need color elevations done for the purpose of concept review or planning, or were you looking for 3d renderings from a perspective or orthographic view? What level of detail or realism do you require, who is the deliverable for and to serve what purpose. I could tell you that it would cost $100 or $1000 without some clarification. Appreciated.

Yes, Make a layer set with only your text layers on, then do as described and it will fix the text wrapping issue on your side

Make a Text-only layer, turn on all text for plan. Select all, open, then press ok to close all text. should fix it for your screen. Your other team members will need the same process on their end, every time.

I would never use the CAD detail folder in layout. I would put your schedules in the CAD folder under plans. Schedules you place in CAD details are live schedules. They will auto update which, conversely, will auto update in layout.

It will update, as you add additional architectural elements to your schedule, the schedule will continue to update as it should. Keep in mind you should expand the containing box in your layout in case the schedule does increase in size as chief will not automate that task for you in layout. Now that you've managed that, I would suggest splitting your vent schedule from your window schedule

Aside from us goofing around, it may be news to you that you can change selection modes in your preferences or by adding the 3 selection modes to your toolbars. Selection modes coupled with the Marquee Select Similar tool makes it so that I never need to zoom in to select what I want to. Not to mention deselection tricks, @Alaskan_Son favorite thing to talk about

*shocked that Michael doesn't have a 3d mouse. Now I know what to get him for xmas- ****This video WILL cause seizures**** 200626 13-46-21.mp4

@DeltaHome Let's just make this process way easier for you, as getting into layersets, if unfamiliar, can be very confusing at first. Open your project browser-this button: Navigate to your plan file. There will be a CAD folder under your plan file. Right click the CAD folder, click on "create new CAD detail" and name it according to the schedule you are going to place. With your new detail open, place whatever schedule you need. Send this view to layout. Repeat this process for every other schedule you need. Leave schedules on the schedule layer. No need for messing with layersets with this method.

@HumbleChief I often use room types, though lately not as much since I've been using the style palette tool and room types don't function properly with that tool. What specifically is the consideration for not using the deck room designation? I have Porch/Deck/Balcony setup with my own standards in my default template.

I could've done this entirely in Photoshop, but I have seats in the Substance suite of applications and created the hex tile using one of it's hex tile generators, then imported into PS and painted my tile pattern. The generator sets roughness, height variation, grout size thickness depth and roughness. I could add pebble artifacts if I wanted to, I could pitch the tiles if I want to. I usually charge $20 for something like this unless I just feel like doing it or if I have enough interest in the tile myself

@dskogg Make sure to tag me if you'd like my input, otherwise I just happen upon mention by chance. I'm almost always going to approach these types of things through materials. I can do it much faster that way and control texture and grout thickness roughness, opacity etc.

Interesting, @solver Method as described. That's how I remember it functioning, was strange for it to not properly cut while I was live training. Will go try an OOTB plan now

Was just trying to illustrate a method to another user and discovered that when selecting the exterior room, converting to molding, that the molding will auto cut to an exterior door but will not to a window. Anyone else?

No it is not, I would never go back to chief's raytrace, it is inferior to my other rendering software's in every way for any type of print media. I'm pretty sure it is still based on the POVray 2.0 engine, devs correct me if I'm wrong. Simply not a desirable tracing engine to work from when so many better software's exist in the market.

I think you'd be surprised, A few $100 can get you this rendering in much better quality. You've probably spent that much in machine down time and messing with settings. I do as-is scene renderings such as the ones posted here from $100-$200 all the time, I don't promote them as I'd rather show off more extensive scenes in my portfolio, but everyone ends up happy. Twinmotion is worth learning in my opinion as fantastic exterior scenes can be done in 20 minutes time with 20 -30 hours of experience.

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If you have a steady workload, why not hire a professional to do your renderings and save your $$$. A scene like this could be very inexpensive. This was just a quick draft with limited samples(passes):

Create a symbol for your skylight would be a simple solution

I've been so busy I never got the opportunity t o really thank you. That conversation sent me down a Rabbitt hole and now I'm completely addicted to Substance Alchemist, and your tile builder and wood builder work quite well with Alchemist. Great job!

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